475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
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"The coolest film organization in the world." —John Waters
Est. 1961.
"This, and This" is a digital immediacy splendor where images of nature cannot be merely innocent. Ideas about the natural and the mechanical are being toyed with, in varying degrees of wetness, scale, compressed states and expectations.
Premiere: Views from the Avant Garde / New York Film Festival 2006
"...Vincent Grenier, another mid-career a-g veteran, is an artist whose shift to digital filmmaking has consistently been characterized by rigorous investigation of the specific aesthetics ad formal parameters of his adopted medium. This, and This is no exception. Thematically, Grenier's piece is a conversation with nature in both its raw and culturally mediated forms..."
-Michael Scinski on the new works shown at the 10th annual Views from the Avant Garde, a presentation of the New York Film Festival.
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