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.
"To fulfill its vocation, the garden must arouse the wonderful" Hölderlin
To accompany the arrival of Spring, The Film-Maker's Coop presents a program of four films on gardens with the filmmaker and curator Marie-Pierre Bonniol, who will be present. Most of the films are silent and inhabited by "something, like a music, that crosses the space and the silence so dense: hardly more than a vibration, produced perhaps by the secret energy of the leaves, flowers and branches delivered of all constraints, a flux." (Marco Martella)
Walter Benjamin said in 1927 that "the imaginary reflections of things fall clattering to the ground, they are the accordion-folded leaves of an album called the dream".
The selection of films focuses on mysteries, the ineffable and springtime, with five women directors from both sides of the ocean: Marie Menken and MM Serra (USA), and Marie-Pierre Bonniol, Ute Aurand and Bärbel Freund (Germany).
This program is suitable for children ages 6 and up, as well as to all interested adults.
Program
Babylone, Marie-Pierre Bonniol (France, 2018, 1', digital file), North American premiere
Silent garden, MM Serra (USA, 2021, 8mm), 3 minutes
Glimpse of a garden, Marie Menken (USA, 1957, 5', 16 mm film)
Im Garten, Ute Aurand and Bärbel Freund (Germany, 2002, 29', digital copy), USA premiere
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