East Village, in Manhattan
Anthology Film Archives
Archival Cinema · 32 2nd Ave
Jonas Mekas and four others opened this in 1970 as a center for preserving and showing experimental film. It still screens more than 900 programs a year.
Essential Cinema, the founding repertory collection, was assembled to encourage study of the medium's masterworks as works of art rather than disposable entertainment, which made it the first museum built around film as an art form.
Preservation runs alongside exhibition at about twenty-five films a year, with some 900 works preserved to date, plus books and DVDs and a steady traffic of scholars. Programming splits across two theaters, the smaller named for Maya Deren.
The governing conviction is stated plainly: that the health of a culture shows up in its margins, in work made outside the commercial mainstream. Almost nothing on the calendar was made to fill a multiplex.
Upcoming events at Anthology Film Archives (63)
FilmThu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM
Vika Kirchenbauer Pgm 1
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Oct 11
FilmThu Oct 8 · 8:15 PM
Combat Breathing: Read My Desire, Part 2
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmFri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM
Vacances
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 3 other dates, through Tue Oct 13
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FilmFri Oct 9 · 7:30 PM
Vika Kirchenbauer Pgm 2
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Oct 11
FilmSat Oct 10 · 7:30 PM
Playing with Fire: an Ecosexual Emergency
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Oct 11
FilmSun Oct 11 · 3:00 PM
Women in Animation Pgm 1: Animated Animals
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmSun Oct 11 · 4:00 PM
Playing with Fire: an Ecosexual Emergency
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Oct 11
FilmSun Oct 11 · 6:15 PM
Vika Kirchenbauer Pgm 1
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Oct 11
FilmSun Oct 11 · 8:15 PM
Vika Kirchenbauer Pgm 2
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Oct 11
FilmTue Oct 13 · 7:00 PM
Avatars: the Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmWed Oct 14 · 7:00 PM
Women in Animation Pgm 2: on Being a Woman
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmThu Oct 15 · 7:00 PM
Women in Animation Pgm 3: Sunflower Lane
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmThu Oct 15 · 7:30 PM
Narrow Rooms: Les FantôMes Du Hard + Fistule
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmFri Oct 16 · 6:45 PM
Multi-Media Resource Center Pgm 1: Confessions and Sex Histories
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmFri Oct 16 · 8:45 PM
Multi-Media Resource Center Pgm 2: Active Partners
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmSat Oct 17 · 5:45 PM
Multi-Media Resource Center Pgm 3: Gay Liberation on 16Mm
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmSat Oct 17 · 8:30 PM
Multi-Media Resource Center Pgm 4: Women’s Lib
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmSun Oct 18 · 5:45 PM
Multi-Media Resource Center Pgm 5: Broughton Ec+
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmSun Oct 18 · 8:00 PM
Multi-Media Resource Center Pgm 6: Erotic Fantasy
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmMon Oct 19 · 7:00 PM
Multi-Media Resource Center Pgm 7: Pattern Films, Part 1
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmTue Oct 20 · 7:00 PM
Multi-Media Resource Center Pgm 8: Pattern Films, Part 2
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmThu Oct 22 · 7:00 PM
Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is?
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmHorror
Fri Oct 23 · 7:30 PM
The Toxic Avenger
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Fri Oct 30
FilmSat Oct 24 · 9:30 PM
Class of Nuke ‘Em High
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Fri Oct 30
FilmSun Oct 25 · 5:30 PM
In the Moment: World Poetry Duels and Improvisations
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
FilmFantasy
Sun Oct 25 · 6:30 PM
Sgt. Kabukiman Nypd
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sat Oct 31
FilmHorror
Sun Oct 25 · 9:00 PM
Def by Temptation
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sat Oct 31
FilmHorror
Mon Oct 26 · 6:30 PM
Cannibal! the Musical
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sat Oct 31
FilmHorror
Tue Oct 27 · 6:45 PM
Tromeo and Juliet
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Nov 1
FilmHorror
Wed Oct 28 · 6:30 PM
Citizen Toxie: the Toxic Avenger Iv
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Nov 1
FilmHorror
Thu Oct 29 · 7:30 PM
Terror Firmer
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Nov 1
FilmFri Oct 30 · 7:00 PM
Class of Nuke ‘Em High
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Fri Oct 30
FilmHorror
Fri Oct 30 · 9:15 PM
The Toxic Avenger
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Fri Oct 30
FilmFantasy
Sat Oct 31 · 4:00 PM
Sgt. Kabukiman Nypd
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sat Oct 31
FilmHorror
Sat Oct 31 · 6:45 PM
Def by Temptation
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sat Oct 31
FilmHorror
Sat Oct 31 · 9:15 PM
Cannibal! the Musical
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sat Oct 31
FilmHorror
Sun Nov 1 · 3:30 PM
Tromeo and Juliet
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Nov 1
FilmHorror
Sun Nov 1 · 6:15 PM
Terror Firmer
Anthology Film Archives · East Village
Also plays 1 other date, through Sun Nov 1