475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 5:00pm
"The coolest film organization in the world." —John Waters
Est. 1961.
Shot in the kitchens, bedrooms, wedding halls, and mahjong parlors of New York City's Chinatown, Your Day Is My Night reveals the experiences of immigrant residents of a "shift-bed" apartment. Seven performers play versions of themselves, recalling violent upheavals, long journeys, and estranged relationships. Beds then become a stage on which autobiographical monologues and theatrical improvisations address themes of intimacy, belonging, and the urban experience via the basic human need for a place to sleep.
"New York's Chinatown, a place as much spectral as real, flickers and flares into life in this singular hybrid of documentary, performance piece and cine-monologue. It's one of the most mysterious and magical evocations of the migrant city in many a year." - Sukhdev Sandhu, SIGHT & SOUND
"A strikingly handsome, meditative works: a mixture of reportage, dreams, memories, and playacting, which immerses you in an entire world that you might unknowingly pass." - Stuart Klawans, THE NATION
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