Board Of Directors

	Charles S. Cohen As owner, president, and chief executive officer of Cohen Brothers Realty Corporation (CBRC), Charles S. Cohen has achieved an enviable national reputation for his exceptional business acumen, innovation and creativity at every turn. An entrepreneurial real estate executive in the truest sense, Mr. Cohen, one of the country’s legendary commercial real estate owners/developers with a portfolio of over 12 million square feet of prime properties located in New York, Texas, Florida and Southern California, is one of the rare breed of developers with a vision that is clearly and ultimately defined by design.
	Anne Hanavan, President of the Board of Directors, is a Filmmaker, Writer, Performance Artist and Lead singer of the Multi Media Performance Troupe: Transgendered Jesus. Hanavan uses her body as the subject in a series of video self portraits where the artist aggressively confronts her past in a frenzy state of cathartic self expression.
	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 investigator—initiating, 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.
	M.M. Serra, Executive Director of the Film-Makers Cooperative is an experimental 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.
	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.
	Katherine Bauer works primarily with 16mm film and its material potential for sculpture, photography and installation. Much of her work involves mythologies, folklores, and narratives adapted from her travels across the United States and Southeastern Asia. The celluloid of film gives bodily presence to these narratives and enacts their themes of decay, eroticism and horror. Katherine received a BA from Bard College where she majored in Film and Electronic Arts. She is currently working on a MFA from NYU in Studio Art where she also teaches 16mm filmmaking. Her work has been shown across the United States in a variety of venues and galleries. Recently she has performed or shown work at The Knitting Factory, Anthology Film Archives, St. Cecilias Convent, Millennium Film Workshop, New York Underground Film Festival, Tribes Gallery, Mono No Aware, Union Docs, Unsmoke Systems Gallery in Braddock, Television Access Gallery in San Francisco, among others. Her films are available for rent from The Film-Makers Cooperative in New York City.
	Coleen Fitzgibbon is an experimental film artist who worked under the pseudonym “Colen Fitzgibbon” between the years 1973-1980. A student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Independent Study Program, she studied with Owen Land (aka “George Landow”), Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci, and worked on film projects for Dennis Oppenheim, Gordon Matta-Clark and Les Levine. She formed the collaborative X&Y with Robin Winters in 1976, The Offices of Fend, Fitzgibbon, Holzer, Nadin, Prince and Winters in 1979, and is best known for co-founding the New York based Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab) in 1977 through 1981, along with artists Kiki Smith, Jenny Holzer, Liza Bear, Betsy Sussler and Tom Otterness, among others. Fitzgibbon has screened her work at numerous international film festivals and museums, including The Toronto International Film Festival 2009, Museum of Modern Art, EXPRMNTL 5 at Knokke-Heist, Belgium, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Anthology Film Archives, Collective For Living Cinema, and Millennium Film Workshop. Fitzgibbon currently resides in New York City and Montana.
	Lynne Sachs 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.
	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.
	Smith & Lowles George Smith and Amy Lowles have worked as a collaboration since 2003 when they were both studying at The Slade school, London. Since 2006 they have been living in New York working in both film and video. Recently have had screenings at the Millennium Theater NYC, SilverScreen Theater, Pacific Design Center LA, MIX Film Festival NYC and have had various gallery installations in London and New York.
	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.
	Maria Niro creates experimental video art that incorporates video, photography, archival film footage, and original sound she creates with digital software. Her work explores the nuanced relationships between notions of memory, identity, culture, nature, spirituality and materialism in our increasingly artificial environment. Her videos have screened and exhibited worldwide including at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 10th Annual River To River Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Exit Art Gallery, Millennium Film Workshop, Video DUMBO, Los Angeles Art Organization, Festival Internacional Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano CUBA, The 7th and 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, MIM and More Gallery in Berlin, European Media Art Festival in Germany, Whitechapel Gallery UK, WNDX Festival in Canada and many others. She studied film and media studies at The New School University.
	Richard Sylvarnes Richard Sylvarnes is a filmmaker, photographer, and sound artist. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and festivals around the world. In 2009 he received a Creative Capital Grant and in 2008 he was nominated for a Rockefeller Renew Media Fellowship. His first feature premiered in the International Dramatic Feature Competition at the inaugural Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 continuing on in festivals throughout Asia and Europe and was released by Possible Films in 2004. H.C.E., his second feature, also premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival in the NYNY Narrative Competition. He has collaborated numerous times with four-time Bessie Award winning choreographer David Neumann, with their most recent work premiering at the Kitchen in 2010. He has been diversely commissioned to make music videos for the likes of the band Interpol to videos for fashion designer Miho Miho to directing a pilot for Brazilian television. He holds a Degree in Photography from The Rochester Institute of Technology and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University.

Board Member and Filmmaker Biographies last updated August 17th, 2012