Viennese Lines: Art and Urban Observation 1951-1979
June 6, 13 and 20, 2004
Together with the Vienna Museum, the Film Museum will be presenting a number of outstanding „film surveys“ of the City of Vienna. The screenings will take place on three Sunday afternoons in June.
One main feature of the current exhibition Viennese Lines: Art and Urban Observation since 1960 is the focus on Vienna‘s innovative and internationally acclaimed experimental film scene. The three programmes in the Film Museum trace the swaths which the avant-garde filmmakers of the 50's, 60's and 70's cut through the "urban jungle". The city's periphery and its rougher districts play a lead role – anything but the official postcard motifs of Vienna.
In the first programme (June 6), films like Peter Kubelka's Mosaik im Vertrauen (Mosaic in Confidence), Kurt Kren's Keine Donau (No Danube), Ernst Schmidt Jr.'s P.r.a.t.e.r. and Hans Scheugl's Hernals will be screened. The second programme (June 13) combines two rarities: the recently restored film Stoned Vienna by Moucle Blackout, as well as the 60-minute film Sonderfahrt, a „Special Tour“ which Franz Zadrazil and Peter Dressler undertook with their camera in the late 70's. Finishing off this series, on June 20, the Film Museum will show Ernst Schmidt Jr.'s grand Viennese „Gesamtkunstwerk“: Wienfilm 1896-1976.
