Ceremonial Filmmarchive: Start the new cinema salon and digital platform!

Ceremonial Filmmarchive: Start the new cinema salon and digital platform!

In 2025, the Filmarchiv Austria celebrates its 70th anniversary with a variety of new and exciting events. On January 20, 2024, the digital platform "Filmarchiv On" will go online free of charge, which provides one or two selected movies from different epochs and historical film documents every week. Long films are online for a month, while historical documents remain permanently accessible in the media library. This ensures that the rich filmmaker is accessible to a wider audience, such as orf.at reported .

Another highlight is the opening of the cinema salon in the Metro cinema culture house, which will open on January 24, 2025. This temporary pop-up cinema hall offers space for around 80 visitors and is largely set up from recycling materials and used equipment. The goal is to meet the high demand for the cultural site and at the same time create new opportunities for its program work. The extensive retrospective "Land Measurement" on the Austrian film history, which will run throughout the anniversary year, also promises exciting insights with monthly topics, starting with the home film, such as stummfilmfilm-magazin.de reported .

diverse programs and initiatives

In addition, a newly designed monthly magazine will put the filmmaker and annual programs such as "Classic Line" and "Fascination Filmlarchiving" in the spotlight. These programs show selected international re-releases and fascinating new discoveries from the cinematic World Heritage Site and will invite the audience to explore the archive and its valuable stocks. Overall, the Filmarchiv Austria keeps around 200,000 films and a variety of posters and publications that range from the past to the present. These initiatives will continue to enrich the work of the archive and bring the film history closer to a broad audience.