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MuHKA FILMMUSEUM ANTWERPEN
MUHKA Film Museum Antwerp

Since recently, the Film Museum is part of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp (M HKA). The collaboration - which later led to a fusion – occurred upon assessing that both cultural organisations deal with the artistic past in the same manner: a creative way of presenting and contextualising it, the combination of the experience and the contextualisation makes the past live into the present more than ever and maybe even has it carry part of the future within itself.
The fusion with M HKA allows the Film Museum to confront the relatively young medium of film with the world of artistic ideas from which it originated –in part, at least- and which formed it, and, vice versa, to have film comment upon its own past and future (in the form of multi-media installations: from video to digital animation).

Films are projected, all through the year, 7 days per week. Those films encompass the entire history of film: from the first steps by pioneers like Edison, Lumière and Méliès to the most recent work by newly discovered young talent which ought not be missed and which is the talk of the town.
Hundreds of films are being shown here every year: films of all genres, categories, styles, durations and formats.
The programme is changing on a monthly basis and always is ordered in a transparent manner according to themes, or otherwise it is presented within the framework of a retrospective or of an homage.
The Film Museum allows you to get acquainted with canonised classics, yet also with films whose very existence you did not even suspected. Regularly, the Film Museum shows ‘silent films’ live accompanied by a pianist or by an ensemble, a unique experience which you could only live at few other venues.
Cinema from Hollywood to Bollywood, from Bugs Bunny to Ingmar Bergman, American Independents, Hongkong martial arts, B-films, blockbusters, cult movies, cartoons, cinema vérité, documentaries, exploitation, old journals, slapsticks, yet also avant-garde and experimental film, TV-programmes or series, you just name it: sooner or later you can get to see it at the Film Museum.
Yet the Film Museum is not merely a stream of film footage: most of the programmes are being introduced by means of an introduction, a lecture or a publication. Connoisseurs from Belgium and abroad, but also directors or actors are invited to share their knowledge and experiences with the public.
For this purpose, the Film Museum does not only address the hardcore cinema freak, but every kind of public (there are special programmes for juniors, seniors or other groups) and it purposively keeps entrance prices low, within reach of every budget.

Most of the films which are shown at the Film Museum stem from the collection of the Royal Belgian Film Archives.

Film Museum at the Museum of Photography

The Film Museum is especially pleased about its new location in the extended Museum of Photography. The renovated Museum of Photography (Waalse Kai 47) attempts to be a place of encounter of divergent mediums, in which the continuously developing story of the image occupies a central place.
The renowned architect Georges Baines designed this polyvalent surroundings, featuring two auditoriums which could be used as a film hall on the ground floor (with a fixed room reserved for the Film Museum), a Museum café, a bookshop and an exhibition space.
The two projection halls have a respective capacity of 85 and of 150 seats and are equipped with the most technically advanced material for the projection of all video and film (16,33 and 70mm) formats.