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Anne Hanavan, President of the Board of Directors, makes sexually explicit auto-erotic self portrait films. Also a fashion designer, she owns the Lost Shoe boutique on Ludlow Streetnamed after an incident when, under the influence, she woke up on 13th St. with one shoe missing, and never looked back. |
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Bradley Eros, Vice-President of the Board of Directors, is artist, experimental filmmaker, mediamystic, maverick curator, sound collage, photographer, expanded cinema, performance, writer & poet, nomadic teacher and private investigatorinitiating, exhibiting, & curating at a multitude of ephemeral spaces and long-lasting venues, from micro-cinemas & storefronts to galleries & museums. His work includes intimate collaborations with Aline Mare (Erotic Psyche), Jeanne Liotta (Mediamystics), the Alchemical Theatre, Circle X, and kinoSonik.; intense research with Jeanne Liotta on the films of Joseph Cornell. He has created dozens of 'zines, posters, soundtracks, unique artist's books, and film performances in the unfixed universe of ephemeral cinema. |
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Lynne Sachs, Treasurer of the Board of Directors, makes experimental documentary films which push the borders between genres, discourses, radicalized identities, psychic states and nations. She received a Media Arts Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation to complete "Investigation of a Flame", an experimental documentary about the Catonsville Nine. Her films have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Pacific Film Archive and the Sundance Film Festival as well as at other museum and alternative exhibition sites nationally and internationally. She also makes installation pieces and interactive web work and teaches a course on avant-garde film and video in the department of film at NYU. |
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Ghen Zando-Dennis. Secretary of the Board of Directors, is a filmmaker and photographer who graduated from Media Study at the University of NY at Buffalo. She has taught film at Notre Dame, SUNY Buffalo, and the New York State Summer School for the Arts, and is currently working on a film about anarchist Emma Goldman. |
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M.M.
Serra Executive Director of the Film-Makers Cooperative is an expermental
film/videomaker who has produced, directed, and edited more than fourteen
works. Her own work, as well as her curated programs, have been screened
at the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York;
The Centre Georges Pompidou and the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris; the
London Film Festival, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and
the Dresden Film Fest in Germany. Serra has been the Executive Director
of the Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York City since 1991 and has curated
several exhibition programs in New York and Europe.
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Donna Cameron is the 1998-1999 Elodie Osborne Fellow of Film & Video, and has been awarded MacDowell and Jerome fellowships for her work in film, photography and video. Her films and videos are included in the collections of MoMA, Donnell Library, the Museum of Broadcast and Television, Library of Congress, Avery Fisher Media Center, NYU; Anthology Film Archives and Pacific Film Archive. In 2001 The United States Patent and Trademark Office acknowledged her work by granting her an International Patent allowance for her invention: "RE: Cinematic Paper Emulsion". She is an adjunct professor at the New School and at NYU.
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Sharon Greytak has written, produced and directed dramatic features, documentaries, and experimental films. Her work has screened at MoMA, Lincoln Center, Village East Cinema, George Eastman House, MFA Boston, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Laemmle Theatres, Egyptian Theatre Hollywood, Film de Femmes Creteil France, and numerous festivals. She's the recipient of a CINE Golden Eagle and awards from DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival, Chicago, Houston, and Black Maria. She's a participant in AFI's Directing Workshop for Women, and received fellowships/residencies from NYFA, NYSCA, Soros, Jerome, ArtsLink, AFI, Yaddo and MacDowell. Collections include: MoMA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Open Society Archive Budapest. |
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Scott Nyerges has been making short films and videos since the late 1990s. His work has been screened at festivals, museums and other venues in North America, Europe and East Asia, including the Tribeca Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam, and won awards at the Black Maria Film Festival and Cinematexas. He counts Stan Brakhage, Jordan Belson and Scott Bartlett among his influences. Scott lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
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Joel Schlemowitz has made over forty short experimental films, and numerous film installation pieces. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, Berks Filmmakers, and various festivals. His film Reverie was shown on the Sundance Channel. Another work, Moving Images - the Film-Makers' Cooperative relocates, received Honorable Mentions from the Thaw02 Film & Video Festival and NY Short Film Expo, and was awarded a silver plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival. He teaches filmmaking at the New School. |
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Jack Waters has, with his partner Peter Cramer, created works in video, film, performance and visual art since 1984. As co-director of Abc No Rio, he and his colleagues perpetuated an aesthetic of raw, spontaneous eclecticism that greatly influenced the arts, contemporary to the period of the 80s. He co-curated, with Leslie Lowe, the Naked Eye Cinema, a primary venue for women and LBGTG media artists. A founding contributing writer to NYC Gay City News, Waters' articles have appeared in many other publications. He was Assistant Professor of Video at Hampshire College from 2001 - 2004. |