https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org An international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic European, Soviet and Japanese film. en-us Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:08:21 -0400 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61398 <p>U.S. Premiere! <strong>Filmmaker in person!<br /><br /></strong>“NEW NEWS FROM ANOTHER HOME relates to its iconic original like a doppelgängernarrative. Almost fifty years after Chantal Akerman [in NEWS FROM HOME (1976)] read out letters her mother sent her during her first stay in New York over images of the foreign city’s urban canyons, subway stations, and building facades, Borjana Ventzislavova embarks on a personal journey through Akerman’s revered work. Images of the original locations are accompanied by emails from Ventzislavova’s mother, the tone of which is a combination of concern and gentle admonitions (the daughter sometimes writes too rarely and says too little), not unlike Natalia Akerman’s letters. ‘Dear Bube…’ is how the ‘new news’ begins, in which the mother reports about her everyday life in Bulgaria: the weather, health problems, family gatherings.<br /><br />“NEWS FROM HOME is part of the collective visual memory and in this way, Ventzislavova’s reenactment inevitably becomes a comparative study along intertwined timelines. In addition to the mother-daughter relationship, the economic and social changes that have left their mark on the topography are reflected: the capitalization of public space, the omnipresence of the digital, the chaos of traffic. Unlike the one-sided, unvarying correspondence in the original film, the emails here show an active exchange. With the separation from her mother and her child, and probably also influenced by a traumatic past that echoes through Akerman’s blank spaces, Ventzislavova asks questions about her own family history. The fragments that come to light during the search for clues – with the internment of a relative in the Belene labor camp forming a dark marker – sketch out a multi-generational history between the Iron Curtain, emigration, and the years after the fall of Communism. In the glow of an endtime light, this history continues to have an impact in the present.” –Esther Buss, SIXPACK<br /><br /><em><strong>Director Borjana Ventzislavova will be here in person on Fri-Sun, June 5-7! The Q&As on June 5 & 7 will be moderated by Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, writer and scholar at CUNY.</strong></em></p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, June 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61456 <p>Assisted by Adolfas Mekas & Sheldon Rochlin.<br /><br />Poetry interludes written and spoken by Allen Ginsberg. Score by Lucia Dlugoszewski. Folksongs by Sara & Caither Wiley and Tom Sankey. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.<br /><br />Overshadowed by his 16mm diaristic work of later years, Jonas Mekas’s debut film, GUNS OF THE TREES, a feature-length experimental narrative shot on 35mm, is nonetheless a foundational work both within his own filmography and within the nascent New American Cinema movement. As such, it qualifies as a crucial crossroads between the possibilities of narrative filmmaking and the pioneering avant-garde cinema that was to come. Influenced equally by European New Wave and American Beat cinema – specifically SHADOWS (1959) and PULL MY DAISY (1959) – GUNS OF THE TREES is a time capsule of cultural upheavaland of the burgeoning independent film movement of the early 1960s.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, June 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61406 <p>“Following her time living in New York in the early 1970s, Chantal Akerman returned to the city to create one of her most elegantly minimalist and profoundly affecting meditations on dislocation and estrangement. Over a series of exactingly composed shots of Manhattan circa1976, the filmmaker reads letters sent by her mother years earlier. The juxtaposition between the intimacy of these domestic reports and the lonely, bleakly beautiful cityscapes results in a poignant reflection on personal and familial disconnection that doubles as a transfixing time capsule.” –CRITERION</p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, June 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61459 <p>FIRING LINE: THE AVANT GARDE<br />1968, 51 min, video. Courtesy of the Hoover Institution Archives.<br />Allen Ginsberg’s 1968 appearance on William F. Buckley, Jr.’s television program “Firing Line” is one of the most memorable in the 33-year history of the program (no mean feat, given somefierce competition). This is thanks both to Ginsberg’s vibrant, sharp, and unflappable performance, but also to the surprising degree to which the usually combative and dismissive Buckley seems genuinely hypnotized by Ginsberg’s charm offensive. Though Buckley’s reactionary conservatism is ever apparent (especially in his typically snide introduction, in which he describes Ginsberg as politically “sort of radical, sort of pro-Socialist, sort of not-quite-bright”, and further observes, “he will wear his hair long until everybody else does, then he will cut it”), he seems as delighted with the poet’s sheer presence and largeness of spirit as any of Ginsberg’s fans. Miraculously he allows Ginsberg to interrupt him repeatedly and, even more shocking, lets him deliver both a minute-long hare krishna chant and a five-minute reading of his poem, “Wales Visitation” (to which Buckley responds simply, “I kind of like that!”). These performances aside, the two debate topics ranging from hippie culture and the ethics of warfare to racial relations and police brutality.<br /><br />Richard O. Moore<br />U.S.A. POETRY (NO. 2): ALLEN GINSBERG AND LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI<br />1966, ca. 30 min, 16mm-to-digital<br />Created for San Francisco’s public television station KQED by poet-turned-documentarian Richard O. Moore, the invaluable series U.S.A. POETRY featured films on some of the most important poets of the time, including Robert Duncan, Michael McClure, Anne Sexton, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Ed Sanders, Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley (this episode will screen in our Creeley centennial series in May). In the second episode, which focuses on Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, we see Ginsberg at the City Lights bookshop, in the studio of painter Bob Levyne, at home, and on a nationwide tour, as well as reading from several of his poems.Z<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 85 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, June 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61399 <p>U.S. Premiere! <strong>Filmmaker in person!<br /><br /></strong>“NEW NEWS FROM ANOTHER HOME relates to its iconic original like a doppelgängernarrative. Almost fifty years after Chantal Akerman [in NEWS FROM HOME (1976)] read out letters her mother sent her during her first stay in New York over images of the foreign city’s urban canyons, subway stations, and building facades, Borjana Ventzislavova embarks on a personal journey through Akerman’s revered work. Images of the original locations are accompanied by emails from Ventzislavova’s mother, the tone of which is a combination of concern and gentle admonitions (the daughter sometimes writes too rarely and says too little), not unlike Natalia Akerman’s letters. ‘Dear Bube…’ is how the ‘new news’ begins, in which the mother reports about her everyday life in Bulgaria: the weather, health problems, family gatherings.<br /><br />“NEWS FROM HOME is part of the collective visual memory and in this way, Ventzislavova’s reenactment inevitably becomes a comparative study along intertwined timelines. In addition to the mother-daughter relationship, the economic and social changes that have left their mark on the topography are reflected: the capitalization of public space, the omnipresence of the digital, the chaos of traffic. Unlike the one-sided, unvarying correspondence in the original film, the emails here show an active exchange. With the separation from her mother and her child, and probably also influenced by a traumatic past that echoes through Akerman’s blank spaces, Ventzislavova asks questions about her own family history. The fragments that come to light during the search for clues – with the internment of a relative in the Belene labor camp forming a dark marker – sketch out a multi-generational history between the Iron Curtain, emigration, and the years after the fall of Communism. In the glow of an endtime light, this history continues to have an impact in the present.” –Esther Buss, SIXPACK<br /><br /><em><strong>Director Borjana Ventzislavova will be here in person on Fri-Sun, June 5-7! The Q&As on June 5 & 7 will be moderated by Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, writer and scholar at CUNY.