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.
A three disc DVD set of 45 short works.
Total Running Time: 3 hr 21 min.
Screenings of short work include MoMA, Anthology Film Archives, Millenium Film Workshop, Berks Filmmakers, the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Orgone Cinema, Ocularis Film Series, the New York Underground Film Festival, and Chicago Underground Film Festival. Installation works shown at Images Festival and Anthology Film Archives. Joel Schlemowitz teaches filmmaking at the New School.
"Joel Schlemowitz is a wizard of cinema, and this collection of short experimental films is a marvel to behold. Each piece is a unique gem - quirky provocative, playful, often handmade, and always daring - celebrating Joel's astonishing mastery of the tools of filmmaking, and his poetic grasp on the art of cinema." -- Alan Berliner
"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
"Joel creates cinema-poems that crack open the infinite. Tracing the jeweled veins of Gustave Moreau, J.K. Huysmans, and Gerard de Nerval, his work eludes the dark shadows of night & illuminates the evening with cascading colors and flickering dreamscapes." --Jennifer MacMillan, Curator, Invisible Film Series
Moving Images awarded Silver Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival
Loudmouth Collective / Ugly Duckling Presse awarded "Best Short Documentary" at the Chicago Underground Film Festival
Reverie shown on the Sundance Channel series "Underground Shorts"
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