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.
Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts (1966, color, silent, 5.5 min): "A montage of still and moving images, mixing and alternating black people and white people, fantasy and reality, a presidential suite and a mother's kitchen: a sensitive, poetic evocation."
Remembrance a Portait of Study (1967, color, sound 5.36 min): A filmic portrait of the artist's mother, Mildred Owens, and her friends Irene Collins and Netti Thomas, set to a score of 50s and 60s hit songs. Using Baroque lighting techniques, Owens captures the three women drinking and lounging one evening.
Tomorrow's Promise (1967, color, silent 44 min): "Edward Owens shows in Tomorrow's Promise a style pictorially so exciting that the next he must do is listen to my advice"- Parker Tyler
TRT = 56.19 min
For private home use only. For institutional education rates please contact filmmakerscoop@gmail.com
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