Michael Loebenstein (born 1974 in

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

) is a writer, curator and as of 1 October 2017 the director of the

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(Österreichisches Filmmuseum). From October 2011 to January 2017 he held the post of

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(CEO) of the

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of Australia (NFSA). Since 2013 he is serving as Secretary General of FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives. Previously he held senior positions at the Austrian Film Museum and at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society (currently operating as th
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History
in its historical research cluster. He worked as an advisor to the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture. He has also worked as a freelance curator and researcher in the field of audiovisual archiving and history, having particular interests in avant-garde and documentary film, Visual History and Holocaust Studies. As a writer Michael has published books on filmmakers including Peter Tscherkassky, Gustav Deutsch, Maria Lassnig and Ruth Beckermann. As a producer for the Austrian Film Museum's publication series he was involved in book releases on the Film Museum's Dziga Vertov Collection and on filmmaker James Benning. Notable publications include ''Film Curatorship: Archives, Museums and the Digital Marketplace'' (2008), co-authored with David Francis, Alexander Horwath and Paolo Cherchi Usai. As a journalist, feature writer, commentator and editor he has contributed to numerous publications, books and articles on film history, curatorship and contemporary film culture. In addition he was a co-founder and editor of the German-language film periodical ''kolik.film'' and a critic for the Viennese weekly ''Falter''. He has been responsible for the production of several DVDs including the award-winning ''Entuziasm'' by

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(Edition Filmmuseum), and has collaborated with the celebrated film composer

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. As a curator he has been responsible for a number of large scale projects and exhibitions. In 2010 he curated the much-lauded ''Wien im Film'' at the

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in Vienna, a celebration of a century of images capturing the essence of the city. He also conceptualised and co-managed a series of

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projects with the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, including
Film.Stadt.Wien
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Ephemeral Films - National Socialism in Austria
an
Visual History of the Holocaust
While in Australia he served as a member of the advisory board of the Centre for Media History at

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(Sydney) and th
Wantok Music Foundation
(Melbourne). As of 2022 he is a board member of the Austrian association of media archives medien archive Austria,

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