</strong></em></p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, June 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61400 <p>U.S. Premiere! <strong>Filmmaker in person!<br /><br /></strong>“NEW NEWS FROM ANOTHER HOME relates to its iconic original like a doppelgängernarrative. Almost fifty years after Chantal Akerman [in NEWS FROM HOME (1976)] read out letters her mother sent her during her first stay in New York over images of the foreign city’s urban canyons, subway stations, and building facades, Borjana Ventzislavova embarks on a personal journey through Akerman’s revered work. Images of the original locations are accompanied by emails from Ventzislavova’s mother, the tone of which is a combination of concern and gentle admonitions (the daughter sometimes writes too rarely and says too little), not unlike Natalia Akerman’s letters. ‘Dear Bube…’ is how the ‘new news’ begins, in which the mother reports about her everyday life in Bulgaria: the weather, health problems, family gatherings.<br /><br />“NEWS FROM HOME is part of the collective visual memory and in this way, Ventzislavova’s reenactment inevitably becomes a comparative study along intertwined timelines. In addition to the mother-daughter relationship, the economic and social changes that have left their mark on the topography are reflected: the capitalization of public space, the omnipresence of the digital, the chaos of traffic. Unlike the one-sided, unvarying correspondence in the original film, the emails here show an active exchange. With the separation from her mother and her child, and probably also influenced by a traumatic past that echoes through Akerman’s blank spaces, Ventzislavova asks questions about her own family history. The fragments that come to light during the search for clues – with the internment of a relative in the Belene labor camp forming a dark marker – sketch out a multi-generational history between the Iron Curtain, emigration, and the years after the fall of Communism. In the glow of an endtime light, this history continues to have an impact in the present.” –Esther Buss, SIXPACK<br /><br /><em><strong>Director Borjana Ventzislavova will be here in person on Fri-Sun, June 5-7! The Q&As on June 5 & 7 will be moderated by Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, writer and scholar at CUNY.</strong></em></p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Monday, June 08 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61462 <p>“Costanzo Allione and an Italian film crew completed an hour-long color movie at Jack Kerouac School of Poetics, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado 1978 summer, a serious and spontaneously filmed account of conversations and teachings of home scenes of myself, poets Peter Orlovsky, William S Burroughs, Anne Waldman, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Diane di Prima, Timothy Leary, Daniel Ellsberg and Gregory Corso and Lama Chogyam Trungpa –including conversation, singing, nakedness, meditation, student Poets, and readings, & Nuclear Protest arrests at Rocky Flats Plutonium Bomb-trigger Facility nearby.” –Allen Ginsberg<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Monday, June 08 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61465 <p>“Jerry Aronson’s affecting 1994 documentary brings home how much we needed Allen Ginsberg and how much, since his death in 1997, we’ve missed him. More than a poet, Ginsberg was aluminous being – an example of essential humanness. ‘The weight of the world is love,’ says Ginsberg. As this film shows, it was Allen’s ecstatic response to life – mystic, joyful, vulnerable – that made him a mentor to those who knew him and to those that didn’t. Aronson, who knew him quite well, gives us Allen Ginsberg as a hub of love – and not your nonspecific, Aquarian-age love either, but the fleshly, hurting, resilient kind between mother and son, father and son, lover and lover.” –BRIGHT LIGHTS FILM JOURNAL<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Monday, June 08 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61407 <p>“Following her time living in New York in the early 1970s, Chantal Akerman returned to the city to create one of her most elegantly minimalist and profoundly affecting meditations on dislocation and estrangement. Over a series of exactingly composed shots of Manhattan circa1976, the filmmaker reads letters sent by her mother years earlier. The juxtaposition between the intimacy of these domestic reports and the lonely, bleakly beautiful cityscapes results in a poignant reflection on personal and familial disconnection that doubles as a transfixing time capsule.” –CRITERION</p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Monday, June 08 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61468 <p>Allen Ginsberg & Steven Taylor<br />HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS<br />1988, 33 min, video<br />“In 1987 Sony Corp gave out a batch of Hi8 camcorders to artists and writers around the world, and in return they asked that each make a movie. Allen got one, and HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS was the result. Edited by Allen’s close friend and accompanist, Steven Taylor, this was filmed over a period of two months, October-November, 1987, and focuses mostly on Julius Orlovsky, who’d been staying as a guest over that period. It provides brilliant insights into the daily routine at the apartment on East 12th Street back in the 80s, with ‘cameos’ from the likes of Harry Smith, Allen’s Russian translator Viktor Sosnora, Jello Biafra, Robert Frank, June Leaf, Carl Solomon, Gordon Ball, Peter Orlovsky, and many more.” –ALLEN GINSBERG PROJECT<br /><br />Colin Still<br />NO MORE TO SAY & NOTHING TO WEEP FOR: AN ELEGY FOR ALLEN GINSBERG<br />1926-1997, 52 min, DCP<br />“[This] informative documentary features Allen Ginsberg’s final television interview as well as remarkable deathbed footage shot by Jonas Mekas. In addition to candid discussions about everything from Ginsberg’s personal life to his literary career, [the film encompasses] home-movie footage of the author as a child as well as archival footage [of] his 1965 reading at Royal Albert Hall and his chanting at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Previously unreleased footage of Ginsberg performing with Paul McCartney is also included, as are interviews with Dick Cavett and William Buckley, and the heartfelt memorial service in which Patti Smith bid her old friend a particularly poignant farewell. In the final sequence, Ginsberg invites filmmaker Mekas to his New York loft, lying on his deathbed and preparing to embark on the ultimate adventure.”–HOWL! HAPPENING<br /><br />Plus:<br />Colin Still WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU LOST IT? (1995/2026, 6.5 min, DCP)<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 95 min.<br /><br /><em><strong>Steven Taylor, who collaborated with Ginsberg on the making of HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, will be here in person for both screenings!</strong></em><br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Tuesday, June 09 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61401 <p>U.S. Premiere! <strong>Filmmaker in person!<br /><br /></strong>“NEW NEWS FROM ANOTHER HOME relates to its iconic original like a doppelgängernarrative. Almost fifty years after Chantal Akerman [in NEWS FROM HOME (1976)] read out letters her mother sent her during her first stay in New York over images of the foreign city’s urban canyons, subway stations, and building facades, Borjana Ventzislavova embarks on a personal journey through Akerman’s revered work. Images of the original locations are accompanied by emails from Ventzislavova’s mother, the tone of which is a combination of concern and gentle admonitions (the daughter sometimes writes too rarely and says too little), not unlike Natalia Akerman’s letters. ‘Dear Bube…’ is how the ‘new news’ begins, in which the mother reports about her everyday life in Bulgaria: the weather, health problems, family gatherings.