Avant Cinema 3.7: Film-Makers' Cooperative, Tomorrow

Avant Cinema 3.7: Film-Makers' Cooperative, Tomorrow!

SCREENING INFO Wed, March 31, 7 PM Austin Studios Screening Room (1901 E 51st Street) $6 / $4 for AFS Members Buy Tickets >> Members must be logged in to access discounted ticket(s).

Avant Cinema's Film-Makers' Cooperative program brings from New York City to Austin the group-curated program "A Moveable Feast," originally presented at the Howl! Arts Festival. Coop board members selected titles from the collection most influential on their own filmmaking. The Tribute is also a celebration of the Coop’s move to its new home at 475 Park Avenue South.

The Film-Makers' Cooperative is the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world. Created by artists in 1962, as the distribution branch of the New American Cinema Group, the Coop has more than 5,000 films, videotapes and DVDs in its collection.

“We don't want false, polished, slick films—we prefer them rough, unpolished, but alive; we don't want rosy films—we want them the color of blood.”
– The First Statement of the New American Cinema Group, September 30, 1962

Featuring 16mm projections of Viet-Flakes (Carolee Schneemann, 1966), Fragments (Mike Kuchar, 1967), Angel Blue Sweet Wings (Chick Strand, 1966), Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke, 1958), Scotch Tape (Jack Smith, 1962), Commingled Containers (Stan Brakhage, 1996), Cartoon Le Mousse (Chick Strand, 1979), The Whirled (Ken Jacobs, 1961), Ceci N'est Pas (Jeanne Liotta, 1997) Read more about the films >>