Screenings & Workshops

On Friday, March 31st at 7pm, join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Ave. South, 6th Floor) for “Building Steam with a Grain of Salt”, a program of diaristic films curated and presented by our friends at Film Diary NYC!

This spring, Anthology Film Archives will host a long-overdue retrospective of the work of the moving image artist, writer, poet, and longtime FMC member Abigail Child.

On Friday, March 24th at 7pm, join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) for a program of films by M Woods (plus a film by Jack Smith!), curated by Devon Narine-Singh!

From Friday, March 17th to Thursday, March 23rd, FMC member Su Friedrich will premiere her film TODAY (distributed by Icarus Films) at Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film!

Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Friday, March 10th, 2023, for two films by Warren Sonbert, followed by a conversation by Drake Stutesman with Jon Gartenberg.

Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Friday, March 3rd, at 7pm, for an exciting program of avant-garde dream films curated by Matt McKinzie.

In celebration of—or, equally, in reaction against—Valentine’s Day, BrickFlix and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative co-present this lush selection of erotic films.

Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative on Friday, February 10th and Saturday, February 11th, at 7pm, for a two-night program of recent additions to our growing collection of experimental and avant-garde films, submitted by new and longstanding members of the FMC/NACG!

On Sunday, January 22nd at 2:30pm, the Film-Makers' Cooperative is proud to co-present with the Museum of Sex, at the Roxy Cinema NYC, the next installment in our ongoing Carnal Screen series: THE DEADMAN by Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn.

Join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Ave. South, New York, NY) on FRIDAY, JANUARY 20th at 7pm for a program of sci-fi-themed avant-garde shorts, curated by Julia Curl.

Join us on Tuesday, January 17th, at 7:30pm, when our friends at Light Industry will screen our print of Michael Putnam's 1962 documentary THE HARD SWING!

From Friday, December 23rd, 2022 to Thursday, January 5th, 2023, the Film-Makers' Cooperative is collaborating with the wonderful folks at The Brooklyn Rail for a Holiday Screening Series!

Join us at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative for a celebratory gathering featuring a series of holiday- and winter-themed films selected collaboratively by our staff!

The latest curation in the Museum of Sex's ongoing series features films from our archives, including JEROVI (1965), by José Rodriguez-Soltero, SNO-WHITE (CRIMSON) (1973) by Martha Edelheit, PLAY BOY (1984) by Tessa Hughes-Freeland, and THE COLOR OF LOVE (1994) by Peggy Ahwesh.

Jack Smith's experimental opus NORMAL LOVE returns to the Roxy Cinema TriBeCa on November 20th at 3pm!

Join us on Friday, November 18th at 6pm at the Andrew Edlin Gallery (212 Bowery) for a retrospective screening of works from the Women/Artist/Filmmakers, Inc. collective, spanning 1974 to 1981.

Join us at the FMC Screening Room on November 4th and 5th at 6pm to see two experimental feature films by two FMC members!

Join us on October 28th at 5pm and October 30th at 3:30pm at Metrograph to see a selection of shorts from Brooklyn-born experimental filmmaker and FMC co-founder/member Ken Jacobs.

This in-person screening at La Sala de Pepe y Foto Espacio (co-presented with the Film-Makers' Cooperative) of Jaime Barrios’ FILM CLUB (1968), along with student films from the late 1960s and early 1970s, will be followed by a Q&A with former youth filmmakers, and actors still located in NYC.

This chronological selection of films from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative archive looks at the ways in which avant-garde filmmaking experimented with different methods of geometric abstraction from 1921 to 1980.

Join us on Thursday, October 6th at 9:15pm at the Francesca Beale Theatre for a screening of four Edward Owens films, as part of Film at Lincoln Center's 60th Annual New York Film Festival.

On Sunday, September 25th at 3pm, the Film-Makers' Cooperative is proud to co-present with the Museum of Sex, at the Roxy Cinema NYC, the next installment in our ongoing Carnal Screen series: TIMES FOR by Stephen Dwoskin.

