The Film-Makers' Cooperative

On Saturday, October 25th, at 7pm, you are invited to The Film-Makers' Cooperative for a screening of Lynne Sachs and Lizzie Olesker's experimental documentary THE WASHING SOCIETY, followed by a performative live reading and book signing, by Sachs, of their new book HAND BOOK: A MANUAL ON PERFORMANCE, PROCESS, AND THE LABOR OF LAUNDRY.

On Sunday, October 19th, at 4:30pm, longtime Coop filmmaker-member and Secretary of the Board of Directors, Gregg Biermann, screens his engaging and inventive 2024 documentary PERSONAL EFFECTS at the Barrymore Film Center. Biermann will be in attendance to discuss his film, in conversation with Coop Board member and film programmer David Schwartz.

On October 15th at 7:30pm, The Film-Makers' Cooperative co-presents NEWFEST's program of queer avant-garde short films, titled SHORTS: AVANT QUEER. These films will also be available to stream starting on October 9th, through to October 21st. We are honored to be a community partner for NEWFEST for the second year in a row.

On October 12th at 6:30pm, The Film-Makers' Cooperative co-presents NEWFEST's 40th anniversary screening of Donna Deitch's landmark feature film DESERT HEARTS. Deitch has been a filmmaker-member of the Coop since the early 1970s, and we are honored to be a community partner for NEWFEST for the second year in a row.

On October 11th from 2pm-8pm, The Film-Makers' Cooperative co-presents NEWFEST's 1950s Best Actress Trifecta triple feature. We are honored to be a community partner for NEWFEST for the second year in a row.

On Friday, October 10th, at 7pm, join us at FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) for a rare screening of Joyce Wieland's seminal feature film LA RAISON AVANT LA PASSION (REASON OVER PASSION), presented on 16mm and introduced by Julia Petrocelli.

The Film-Makers' Cooperative is thrilled to collaborate with Black Rock Arts, co-founded by FMC filmmaker-member Jason Duval, to present an evening of water-themed 16mm and digital films by FMC filmmaker-members Dave Gearey, Ann Deborah Levy, J.J. Murphy, and Margaret Rorison. This screening is part of Black Rock Arts' larger month-long exhibition WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE.

As part of their October 2025 issue FELINO, which is devoted to films and videos about cats, the Brooklyn-based science and film collective Labocine presents selections from our May 2025 revival of Pola Chapelle's INTERCAT: The International Festival of Cat Films, co-curated by Matt McKinzie and Robert Schneider and originally screened at Spectacle Theater.