Austrian Film Museum

The Austrian Film Museum is a film archive and museum located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Peter Konlechner and Peter Kubelka in 1964 as a non-profit organization. History Austrian Film Museum. In February 1964, independent filmmaker Peter Kubelka and film enthusiast Peter Konlechner founded the Austrian Film Museum. They had met in 1962 at the "Internationale Kurzfilmwoche" (International Short Film Week), which Konlechner organized as part of his student film club Cinestudio at the Technical University of Vienna. The Austrian Film Museum aimed to preserve films and present them to the public, affirming what the founders thought to be the two roles of film: "as the most important form of artistic expression in modernity and as the chief historiographical. Collection and Preservation The collection, preservation and restoration of films and film-related artifacts is one of the Film Museum's chief responsibilities. The collection comprises approximately 31,000 films from 1893 to the present and all genres. It focusses on several specific collection areas which were established since the founding of the museum. In addition to the classics of film history, there is a focus on international and Austrian avant-garde film, Soviet revolutionary cinema, and the German-language film exile. Special attention is also given to film documents on contemporary history and.