We need your help with employee retention for Fall 2020. [2], On January 7, 1961, at a contentious meeting of the Group, Amos Vogel attempted to stonewall the formation of the distribution center claiming that his own Cinema 16 organization should be the only distributor of experimental films. New website uses creatively new technologies trying to re-create analogue feeling of The Filmmaker' Coop most prominent works which were shot on 8mm and 16mm films. Going on 60 years, The New American Cinema Group/Film-Maker's Cooperative has a collection over 5,000 artist films, a 16mm film archive, with over 1,000 members. Made between 1964 and 2020 these films investigate fractious politics, urgent street protests, domestic contemplation, melancholic memories and economic anxieties. Besides distributing its members' films, the Film-Makers' Cooperative is continuously involved in film preservation and DVD release projects, and in arranging screenings and events in and around New York City. The New American Cinema Group is an artist-run, non-profit organization founded in 1962 in New York City by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, Lionel Rogosin, Gregory Markopoulos, Lloyd Michael Williams and other filmmakers to distribute avant-garde films. We have extended the deadline to October 9, 2020. They are a wonderful group doing important work, and there is no other place to go and see this kind of thing. Screening of selected films made by the members of Kinoklub Zagreb during the last decade, followed by discussion and presentation of Kinoklub Zagreb and the ways of alternative film production in Croatia. Limited time only, purchase Charles Henri Ford Films DVD, “I was in a position to help, and I thought that I should. Submissions can be anywhere between 3-5 minutes. Films by Christopher MacLaine, Hilary Harris, Henry Hills, Cynthia Madansky, Doris Chase, and Jackie Raynal, An online film screening in collaboration with Microscope Gallery, we will be showing films by Tom Chomont, Peter Cramer, Jim Hubbard, Taylor Mead, Lynne Sachs, MM Serra, Jack Waters. The New York Film-Makers' Cooperative has inspired similar initiatives both within the United States (Canyon Cinema in San Francisco) and abroad (The London Film-Makers' Co-operative in England, and ABCinema in Denmark, and elsewhere). The Film-Makers' Cooperative is an artist-run, non-profit organization founded in 1962 in New York City by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage and other filmmakers to distribute avant-garde films. Tickets free with FMC membership. The Cooperative rents out the films in its collection to cinématheques, film festivals, schools, universities, museums, and other art institutions in the United States and around the world. 16mm, Digital file, DVD NTSC, Rental formats: [4] The collection includes work authored on 35mm, 16mm, 8mm, video and DVD. Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306, 3-5 PM The Film-Makers’ Coop / New American Cinema Group is very grateful to our benefactor, Charles S. Cohen, whose generous support allows us to thrive in New York City. Submit your short films of protest and action in the streets. This program, curated by Mark Street, pairs 4 brand new films from Fordham University students (who had to leave campus Friday March 13 because of the pandemic) with works previously in distribution. Serra 475 PARK AVE SOUTH, 6TH FLOOR NY, NY 10016, 475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor NY, NY 10016. In this class, we will use materials found at home to create an animated film. Members of the Board: "A Look Back: The American New Wave 1958-1967", "The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group: September 30, 1962", "Distributor of Avant-Garde Films Threatened With Eviction", The New American Cinema Group / The Film-Makers’ Coop, "Filmmaker has impressive body of work — about bodies", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Film-Makers%27_Cooperative&oldid=952521294, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 22 April 2020, at 17:47. Presented by FMC The Film-Makers' Cooperative is an artist-run, non-profit organization founded in 1962 in New York City by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage and other filmmakers to distribute avant-garde films. 16mm, Digital file, Rental format:
1961, NYC New American Cinema Group Archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde cinema The NB Film Co-op acknowledges that the land on which it operates is the traditional unceded territory of theWəlastəkwiyik, Mi'kmaq, and Peskotomuhkati. [1] Two days later on Sept. 30, Mekas presented the first draft of a manifesto for the Group, which included a call to form a cooperative distribution center.

