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.
"Joel Schlemowitz's Loudmouth Collective / Ugly Duckling Presse celebrates the printed and spoken word in its playful account of young cultural guerrillas who send up the tedious book tours of established authors through an alternative publication and a series of staged antireadings.'" -- Chicago Reader
"Step right up to marvel at the 'Anti-Reading.' See the Typewriter Inferno! Feast your eyes on the Poetry Fishing Pond! Hear how it all began! Keep your hands in the car and enjoy the ride folks." -- Chicago Underground Film Festival Catalogue
Awarded "Best Short Documentary" at the Chicago Underground Film Festival and selected for the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour
Joel Schlemowitz has made over forty short experimental films, and numerous film installation pieces. Screenings include MoMA, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, Berks Filmmakers, the New York Underground Film Festival, and Chicago Underground Film Festival. He teaches filmmaking at the New School and is President of the adjunct and part-time faculty union ACT-UAW local 7902.
running time: 20 minutes.
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