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.

Times & Fees

Wednesdays, 7 pm

Admission to the program at mumok cinema is free of charge. Only online registration for a free event ticket is required. Please note that entry is only possible with a pre-booked free ticket; there will be no evening box office. Registration for each date is available on the mumok website.

Newsletter

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Long Cold Shadow

Wednesday, March 18, March 25, and April 15, 2026, 7 pm

Bringing together Medium Cool, Punishment Park, Black Panthers, and The Murder of Fred Hampton, Long Cold Shadow explores a moment when cinema became inseparable from political struggle. Made at the end of the 1960s and the start of the 1970s, these films reflect a shared urgency: a need to document, question, and intervene. They challenge the boundaries between observer and participant, asking what responsibility media, filmmakers, and audiences carry in times of upheaval. Across different styles and approaches, the camera emerges not as a neutral tool, but as something embedded within systems of power, resistance, and memory. These films remain striking not only for what they show, but for how they show it, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between images and history, and the role of cinema in shaping how we see and act within the world.

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Viktoria Schmid, aus / from: W O W (Kodak), 2018, Courtesy, © Viktoria Schmid

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Twentysix: (V)FX

Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 7 pm

Since 2024, thematic screenings under the title Twentysix have been taking place at various locations, each dedicated to one of the twentysix letters of the Latin alphabet. Every letter marks the beginning of a thematic focus. Drawing on the concept of (V)FX, the sixth program of Twentysix examines the influence of special effects on the production and development of the cinematic image. From early devices such as the zoetrope and the magic lantern, cinema has been closely linked to visual effects—from fairground light shows and silent films to artificial studio worlds and CGI. The setting of the filmic image is shaped, manipulated, or distorted. No longer a direct referent or mere reflection of reality, the image functions as material through which something becomes visible that does not exist in this form. It is often difficult to determine when an effect begins, as boundaries blur between color grading and correction, retouching, the creation of supernatural worlds, and digital manipulation.

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Photo: Sophie Pölzl © mumok

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Information

T: +43-1-525 00
info@mumok.at