475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 5:00pm
a.k.a. The New American Cinema Group. Est. 1961.
The largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world.
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 his book Film and the Dream Screen: A Sleep and a Forgetting, author Robert T. Eberwein notes that "watching a film is like having a dream. Narrative elements sometimes seem to be outside spatial and temporal laws. The viewing conditions in the theater (such as the darkened room and the relative sense of isolation) are reminiscent of our solitary existence as dreamers alone in the night. The overpowering images on the screen sometimes frighten us and make us feel the same kind of paralysis we know in nightmares… [and] even though… the feeling that what we saw seemed very real to us during the experience of viewing… the longer we are away from the film, the more confused our memories of it become. In fact, the difficulty that presents itself as we try to recall the events and details of a film seems similar to that which we encounter as we try to remember dreams."
These surreal selections from the FMC archive invoke various filmic forms and practices to explore dreams and engender and comment on the oneiric feeling of watching moving images on a screen.
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PROGRAM:
Total Run Time: 75.5 minutes.
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative is the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world. Created by artists in 1961 as the distribution branch of the New American Cinema Group, the Coop has more than 5,000 films, videotapes, and DVDs in its collection.
475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 5:00pm