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.

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Manthia Diawara, aus / from: AI: African Intelligence, 2022, Courtesy Manthia Diawara & Lumiar Cité / Maumaus, © Manthia Diawara

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Manthia Diawara
AI: African Intelligence

Thursday, March 12, 2026, 7 pm

Manthia Diawara’s essay film, AI: African Intelligence, explores the contact zones between African rituals of possession practiced in traditional fishing villages along Senegal’s Atlantic coast and the emergence of new technologal frontiers known as artificial intelligence. Reflecting on the confluence of tradition and modernity, Diawara asks how we might move from disembodied machines toward a more humane and spiritually grounded engagement with algorithms. Could Africa be the context from which such improbable algorithms emerge?

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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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Peter Watkins, aus / from: Punishment Park, 1971, Courtesy, © Peter Watkins Films

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Information

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