<br /><br />“NEWS FROM HOME is part of the collective visual memory and in this way, Ventzislavova’s reenactment inevitably becomes a comparative study along intertwined timelines. In addition to the mother-daughter relationship, the economic and social changes that have left their mark on the topography are reflected: the capitalization of public space, the omnipresence of the digital, the chaos of traffic. Unlike the one-sided, unvarying correspondence in the original film, the emails here show an active exchange. With the separation from her mother and her child, and probably also influenced by a traumatic past that echoes through Akerman’s blank spaces, Ventzislavova asks questions about her own family history. The fragments that come to light during the search for clues – with the internment of a relative in the Belene labor camp forming a dark marker – sketch out a multi-generational history between the Iron Curtain, emigration, and the years after the fall of Communism. In the glow of an endtime light, this history continues to have an impact in the present.” –Esther Buss, SIXPACK<br /><br /><em><strong>Director Borjana Ventzislavova will be here in person on Fri-Sun, June 5-7! The Q&As on June 5 & 7 will be moderated by Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, writer and scholar at CUNY.</strong></em></p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Tuesday, June 09 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61471 <p>“Gyula Gazdag directs a free-wheeling cinéma vérité documentary on Beat poet Allen Ginsber ghosting radical maverick Hungarian writer, poet, and translator Istvan Eorsi on his one-week visit in May 1995 to the Lower East Side. The soul mates talk about various subjects that range from Buddhism to the meaning of First Thought and stroll together around Allen’s neighborhood,where they encounter Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, and Jonas Mekas [who shows them around Anthology Film Archives!]; visit a Korean grocery; reminisce about a poet’s hang-out coffeehouse long gone on MacDougal Street; visit several bookshops and St. Mark’s church; and chat with sincere protesting squatters about to be evicted in Alphabet City. There’s also time for a visit to Ginsberg’s hometown of Paterson, NJ, a chance to hear Allen record “Howl” at the Looking Glass studio, and to hear Allen sing “Father Death Blues” in his humble old-fashioned kitchen.” –Dennis Schwartz<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Gus Van Sant <br />BALLAD OF THE SKELETONS <br />1997, 4 min, video<br />Ginsberg’s recording of a musical adaptation of his poem “Ballad of the Skeletons” was a surprise hit in 1996 – or maybe not such a surprise, given the fact that his backing band consisted of Paul McCartney, Philip Glass, Lenny Kaye, Marc Ribot, and David Mansfield! The resulting music video was directed by Gus Van Sant, about whose work Ginsberg has this to say, “It’s a great collage. He went back to old Pathé, Satan skeletons, and mixed them up with Rush Limbaugh, and Dole, and the local politicians, Newt Gingrich, and the President. And mixed those up with the atom bomb, when I talk about the electric chair – ‘Hey, what’s cookin?’ – you got Satan setting off an atom bomb, and I’m trembling with a USA hat on, the Uncle Sam hat on. So it’s quite a production, it’s fun.”<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 105 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Tuesday, June 09 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61408 <p>“Following her time living in New York in the early 1970s, Chantal Akerman returned to the city to create one of her most elegantly minimalist and profoundly affecting meditations on dislocation and estrangement. Over a series of exactingly composed shots of Manhattan circa1976, the filmmaker reads letters sent by her mother years earlier. The juxtaposition between the intimacy of these domestic reports and the lonely, bleakly beautiful cityscapes results in a poignant reflection on personal and familial disconnection that doubles as a transfixing time capsule.” –CRITERION</p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Tuesday, June 09 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61409 <p>“Following her time living in New York in the early 1970s, Chantal Akerman returned to the city to create one of her most elegantly minimalist and profoundly affecting meditations on dislocation and estrangement. Over a series of exactingly composed shots of Manhattan circa1976, the filmmaker reads letters sent by her mother years earlier. The juxtaposition between the intimacy of these domestic reports and the lonely, bleakly beautiful cityscapes results in a poignant reflection on personal and familial disconnection that doubles as a transfixing time capsule.” –CRITERION</p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Wednesday, June 10 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61474 <p>“[W]ith their new film HOWL, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman have…forg[ed] a highly original solution to the thorny problems inherent in the task [of adapting a poem into a film]. The approach they take is at once minimal and maximal, stretching far beyond the directors’ documentary roots. (They are perhaps best known for their 1995 collaboration THE CELLULOID CLOSET; Epstein won an Academy Award in 1985 for his direction of THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK.) By dividing their focus between this iconic poem in performance and the scandalous 1957 First Amendment-rights trial in the San Francisco Municipal Court (City Lights cofounder Lawrence Ferlinghetti was brought up on obscenity charges for publishing ‘Howl’), Epstein and Friedman have created a credible historical account of a seminal American literary event and an ode to free expression in our still censorious age. To borrow<br />another of Ginsberg’s titles, I can only think of HOWL the movie as a ‘reality sandwich’: Words are the reality, lifted from interviews with Ginsberg and from the transcripts of the San Francisco court, combined in a multilevel form. […] Throughout HOWL, Epstein and Friedman combine dramatization and documentary images so fluidly that one experiences what may be a new form– one that’s neither drama nor documentary.” –Steven Watson, ARTFORUM<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Wednesday, June 10 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61402 <p>U.S. Premiere! <strong>Filmmaker in person!<br /><br /></strong>“NEW NEWS FROM ANOTHER HOME relates to its iconic original like a doppelgängernarrative. Almost fifty years after Chantal Akerman [in NEWS FROM HOME (1976)] read out letters her mother sent her during her first stay in New York over images of the foreign city’s urban canyons, subway stations, and building facades, Borjana Ventzislavova embarks on a personal journey through Akerman’s revered work. Images of the original locations are accompanied by emails from Ventzislavova’s mother, the tone of which is a combination of concern and gentle admonitions (the daughter sometimes writes too rarely and says too little), not unlike Natalia Akerman’s letters. ‘Dear Bube…’ is how the ‘new news’ begins, in which the mother reports about her everyday life in Bulgaria: the weather, health problems, family gatherings.