Join us on Saturday, September 24th at 6pm in the FMC Screening Room for "HOME" MOVIES: A program of avant-garde shorts exploring homes and domestic spaces from the 1940s through the 2010s. Curated by Matt McKinzie.

On Sunday, September 11th, at 8pm, join us for a FREE garden screening curated by Devon Narine-Singh and MM Serra. This selection features the work of filmmakers MM Serra, Jack Waters, and Peter Cramer.

Please join us at ROXY TriBeCa for a 16mm screening of Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE.

Film at Lincoln Center presents a Tribute to the Film-Makers' Cooperative and the New American Cinema Movement. NEW YORK, 1962–1964: UNDERGROUND AND EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA spotlights the rise of the New American Cinema, running from July 29–August 4.

Presented by Priyanka Das and ABC No Rio in Exile, in collaboration with the Film-Makers' Cooperative, as part of "Summer School: Art, Education & Radical Resistance." Saturday, August 20 and Sunday, August 21, 11:00am to 1:00pm EST; Sunday, August 27, 11:00am to 2:00pm EST. NOTE: Videos related to this screening will be presented in PS122 Gallery on Saturday, July 23, 1:00pm to 5:00pm, and on Sunday, August 14, 1:00pm to 5:00pm.

Join us at The Film-Makers' Cooperative for an in-person screening of 1960's Psychedelic Shorts on Friday, July 15 at 7pm. Curated by Julia Curl.

Join us for the third part of our tribute to Jonas Mekas at the Mana Contemporary in Jersey City on July 9th at 3:00 PM

Please join us at the Roxy TriBeCa Theater to celebrate Gay Pride Day with a selection of recent and early pride films both 16mm and digital from Jim Hubbard, cherry brice, jr., Xandra Ibarra, MM Serra, Jack Smith, Carleen Maur, Jack Waters & Peter Cramer.

Three programs that will consist of one of Jonas Mekas’ feature films that speaks to his mission of personal cinema. He believed that everyone could and should create a film. Each title will be paired with a different filmmaker whose radical or visionary work Jonas invited into the FMC collection in order to ensure the visibility that he believed these masterpieces of cinema deserve. Curated by MM Serra.

FMC is thrilled to present a screening of the short films of Zorko Sirotić that will be followed by a lecture about cooperatives by Goran Jeras , an environmentalist and International Chief Technical Advisor of the Green Energy Cooperative.

Please join us at the ROXY TriBeCa Theater for a 16mm screening of Barbara Rubin's CHRISTMAS ON EARTH and Jud Yalkut's YAYOI'S SELF-OBLITERATION. Introduced by scholar and former Village Voice critic J. Hoberman; presented in partnership with the Museum of Sex.

Please join us at the Coop's screening room for a special film series for children programmed by filmmaker and curator Marie-Pierre Bonniol, including the US debut of including the US debut of her film BABYLONE.

In memory of the iconic Nick Zedd who passed away in February: Three of his films, co-presented with Film Co-op and Museum of Sex.

ROXY Cinema, in collaboration with the Museum of Sex and FMC, presents this 16mm film screening of germinal works from Carolee Schneemann and Jack Smith.

Join us for an in-person screening of films selected by The Infernal Grove.

Join us for a virtual panel discussion amongst the filmmakers in and curators of the 9th Annual New Year New Work Film Festival.

Abstracting the Everyday highlights the vibrant personal visions of eight female members of the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative (est. 1961). Curated by Julia Curl.

Please join us on Sunday, February 27th at The Roxy Cinema for a 16-mm screening of the newly restored JOHNNY MINOTAUR (1971) as part of the Carnal Screen Series.

FMC is thrilled to partner with Roxy Cinema and the Museum of Sex to premiere Ken Jacobs recent film XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX.

RSVP to receive a Zoom link to the panel discussion amongst the filmmakers in Devon Narine-Singh's SURVIVAL program.

Join us at FMC for an evening of shows curated by members MTK and EROS, featuring pizza courtesy of Two Boots Pizza.

The Film-Makers' Cooperative is proud to host an afternoon talk by filmmaker Larry Gottheim, following the screening.

