Premiere/(Hi)Stories of Cinema:
Imagining the City
Five Lectures and Film Presentations
October 19, 25 and 26, 2003
As part of the Vienna Science Week 2003 (Wiener Wissenschaftstage 2003), the Film Museum will present five matinées with films and lectures. Admission is free. The subject is indicated by the title: the cinematic creation of specific "city feelings", and the fruitful symbiosis between film, urbanism and the cultural and scientific site of Vienna per se.
The opening event on October 19 will feature the most influential "city film" of the modern era: Blade Runner. On October 25 and 26, the focus will be on Vienna itself, with examples from films of all sorts of genres: rare documentaries from 1896-1930, Erich von Stroheim's classic silent movie The Wedding March, the Austrian "Film noir" Abenteuer in Wien/Stolen Identity (1952), and avant-garde films from the post-war period.
Five renowned lecturers working in Vienna – Elisabeth Büttner, Siegfried Mattl, Michael Omasta, Marc Ries and Alexandra Seibel – will link the films to various contexts in 20th century history, film studies, urban research and Cultural Studies.