<br /><br />“NEWS FROM HOME is part of the collective visual memory and in this way, Ventzislavova’s reenactment inevitably becomes a comparative study along intertwined timelines. In addition to the mother-daughter relationship, the economic and social changes that have left their mark on the topography are reflected: the capitalization of public space, the omnipresence of the digital, the chaos of traffic. Unlike the one-sided, unvarying correspondence in the original film, the emails here show an active exchange. With the separation from her mother and her child, and probably also influenced by a traumatic past that echoes through Akerman’s blank spaces, Ventzislavova asks questions about her own family history. The fragments that come to light during the search for clues – with the internment of a relative in the Belene labor camp forming a dark marker – sketch out a multi-generational history between the Iron Curtain, emigration, and the years after the fall of Communism. In the glow of an endtime light, this history continues to have an impact in the present.” –Esther Buss, SIXPACK<br /><br /><em><strong>Director Borjana Ventzislavova will be here in person on Fri-Sun, June 5-7! The Q&As on June 5 & 7 will be moderated by Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, writer and scholar at CUNY.</strong></em></p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Wednesday, June 10 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61477 <p>“This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg’s apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of his close friends; and the wrapping up and removal of Allen’s body from the apartment. You hear [my] description of his last conversation with Allen, three days earlier. You see the final farewell at the Buddhist temple, 118 West 22nd Street, New York City, and some of his close friends: Patti Smith, Gregory Corso, LeRoi Jones-Baraka, Hiro Yamagata, Anne Waldman, and many others.” –Jonas Mekas<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Jonas Mekas <br />HARE KRISHNA <br />1966, 4 min, 16mm<br />“One Sunday afternoon in New York – beautiful new generation – dancing in the streets of New York – singing ‘Hare Hare’ – filling the streets and the air with love – in the very beginning of the New Age – Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky (on soundtrack) singing.” –Jonas Mekas<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 75 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Wednesday, June 10 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61410 <p>“Following her time living in New York in the early 1970s, Chantal Akerman returned to the city to create one of her most elegantly minimalist and profoundly affecting meditations on dislocation and estrangement. Over a series of exactingly composed shots of Manhattan circa1976, the filmmaker reads letters sent by her mother years earlier. The juxtaposition between the intimacy of these domestic reports and the lonely, bleakly beautiful cityscapes results in a poignant reflection on personal and familial disconnection that doubles as a transfixing time capsule.” –CRITERION</p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Thursday, June 11 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61454 <p>Peter Whitehead<br />WHOLLY COMMUNION<br />1965, 33 min, 16mm-to-DCP<br />The documentary that effectively launched Peter Whitehead’s career, WHOLLY COMMUNION captures the historic event at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, where an audience of 7,000 witnessed the first meeting of American and English Beat poets. Among the performers featured are Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Alexander Trocchi, Gregory Corso and Adrian Mitchell.<br /><br />Iain Sinclair & Robert Klinkert<br />AH! SUNFLOWER<br />1967, 29 min, 16mm-to-digital<br />This film was commissioned by German television and directed by UK poet and author Iain Sinclair and Dutch filmmaker Robert Klinkert. It chronicles Ginsberg’s 1967 visit to London,and his participation in both the Hyde Park Dope Rally and the Congress of the Dialectics of Liberation at London’s renowned music venue, the Roundhouse. A revealing portrait of Ginsberg and the countercultural London literary scene of the time, AH! SUNFLOWER – which was virtually lost until its release on DVD in 2007, and has since become extremely scarce once again – is perhaps best known for having inspired Sinclair’s first prose work, “The Kodak Mantra Diaries”, which itself recounted the chaotic experience of the film shoot. This rare screening is not to be missed!<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 65 min<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Thursday, June 11 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61457 <p>Assisted by Adolfas Mekas & Sheldon Rochlin.<br /><br />Poetry interludes written and spoken by Allen Ginsberg. Score by Lucia Dlugoszewski. Folksongs by Sara & Caither Wiley and Tom Sankey. Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.<br /><br />Overshadowed by his 16mm diaristic work of later years, Jonas Mekas’s debut film, GUNS OF THE TREES, a feature-length experimental narrative shot on 35mm, is nonetheless a foundational work both within his own filmography and within the nascent New American Cinema movement. As such, it qualifies as a crucial crossroads between the possibilities of narrative filmmaking and the pioneering avant-garde cinema that was to come. Influenced equally by European New Wave and American Beat cinema – specifically SHADOWS (1959) and PULL MY DAISY (1959) – GUNS OF THE TREES is a time capsule of cultural upheavaland of the burgeoning independent film movement of the early 1960s.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Thursday, June 11 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61403 <p>U.S. Premiere! <strong>Filmmaker in person!<br /><br /></strong>“NEW NEWS FROM ANOTHER HOME relates to its iconic original like a doppelgängernarrative. Almost fifty years after Chantal Akerman [in NEWS FROM HOME (1976)] read out letters her mother sent her during her first stay in New York over images of the foreign city’s urban canyons, subway stations, and building facades, Borjana Ventzislavova embarks on a personal journey through Akerman’s revered work. Images of the original locations are accompanied by emails from Ventzislavova’s mother, the tone of which is a combination of concern and gentle admonitions (the daughter sometimes writes too rarely and says too little), not unlike Natalia Akerman’s letters. ‘Dear Bube…’ is how the ‘new news’ begins, in which the mother reports about her everyday life in Bulgaria: the weather, health problems, family gatherings.<br /><br />“NEWS FROM HOME is part of the collective visual memory and in this way, Ventzislavova’s reenactment inevitably becomes a comparative study along intertwined timelines. In addition to the mother-daughter relationship, the economic and social changes that have left their mark on the topography are reflected: the capitalization of public space, the omnipresence of the digital, the chaos of traffic. Unlike the one-sided, unvarying correspondence in the original film, the emails here show an active exchange. With the separation from her mother and her child, and probably also influenced by a traumatic past that echoes through Akerman’s blank spaces, Ventzislavova asks questions about her own family history. The fragments that come to light during the search for clues – with the internment of a relative in the Belene labor camp forming a dark marker – sketch out a multi-generational history between the Iron Curtain, emigration, and the years after the fall of Communism. In the glow of an endtime light, this history continues to have an impact in the present.” –Esther Buss, SIXPACK<br /><br /><em><strong>Director Borjana Ventzislavova will be here in person on Fri-Sun, June 5-7! The Q&As on June 5 & 7 will be moderated by Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, writer and scholar at CUNY.</strong></em></p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Thursday, June 11 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61492 <p>Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent.<br />DESISTFILM (1954, 7 min, 16mm, b&w, sound)<br />REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (1955, 12 min, 16mm, b&w, sound. