Michael Loebenstein, born 1974, is the Director of the Austrian Film Museum (Vienna). He has worked as a curator, researcher and author in the field of film archiving, history, memory and digital culture since the late 1990s. He was the founder of the Film Museum’s Research & Education department which he headed from 2004–2011 when he left for Australia to lead the National Film & Sound Archive (2011–2016). He worked as project manager and/or investigator on several interdisciplinary research projects, including “Ephemeral Films: National Socialism in Austria” (2011–2016) and “I-Media-Cities” (Horizon 2020, 2016–2019) which were undertaken in close partnership with Ingo Zechner and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society. Michael Loebenstein is a published author and was involved in a number of publications dealing with film, archives and museums, and history. He is Secretary-General of FIAF – International Federation of Film Archives; a board member of maa – Medienarchive Austria; and an Honorary Member (Museum Directors) of the Austrian Studies Association.
Participation in Public Deliverables
Participation in Events
Pre-Kick-off MeetingMeeting Friday, 19.10.2018, 09:15 to Saturday, 20.10.2018, 18:00 |
Interactive Film as Research MethodPanel Discussion Friday, 30.11.2018, 14:30 to Friday, 30.11.2018, 16:00 |
Liberation Footage and the Visualization of the HolocaustPresentation Friday, 30.11.2018, 11:00 |
Histoire visuelle de l'Holocauste. Repenser la conservation à l'ère numériquePresentation Tuesday, 19.02.2019, 19:00 to Tuesday, 19.02.2019, 21:00 |
Kick-off MeetingMeeting Wednesday, 27.02.2019, 09:15 to Friday, 01.03.2019, 20:00 |
Advanced DigitizationWorkshop Wednesday, 20.03.2019, 09:30 to Friday, 22.03.2019, 16:00 |
Curation of Engagement LevelsWorkshop Monday, 20.05.2019, 09:00 to Tuesday, 21.05.2019, 17:00 |
Taxonomy of RelationsWorkshop Monday, 19.08.2019, 13:30 to Tuesday, 20.08.2019, 17:00 |
Archival Research in Eastern European ArchivesMini-Workshop Monday, 14.10.2019, 13:30 to Tuesday, 15.10.2019, 17:00 |
MetadataWorkshop Monday, 21.10.2019, 09:00 to Tuesday, 22.10.2019, 16:00 |
VocabulariesWorkshop Thursday, 21.11.2019, 13:45 to Friday, 22.11.2019, 17:00 |
Bilder der Befreiung. Liberation Footage - Atrocity PicturesScreening and Discussion Monday, 09.12.2019, 10:00 to Monday, 09.12.2019, 12:00 |
A media archeology of destruction. Exploring the visual history of the HolocaustPresentation Monday, 27.01.2020, 12:45 to Monday, 27.01.2020, 14:30 |
Ethics of the Visible and the DisplayablePanel Discussion Sunday, 02.02.2020, 10:00 to Sunday, 02.02.2020, 11:30 |
NonAV Metadata (Citavi)Mini-Workshop Wednesday, 27.05.2020, 13:00 to Wednesday, 27.05.2020, 17:00 |
Relation DetectionMini-Workshop Tuesday, 26.01.2021, 14:00 to Tuesday, 26.01.2021, 17:00 |
Exploitation RoadmapMini-Workshop Tuesday, 02.02.2021, 09:30 to Tuesday, 02.02.2021, 13:00 |
Consortium MeetingMeeting Tuesday, 23.02.2021, 15:00 to Wednesday, 24.02.2021, 19:00 |
VHH Research Seminar – Session 3: Soviet Footage on Nazi Crimes and Its Textual Documentation: Identification and Research IssuesResearch Seminar Tuesday, 06.04.2021, 16:00 to Tuesday, 06.04.2021, 18:00 |
Mapping Visual History of the Holocaust in the Digital Age: Approaching Holocaust Memory through Digitized Moving Images in the Visual History of the Holocaust and the Ephemeral Films ProjectsPanel Friday, 24.09.2021, 11:30 to Friday, 24.09.2021, 13:30 |
