Images that never stand still
The Austrian Film Museum in digital space
As part of its mission, the Film Museum has increasingly published collection information to make its holdings discoverable and accessible online in a curated way. Since 2005, the Film Museum has regularly released films on DVD, and for over 20 years, parts of the film-related collections and the film collection have gradually been made available online, both on its own website and on research platforms, as well as through aggregators such as European Film Gateway and Europeana.
Avant-garde digital
As part of the Digital Cultural Heritage funding programme, film holdings from the Film Museum's collection will be discoverable through Kulturpool from 2024-2026, starting with a major project to preserve and present avant-garde and experimental films from our collection. Rare and in some cases never-before-seen works in original Super 8 and 16mm format by Gustav Deutsch, Mara Mattuschka and Ashley Hans Scheirl will be made available to the general public for the first time via Kulturpool on the Film Online section of the Filmmuseum's website.
Between small-gauge film and digital video
The artistic works presented range from documentary miniatures and cinematic performances to often satirically exaggerated or grotesque fictions. At the same time, they mark the last decade of analogue small-gauge film formats, which were largely replaced by digital video as the medium of avant-garde and independent film at the end of the 1990s.