475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 5:00pm
Est. 1961.
"The coolest film organization in the world." —John Waters
The inaugural Fugue State, presented by Disassociative Productions and Agitate21C, is a festival of experimental, radical, political, and avant-garde cinema of all sorts, including expanded cinema and VR experiments. Screening August 20-24, 2025 in Chicago, including outdoor screenings at Chicago's historic Lawrence House. The festival will then travel to multiple venues through the Agitate21C artist network.
Festival Director, lead curator, and multidisciplinary artist M. Woods conceived of this festival as a way to embrace the convergences within video art, experimental film, and interactive design, encouraging new media, installation, photography, and expanded cinema/mixed-media performances. Open to art film, genre film, and any other type of cinema, so long as it transgresses the accepted and formulaic languages of the medium.
AUGUST 21: NY FILM COOP SCREENING 1
Lunette - 8’
Mark Street
On What Continent is the Country Amnesia? - 5’
Kurtis Matthew Russell
Wetland Impulse - 2’
Jimmy Schaus
Parallel Botany - 11’
Magdalena Bermudez
FLORE - 2’
Emily Sasmor
Seagull Dog Child - 9’
Sebastian Vaccaris
On the Second Floor - 5’
Neil Ira Needleman
The Beginning - 4’
Sage Ó Tuama
Monad - 20’
Dana Dawud
Intended to Hurt - 9’
Cameron Chester Black
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