18/11/2002 - Four days dedicated to classics and meetings in Vienna, to discover the European cinematographic heritage

In the context of Cined@ys 2002, the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna is holding a four-days event (18-21 November 2002) to bring together children and young people with the European cinematographic heritage and introduce them to the art of cinema. Special screenings are organised and prominent Austrian directors will discuss the nature of cinema and film creation with young people.
Every morning the director of the Film Museum Alexander Horwath chooses and and presents children with films varying from the first works of brothers Lumière and Méliès to current animated films. At 11.00, the film creator Michael Park introduces young people to cinema as fiction and documentation of real events with some classical documentaries and experimental art.
Michael Haneke, the world famous Austrian director will discuss his 1992 film Benny’s Video with all interested. The historian and journalist Peter Huemer of the Public Austrian Broadcaster (ORF) will present propaganda films of German national socialism and the reactions of the Allies during the Second World War. Gustav Deutsch presents his new work Film Ist that portrays film as humour, communication, memory and more.

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