Anthology Film Archives - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Anthology Film Archives. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“ONE-FILM WONDERS” Exhibition
Most great filmmakers spend an entire career developing a signature style and coherent themes, experimenting and exploring and refining their craft over the course of several movies. But there is another...More »
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“RE-VISIONS: AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM 1975-90” Exhibition
With the new monthly series RE-VISIONS: AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM 1975-90, Anthology spotlights the generation(s) of experimental film artists who emerged after the final formation in 1975 of our Essential...More »
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Jonas Mekas "Out-Takes From The Life Of A Happy Man"
OUT-TAKES FROM THE LIFE OF A HAPPY MAN (2012, 68 minutes, video) “A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video...More »
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Lee Isaac Chung "MUNYURANGABO"
An exquisite, deeply moving feature from Korean-American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung, developed and shot in Rwanda as part of a filmmaking class Chung taught there. MUNYURANGABO paints a sensitive, patient...More »
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"Festival Dei Popoli" New York Documentaray Film Festival
Founded in 1959, the FESTIVAL DEI POPOLI is devoted to promoting and studying social documentary cinema. The second New York edition is part of an ongoing movement by the Festival to celebrate its 50th...More »
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Ken Jacobs "Anaglyph Tom"
In 1969 Ken Jacobs broke new cinematic ground with TOM, TOM, THE PIPER'S SON, a feature-length work produced by re-photographing a 16mm film print of a 1905 Edison short. In that now classic film, Jacobs...More »
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Sergei Loznitsa Film Program
Anthology presents the New York City theatrical premiere engagement of REVUE, the new film by Sergei Loznitsa, one of Russia's most renowned documentary filmmakers, alongside a return engagement of Loznitsa's...More »
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Marina Goldovskaya "Woman with a Film Camera"
At the beginning of her seminal video diary, THE SHATTERED MIRROR, Marina Goldovskaya pans across an impossibly long gas queue to rest on a man who sits in his idle car. He asks, "Who are you filming this...More »
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Shirley Clarke Film Program
Among the leading lights of the New American Cinema Group and one of the founders of the Film-Makers' Cooperative, filmmaker Shirley Clarke was at the very heart of the underground film movement that erupted...More »
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Inaugural Migrating Forms Festival
Migrating Forms is organized by Nellie Killian and Kevin McGarry, former directors of the New York Underground Film Festival. In October, 2008, the organization presented the world premiere of Jennifer...More »
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Michel Auder & Andrew Neel "The Feature"
Michel Auder’s epic new film is a summation of his half-century-long career as a video artist and diarist. In 15-hour diaries, 2-hour neo-narratives, and 1-minute haikus, Auder has created a body of work...More »
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"Brand New & Recent Preservations of The Kuchar Brothers!" Film Program
George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and legends in their own time. But back in the 50s and 60s they were just a couple of...More »
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Rip Torn Film Program
A ubiquitous but under-appreciated presence on screen for nearly five decades, Rip Torn is one of American cinema's great talents, an actor whose versatility, command, and sheer magnetism are unsurpassed....More »
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Jonas Mekas "Lithuania And The Collapse of The USSR"
Forces of time, memory, change, and human will collide in Mekas's new film. The work's title refers to the historical time when the world watched as Mekas's home country of Lithuania fought for independence...More »
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José Luis Guerín "In the City of Sylvia"
2007, 84 minutes, 35mm. In French with English subtitles. Special thanks to Montse Pedros (Eddie Saeta Films). A young foreigner in Strasbourg spends his days sitting at an outdoor café, sketching the...More »
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Arthur Penn Film Program
One of the defining figures of sixties and seventies American cinema, and among the prime movers in the transformation-from-within that brought a new (and sadly brief-lived) energy and excitement to Hollywood...More »
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"Degrees of Remove" Film Series
This screening series was developed in the context of the exhibition Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect at SculptureCenter, on view through November 30. Degrees of Remove suggests the contemporary...More »
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Robert Frank "Mapping a Journey"
Few works of art have won their creators such immediate and lasting renown as Robert Frank’s seminal photography book, THE AMERICANS, a work whose reputation and influence have not waned after 50 years....More »
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Susan Hiller "The Last Silent Movie"
An old man confronts us with some truths about language. The strangeness of his voice merges with the buzzing and humming artifacts of an archaic recording mechanism. A young girl repeats words she is...More »
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Jean-Daniel Pollet "Unidentified Filmic Objects"
Fully justified as it is, the praise lavished on the heavy-hitters of the French New Wave – Chabrol, Godard, Rivette, Rohmer, and Truffaut – has often deflected attention away from the many other talented...More »
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"Andrzej Wajda and Polish Television Theater" Film Screening
Unique on the world scene, Polish Television Theater (Teatr Telewizji) has attracted the crème de la crème of both theatrical and film screenwriters, actors, and directors. This institution, operating...More »
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Abel Ferrara "Mary"
2005, 83 minutes, 35mm. With Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Modine, Heather Graham, and (2008 Academy Award-winner) Marion Cotillard. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International...More »
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ADULT "Decampment"
DECAMPMENT is the new 40-minute silent-experimental-horror film from Detroit’s undying isolationists, ADULT. The soundtrack, performed live by ADULT. during the screening, is a mutation of instrumental...More »
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10th New York Turkish Film Festival
Moon and Stars Project presents the 10th New York Turkish Film Festival, a breathtaking selection of contemporary films coming out of Turkey. Opening Friday, October 3 at Anthology Film Archives and continuing...More »
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Brigitte Cornand "Louise Bourgeois: Portrait Trilogy"
On the occasion of Louise Bourgeois’s career retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum this summer, Anthology presents Brigitte Cornand’s trilogy of films about the artist, including a week-long world-premiere...More »
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"Born to Film: The Cinema of Danny Lyon" Film Program
Filmmaker in-person on Thursday, June 26! One of the finest and most enterprising of American photographers, and the author of such iconic photo-books as THE BIKERIDERS, THE DESTRUCTION OF LOWER MANHATTAN...More »
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"Late Hawks" Film Showing
Howard Hawks is hardly a director who could be described as under-appreciated – few can so confidently lay claim to being beloved equally of audiences, critics, and filmmakers. Is there anyone out there...More »
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James Nares "Motion Pictures"
James Nares is known primarily as a painter. His reputation in film rests mainly with ROME ‘78, NO JAPS AT MY FUNERAL and WAITING FOR THE WIND, three rarely-screened movies he made between 1978 and 1982,...More »