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)<br />THE WONDER RING (1955, 4 min, 16mm)<br />FLESH OF MORNING (1956, 25 min, 16mm, b&w)<br />LOVING (1956, 4 min, 16mm)<br />DAYBREAK AND WHITEYE (1957, 8 min, 16mm)<br />WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (1959, 12 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)<br />Films made during the early, “psychodramatic” period of one of modern cinema’s greatest innovators, including two of his early experiments with sound. <br /><br />Total running time: ca. 75 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, June 12 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61430 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, June 12 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61494 <p>Stan Brakhage<br />DOG STAR MAN<br />1961-64, 74 min, 16mm, silent<br />“DOG STAR MAN elaborates in mythic, almost systematic terms, the worldview of [Brakhage’s] lyrical films. More than any other work of the American avant-garde film, it stations itself within the rhetoric of Romanticism, describing the birth of consciousness, the cycle of the seasons, man’s struggle with nature, and sexual balance in the visual evocation of a fallen titan bearing the cosmic name of the Dog Star Man.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM<br />“The film breathes and is an organic and surging thing…it is a colossal lyrical adventure-dance of image in every variation of color.” –Michael McClure<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, June 12 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61496 <p>Unless otherwise noted, all films are silent.<br /><br />CAT’S CRADLE (1959, 6 min, 16mm)<br />SIRIUS REMEMBERED (1959, 12 min, 16mm)<br />MOTHLIGHT (1963, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)<br />BLUE MOSES (1963, 11 min, 16mm, sound)<br />PASHT (1965, 5 min, 16mm)<br />FIRE OF WATERS (1965, 10 min, 16mm, sound)<br />THE HORSEMAN, THE WOMAN AND THE MOTH (1968, 19 min, 16mm)<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 70 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, June 13 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61431 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, June 13 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61445 <p>“What I love about cinema is the space and time it gives us to really look and listen. Cinema offers us ‘Lichblicke’ (flashes of) light – expansions of how we think and see. This carte blanche brings together some of these reflecting lights: we never act alone, but are embedded in a cosmos of many people’s ideas and thoughts. There is nothing more rewarding than discovering a work that enters into dialogue with one’s own. My own films also create such moments of illumination in my everyday life as a filmmaker, because they keep bringing new adventures into my life.” –Viktoria Schmid<br /><br />Peter Miller PROJECTOR OBSCURA (2005, 10 min, 35mm)<br />Lewis Alquist FRAME (1991, 3 min, 16mm)<br />Inger Lise Hansen ADRIFT (2004, 9 min, 16mm-to-35mm)<br />Viktoria Schmid A PROPOSAL TO PROJECT IN SCOPE (2020, 8 min, 35mm)<br />Viktoria Schmid ROJO ŽALIA BLAU (2025, 10 min, 35mm)<br />Eva Claus TO BE A DAY (2025, 8 min, 16mm)<br />Dwinell Grant COLOR SEQUENCE (1943, 3 min, 16mm, silent)<br />Viktoria Schmid A TAMA FOR EKTACHROME (2016, 1 min, Super-8mm-to-DCP)<br />Arthur & Corinne Cantrill ISLAND FUSE (1971, 11 min, 16mm)<br />Viktoria Schmid ACHTUNG / HALLO 35 (2010, 2 min, 35mm)<br />Viktoria Schmid GOLAN (2012, 2 min, 16mm)<br />Lisa Truttmann & Elizabeth M. Webb TABULA RASA (2015, 7.5 min, DCP)<br />Anouk De Clercq BLACK (2015, 6 min, 35mm, silent)<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, June 13 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61432 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, June 13 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61498 <p>All films are silent.<br />THE WEIR-FALCON SAGA (1970, 29 min, 16mm)<br />SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: MOTEL (1970, 7 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)<br />THE ANIMALS OF EDEN AND AFTER (1970, 35 min, 16mm)<br />SEXUAL MEDITATION: ROOM WITH A VIEW (1971, 4 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)<br />THE SHORES OF PHOS: A FABLE (1972, 10 min, 16mm)<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 90 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, June 14 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61433 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, June 14 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61447 <p>“The reduction, the short film as a distillate that enables a new, concentrated gaze, is a central aspect of my cinematic thinking. Equally important is looking back at film history in order to rethink the present. Early cinema and the historical development of film technology are key sources of inspiration for my works, in which I reflect on everyday ways of seeing. With my films, I conduct research as a visual researcher with plenty of freedom to discover the extraordinary in the everyday.” –Viktoria Schmid<br /><br />Morgan Fisher SCREENING ROOM (1968/2026 (state for Anthology Film Archives), 5 min,digital-to-16mm, silent<br />Viktoria Schmid W O W (KODAK) 2018, 2 min, 35mm-to-DCP)<br />Louis Lumière & Auguste Lumière DEMOLITION OF A WALL / DÉMOLITION D’UN MUR (1895, 1.5 min, 16mm. Print courtesy of the Austrian Film Museum.)<br />Alice Guy Blaché PIERRETTE’S ESCAPADES / LES FREDAINES DE PIERRETTE (1900, 2min, 35mm. Restored print courtesy of the Filmoteca de Catalunya.)<br />Viktoria Schmid IT’S A DANCE (2014, 2.5 min, DCP)<br />Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton UFOS (1971, 4 min, 16mm-to-DCP. Produced at Bell Laboratories. From the Collections of The Henry Ford.)<br />Viktoria Schmid NYC RGB (2023, 7 min, 16mm)<br />Sasha Pirker THE FACE – STOREFRONT FOR ART & ARCHITECTURE (2011, 4 min, digital)<br />Viktoria Schmid A PROPOSAL TO PROJECT IN 4:3 (2016, 2 min, 16mm)<br />Germaine Dulac ÉTUDE CINÉGRAPHIQUE SUR UNE ARABESQUE (1929, 9 min, 35mm)<br />Eva Giolo FLOWERS BLOOMING IN OUR THROATS (2020, 9 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />Friedl vom Gröller PARENTS (FATHER/MOTHER) / ELTERN (MUTTER/VATER) (1997-99, 5min, 35mm)<br />Viktoria Schmid KATHARINAVIKTORIA (2011, 1 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />Viktoria Schmid KATHARINAVIKTORIA 2(021) (2022, 1 min, 16mm)<br />Thom Andersen MELTING (1965, 6 min, 16mm)<br />Viktoria Schmid FOODFILMS (2010, 8 min, 16mm)<br />Ernst Schmidt Jr. SAALLICHT (1974, 30 sec, 16mm)<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, June 14 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61434 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, June 14 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61435 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Monday, June 15 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61436 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Monday, June 15 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61437 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Tuesday, June 16 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61438 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Tuesday, June 16 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61439 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Wednesday, June 17 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61224 <p>U.S. PREMIERE!<br /><br />THE MEMORY OF BUTTERFLIES begins with a single archival image of two Indigenous men, Omarino and Aredomi, taken from the Amazon to Europe during the rubber boom – and unfolds into a haunting, deeply personal exploration of history, memory, and colonial violence. Blending archival materials with hand-processed imagery and contemporary encounters, the powerful and evocative debut feature by Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski moves between past and present to question official narratives and recover voices long erased. At once an act of investigation and a cinematic invocation, it opens a space where the living and the dead remain in dialogue.<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski LA HUELLA (France, 2012, 18 min, DCP)<br />Using a photographic archive and forensic testimony, the film explores the lasting traces of Peru’s civil war.<br /><br />Guest programmed by Andrea Avidad.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Wednesday, June 17 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61440 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Wednesday, June 17 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61441 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Thursday, June 18 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61164 <p>Shaped as a surreal dialog between artists Liz/Riv Rosenfeld and Lily Baldwin, ECSTASIE asks, How does ecstasy move? Can it be captured? What lives in the intersection between a true lived act, performance, and digitization? MYSOPHILIAC is the newest music video from Klovis Gaynor and the Urinal Cakes, featuring CHRISTEENE, in the filthiest therapy session on Earth. In PLENUM IM TUNTENHAUS the district administration has cut down trees and put up lights in the cruising area in Volkspark Hasenheide. The antifa faggots plan to fight back against this heterosexist attack. But is the text in their campaign poster too academic? It’s going to be a long plenum… IDEXA, 1992 traces tattooist and body play icon Idexa Stern’s metamorphosis and hook suspension experience. This work is screening for the first time in its intended form after a previous censorship. SANCTUARY explores queer spirituality and utopian sexualities through the figure of Purusha Androgyne Larkin (1934-88), a monk, pioneering gay filmmaker, and self-proclaimed cosmic-erotic mystic. Larkin’s 1981 book, “The Divine Androgyne”, challenged repression with a spiritual vision rooted in eroticism and presented a radical path to cosmic-erotic consciousness through “extreme” forms of sexual pleasure.<br /><br />This program is curated by Angelo Madsen for Folsom Street East, the longest running and largest kink and fetish festival on the East Coast as well as a charitable non-profit serving the LGBTQIA+ community in NYC and beyond.<br /><br />Lily Baldwin ECSTASIE (2025, 14 min, digital)<br />Adam Baran MYSOPHILIAC (2026, 5 min, digital)<br />Angelo Madsen IDEXA, 1992 (2026, 15 min, 16mm-and-VHS-to-digital)<br />Lasse Långström PLENUM IM TUNTENHAUS (2024, 13 min, digital)<br />Sam Ashby SANCTUARY (2024, 25 min, 16mm-to-digital)<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 75 min.<br /><br /><strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Thursday, June 18 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61442 <p><strong>Directors/stars Harry Dodge & Silas Howard and producer Steak Housewill be here in person for Q&As after the evening shows on Fri & Sat, June 12 & 13!</strong> <br /><br />Produced by Steakhaus Productions and distributed by Altered Innocence.Groundbreaking when it was made and still fiercely innovative today, BY HOOK OR BYCROOK is a butch and trans buddy film that chronicles three weeks in the life of a handsome,gender-bending, small-town dreamer with a nagging messiah-complex. Emotionally defeatedafter the death of his father, Shy (Silas Howard) heads to the big city to sink himself into a “lifeof crime.” He is quickly distracted by Valentine (Harry Dodge), a deliriously expressive, wise-acre adoptee on a misguided search for his birth mother. The two freaky grifters join forces andlearn the true meaning of “poise under pressure” in this visually stunning and wonderfully acted,anti-authoritarian tale of friendship, trust, and redemption.<br /><br />“Much has transpired since BY HOOK OR BY CROOK premiered at Sundance in 2001,igniting the festival scene with its sweet, scrappy tale of outsider buddies bounding about thebars and back alleys of pre-Boom San Francisco. […] What has remained constant since 2001, however, is BHOBC’s unique oddball vision, clever dialogue and effusive charm. Ahead of itstime in its evocation of an unabashed queer universe that dares to just be, BHOBC tells the storyof two trans-butches, Shy (Howard) and Valentine (Dodge), who collide by chance in the SanFrancisco streets. Shy is immersed in daydreams about the loving father they lost and Valentineis searching for the mother they never met. Like-hearted mischievous souls, the pair stumbles into a series of shambolic shenanigans – along with Valentine’s girlfriend, Billie (Stanya Kahn) –sidestepping sadness with wit and wackadoo. One-time fixtures of the San Francisco subculturalscene, Dodge and Howard were the forces behind beloved performance/gathering spot RedDora’s Bearded Lady. Howard was also one of the rebel rockers in notorious queercore outfitTribe 8. Building on these outlaw legacies, BHOBC displays a true affinity for the misfits andthe marginalized – a rare film not only about, but by, lovable weirdos on the fringe.”–FRAMELINE<br /><br />“Taking pages from the absurdism of Jean Genet, the Beat ethos of Jack Kerouac, and the independent spirit of John Cassavetes, Harry Dodge and Silas Howard’s directorial debut is abutch and trans buddy film that follows Shy and Valentine, two gender outlaws living by anymeans necessary in San Francisco during the Bush years—when violence and isolation arearound every corner, even in the supposed queer mecca of the United States. This inventive,energetic, shot-on-video road movie is teeming with playful scenarios, pathos, and humanity.”–ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Thursday, June 18 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61412 <p><strong>REVIVAL RUN – NEW ANTHOLOGY RESTORATION!<br /></strong><br />Awarded “Best Feature” at both the New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals, 2001.<br />Rarely seen in NYC in the 25 years since its launch at the 2001 edition of the (dearly missed) New York Underground Film Festival, CURSE OF THE SEVEN JACKALS remains the sole feature by filmmaker Chris Jolly, a veteran projectionist of the repertory film scene. Shooting with practically no budget in Athens, Georgia, Jolly cast local non-actors, including the musician Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal) and artist Jill Carnes, in his singular minimalist southern low-fi sci-fi “epic”. The film’s (non)action is hauntingly punctuated with a soundtrack by Laura Carter (ElfPower), Eric Harris (The Olivia Tremor Control), Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel), Heather McIntosh (Circulatory System) and Chris Jolly himself – a virtual “who’s who” of the Athens music scene of the 1990s/early 2000s.<br /><br />The one and only 16mm print has been housed in Anthology’s collection for years now, and we’re overjoyed to have finally completed a brand-new digital restoration. To celebrate this new restoration, and the 25th anniversary of the film’s NYC debut, we’ll be presenting it in a week-long revival run alongside a program of Jolly’s (even more unknown but equally remarkable) short films!<br /><br />“In this bizarrely minimalist film, synthetic blood test-subject Bernard (Kevin Barnes) waits in a suburban motel room between injections, trying to earn enough money to realize his dream of traveling to Egypt. Unfortunately, the synthetic blood in his veins may cause him to go insane.”–MUBI<br /><br />“CURSE OF THE SEVEN JACKALS is a film that seemed to come from out of nowhere. Mostly set in the hotel room that the crew inhabited during the two-week shoot, CURSE tells the story of Bernard, a synthetic blood test patient who dreams of traveling to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. Helen, as played by the sublime non-actress Jill Carnes, is the hotel maid who takes Bernard out on the town for down-home karaoke and out-of-body bingo experiences. Like a semi-conscious sci-fi dream as directed by early Andy Warhol, filmmaker Chris Jolly’s seminal American underground feature was made with an antiquated Auricon camera that recorded the soundtrack directly on the film. As disarmingly funny as it is aesthetically challenging, CURSE stands tall as one of the last great 16mm underground features.” –Andrew Lampert<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, June 19 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61228 <p>U.S. PREMIERE!<br /><br />It’s raining in São Paulo and Matias and a stranger are about to spend the afternoon getting high and having sex. But when Matias cuts up the stash, neither credit card, powder, or straw are visible on screen. As the drugs kick in and the chemsex begins, we watch as afternoon stretches into evening, with more tricks invited over, more invisible substances consumed, more visible tongues and penises entering orifices, and conversations between the men about their substance use, Covid-isolation, HIV, PrEP, and Clarice Lispector’s beloved 1964 novel “The Passion According to G.H.” Narrow Rooms is honored to present the U.S. premiere of this thrilling and intense collaboration between acclaimed queer Brazilian director Gustavo Vinagre (UNLEARNING TO SLEEP) and artist/director Vinicius Couto, who drew on his own experiences to bring the role of Matias to the screen. Featuring a cast of non-actors also drawing on their own experiences, this improvised experimental “magical realist gay bedroom odyssey” looks at the experience of chemsex in a fresh way, preserving its characters’ humanity and refusing to inflict punishment for “bad” behavior. Though potentially triggering to viewers with substance abuse history or folks upset at seeing sex onscreen, the impact of Vinagre and Couto’s emotional film is sure to stay in your systems long after the credits roll.