Reconsidering Representations of the Holocaust – Digital Curation, Evidence and Remembrance Through the VHH ProjectRoundtable Tuesday, 12.10.2021, 16:00 to Tuesday, 12.10.2021, 17:30 |
Visual Histories of 20th Century OccupationWebinar Tuesday, 12.10.2021, 10:00 to Tuesday, 12.10.2021, 11:00 |
Digital Overload: Curating Big DataPresentation Tuesday, 19.10.2021, 18:40 to Tuesday, 19.10.2021, 19:00 |
Die Todesmühlen (1945)Screening Wednesday, 05.01.2022 to Wednesday, 05.01.2022 |
Tracing Visual Evidence of the Holocaust: Challenges of the Digital Curation of Liberation Footage across Archives and DisciplinesPanel Tuesday, 26.04.2022, 09:00 to Tuesday, 26.04.2022, 10:30 |
Moving Images from the Archives. Historical Footage of Nazi Crimes in DocumentariesConference Sunday, 08.05.2022, 18:00 to Tuesday, 10.05.2022, 17:00 |
HdGÖ: Visual History of the Holocaust – ProjektpräsentationPresentation Wednesday, 06.07.2022 to Wednesday, 06.07.2022 |
Migrating Images and Image Migration: How Popular Culture Shapes the Visual History of the HolocaustConference Monday, 12.09.2022, 18:00 to Wednesday, 14.09.2022, 20:00 |
Documenting Nazi Crimes through Film: Soviet Union, 1942–1945Conference Thursday, 24.11.2022, 09:30 to Sunday, 27.11.2022, 16:30 |
Von Bildern extremer Gewalt und vom digitalen KuratierenPresentation Friday, 27.01.2023, 18:00 to Friday, 27.01.2023, 20:00 |
RememberScreening Friday, 27.01.2023, 20:30 to Friday, 27.01.2023, 22:30 |
Holocaust Remembrance Day – Digitales KuratierenPresentation Friday, 27.01.2023, 09:00 to Friday, 27.01.2023, 12:30 |
Das Fortunoff Video Archive, Überlebende und "archivarischer Aktivismus"Presentation Sunday, 29.01.2023, 15:00 |
Kinodokumenty o zverstvach nemecko-fašistskich zachvatčikov (Die von den deutsch-faschistischen Invasoren verübten Gräueltaten)Screening Sunday, 29.01.2023, 18:00 |
Einleitung und Best Practice: Wie kann ich meine Institution anbinden? Der Umgang mit unterschiedlichen Objekttypen im digitalen RaumPanel Wednesday, 22.03.2023, 15:30 to Wednesday, 22.03.2023, 16:20 |
Film als Zeuge?Panel Discussion, Presentation Wednesday, 03.05.2023, 18:30 to Wednesday, 03.05.2023, 20:30 |
Filmdokumente der alliierten Streitkräfte aus den befreiten Konzentrationslagern und von anderen VerbrechensortenTuesday, 26.09.2023, 19:00 to Tuesday, 26.09.2023, 20:30 |
Vernetzte Bilder: Digitale Zugänge zum audiovisuellen Erbe des HolocaustMonday, 11.12.2023, 14:00 to Tuesday, 12.12.2023, 17:45 |
Gewaltbilder zeigenTuesday, 06.05.2025, 18:30 to Tuesday, 06.05.2025, 23:00 |
Participation in Media Reports
Bildsprache des Massenmords: Digitalisierungsprojekt „Visual History of the Holocaust"SWR2, Wednesday, 27.01.2021 |
Kulturzeit extra: Auschwitz und wir – Wie der Shoah gedenken?3sat, Thursday, 27.01.2022 |
ZIB 2: Die visuelle Geschichte des MassenmordesORF ZIB 2, Friday, 27.01.2023 |
Film als Zeuge des Holocaust?ORF-Radio Ö1, Kulturjournal, Wednesday, 03.05.2023 |
Participation in Videos
Visual Histories of 20th Century OccupationTuesday, 12.10.2021 |
Curating (big) data in film heritage institutionsTuesday, 19.10.2021 |
Tracing Visual Evidence of the Holocaust – IntroductionTuesday, 26.04.2022 |
Tracing Visual Evidence of the Holocaust – Summary of Concepts and OutlookTuesday, 26.04.2022 |
Archives in the Age of the Algorithm: New Possibilities (and Old Challenges)Monday, 09.05.2022 |
Moving Images from the Archives. Historical Footage of Nazi Crimes in Documentaries – Final DiscussionTuesday, 10.05.2022 |
Challenges to Creating Access to Soviet Footage IThursday, 24.11.2022 |
Runder TischFriday, 27.01.2023 |
FilmdigitalisierungFriday, 27.01.2023 |