Join us for an in-person screening of Adolfas Mekas' Hallelujah the Hills on Sunday, December 12 at 2:00pm at the Film-Makers' Cooperative.

Join us for SURVIVAL, an in-person screening curated by Devon Narine-Singh on Sunday, November 21 at 3:00pm at the Film-Makers' Cooperative.

Join us for a live streaming event featuring a Q&A with filmmaker Guy Maddin.

Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative screening room for an in-person screening of a program of films by Nicholas Swanton, curated by the filmmaker.

Join FMC for a free Halloween presentation of Abigail Child's THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES.

Join us in the Film-Makers' Cooperative screening room for a special series of films curated by Julia Curl.

Join us for an intimate screening in the public garden on 6th Street and Ave. B for a program highlighting the work of MM Serra.

Films and Sounds: Reflecting on 60 Years of The New York Experimental Film Community with MM Serra, Chuck Smith, Sebastian Mekas, Emily Singer, and Michelle Borreggine.

Join us for a special evening of FMC treasures programmed by the participants of the Poetics of Curation workshop.

Metrograph online is sponsoring films that capture the significant impact artists can have on one another while working or living together—or both.

Photographer and filmmaker Nan Goldin presents a series of cat-focused films through Metrograph online.

FMC is proud to offer a workshop on curating works of avant garde and experimental cinema with programmer Devon Narine-Singh.

Join us and Millennium Film Workshop for an in-person screening of films by Japanese filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.

Join us for a screening of A Margem / The Margin (1967) featuring a post-screening discussion with Richard Peña, Eric Barroso, William Plotnick, and Isaac Hoff

Join us for a screening and panel discussion of films by Roberta Cantow and Elena Rossi-Snook.

Join us for a screening and panel discussion of films by Matthew Carlson.

Join us for a screening and panel discussion of films by Abigail Child.

For our first event celebrating our 60th Anniversary, FMC is thrilled to highlight filmmaker Edgie Amisial. Amisial recently debuted her documentary short With Love, Black Women Can Fly. The film explores issues of mental health and recovery among Black Women. On April 23rd join FMC for a screening of the film followed by a conversation with Amisial and curator Devon Narine-Singh. 

Join us for a virtual panel discussion with the filmmakers of New Year/New Work 2021.

8TH ANNUAL NEW YEAR, NEW WORK 2021: Celebrating recent additions by new and longstanding FMC members to our growing collection of experimental and avant-garde films.

Join us for a virtual panel discussion on the films of FMC member Lynne Sachs.

While at home, why not have some fun? In this class, we will use materials found at home to create an animated film.

Program 3: Protest films by Francisca Sáez Agurto, Gina Peyran Tan, Antonia Hollmann, Andu Sowerby, Martin Del Carpio, David Anthony Sant, Sarah Friedland, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Heath Schultz, Mike Hoolboom, Frédérique Devaux Amarger, Isabelle Hayeur, Alexandra Bouge, and Jola Kudela.

Program 2: Protest films by Alex Westhelle, Joan Michel, Adrian Garcia Gomez, Jason Livingston, studio Third World Collective, Lénie Blue, Anthony Jay Van Dunk, Brett Wallace, and Tobe Carey.

Program 1: Protest films by konstantinos-antonios goutos, Lili White, Emilia Izquierdo, Jason Moyes, Michael Mangieri, Alexander Dwinell, Abigail Child, Rrose Present, Richard Sylvarnes, Benna Maris, & Bradley Eros.

Join us for a panel discussion with Martha Colburn, Art Jones and Melissa Ragona on collage animation films by Stan VanDerBeek.

Film-Makers' Cooperation and the Stan VanDerBeek Archive present Seven Animated Collage Films by Stan VanDerBeek, 1957-1965, preserved through the National Film Preservation Foundation Avant-Garde Masters Grant.

An online screening with a selection of videos by Elle Burchill spanning from 2004 to 2018 on Vimeo On Demand. Not to be missed!

While at home, why not have some fun? In this class, we will use materials found at home to create an animated film.

