
Anthology Film Archives: Jonas Mekas
Reframing the Archives
Please note: This event took place in July 2019
Join Helen De Witt, curator and lecturer in Film Studies at Birkbeck University of the Arts London, writer/curator Karen Alexander, and filmmaker, author and academic Vicky Smith for a conversation on the inspirational legacy of Anthology Film Archives.
Anthology Film Archives evolved from roots and visions that go back to the early 1960s, when the late Jonas Mekas, the director of the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque, a showcase for avant-garde films, dreamed of establishing a permanent home where the growing number of new independent/avant-garde films could be shown on a regular basis.
When it opened on December 1, 1970, the following manifesto was issued, summing up its polemical position: