As part of the SHIFT program of Basis.Kultur.Wien, the Film Museum took an in-depth look at amateur films both in the collection and in contemporary formats that look at the city of Vienna from its margins.
Under the artistic direction of Gustav Deutsch and Hanna Schimek, the aim of the Film Museum was to collect, show and preserve private moving images within a year. Film and video-works from amateur filmmaking contexts of the last decades were be put into relation with contemporary forms of this practice, such as clips from mobile phones or social media uploads. As the title on the margins : the city suggests the project focused on the city's periphery, wanting to both understand how these places have changed over the years as well as how people from these areas look at, think about, and represent the city. Last but not least the project was also meant to address those people that can neither be described as producers of so-called high-brow culture nor as their consumers.The project was divided into three areas: collecting, showing, preserving. Current formats of private images, such as cell phone films, were collected, analyzed and placed in relation to historical examples of amateur film in the Austrian Film Museum's collection. Various public events made these results visible, while the newly received films were also incorporated into the collection. With this project, the Film Museum endeavored to further deepen its engagement with ephemeral film materials, the exploration of their cinematic, political and socio-historical content and to expand its previous collection and research activities in this area with examples of contemporary practices and media formats.
Artistic DirectorsGustav DeutschHanna SchimekProject ManagementStefan Huber (Austrian Film Museum)Project CollaborationRaoul Schmidt, Stefanie Zingl (Austrian Film Museum)Duration Phase I (Seestadt & Sandleiten):September 2017 to August 2018 Duration Phase II (Per-Albin-Hansson Siedlung & Großfeldsiedlung):January to December 2019Further information Fundingon the margins : the city is financed by the SHIFT-program of the City of Vienna. 
