50 Years of Film Preservation – 50 New Acquisitions

In 2014, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the Film Museum started a special sponsorship project, "50 Years of Film Preservation – 50 New Acquisitions." We would like to thank all our film sponsors!

If you are interested in becoming a film sponsor, you can still find unsponsored works in the list below or contact us to learn more about our current projects and plans.

Contact:

Alessandra Thiele

+43 1 533 70 54 Ext 15

International Cinema 1918–2009

Richard Leacock & Robert Drew
Crisis: Behind A Presidential Commitment (1963)
Ernst Lubitsch
Cluny Brown (1946)
Sponsor:
WWTF Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds
Len Lye
Rainbow Dance (1936)
Sponsor:
Christine König
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Touki Bouki (The Journey of a Hyena) (1973)
Sponsor:
Franz Seilern
Jonas Mekas
Lost Lost Lost (1949-63/1976)
Nanni Moretti
Ecce bombo (1978)
Sponsor:
Nicola Erbe, Alessandra Thiele,
Marco R. Thiele
Otto Preminger
Fallen Angel (1945)
Sponsor:
Peter Ily Huemer & Eva Kratochvil
Otto Preminger
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Hans Scheugl
Hernals (1967)
Sponsor:
profil
Martin Scorsese
The King of Comedy (1983)
Sponsor:
Leopold Wabro
Chantal Akerman
Saute ma ville (Blow Up My Town) (1968)
Sponsor:
Werner Leskovar
Robert Bresson
Le Diable probablement (The Devil Probably) (1977)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (In a Year with 13 Moons) (1978)
Sponsor:
Johann Brunthaler
Luke Fowler
Tenement Films (2009)
Sponsor:
anonymous
Jean-Luc Godard
Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Every Man for Himself) (1980)
Sponsor:
Werner Leskovar
Alexander Hackenschmied
Bezúčelná procházka (Aimeless Walk) (1930)
Sponsor:
anonymous
Walter Hill
The Driver (1978)
Alexander Kluge
Porträt einer Bewährung (1964/65)
Sponsor:
Peter Hörmanseder
Richard Leacock & Robert Drew
Primary (1960)
Sponsor:
Navigator Film
Michael Snow
New York Eye and Ear Control (1964)
Sponsor:
anonymous
Michael Snow
Standard Time (1967)
Sponsor:
anonymous
John M. Stahl
Leave Her To Heaven (1945)
Josef von Sternberg
The Salvation Hunters (1925)
Sponsor:
BAWAG PSK
Alain Tanner & Claude Goretta
Nice Time (1957)
Sponsor:
Karl Horwath
François Truffaut
L'Enfant sauvage (The Wild Child) (1970)
Sponsor:
Dor Film
Grigori Tschuchrai
Ballada o soldate (Ballad of a Soldier) (1959)
Sponsor:
Friedrich Demel and Evelyn Haas-Lassnigg
Edgar G. Ulmer
The Black Cat (1934)
Sponsor:
Palmers AG

Lost & Found: Restoration of three "lost" films

Films by Robert Beavers

Films by Guy Debord

Guy Debord
Hurlements en faveur de Sade (1952)
Sponsor:
Phileas - A Fund for Contemporary Art
Guy Debord
La Société du spectacle (1973)
Sponsor:
Phileas - A Fund for Contemporary Art
Guy Debord
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978)
Sponsor:
Phileas - A Fund for Contemporary Art
Guy Debord
Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps (1959)
Sponsor:
Phileas - A Fund for Contemporary Art
Guy Debord
Critique de la séparation (1961)
Sponsor:
Phileas - A Fund for Contemporary Art
Guy Debord
Réfutation de tous les jugements, tant élogieux qu'hostiles, qui ont été jusqu'ici portés sur le film "La société du spectacle" (1975)
Sponsor:
Phileas - A Fund for Contemporary Art

John Cassavetes Gesamtwerk

Shadows (1959)
Sponsor:
Heldis Stepanik-Kögl and Lukas Stepanik
Too Late Blues (1961)
Sponsor:
anonymous
A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Sponsor:
anonymous
Faces (1968)
Sponsor:
Eva Cyba und Andreas Balog
Husbands (1970)
Sponsor:
Christa Pelikan and Erich Kramer
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Sponsor:
anonymous
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Sponsor:
Heide Kouba and Peter Smoczynski
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Sponsor:
Stefan Somweber
Opening Night (1977)
Sponsor:
Michael Ostrowski
Gloria (1980)
Sponsor:
anonymous
Love Streams (1984)
Sponsor:
Peter Rosner, Ingrid Kubin,
Willi Frötscher (Teilpaten)
Big Trouble (1986)
Sponsor:
anonymous

Contemporary Cinema from Asia and Eastern Europe

Ashutosh Gowariker
Lagaan (2001)
Sponsor:
Martin Ure
Kore-eda Hirokazu
Dare mo shiranai / Nobody Knows (2004)
Sponsor:
Carl Kreiner
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Sponsor:
Judith Wieser-Huber and Ralph Wieser
Aleksej Fedorčenko
Ovsjanski (2010)
Sponsor:
Brigitte Horwath

Films by James Benning

James Benning
11 x 14 (1976)
James Benning
Four Corners (1997)
Sponsor:
Sylvia Liska and Catharina Kahane
James Benning
El Valley Centro (1999)
James Benning
Los (2000)
James Benning
Sogobi (2001)
James Benning
casting a glance (2007)
Sponsor:
Christian Köberl and Dona Jalufka

Additional Sponsored Films

Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Le Fils (2002)
Sponsor:
anonymous
Gerd Conradt Farbtest Rote Fahne (1968)
Sponsor:
Benjamin Parbs
Jean-Marie Straub/Danièle Huillet Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter (1968)
Sponsor:
Christian Aichernig
Martin Scorsese
Raging Bull (1980)
Sponsor:
profil
Alan Schneider
Film (1965)
Sponsor:
Peter Hörmanseder

Additional Supporters

Alois Wimmer has contributed to the project films from Guy Debord.
Andreas Rudigier has contributed to the entire Fundraising project.