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New CEO Appointed to head The National Film and Sound
Archive (NFSA)

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The Melbourne Age reported on Thursday 30 June that Austrian film historian and curator,
Michael Loebenstein has been appointed as the new CEO of the NFSA.
Michael Loebenstein (b.1974, Vienna, Austria) is a curator and researcher in the field of
audiovisual archiving and visual history.
His career over the past 15 years has included senior positions at the Austrian Film Museum
(http://www.filmmuseum.at), working as the head of the Education & Outreach department
and as Curator for Special Programs.
In 2008 he was appointed to the board of the
Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and
Culture’s film funding agency, serving a 3 year term.
From 2009 - 2011 he was an elected member of the
Executive Committee of FIAF, the International
Federation of Film Archives (http://www.fiafnet.org).
Since 2009 he has acted as project manager and
researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for
History and Society (http://geschichte.lbg.ac.at)
where he has been responsible for directing large-
scale historical research projects including
film.stadt.wien.
In 2010 he curated the much-lauded exhibition
Wien im Film at the Wien Museum in Vienna, a
celebration of a century of images capturing the
essence of the city.

He is the author and editor of numerous
publications, books and articles on film history,
curatorship and contemporary film culture. He is a co-founder and editor of the film
periodical kolik.film (http://www.kolikfilm.at), published since 2004. In addition, he was film
critic for the Viennese paper Falter for four years. His prolific output has included
contributions to various books, magazines and articles as a feature writer, commentator and
editor.
Notable publications include Film Curatorship: Archives, Museums and the Digital
Marketplace (2008), Peter Tscherkassky (2007) and Gustav Deutsch (2009). He has also
been responsible for the production of several DVDs including the award-winning Entuziasm
by Dziga Vertov (Edition Filmmuseum), and has collaborated with the celebrated film
composer Michael Nyman on a number of projects.

He frequently receives invitations to speak and present at film festivals, conferences and
symposiums and to lecture in educational establishments across Europe and in the USA.

In June 2011 he was appointed CEO of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
(http://www.nfsa.gov.au).
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