This program, curated by Mark Street, pairs 4 brand new films from Fordham University students (who had to leave campus Friday March 13 because of the pandemic) with works previously in distribution. Made between 1964 and 2020 these films investigate fractious politics, urgent street protests, domestic contemplation, melancholic memories and economic anxieties.

Films by Christopher MacLaine, Hilary Harris, Henry Hills, Cynthia Madansky, Doris Chase, and Jackie Raynal

An online film screening in collaboration with Microscope Gallery, we will be showing films by Tom Chomont, Peter Cramer, Jim Hubbard, Taylor Mead, Lynne Sachs, MM Serra, Jack Waters

Join us online for a special screening of frame based films from members of the Film-Maker's Cooperative. We will be showing the fabulous films of Emily Breer, Alice Cohen, Janie Geiser, Erin Hayes, Helen Hill, Faith and John Hubley, Emily and Georgia Hubley, Marie Losier, and Stan VanDerBeek.

While at home, why not have some fun? In this class, we will use materials found at home to create an animated film. 

Q&A with curator Claire K. Henry Tickets free with FMC Membership

An introduction of The Cinematic Experiment Statement, a written outcome of a special kind of alternative film workshops done in Croatia, with a following discussion on methodology and ideas of these workshops

Works by Peter Cramer and Jack Waters.

The second night of screenings of new experimental and avant-garde films. 475 Park Avenue South, 6th floor Suggested Donation: $10 RSVP: filmmakerscoop@gmail.com to reserve your spot! Please join us for a weekend of experimental moving images at FMC's 7th annual NEW YEAR NEW WORK festival! We are celebrating recent additions by new and longstanding Coop members to our growing collection of experimental and avant-garde films. Over the course of the weekend, there will be 4 programs showcasing both digital and 16mm works. Please make sure to RSVP for the programs you wish to attend. All are welcome!

The first night of screenings of new experimental and avant-garde films. 475 Park Avenue South, 6th floor Suggested Donation: $10 RSVP: filmmakerscoop@gmail.com to reserve your spot! Please join us for a weekend of experimental moving images at FMC's 7th annual NEW YEAR NEW WORK festival! We are celebrating recent additions by new and longstanding Coop members to our growing collection of experimental and avant-garde films. Over the course of the weekend, there will be 2 programs showcasing both digital and 16mm works. Please make sure to RSVP for the programs you wish to attend. All are welcome!

3–5PM | 3PM Reception | 3:15PM Screenings | 4:40PM Q&A with Gregg Biermann RSVP https://www.eventbrite.com/e/computational-sublime-screenings-the-digital-wizardry-of-gregg-biermann-tickets-88856565379 Theater, Floor 1 Mana Contemporary 888 Newark Avenue Jersey City, NJ 07306

Wednesday, December 18th at 8:30pm Ludlow House, 139 Ludlow Street Presented by FMC RSVP Required: filmmakerscoop@gmail.com

LOUVRE, Paris, France, 3PM Par MM Serra Les visionnaires:l'autoportrait chez les réalisatrices de films expérimentaux Marie Menken, Storm de Hirsch, Carolee Schneemann et MM Serra

Documentary on the Life of Barbara Rubin

Filmmakers in Person! Polymorphic twin performers joyfully express the senses through dance in live action and animation sequences

Film-Makers Coop Annual Art Auction

LOOSE ENDS, LOOSE CORNER, AND MORE: Films by Chick Strand, Marie Menken, Storm DeHirsch, and Anita Thacher

Tribute to the late animator Suzan Pitt

Evening with Ken Jacobs.

An Evening with Art Jones

Domenic Angerame In Person!

Celebration of a life of Jonas Mekas

Peggy Ahwesh and Kenneth White in conversation with screening of Carolee's films in the Film-Maker's Cooperative collection.

Come party with us and be among the first to view A YOUNG 70 by Mitch Corber

Ludlow House and The Film-Makers’ Coop Present: A Tribute to Jonas Mekas (1922 - 2019)

Film, food, and flower celebration !

Presented in collaboration w/ the Film-makers' Co-op!

