mumok cinema

mumok cinema

mumok cinema

mumok cinema, designed by artist Heimo Zobernig together with architect Michael Wallraff, is presenting manifold links between fine art and film, showing the great significance of the moving image for classical modernist art, for art in the 1960s and 1970s, and especially for contemporary developments in art.

In a regular Wednesday evening film program, we offer a forum for thematic series of films and conversations about current issues in art. These programs also facilitate discussion on new works and trends.

With its numerous partners mumok cinema is an experimental venue of transfer for artistic approaches and discourses, and also for direct exchange with the audience. mumok cinema also offers opportunities to complement our current exhibitions with related film screenings and to explore and utilize our comprehensive collection of contemporary media art.

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Some Butterflies
Program curated by Kathrin Wojtowicz
Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 7 pm

Pools, parks, beaches, a cemetery, an apartment, a hedge, a shopping street, garbage and scrap metal—interspersed with animals and people, plants and plastic, pillars, accessories, colors, and melodies. Between reality and fantasy, simulation and parody, this film program brings together idiosyncratic artistic positions that move through surreal landscapes, industrial ruins, iconic architecture or eclectic, trashy, and everyday backdrops in different times. The films reference each other and offer loose ends and commentaries on the present. “It's all about the future, although the future never comes” (Pippa Garner).

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Jack Goldstein, Filmstill aus / from: Some Butterflies, 1975: Eine ausgestreckte Hand vor blauem Hintergrund, auf jedem Finger befindet sich ein Schmetterling

Meriem Bennani, from: Ghariba, 2017, Courtesy, © Meriem Bennani: two watches on green background, inside the watches the faces of two women are visible

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I as many others
Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 7 pm

This film program originates from a yearlong seminar at the Department of Artistic Strategies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, which investigates portraiture and self-portraiture as catalysts for producing fabulations. Fabulation, and its connection to storytelling, is understood as a process that allows us to summon “the missing people” in order to collectively imagine a “people to come” (Deleuze). The program presents various positions in cinema and contemporary art, exploring how different genres—fiction, documentary, animation, and experimental film—can be used, sometimes blending them together, to convey fabulation and speculations on alternative ways of belonging.

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