Against all odds, and at a time when many had long since considered the historic Austrian brand definitively buried, EUMIG is showing signs of life again in 2026.
This is not an official announcement, nor an industrial press release, but the fact is undeniable: new EUMIG projectors are once again coming out of Austria.
That said… they come in miniature form 🙂
The driving force behind this unexpected “revival” is not a multinational engineering team, but a filmmaker, head of a university department at a prestigious Austrian institution, and a devoted advocate of photochemical cinema: Martin Alexander Gutzelnig.
I first came to know Martin as a reader of my blog Mi Mundo en Súper-8, and later—through one of those delightful coincidences life sometimes offers—it turned out that the university where he works is the very same one where my son Daniel studied: FH JOANNEUM in Graz.
Martin came to visit us in La Coruña during the last edition of the SELLIER FILM FESTIVAL, and as always happens when true cinema builds bridges, that encounter naturally grew into a friendship.
Now, as a Three Kings’ (Epiphany, Day gift in Spain), he has sent my assistant Álex López and me something as unexpected as it is touching: two miniature EUMIG projectors (one for each of us), designed and 3D-printed in Austria by Erik Sneil, who is associated with the EUMIG Museum.
And these are far from being simple decorative figurines.
These small gems reproduce the spirit of the classic EUMIG projectors with astonishing attention to detail:
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removable reels,
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folding arms,
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accurate proportions, and
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that unmistakable silhouette instantly recognizable to any Super-8 enthusiast.
They do not project film, of course.
But they project something perhaps even more important: memory, affection, and technical culture.
In a world where almost everything is designed to be obsolete within a year, it is deeply moving to see someone devote time, knowledge, and care to recreating—on a miniature scale—a machine like an EUMIG projector, many of which are still running flawlessly half a century or more after they were built. They are symbols of an era when engineering stood for durability and functional elegance.
These little EUMIGs do not light up screens, but they illuminate an idea: that film cinema remains alive not only in theaters, festivals, or laboratories, but also in personal gestures, in handmade gifts (or more precisely, printer-made ones), and in the shared complicity of those who truly love this medium.
So yes:
EUMIG is back in 2026.
Not on an industrial assembly line, but on the workbench of an Austrian filmmaker and ciné enthusiast, with filament, patience, and love for cinema.
And that, frankly, is worth far more than any official relaunch.
- Note of interest: copies of these miniature EUMIG projectors can be ordered BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK.
HAPPY 2026, Martin, to you and your family!
VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL, PULSE AQUÍ