Videos and Performances by Laetitia Hohenberg (Paris, France & Memphis, Tennessee) with introduction by Lynne Sachs

Joyce Wieland’s La Raison Avant La Passion and Rat Life and Diet in North America presented by David Schwartz

An evening of Experimental Films by Four NYC Artists in celebration of the publication of their Visual Essays in the latest issue of Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media.

A Night of Sweet Treats and Utter Decay With Bill Morrison in person!!!

2 DAY IMMERSIVE WORKSHOP WITH FILMMAKER/ARTIST JOHN HALPERN

2 DAY IMMERSIVE WORKSHOP WITH FILMMAKER/ARTIST JOHN HALPERN

Last screenings focusing on the films of Stan VanDerBeek

Second night of screenings.

The first night of screenings of new experimental and avant-garde films.

Join us at the Museum of Modern Art to celebrate the films of gay African American filmmaker Edward Owens.

A retrospective of the films of Peter Cramer and Jack Waters.

J. Hoberman in Person!

Saturday, October 27 @ 9:15PM Anthology Film Archives Maya Deren Theater $7 or FREE if you wear a costume

Workshop on experimental collage films with Tessa Hughes-Freeland

MM Serra presents the 9th Annual Experimental Lecture on the topic of "Art(core)".

An eclectic selection of hip and funky Underground films from New York and elsewhere curated by MM Serra and Chuck Smith.

The first installment of THE FMC ANIMATED PICTURE SHOW!

Celebrate Barbara Rosenthal's 70th Birthday with a screening focusing on physical bodies to explicate humanity in terms that include, but are not limited to sex.

An evening focusing on the films of Andrew Meyer

Unruly Archives is a program curated by Liv Soussan and Devon Narine-Singh composed of emerging filmmakers whose works interrogate colonialism, cultural erasure, and historical and political truths that have been erased from the "traditional" filmic archive.

Screening at 6 & B Garden of Rachel Amodeo's acclaimed film.

11th Annual Film-Makers' Coop Benefit Concert w/ performances by Philip Glass, John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Vijay Iyer and more, as well as an Award to artist-filmmaker, Carolee Schneemann!

FMC Presents: HOLDING HANDS WITH ILSE, a film by Abraham Ravett

AGENTS OF PARADISE (1982)

NEW INCÓGNITO WINDOW as part of FMC Global, a new series highlighting experimental film from underrepresented communities around the globe from 1960s to now

Selected works of Saul Levine

Rio de La Plata and India

TWO FILMS: STILL LIFE + ḤARĀM

Artist Ellen Sullivan Sylvarnes present her series "Drawing Hiroshima Mon Amour" alongside excerpts from the iconic film.

A retrospect of personal filmmaker Phil Weisman.

Series of Fantastic films by Fantastic Femme Filmmakers

Programmed by Almudena Escobar López & Herb Shellenberger Filmmakers Ken Jacobs and Gerd Stern in person. Co-presented with Filmmakers Coop.

Announcing our fifth annual NEW YEAR NEW WORK Program! These two screenings showcase the wide-ranging work of both new and long-term FMC members. Screenings take place Saturday, January 27 & Sunday, January 28. We will be hosting our New Year New Work Art Show from 5-7pm on Saturday 1/27, before the first screening. The show will feature works donated to the Coop for exhibition. Come early!

“From early sixties, though Japanese, Iimura was well known as one of the first generation of the New York Underground … For many years, Japanese experimental film was Takahiko Iimura.” – Malcolm Le Grice, Time Out, London.

One of the founders of the American avant-garde cinema, Ken Jacobs has been working ceaselessly and boundlessly in film, video and moving image performance for over fifty years.

Ludlow Series curated by MM Serra.

Learn how to create your After Effects project from start to finish.

A recreation of the 1966 screening designed to reflect “the social, political, and moral climate of our time, the feelings, issues, and events of the day."

RSVP REQUIRED: filmmakerscoop@gmail.com. Free admission.

Tessa Hughes-Freeland’s films have been shown in a variety of venues, from international museums to seedy bars. The subject matter of her films is confrontational, transgressive, provocative and poetic.

In an effort to bring closer communities of independent filmmakers in New York, on September 22, 2017 we invite you to a presentation of short films by members of The Film-Makers’ Cooperative and MONO NO AWARE.

