Organizing for the next 35 years
The benefits, the web site, the CD-ROM, Anthology Film
Achrives Film Showings, and the newsletter all work together
to further the three goals of membership communication,
increased film/video rentals, and a widening of our
audience. With M. M. Serra as Executive Director of the
Co-op, and with the talented members of our Board of
Directors, I feel confident that we will achieve these
goals.
With added membership support, we will make history this
coming year!
Film-Makers' Cooperative, Presents, 12 Showings,
"Film-Makers' Co-Optical", at the Anthology
Film Archives, 32 Second Ave., New York. Wednesdays
and Fridays at 8 PM, Starting January 14, 1998.
As a continuing celebration of the 35th
anniversary of the New York Film-Makers'
Cooperative the board of directors presents twelve
programs; Film-Makers'; Co-Optical. The Coop is the
oldest, most comprehensive international
distributor of independent experimental and
underground film/video. These selection represent
the vitality and diversity of avant-garde
filmmaking since its inception.
This series provides a rare opportunity to see
an eclectic mix of 100 short films. Each program is
branded with its own particular focus: from Flora
& Fauna & Family to obscure anthropology's
and physical transgressions. One traces a specific
history, another cites the relationship between
film and music. The abstraction of codes and visual
effects as well as camp irony and documentary all
have their place in the programs, accumulated by
curators who themselves are all Filmmakers of
distinctive character.
Film-Makers'; Co-Optical, All shows begin a 8
PM:
Jan. 14th "Signal", Curated by Julie Murray.
Jan. 14th "San Francisco/Cinema/The Sixties",
curated by Ralph Ackerman. Jan. 21rd "Existence Is
Elsewhere", curated by Bradley Eros. Jan. 23h "The
Place From Which We All Have Come", curated by
Lynne Sachs. Jan. 30th "Film-Makers With
Composers", curated by Dave Gearey. Feb. 4th
"VISUPHINE: What was then is now, and
furthermore...", curated by Jane Gang. Feb. 11th
"Untitled", curated by Donna Cameron. Feb. 13th
"Pleasure and Parody", curated by Tessa
Hughes-Freeland and M. M. Serra. Feb.18th "Echoes
of Silence" by Peter Emanuel Goldman, curated by
Margot Niederland. Feb. 20th "Gardens with
Artists", curated by Cari Machet. Feb. 25th "Ritual
and Reality", curated by Tessa Hughes-Freeland and
M. M. Serra. Feb. 27th "The Glass of
Knowledge"Curated by Lana Lin.
