475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 5:00pm
"The coolest film organization in the world." —John Waters
Est. 1961.
On Tuesday, April 22nd, at 7pm, Courtney Stephens presents Pat O'Neill's 1989 experimental feature Water and Power at the Film-Makers' Cooperative.
Pat O’Neill’s Water and Power (1989) is an experimental masterwork that excavates the archaeological, ecological, and mythological strata of Los Angeles.
The film presents Southern California as a geographic riddle, a mirage shimmering on stolen water. How does human time intersect with narrative time, or natural time? What are the costs of perpetual self-invention?O’Neill channels his skills as a special effects virtuoso (having worked on films like Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind) using advanced optical printing techniques to create his extravagant tableaus. But the film's technical brilliance serves its deeper purpose: revealing how a city's conscious self-image floats atop unconscious currents of violence and historical amnesia. Features the beloved, late, Amy Halpern. —Courtney Stephens
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative (a.k.a. New American Cinema Group) is the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world. Established in 1961 by a group of 22 path-breaking moving image artists (including Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, and Stan Brakhage), the Coop has more than 5,000 films, videotapes, and DVDs in its collection.
475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 5:00pm