Anthology Film Archives

The Anthology Film Archives is a film library located in New York opened to the public on 30 November 1970 .

The Anthology Film Archives was founded by Jonas Mekas and other filmmakers of the underground experimental film scene .

The goal of this world-renowned institution is the conservation, study and showcasing of independent film heritage produced outside the Hollywood industrial system ¹ .

Remarkable Movies from the Collection of this Cinematheque

• Geography of the Body (1943)
• Early Abstractions (1946-57)
• Light Reflections (1948-52)
• Image in the Snow (1950)
• Longhorns (1951)
• Undertow (1954-56)
• The Whirled (1956-63)
• Heaven and Earth Magic (1957-62)
• Pennsylvania / Chicago / Illinois (1957-59)
• Waterlight (1957)
• A Fashion (1958)
• Highway (1958)
• The Kuchar Brothers’ 8 mm Shorts (1958-63)
• Sunshine (1958)
• Three Pickup Men for Herrick (1958)
• Memories (1959-98)
• The Soccer Game (1959)
• The Flower Thief (1960)
• Cosmic Ray (1961)
• Death and Transfiguration (1961)
• Report (1963-67)
• Fathomless (1964)
• George Dumpson’s Place (1964)
• Taylor Mead Home Movies (1964-68)
• Ten Second Film (1965)
• The Flicker (1966)
• Relativity (1966)
• Cayuga Run (1967-73)
• Guger’s Landing (1967-73)
• Hudson River Diary at Gradiew (1967-73)
• River Ghost (1967-73)
• Wintergarden (1967-73)
• Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse (1968)
• N: O: T: H: I: N: G (1968)
• The Wind Is Driving Him Toward the Open Sea (1968)
• Straight and Narrow (1970)
• The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (1971)
• Deus Ex (1971)
• Eyes (1971)
• Fantastic Dances (1971)
• Sea Rhythms (1971)
• Carriage Trade (1972)
• Movie Feedback (1972)
• Hurray for Light (1972)
• Look Park (1973-4)
• Once Upon a Time (1974)
• Lost Lost Lost (1976)
• America Is Waiting (1981)
• Mea Culpa (1981)

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