These 16mm shorts rediscover the intuitive reality and sharp beauty of nature. Whether though haptic landscapes in SUMMER and GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN or botanical collages like IN THE CONSERVATORY and THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, plants and flowers are established as more than embellishment; they are pulled to the foreground as active participants. These filmmakers sometimes use flora as personal metaphor, but ultimately surrender to nature’s complete other-ness.

AGENT OF PARADISE by Mary Bellis (1982) captures a time and place in the East Village that is rapidly fading away as gentrification and construction pour into this neighborhood deeming it unrecognizable.

An evening of film and video work by artists currently in the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program at Hunter College. Programmed around Hunter and the Co-op’s shared home of New York City, these films consider the experience of living in New York: the constant contemplation of what it means for one’s identity to call the city home and what we observe by being here at length.

These two 4-hour workshops aim to help editors transition to Adobe Premiere, the rising industry standard editing software. The workshops are designed to be affordable and comprehensive, and concentrate specifically on editors transitioning from softwares such as Final Cut Pro 7 and Avid.

A second sexy program inspired by exploitation & stag films. Q&A with artists Peggy Ahwesh, Katherine Bauer and MM Serra following screening. This program of films will present an alternative image of the body, of sex, and of intimacy – images that are about individuality and freedom of expression, rather than standardization and profit.

FMC presents a sundry screening of cutups, film collage, and repurposed cinema. The alchemist’s craft was to turn lead into gold, and in much the same way the collagist has taken the discards and chaff of the film industry and conducted a similar transmutation upon the material.

This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B. Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Poland, Applebroog, now in her 80s, looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her private journals.

Paul Sharits was a visual artist pioneer of the structural film movement along with other artists such as Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton and Michael Snow. Sharits' work focused primarily on installations incorporating endless film loops, multiple projectors and experimental soundtracks.

Explore the various methods and techniques involved in creating collage films from available material. A variety of film examples will be shown to demonstrate the range of conceptual and technical skills applied.

Join us for our fourth annual New Year, New Works program, a two-day screening showcasing the wide-ranging work of both new and long-term Coop members. Filmmakers will be present for Q&A following screening.

Join us for our fourth annual New Year, New Works program, a two-day screening showcasing the wide-ranging work of both new and long-term Coop members. Filmmakers will be present for Q&A following screening.

We commemorate the fiftieth anniversaries of key works from the Film-Makers’ Coop that protested the Vietnam War during the 1960s. As hundreds of thousands across the country flocked to the streets to articulate their dissent, artists and filmmakers took up the mantle of the political avant-garde to seek out aesthetic forms adequate to the political demands of the age.

Sexy films produced and directed by three local artists: Peggy Ahwesh, Katherine Bauer and MM Serra.

Join us for a three-part retrospective of The Hubley Studio. The Hubleys have been pioneers of independent animation for over half a century. Their films transcend traditional animation narratives and techniques and delve into free-form color, motion, and emotion. As stated by John Hubley, “If you believe in this media as an art, and you believe yourself to be an artist, and you want to make films as an artist, you have to go ahead and do it; you have to make what you want to make, have control over it, and make it on your terms.”

Join us for a three-part retrospective of The Hubley Studio. The Hubleys have been pioneers of independent animation for over half a century. Their films transcend traditional animation narratives and techniques and delve into free-form color, motion, and emotion. As stated by John Hubley, “If you believe in this media as an art, and you believe yourself to be an artist, and you want to make films as an artist, you have to go ahead and do it; you have to make what you want to make, have control over it, and make it on your terms.”

Join us for a three-part retrospective of The Hubley Studio. The Hubleys have been pioneers of independent animation for over half a century. Their films transcend traditional animation narratives and techniques and delve into free-form color, motion, and emotion. As stated by John Hubley, “If you believe in this media as an art, and you believe yourself to be an artist, and you want to make films as an artist, you have to go ahead and do it; you have to make what you want to make, have control over it, and make it on your terms.”

Our latest edition of our ongoing series highlights the films of Andrew Meyer.