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Jeff Preiss was inspired by the diary films of Jonas Mekas and Warren Sonbert (who was his teacher at Bard College). He began in the early 1980s making silent, semi-narrative works born out of his practice of shooting with his Regular 8mm Bolex on a daily basis.
Read More"I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only the machine can see it. I am now free of human immobility. I am in perpetual motion.”
Read MoreFor two years, Benning assembled footage of trains throughout the U.S., depicting their movement through the frame of a static camera in a variety of surroundings.
Read MoreHELSINKI, FOREVER (2008), a portrait and city symphony of the white city of northern Finland, screened as part of Anthology Film Archive’s CITY SYMPHONY series.
Read MoreThe Dirty Looks: Eight Years On winter tour runs from March 10 - April 24 across the U.S. and into Canada.
Read MoreSonbert’s films consist of relentless montage. Scenes burst forth and quickly give way to the next. They inhabit the fringe of narrative, almost telling a story but never conveying character, conflict, or plot.
Read MoreWe experienced an incredibly moving tribute to Jonas Mekas last night at City Winery.
Read MoreCITY SYMPHONIES: TIME LAPSE (AND OTHER DISTORTIONS) film series at Anthology Film Archives 2/25 includes a screening of Marie Menken’s masterpiece of single frame cinematography GO! GO! GO! (1964).
Read MoreRaimondo Borea’s 1979 portrait of author, activist and notable public intellectual James Baldwin.
Read MoreRaimondo Borea’s arresting, untitled photo of a woman in the Subway, and other photos from his distinctive NYC photo essays, have been presented on the Today Show by Hugh Downs.
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