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AN INVITATION TO MEMBERSHIP AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES

Started in 1970, Anthology Film Archives is internationally renowned for its programs dedicated to independent and avant-garde film and video.

It hosts a full program of classic and contemporary cinema retrospectives and new works by major independent filmmakers, premieres and special screenings of features and documentaries in two theaters at the landmark Second Avenue Courthouse in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

The Archives' climate-controlled vaults store and preserve thousands of films, many of which would not exist today had they not been rescued by Anthology. For 25 years, Anthology has been tracking down prints, restoring, and repairing damaged or disintegrating negatives, urging film-makers to deposit their original materials, and has saved hundreds of films from being thrown into dumpsters by bankrupt film labs.

Anthology's library houses one of the world's largest collections of paper materials documenting the history and theory of cinema-books, rare and out-of-print periodicals, manuscripts, stills, posters, recordings of lectures and interviews, and publications of its own.

Membership in Anthology Film Archives provides individuals and corporations with the opportunity to directly assist our preservation, library, and exhibition programs. Because Anthology is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization, contributing memberships are tax deductible. Our funders include individuals, the National Endowment for the Arts, American Film Institute, N.Y.S.C.A., NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, corporations and foundations.

"Anthology Film Archives, our faithful if neglected repository of memory, feeling, and lost selves...." (Georgia Brown, Village Voice)
"Anthology Film Archives is one of the few places that concentrates on this aspect of film history... it's so crucial, we should all do our best to support Anthology." (Martin Scorsese)
Become part of a unique museum. Your membership fee will help to strengthen and continue our ongoing programs:
  • The presentation of avant-garde, documentary and narrative film surveys, selected by leading film scholars and filmmakers.

  • The independent film preservation program.

  • The publication of books on history and practices of cinema.

  • The film study collection with more titan 4,000 titles.

  • A reference library with more than 1,000,000 irreplaceable publications and documents available to students and scholars by appointment.

  • Travelling expositions of essential works of American independent filmmakers.

  • Premieres of new and restored films.
By joining Anthology Film Archives you will support a major museum that approaches cinema as an exciting art and provides the polemical discourse needed to refresh the sense of standards necessary to vital filmmaking and film-viewing.

MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM BENEFITS AND PRIVILEGES
CALENDAR SUBSCRIPTION $15
  • Timely mailing of tri-monthly calendar for one year.
INSTITUTIONAL AND NON-RESIDENT $50
  • Timely mailing of our tri-monthly calendar and our periodical, Film Culture for libraries and other institutions and individuals living outside the New York Metropolitan area.
INDIVIDUAL $50
  • Reservation privileges by phone for you and a guest.

  • Reduced admission for all regular programs.

  • Free admission to all Essential Cinema programs and to special For-Members-Only screening of rare films from the archives.

  • Timely delivery of all program announcements.

  • 20% off all Anthology publications.
SENIOR CITIZEN / STUDENT $30
  • Includes all privileges of Regular membership for senior citizens, age sixty-five or over, with ID, or students with ID.
DUAL $75
  • Includes all privileges of Regular membership for two individuals living at the same address.
CONTRIBUTOR $100
  • Includes all of the above plus reduced admission for guest to all regular programs.
DONOR $250
  • Includes all of the above plus free admission for member to all regular programs.
SPONSOR $500
  • Free admission for member and a guest to all regular programs.

  • Complimentary copies of all Anthology publications.
PATRON $1,000
PARTNER I $5,000
PARTNER II $10,000
For more information about becoming an Anthology Film Archives member please contact:
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
USA

tel (212) 505-5181
fax (212) 477-2714

Download a Membership Application. (Requires Acrobat Reader)