Vienna in Private Films
In 2019, the Film Museum was also a guest at important locations for urban development: in the Großfeldsiedlung/Floridsdorf and in the Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung/Favoriten. This completed a circle with the previous stops in 2018 – Sandleiten/Ottakring and Seestadt/Aspern – in terms of both urban history and topography.
At the new stations, private films were shown in cooperation with local partners and placed in relation to each other. This included a wandering cinema showing film programs, workshops with children and young people as well as projects with local groups, all aiming at opening and encouraging new filmic possibilities and broadening the views of the urban life we all share. Private filmmaking thus became an important part of living urban history.
The project On the Margins : The City entered its second round in 2019. Once again, the aim was to collect, show and preserve private films and videos that literally or metaphorically depict the city of Vienna on/from the margins. Under the artistic direction of Gustav Deutschand Hanna Schimek the project addressed the following questions:
- Clichés and representative images aside, how do inhabitants see their city?
- How is Vienna appraised on and from the margins?
- How do these perspectives on the city show in older and contemporary private films?
- How do different generations see the city?
- What kind of image do people of different origins have of the city?
We were looking for private films made during the past decades as well as more recent film recordings of Vienna in both analog and digital formats: moving images of everyday situations and special moments, of spare time and activism, of political events and working life.
These precious film documents need to be preserved for future generations. They will be treated as subjects of research and systematic archiving in accordance with their filmic, political and social aspects.
Artistic Directors
Gustav Deutsch
Hanna Schimek
Project Management
Eva Baumgardinger
Project Collaboration
Stefan Huber, Raoul Schmidt, Stefanie Zingl (Austrian Film Museum)
Timeline Project Phase II
January to December 2019
Events
September 19 to 28, 2019 | Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung/Favoriten | Program in detail
November 14 to 22, 2019 | Großfeldsiedlung/Floridsdorf | Program in detail
Funding
On the Margins : The City was supported by the cultural grant SHIFT III of the city of Vienna.
Gustav Deutsch
Hanna Schimek
Project Management
Eva Baumgardinger
Project Collaboration
Stefan Huber, Raoul Schmidt, Stefanie Zingl (Austrian Film Museum)
Timeline Project Phase II
January to December 2019
Events
September 19 to 28, 2019 | Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung/Favoriten | Program in detail
November 14 to 22, 2019 | Großfeldsiedlung/Floridsdorf | Program in detail
Funding
On the Margins : The City was supported by the cultural grant SHIFT III of the city of Vienna.
