{"id":17254,"date":"2019-07-07T05:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T04:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=17254"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:52:02","slug":"frameout-open-air-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/theaters\/frameout-open-air-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Frameout open-air cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/frameout.jpg\" alt=\"Moonlit sky\" class=\"wp-image-17256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/frameout.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/frameout-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Imagine lounging outside on a balmy summer evening, surrounded by bars and art museums. Now add in a free movie on a big screen: you&#8217;ve got the Frameout experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open-air cinema in Vienna&#8217;s Museumsquartier (MQ)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Free entry &amp; an eclectic mix of movies on a theme<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Films mostly in original English or with English subtitles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2026 dates: TBA (was Fridays &amp; Saturdays, Jul 18 &#8211; Sept 6 in 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Book a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/en\/Vienna-VR-Virtual-Reality-Experiences-l219199\/?partner=visitingvienna&amp;tq_campaign=LG_AnEvent\" rel=\"sponsored\">VR experience<\/a>* in Vienna<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vienna in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/july\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17160\">July<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/august\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17700\">August<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/september\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"18457\">September<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/film-festivals\/\">Film festivals<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/theaters\/english-cinemas-vienna\/\">English-language cinemas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Movies and the MQ<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/frameout.jpg\" alt=\"Audience at a Frameout viewing\" class=\"wp-image-57533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/frameout.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/frameout-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(An evening viewing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/mumok\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4046\">mumok museum<\/a> behind; press photo \u00a9 Christoph Storn)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/mq\/\">Museumsquartier<\/a> has a dynamic cultural vibe to it throughout the year, what with all the art, dance and other events going on in the complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the MQ really comes alive in summer, when the main courtyards fill with people there to soak up the warmth and chat over a glass of something cold from the many open-air bars that pop up for the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the highlights of the MQ summer is the Frameout digital film festival, with outdoor screenings of a mix of films that seem to mirror the eclectic artistic surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anything is possible: national &amp; international movies, shorts, documentaries, science fiction, video art, action films, past classics, experimental films&#8230;anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the selection always follows a theme that changes each year.  The 2025 edition, for example, had a &#8220;disobedience&#8221; thread running through it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mqw.jpg\" alt=\"Side entrance to the Museumsquartier\" class=\"wp-image-41946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mqw.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/mqw-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(At home in the MQ)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2026 dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I await 2026 dates at the time of writing, but to give you an idea of what to expect&#8230;the previous Frameout ran on Friday and Saturday evenings from July 18th until September 6th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find the programme at the festival <a href=\"https:\/\/frameout.at\/home.html\">website<\/a>, once details becomes available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entry is free (yay!), and you can normally borrow a wireless audio headset on site for a returnable deposit (typically around \u20ac20 or use photo ID).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Viennese summer fills with open-air screenings, so check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/film-festivals\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17806\">film festival listings<\/a> and the guides to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/july\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17160\">July<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/august\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17700\">August<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/september\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"18457\">September<\/a> for other cinematic possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to Frameout<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>See the main <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/mq\/\">Museumsquartier article<\/a> for directions to the MQ complex. The screenings take place in Courtyard 8, which is between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/mumok\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4046\">mumok museum<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/architekturzentrum\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"42029\">Architecture Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, you go into the MQ through the main entrance, turn right and walk past the giant grey mumok building on your left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the weather is bad (rarely in a Vienna summer), then the Frameout showings shift indoors at the same MuseumsQuartier location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Museumsquartier, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1i9IZX6LeUKth_5sm2EOO-SqQl8s\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine lounging outside on a balmy summer evening, surrounded by bars and art museums. Now add in a free movie on a big screen: you&#8217;ve got the Frameout experience. Movies and the MQ (An evening viewing with the mumok museum behind; press photo \u00a9 Christoph Storn) The Museumsquartier has a dynamic cultural vibe to it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-theaters","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17254"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85655,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions\/85655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}