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 22: NY FILM COOP Screening 2
American Foreskin - 2’
Sonia Rose Kahn
Tulsa - 15’
Scott Stark
L’étranger - 4’
Anna María Helgadottir
Monsters don’t exist - 18’
Mehdi Ackermann
Hemorrhage - 4’
Ruth Hayes
Patria Im(age)itate - 7’
Long Pham
Myself Two Seconds to Cry - 16’
Erik Sutch (Live Musical Score)
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