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In the fall of 1960, Jonas Mekas and Lewis Allen organized several meetings with independent filmmakers in New York City that culminated on September 28, 1960 with them officially declaring themselves the New American Cinema Group. 16mm, 16mm, color and b/w, optical sound, 4.5 min, Rental formats: They needed a storage space for their archives, and this meets their needs.”. Submit your short films of protest and action in the streets. These 16mm shorts rediscover the intuitive reality and sharp beauty of nature. Film COOP is dedicated to bringing film production to Cooperstown, Oneonta, Otsego County and the greater Leatherstocking area in order to build a lasting film industry in the region. The first night of screenings of new experimental and avant-garde films. The New American Cinema Group is an artist-run, non-profit organization founded in 1962 in New York City by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, Lionel Rogosin, Gregory Markopoulos, Lloyd Michael Williams and other filmmakers to distribute avant-garde films. Rental formats: Curated by Emily Apter, Ladya Cheryl, and Devon Narine-Singh. The NB Film Co-op respects the history, spirituality, and culture of the Wəlastəkwiyik, Mi'kmaq, and Peskotomuhkati people and that of other Indigenous people who have migrated here. The London Film-makers' Co-op, or LFMC, was a British film-making workshop founded in 1966.It ceased to exist in 1999 when it merged with London Video Arts to form LUX.. The deadline is October 1, 2020. Ludlow House, 139 Ludlow Street Wednesday, December 18th at 8:30pm Submissions can be anywhere between 3-5 minutes. While at home, why not have some fun? The Film-Makers' Cooperative a.k.a. The Film-Makers' Cooperative is an artist-run, non-profit organization founded in 1962 in New York City by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage and other filmmakers to distribute avant-garde films. The Film-Makers' Cooperative holds a large collection of avantgarde and experimental films, with over 5,000 titles by more than 900 filmmakers. The Film-Makers' Cooperative would officially start distributing films in 1962. We will be showing the fabulous films of Emily Breer, Alice Cohen, Janie Geiser, Erin Hayes, Helen Hill, Faith and John Hubley, Emily and Georgia Hubley, Marie Losier, and Stan VanDerBeek. Based upon a belief common to the founding members that the "official cinema is running out of breath" and has become "morally corrupt, aesthetically obsolete, thematically superficial, temperamentally boring" (as the original 1962 manifesto[5] would have it), the Film-Makers' Cooperative was a key institution in the heyday of American experimental or "underground" film in the 1960s and 1970s, and has continued to operate on a non-exclusive basis to ensure the existence of an alternative, non-commercial film culture since then. Our on-location screening room has been named in his honor. However, Vogel is shouted down after it was pointed out that Cinema 16 refused to distribute Stan Brakhage's Anticipation of the Night.[3].
Q&A with curator Claire K. Henry at Mana Contemporary Join us online for a special screening of frame based films from members of the Film-Maker's Cooperative. Executive Director: M.M. Four screenings in January 2019 that showcase the wide-ranging work of new and longstanding FMC members from around the world. The second night of screenings of new experimental and avant-garde films. The Film-Makers' Cooperative a.k.a. Founding Director: Jonas Mekas In this class, we will use materials found at home to create an animated film. In the face of global ecological collapse, there's nothing radical about loving the non-human. Est. An online screening with a selection of videos by Elle Burchill spanning from 2004 to 2018 on Vimeo On Demand. MANA Contemporary screening of works by Peter Cramer and Jack Waters. Not to be missed! The Film-Makers’ Coop is the first artist-run organization devoted to the dissemination of moving image art, founded in 1961 by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Andy Warhol and others. The Film-Makers' Cooperative is open to anyone who wishes to become a member. While at home, why not have some fun? 264 were here.

An evening of short dance films created between the 1940s and 1980s. 16mm, DVD NTSC, 475 PARK AVE SOUTH, 6TH FLOOR NY, NY 10016, 475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor NY, NY 10016. The largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world.