FILM.STADT.WIEN
A transdisciplinary exploration of Vienna as a Cinematic City
A project of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society (Vienna), in co-operation with D&S / Gustav Deutsch and Hanna Schimek and the Austrian Film Museum.
The project will explore cinematic representations of Vienna - documentaries, newsreels, experimental films - alongside the question of how to define the "City" as an epistomological category. Based on rare materials from the collection of the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna's principal cinematheque, film archive and research institute, the project will develop potentials of inter-textuality and enrich the study of the Cinematic City as a site of cultural memory and as a resource for the study of micro-histories. As a transversal project, it intertwines cultural sciences (urban studies, film studies and analysis) with the practices of conceptual art. (Project funded by WWTF.)