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Based
on
your
experience
as
a
young
film
organizer
in
the
university's
cinema
studio
at
the
Vienna
University
of
Technology,
Peter
Konlechner
(1936–2016)
and
filmmaker
Peter
Kubelka
(born
1934)
founded
the
Austrian
Film
Museum
in
February
1964.
From
the
beginning,
the
association's
lawyer
was
the
lawyer
Dr.
Heinrich
Wille
(1938-2018).
As
early
as
1965,
the
Fédération
Internationale
des
Archives
du
Film
(FIAF)
-
the
worldwide
organization
of
all
major
archives
-
accepted
the
Film
Museum
as
a
full
member.
The
primary
goal
of
the
two
founders
was
to
establish
a
center
in
Austria
for
the
consistent,
high-quality
presentation
and
preservation
of
international
film
history.
They
were
inspired
by
the
Cinémathèque
Française,
the
National
Film
Archive
in
London
and
the
film
department
of
the
Museum
of
Modern
Art
in
New
York.
Film
should
also
be
understood
in
Austria
as
the
most
important
form
of
expression
of
modernity
and
the
most
important
source
of
contemporary
history
in
the
20th
century.
Right
from
the
start,
the
focus
was
therefore
on
linking
a
wide
range
of
activities
-
preservation,
restoration,
mediation,
As
"one
of
the
most
agile
cinematheques
in
Europe"
(
Der
Spiegel
),
the
Filmmuseum
made
a
prodigy
with
its
programs.
The
extensive
retrospectives
of
the
1960s
and
70s
had
a
special
position
in
the
German-speaking
countries
and
were
recognized
across
Europe.
In
1984
the
Filmmuseum
organized
the
first
FIAF
Congress
in
Vienna.
The
programmatic
priorities
of
the
first
decades
included
avant-garde
film,
the
film
comedians
of
the
1920s
and
30s
(e.g.
the
rediscovery
of
Mae
West,
WC
Fields
and
the
Marx
Brothers),
the
Soviet
revolutionary
film,
the
classic
American
film
genres,
the
topic
of
propaganda
film
or
the
masters
of
Japanese
cinema.
The
Film
Museum
implemented
many
of
these
topics
aggressively
and
increased
interest
in
them
at
home
and
abroad.
Since
1965,
the
retrospectives
have
been
shown
in
the
in-house
cinema,
which
is
located
in
the
Albertina
building,
behind
the
Vienna
State
Opera.
To
mark
the
25th
anniversary
of
the
house,
the
"
Invisible
Cinema"opened
according
to
the
concept
of
Peter
Kubelka:
a
black-in-black
screening
room,
a"
viewing
and
hearing
machine
"that
aims
to
concentrate
as
much
as
possible
on
the
filmic
event
itself.
Since
November
2002
the
Film
Museum
has
been
offering
a
completely
and
sound
technology,
which
makes
it
possible
to
reproduce
contemporary
sound
and
video
systems
at
the
highest
level
in
addition
to
all
picture
formats
of
film
history.
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