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, June 19 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61413 <p><strong>REVIVAL RUN – NEW ANTHOLOGY RESTORATION!<br /></strong><br />Awarded “Best Feature” at both the New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals, 2001.<br />Rarely seen in NYC in the 25 years since its launch at the 2001 edition of the (dearly missed) New York Underground Film Festival, CURSE OF THE SEVEN JACKALS remains the sole feature by filmmaker Chris Jolly, a veteran projectionist of the repertory film scene. Shooting with practically no budget in Athens, Georgia, Jolly cast local non-actors, including the musician Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal) and artist Jill Carnes, in his singular minimalist southern low-fi sci-fi “epic”. The film’s (non)action is hauntingly punctuated with a soundtrack by Laura Carter (ElfPower), Eric Harris (The Olivia Tremor Control), Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel), Heather McIntosh (Circulatory System) and Chris Jolly himself – a virtual “who’s who” of the Athens music scene of the 1990s/early 2000s.<br /><br />The one and only 16mm print has been housed in Anthology’s collection for years now, and we’re overjoyed to have finally completed a brand-new digital restoration. To celebrate this new restoration, and the 25th anniversary of the film’s NYC debut, we’ll be presenting it in a week-long revival run alongside a program of Jolly’s (even more unknown but equally remarkable) short films!<br /><br />“In this bizarrely minimalist film, synthetic blood test-subject Bernard (Kevin Barnes) waits in a suburban motel room between injections, trying to earn enough money to realize his dream of traveling to Egypt. Unfortunately, the synthetic blood in his veins may cause him to go insane.”–MUBI<br /><br />“CURSE OF THE SEVEN JACKALS is a film that seemed to come from out of nowhere. Mostly set in the hotel room that the crew inhabited during the two-week shoot, CURSE tells the story of Bernard, a synthetic blood test patient who dreams of traveling to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. Helen, as played by the sublime non-actress Jill Carnes, is the hotel maid who takes Bernard out on the town for down-home karaoke and out-of-body bingo experiences. Like a semi-conscious sci-fi dream as directed by early Andy Warhol, filmmaker Chris Jolly’s seminal American underground feature was made with an antiquated Auricon camera that recorded the soundtrack directly on the film. As disarmingly funny as it is aesthetically challenging, CURSE stands tall as one of the last great 16mm underground features.” –Andrew Lampert<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, June 19 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61269 <p><em><strong>FILMMAKER IN PERSON ON MAY 16!</strong></em><br /><br />Filmmaker Colin Still – who has made numerous films over the years about artists, musicians, and especially poets (his films on Robert Creeley and Allen Ginsberg will be shown at Anthology in May and June, in those writers’ respective centennial film series) – met Stan Brakhage in 1996, during the filming of his Ginsberg documentary, NO MORE TO SAY & NOTHING TO WEEP FOR. The two quickly formed an affinity, and Brakhage – who was already in the midst of treatment for the cancer that would take his life seven years later – agreed to sit for an in-depth series of interviews (which extended to Still’s later trips to Colorado). The interviews resulted in more than ten hours of footage, but while some of this material was made public in an abbreviated form in the late-1990s, it’s only last year that Still fully completed the film, which has yet to be seen in the U.S. In its final form, it’s a truly invaluable document of Brakhage. Clearly recognizing a sympathetic chronicler, and most likely already sensing his impending mortality, Brakhage speaks freely, thoughtfully, and, as always, with extraordinary clarity, about everything from his childhood, cultural coming-of-age, and two marriages, to his (ongoing) development as a filmmaker and his attitudes towards his own mortality. Along the way he tells memorable and unfamiliar stories about encounters with a variety of artists, poets, and filmmakers, speaking sometimes from his home, sometimes from the local café where – clearly a fixture – he produced many of his hand-painted films while observing the life of the town around him.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, June 20 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61427 <p>This program surveys Chris Jolly’s short film work, including live-action films and videos made with friends and collaborators in Athens, Georgia; later experimental animations that use a wide variety of techniques (from cut-out, chalkboard, claymation, and string animation to painting, drawing, and video glitching); and a handful of films that create a kind of animation out of brickwalls, painted street signs, and souvenir photos.<br /><br />BEAR 1995, 40 sec, video, silent<br />MONTAGE (WINTER 1995) 1995, 5 min, video<br />BRICKS 1997, 4 min, video<br />THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHRIS JOLLY 1996, 3.5 min, Super-8mm-to-DCP<br />AMNESIA 1998, 10 min, video<br />ONLY 1996, 3 min, Super-8mm-to-DCP<br />NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. 1997, 4 min, video<br />SEEMUSIC 1997, 6 min, video<br />THUMB MUSIC 1997, 1 min, video. Co-directed by Sara Kirkpatrick.<br />CIRCLES & EXERCISE 1998, 1.5 min, 35mm<br />ABSTRACT PORNOGRAPHIC FILM 2001, 12 min, 16mm-to-DCP<br />CHRIS JOLLY’S AVALANCHE OF ANIMATION 2007, 4 min, video<br />MULTIPLEX 2012, 3 min, 35mm<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, June 20 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61460 <p>FIRING LINE: THE AVANT GARDE<br />1968, 51 min, video. Courtesy of the Hoover Institution Archives.<br />Allen Ginsberg’s 1968 appearance on William F. Buckley, Jr.’s television program “Firing Line” is one of the most memorable in the 33-year history of the program (no mean feat, given somefierce competition). This is thanks both to Ginsberg’s vibrant, sharp, and unflappable performance, but also to the surprising degree to which the usually combative and dismissive Buckley seems genuinely hypnotized by Ginsberg’s charm offensive. Though Buckley’s reactionary conservatism is ever apparent (especially in his typically snide introduction, in which he describes Ginsberg as politically “sort of radical, sort of pro-Socialist, sort of not-quite-bright”, and further observes, “he will wear his hair long until everybody else does, then he will cut it”), he seems as delighted with the poet’s sheer presence and largeness of spirit as any of Ginsberg’s fans. Miraculously he allows Ginsberg to interrupt him repeatedly and, even more shocking, lets him deliver both a minute-long hare krishna chant and a five-minute reading of his poem, “Wales Visitation” (to which Buckley responds simply, “I kind of like that!”). These performances aside, the two debate topics ranging from hippie culture and the ethics of warfare to racial relations and police brutality.<br /><br />Richard O. Moore<br />U.S.A. POETRY (NO. 2): ALLEN GINSBERG AND LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI<br />1966, ca. 30 min, 16mm-to-digital<br />Created for San Francisco’s public television station KQED by poet-turned-documentarian Richard O. Moore, the invaluable series U.S.A. POETRY featured films on some of the most important poets of the time, including Robert Duncan, Michael McClure, Anne Sexton, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Ed Sanders, Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley (this episode will screen in our Creeley centennial series in May). In the second episode, which focuses on Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, we see Ginsberg at the City Lights bookshop, in the studio of painter Bob Levyne, at home, and on a nationwide tour, as well as reading from several of his poems.Z<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 85 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, June 20 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61414 <p><strong>REVIVAL RUN – NEW ANTHOLOGY RESTORATION!