Join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Friday, June 16th, 2023, at 7pm, for a rare showing of the only feature film Storm de Hirsch ever made, presented by Matt McKinzie!

Join cinemóvil and the Film-Makers' Cooperative on Friday, June 2nd, 2023, at 7pm, at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) as we root through 50 years of experimental filmmaking on nature and the living environment in the FMC/NACG catalogue!

Join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Friday, May 26th, 2023, at 7pm, for an engaging program of films relating dance, color, and movement by Tone Glow's Joshua Minsoo Kim!

Join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Saturday, May 13th, 2023, at 7pm, for a fascinating program of films examining the mutability of human identity through doubling, fracture, and dissolution, curated by Julia Curl!

On Wednesday, April 26th, at 7pm, join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) for an exciting program of experimental films about identity and self-discovery through communion with nature, curated by Zoë Kase.

On Friday, April 21st, 2023, at 7pm, at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Ave. South, 6th Floor), Robert Schneider will present Robert Kramer's extraordinary 1969 feature film ICE.

On Saturday, April 8th, 2023, at 2pm, join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Ave. South, 6th Floor) for a dazzling program of collage animation films curated by Fox Ivo Yarden!

On Friday, March 31st, 2023, 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!

On Friday, March 24th, 2023, at 7pm, join us at the FMC Screening Room for a program of films by M Woods (plus a film by Jack Smith!), curated by Devon Narine-Singh.

Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative 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 on Friday, March 3rd, 2023, at 7pm for a program of avant-garde dream films curated by Matt McKinzie.

Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative on Friday, February 10th and Saturday, February 11th, 2023, 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!

Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative Screening Room on Friday, January 20th, 2022, at 7pm for a program of sci-fi-themed avant-garde shorts curated by Julia Curl.

Join us at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative on Friday, December 16th, 2022, at 6pm for a celebratory gathering featuring a series of holiday- and winter-themed films selected collaboratively by our staff!

Join us on Friday, November 18th, 2022, at 6pm at the Andrew Edlin Gallery for a retrospective screening of works from the Women/Artist/Filmmakers, Inc. collective.

Join us at the FMC Screening Room on November 4th and 5th, 2022, at 6pm, to see two experimental feature films by two FMC members: Joe Wakeman and Erica Schreiner!

This chronological selection of films from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative archive, playing on Saturday, October 22nd, 2022, at 6pm, looks at the ways in which avant-garde filmmaking experimented with different methods of geometric abstraction from 1921 to 1980. Curated by Julia Curl.

Join us on Saturday, September 24th, 2022, at 6pm in the FMC Screening Room for "HOME" MOVIES: A program of avant-garde shorts exploring homes and domestic spaces. Curated by Matt McKinzie.

Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative for an in-person screening of 1960s psychedelic shorts on Friday, July 15th, 2022, at 7pm. Curated by Julia Curl.

On Friday, June 3rd, 2022, at 6pm, the Film-Makers' Cooperative 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.

Join us at the FMC Screening Room on Tuesday, April 19th, 2022, at 4pm for a special, garden-themed film series for children programmed by filmmaker and curator Marie-Pierre Bonniol, which includes the U.S. debut of her film BABYLONE.

This program highlights the vibrant personal visions of eight female members of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative. Curated by Julia Curl and playing at the FMC Screening Room on Friday, March 4th, 2022, at 7pm.

Join us in the Film-Makers' Cooperative screening room on Friday, October 8th, 2021, at 7pm, for a special series of films curated by Julia Curl.

Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative screening room on Friday, November 12th, 2021, at 6pm for an in-person screening of a program of films by Nicholas Swanton, curated by the filmmaker.

On Sunday, September 12th, 2021, at 6pm, join us for a special evening of FMC treasures programmed by the participants of the "Poetics of Curation" workshop, lead by Devon Narine-Singh in July of 2021.

