16-18 Sept 2026 | Milieukino at the Rabet
Milieukino at the Rabet
Admission is by donation – feel free to bring your kids and their friends along.
It’s that time again! After a year’s break, we’re delighted to once more welcome Vienna’s impressive Milieu Kino as a mobile venue, so that we can bring a touch of GEGENkino magic to the east of Leipzig too. For three days, from 16 to 18 September, we’ll be in Rabet Park: there, you can fully immerse yourselves in the charm of this unique venue. Milieu Kino – Austria’s smallest cinema – is a project by Max Kaufmann, who conceived it and spent years bringing it to completion. The auditorium is housed in a lorry that has been specially converted. In a single simple step, the rear of the loading area transforms into a foyer with a ticket office and bar. With its neon lettering, poster display cases and 15 upholstered folding seats inside, this modern travelling cinema has everything you’d expect from a traditional cinema – there’s even a 35mm projector, which we’ll of course be using.
Each day begins at 3 pm with programmes for children, followed at 5 pm by screenings for slightly older audiences. This time, we’re showing three historic 35mm prints – we’ve put together a programme for you that, set in bustling Rabet, deliberately ties in with the venue and is aimed at different generations, designed to delight young and old alike: monster adventures, charming Soviet animations, coming-of-age stories, noise, pop music and city life.
Films by Yuri Norstein
HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG / TALE OF TALES
SU 1975, D: Yuri Norstein, 11’, File / SU 1979, D: Yuri Norstein, 29’, File
Yuri Norstein’s films are regarded as milestones in the art of animation. Using delicate techniques, Norstein creates immensely atmospheric, endearing characters and evokes profound emotions. We are screening HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG, in which a hedgehog walks through the forest one evening to visit the bear. They want to drink tea and count the stars together. On his way, he meets the owl, a dog and a beautiful white horse. Unfortunately, he doesn’t see very well and falls into the river. But he is rescued and eventually sits by the campfire, where the bear talks his ear off. And the hedgehog thinks back to the white horse in the mist. TALE OF TALES, meanwhile, recounts difficult memories of war and loss in loosely connected episodes with a melancholic atmosphere. Numerous characters appear and disappear, including a little wolf who finds a human baby.
LINIE 1
DE 1988, D: Reinhard Hauff, A: Inka Victoria Groetschel, Rainer Strecker, Hark Bohm, 99′, German OV, 35mm
West Berlin in the late 1980s: In search of a rock star, young Sunnie travels across the city on the LINIE 1 underground and encounters a wide variety of social milieus.
MONSTER MOVIE of the kaiju genre
GB 60s, 80′, DF, 35mm
This movie transposes the popular kaiju genre from Japan to the UK. Off the Irish coast, treasure hunters capture a giant sea creature – and turn it into a tourist attraction in London. That is, until its mother picks up the trail.
Outside in the Cinema: Short films from the sixpackfilm archive
TAPP UND TASTKINO / EIN SCHLAUCHBOOT UND AUSTERN / ASTOR PLACE / CROSSROAD / SCHWERELOS
AT/US 1968-2016, D: Valie Export, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer, Eve Heller, Phil Solomon, Jannis Lenz
Starting from the relocation of the cinema into public space, a programme of short films featuring works from the collection of the Viennese film distributor sixpackfilm explores the boundaries between public and private, visible and concealed. Valie Export’s TAPP- UND TASTKINO ironically and provocatively makes “tangible”what voyeurs seek to touch through watching. In a public performance, Export straps a box – a miniature cinema auditorium, open at the front and back – to her bare breasts. Passers-by are invited to visit the cinema… In ASTOR PLACE by Eve Heller, we look through a shop window mirrored on the outside onto the square of the same name in New York City. Passers-by walk past. Unaware that they are being watched, they look into the camera before moving onsoon. An arrangement of asymmetrical gazes that gains in complexity on the big screen. Ursula Pürrer and Ashley Hans Scheierl’s EIN SCHLAUCHBOOT UND AUSTERN is queer DIY cinema: punk women on the New York subway, home-movie snippets and the sexually surreal. The programme is shown as a loop.
TIMES SQUARE
US 1980, D: Allan Moyle, A: Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, 111′, engl. OF, 35mm
TIMES SQUARE follows two teenagers who run away from a hospital, wander through early 1980s New York City and find themselves amidst punk, new wave and pirate radio.
| Wed 16 Sept 2026 Milieukino at the Rabet | |
| 3 PM | Films by Yuri Norstein HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG SU 1975, D: Yuri Norstein, 11’, File TALE OF TALES SU 1979, D: Yuri Norstein, 29’, File |
| 5 PM | LINIE 1 Germany 1988, D: Reinhard Hauff, C: Inka Victoria Groetschel, Rainer Strecker, Hark Bohm, 99′, German OV, 35mm |
| Thu 17 Sept 2026 Milieukino at the Rabet | |
| 3 PM | GORGO GB 1961, D: Eugène Lourié, A: Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter, 78′, German version, 35mm |
| 5 PM | Outside in the Cinema: Short films from the sixpackfilm archive TAPP UND TASTKINO AT 1968, D: Valie Export, 2′, File EIN SCHLAUCHBOOT UND AUSTERN AT 1985, D: Ashley Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer, 5′, File ASTOR PLACE US 1997, D: Eve Heller, 10′, File CROSSROAD US 2005, D: Phil Solomon, 5′, File SCHWERELOS AT 2016, D: Jannis Lenz, 9′, File |
| Fri 18.09.26 Milieukino at the Rabet | |
| 3 PM | Films by Yuri Norstein HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG SU 1975, D: Yuri Norstein, 11’, File TALE OF TALES SU 1979, D: Yuri Norstein, 29’, File |
| 5 PM | TIMES SQUARE US 1980, D: Allan Moyle, A: Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, 111’, English OV, 35mm |