<br /></strong><br />Awarded “Best Feature” at both the New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals, 2001.<br />Rarely seen in NYC in the 25 years since its launch at the 2001 edition of the (dearly missed) New York Underground Film Festival, CURSE OF THE SEVEN JACKALS remains the sole feature by filmmaker Chris Jolly, a veteran projectionist of the repertory film scene. Shooting with practically no budget in Athens, Georgia, Jolly cast local non-actors, including the musician Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal) and artist Jill Carnes, in his singular minimalist southern low-fi sci-fi “epic”. The film’s (non)action is hauntingly punctuated with a soundtrack by Laura Carter (ElfPower), Eric Harris (The Olivia Tremor Control), Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel), Heather McIntosh (Circulatory System) and Chris Jolly himself – a virtual “who’s who” of the Athens music scene of the 1990s/early 2000s.<br /><br />The one and only 16mm print has been housed in Anthology’s collection for years now, and we’re overjoyed to have finally completed a brand-new digital restoration. To celebrate this new restoration, and the 25th anniversary of the film’s NYC debut, we’ll be presenting it in a week-long revival run alongside a program of Jolly’s (even more unknown but equally remarkable) short films!<br /><br />“In this bizarrely minimalist film, synthetic blood test-subject Bernard (Kevin Barnes) waits in a suburban motel room between injections, trying to earn enough money to realize his dream of traveling to Egypt. Unfortunately, the synthetic blood in his veins may cause him to go insane.”–MUBI<br /><br />“CURSE OF THE SEVEN JACKALS is a film that seemed to come from out of nowhere. Mostly set in the hotel room that the crew inhabited during the two-week shoot, CURSE tells the story of Bernard, a synthetic blood test patient who dreams of traveling to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. Helen, as played by the sublime non-actress Jill Carnes, is the hotel maid who takes Bernard out on the town for down-home karaoke and out-of-body bingo experiences. Like a semi-conscious sci-fi dream as directed by early Andy Warhol, filmmaker Chris Jolly’s seminal American underground feature was made with an antiquated Auricon camera that recorded the soundtrack directly on the film. As disarmingly funny as it is aesthetically challenging, CURSE stands tall as one of the last great 16mm underground features.” –Andrew Lampert<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, June 20 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61451 <p>Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie <br />PULL MY DAISY <br />1959, 28 min, 35mm<br />For this film – now considered the Beat film par excellence – Frank and Leslie enlisted the participation of Jack Kerouac, who offered in place of an original screenplay an unfinished stageplay, “The Beat Generation,” based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn. In an attempt to fit in with their suburban neighbors, the Cassadys invite a respectable neighborhood bishop over for dinner. But Neal’s Beat friends (including Allen Ginsberg) crash the party, with anarchically comic results. Though seemingly improvised, the film was in fact scripted and rehearsed, with Kerouac’s unforgettable voiceover narration mixed together from four separate takes. <br /><br />Pamela Mayo (with Barbara Rubin)<br />EMUNAH<br />1973, 18 min, 16mm-to-DCP. Digitally restored by Anthology Film Archives.<br />EMUNAH incorporates the unfinished Ginsberg portrait ALLEN FOR ALLEN, by Barbara Rubin, the legendary filmmaker (CHRISTMAS ON EARTH) and underground cultural luminary.<br />“Psychic photography in white trails on black is one of the mysteries of this film. Allen Ginsberg and friends are the characters, the continuity of life in spite of the stagnation of an oppressive society. The work includes images of Barbara Rubin, the legendary figure of the early underground film era.” –Pamela Mayo<br /><br />Nam June Paik & Shigeko Kubota<br />ALLAN ’N’ ALLEN’S COMPLAINT<br />1982, 28.5 min, video<br />“In ALLAN ‘N’ ALLEN’S COMPLAINT, the influence of Jewish fathers on their sons and the complexity of familial relationships are explored in a witty, poignant portrait of two artists. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (whose father Louis was a poet in his own right) and performance artist/sculptor Allan Kaprow (whose father is a high-powered lawyer) are the sons who struggle with and against the influences of these patriarchal figures.” –EAI<br /><br />Ai Weiwei<br />ALLEN & AI<br />1990/2026, 9.5 min, video. Produced and edited by Davo Liver & Aliah Rosenthal.<br />June 3, 1990. New York City. On his 64th birthday, Allen Ginsberg gathers a handful of friends in his downtown apartment. Among them, a young, unknown Chinese artist documents the day. His name is Ai Weiwei. The tape survives. Nothing “historic” happens and yet, everything is there.</p> <p>Total running time: ca. 90 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, June 20 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=06&year=2026#showing-61415 <p><strong>REVIVAL RUN – NEW ANTHOLOGY RESTORATION!<br /></strong><br />Awarded “Best Feature” at both the New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals, 2001.<br />Rarely seen in NYC in the 25 years since its launch at the 2001 edition of the (dearly missed) New York Underground Film Festival, CURSE OF THE SEVEN JACKALS remains the sole feature by filmmaker Chris Jolly, a veteran projectionist of the repertory film scene. Shooting with practically no budget in Athens, Georgia, Jolly cast local non-actors, including the musician Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal) and artist Jill Carnes, in his singular minimalist southern low-fi sci-fi “epic”. The film’s (non)action is hauntingly punctuated with a soundtrack by Laura Carter (ElfPower), Eric Harris (The Olivia Tremor Control), Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel), Heather McIntosh (Circulatory System) and Chris Jolly himself – a virtual “who’s who” of the Athens music scene of the 1990s/early 2000s.<br /><br />The one and only 16mm print has been housed in Anthology’s collection for years now, and we’re overjoyed to have finally completed a brand-new digital restoration. To celebrate this new restoration, and the 25th anniversary of the film’s NYC debut, we’ll be presenting it in a week-long revival run alongside a program of Jolly’s (even more unknown but equally remarkable) short films!<br /><br />“In this bizarrely minimalist film, synthetic blood test-subject Bernard (Kevin Barnes) waits in a suburban motel room between injections, trying to earn enough money to realize his dream of traveling to Egypt. Unfortunately, the synthetic blood in his veins may cause him to go insane.”–MUBI<br /><br />“CURSE OF THE SEVEN JACKALS is a film that seemed to come from out of nowhere. Mostly set in the hotel room that the crew inhabited during the two-week shoot, CURSE tells the story of Bernard, a synthetic blood test patient who dreams of traveling to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. Helen, as played by the sublime non-actress Jill Carnes, is the hotel maid who takes Bernard out on the town for down-home karaoke and out-of-body bingo experiences. Like a semi-conscious sci-fi dream as directed by early Andy Warhol, filmmaker Chris Jolly’s seminal American underground feature was made with an antiquated Auricon camera that recorded the soundtrack directly on the film. As disarmingly funny as it is aesthetically challenging, CURSE stands tall as one of the last great 16mm underground features.” –Andrew Lampert<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, June 20