The fifth installment of “Counter-Culture / Counter-Cinema” focuses on the work of Jack Smith, whose polymorphously perverse performances and ignominious transgressions of social, political, and institutional decorum made him both a pioneer and a pariah in avant-garde artistic circles.

Four screenings in January 2019 that showcase the wide-ranging work of new and longstanding FMC members from around the world. Curated by Emily Apter, Ladya Cheryl, and Devon Narine-Singh.

Join us on Wednesday, December 18th at 8:30pm at Ludlow House (139 Ludlow Street) for a screening of new films by Larry Gottheim. Presented by the FMC. RSVP Required: filmmakerscoop@gmail.com.

In the face of global ecological collapse, there's nothing radical about loving the non-human.

Join us for an evening of short dance films created between the 1940s and 1980s, curated by G. Anthony Svatek.

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

Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative on March 13th at 7pm for a program of seven films by Laetitia Hohenberg. Introduced by Lynne Sachs.

The first installment of David Schwartz’s new bimonthly series “Songs of the Unsung,” featuring great but neglected films in the FMC collection, focuses on the formally inventive, playful, politically engaged, sensuous, and wryly comic work of Canadian artist and filmmaker Joyce Wieland.

On August 15th at 7pm at the Film-Makers' Cooperative, 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.

Join us at the Film-Makers' Cooperative on Saturday, May 12th, 2018, at 7pm, for a program of selected works by Saul Levine, curated by David Fresko.

Join us on Friday, April 6th, 2018, at 7pm, for a program showcasing two films by Cynthia Madansky. Curated by Courtney Muller.

These two screenings showcase the wide-ranging work of both new and long-term FMC members.

Join us at the Ludlow House on November 29th at 7pm for a screening of films by Lynne Sachs, Amanda Katz, and G. Anthony Svatek, curated by MM Serra.

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." Programmed by David Fresko.

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. Programmed by MM Serra.

These 16mm shorts rediscover the intuitive reality and sharp beauty of nature. Curated by Courtney Muller.

Programmed around Hunter and the Film-Makers' Cooperative'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. Programmed by Amanda Katz.

“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.

If you’ve seen more than three of the films in this program, we’d be surprised. Yet every single one of these films by women filmmakers deserves to be written about, taught in classes, and be part of the canon of avant-garde film.

Join us for a modular program of 16mm films that involve special instructions to the projectionist, curator, or spectator, underscoring the performative dimensions of cinematic exhibition. Venues wishing to exhibit a version of the program are encouraged to curate individual combinations of films from the list below that reflect their own interests, equipment, and exhibition spaces.

Combining origin stories with elegies and alternative histories, as well as explorations of desire, scraps, emergence, and obsolescence, “Origins and Ends” presents an array of experiments with cinema’s standard gauge, the use of which is decidedly rare in avant-garde film.

Join us at the Ludlow House (139 Ludlow St.) on Wednesday, October 18th, 2017, at 7pm for a program of 10 films by Gregg Biermann.

These films undo the socio-political bindings that repress images of sexuality into profitable commodities. The body, sex, and intimacy are not idealized or trapped in patriarchal, aesthetic fantasies.

Our annual New Year/New Work program, a two-day screening showcasing the wide-ranging work of both new and long-term FMC members. Filmmakers will be present for Q&A following screening. Programmed and curated by Gregg Biermann, G. Anthony Svatek, and Courtney Muller.

We commemorate the fiftieth anniversaries of key works from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative that protested the Vietnam War during the 1960s. Curated by David Fresko.

Four films from the 1970s that return to the films of Auguste and Louis Lumière, revisiting film history as a way of reframing our understanding of the cinematic. Curated by Josh Guilford.

From October 21st to November 11th, join us at the FMC for a three-part retrospective of the Hubley animation studio.

The latest edition of our ongoing series "Counter-Culture / Counter-Cinema" highlights two films by Andrew Meyer and a newly-restored work by Ron Rice. Programmed by David Fresko.