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, 18 Oct 2026 18:05:50 -0400 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61917 <p>(STAROYE I NOVOYE)<br /><br />With OLD AND NEW, also known as THE GENERAL LINE, Eisenstein developed and perfected his theories of “mise-en-cadre,” using the montage of characters in the foreground and background to conjure meanings, and “overtonal montage,” bringing silent film to its zenith.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 18 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62019 <p>James Broughton, prolific poet-filmmaker and member of Anthology’s own Essential Cinema Selection Committee, was one of many Bay Area experimental filmmakers whose work was distributed by the Multi-Media Resource Center. Generally advertised in the “Erotic Fantasy” section of the distributor’s catalogs, Broughton’s films were recontextualized by their inclusion, their sensuality and spirituality understood as components of a holistic understanding of sexuality for the sex educator or therapist. In this special edition of Anthology’s Broughton Essential Cinema program, three characteristic works of the filmmaker’s late 60s-early 70s output are preceded by a very special entry in the National Sex Forum filmography, in which Broughton himself is bathed and massaged by erotic masseur Kenneth Ray Stubbs.<br /><br />Laird Sutton JAMES (1979, 10 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />James Broughton THE BED (1968, 19 min, 16mm)<br />James Broughton NUPTIAE (1969, 14 min, 16mm)<br />James Broughton THE GOLDEN POSITIONS (1970, 32 min, 16mm)<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 80 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 18 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61918 <p>(OKTYABR)<br /><br />“An imaginary document projected on actual locations, OCTOBER is the Soviet equivalent of the Sistine Chapel – an artist commissioned by the state has represented the sacred origins of the universe. Woodrow Wilson had famously hailed D.W. Griffith’s THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) as ‘history written with lightning,’ but Eisenstein’s cosmic newsreel cum theoretical film poem goes beyond THE BIRTH OF A NATION, as well as his own BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN, in drafting the past to serve the requirements of the present. No less than the revolutionaries who made October, Eisenstein understood himself as history’s tool. Thus consecrated to the Bolshevik faith, his OCTOBER is a perfect tautology – it clarifies and improves on history in the service of objective historical necessity.” –J. Hoberman, THE RED ATLANTIS: COMMUNIST CULTURE IN THE ABSENCE OF COMMUNISM<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 18 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62021 <p>EROTIC FANTASY: BEESON AND BEYOND<br /><br />While the bulk of the National Sex Forum’s (NSF) in-house productions were directed by Laird Sutton, a Methodist minister like co-founder Ted McIlvenna, the organization’s more experimental output was mostly helmed by Constance (or Coni) Beeson. A photojournalist-turned-filmmaker, Beeson’s films on women’s sexuality were cited as inspirations by her contemporary Barbara Hammer. In this program, presented in chronological order, three Beeson films produced for the NSF, each depicting sexual encounters layered in double-exposure and pastoral imagery, are bookended by classic works of expressive erotic cinema that, though not distributed by the Multi-Media Resource Center, would be at home in its catalogs.<br /><br />José Rodriguez-Soltero JEROVI (1965, 11 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.)<br />Coni Beeson THE NOW (1970, 14 min, 16mm)<br />Coni Beeson HOLDING (1971, 15 min, 16mm)<br />Coni Beeson STAMEN (1972, 15 min, 16mm)<br />Chick Strand FEVER DREAM (1979, 7 min, 16mm)<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> Sunday, October 18 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62023 <p>The majority of Laird Sutton’s work for the National Sex Forum (NSF) consisted of “pattern films,” so termed for their portrayal of a real couple’s (or individual’s, or group’s) sexual pattern. According to a 1979 NSF brochure, “actors are not used in these films; the participants are ordinary people behaving and responding sexually as they usually do…. The persons to be filmed are interviewed about their sexual patterns. Once sexual activity commences, no directions are given. Every effort is made to allow the individuals to feel at ease.” Reflecting their use in structured therapeutic sessions, this selection of pattern films is preceded by a short from the Multi-Media Resource Center’s “Humor and Mood Alteration” collection, meant to dispel unease ahead of these candid portraits.<br /><br />Greg Von Buchau LOVE TOAD (1971, 2 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />Laird Sutton POSSIBILITIES (1973, 12 min, 16mm)<br />Laird Sutton QUIET AFTERNOON (1975, 20 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />Edd Dundas NICK AND JON (1976, 20 min, 16mm)<br />Laird Sutton BOTH/AND (1975, 25 min, 16mm)<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> Monday, October 19 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62025 <p>The majority of Laird Sutton’s work for the National Sex Forum (NSF) consisted of “pattern films,” so termed for their portrayal of a real couple’s (or individual’s, or group’s) sexual pattern. According to a 1979 NSF brochure, “actors are not used in these films; the participants are ordinary people behaving and responding sexually as they usually do…The persons to be filmed are interviewed about their sexual patterns. Once sexual activity commences, no directions are given. Every effort is made to allow the individuals to feel at ease.” Reflecting their use in structured therapeutic sessions, this selection of pattern films is preceded by a short from the Multi-Media Resource Center’s “Humor and Mood Alteration” collection, meant to dispel unease ahead of these candid portraits.<br /><br />Laird Sutton & Bill Chamberlain TITLES AVAILABLE (1972, 7 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />Laird Sutton FULLNESS (1975, 13 min, 16mm)<br />Ann Hershey WE ARE OURSELVES (1975, 15 min, 16mm)<br />Laird Sutton JIM & VERN (1979, 15 min, 16mm)<br />Laird Sutton A RIPPLE IN TIME (1975, 20 min, 16mm)<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> <br /><br />Introduced by documentary filmmaker Robert James.</p> Tuesday, October 20 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62158 <p>(IVAN GROZNY)<br /><br />“The first time in history a man has committed suicide by cinema,” quipped Dovzhenko. A state-sanctioned production, Ivan’s opulent furs and jewels color the black-and-white machinations by a demonic Czar bent on making his subjects’ lives a living hell – a statement pointed with outrage directly at Stalin.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, October 21 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61994 <p>Rosalyn Drexler (1926-2025) was a category-defying creative force. Over the course of her multidecade career, she worked as a painter (creating some of the first examples of Pop art), a novelist, an Obie-award-winning playwright, a film critic, an occasional nightclub singer, and briefly, a professional wrestler.<br /><br />The documentary WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? (1975) provides a window into Drexler’s extraordinary creative universe. Set against the backdrop of the lost artistic demimonde of 20th-century New York, the film – directed by Patricia Lewis Jaffe and Gaby Rodgers – shows the artist rehearsing her madcap cabaret performances, cooking for her family in her art-strewn Manhattan apartment, and speaking candidly about her art, writing, and life. As Newsweek critic Jack Kroll remarks in the film, “[Drexler’s] essential insight is that people and things are completely insane, and she speaks from inside the whale.”<br /><br />The documentary will be accompanied by never-before-seen home movies shot by Drexler and her husband Sherman in the 1940-50s, as well as a panel discussion. The screening coincides with a major exhibition of her work from the 1960s at Garth Greenan Gallery at 25 Greene Street; for more info about the exhibition visit: https://www.garthgreenan.com/ <br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Thursday, October 22 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62028 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, October 23 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62031 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 24 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62000 <p>Formed in late 1964 by Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, alongside drummer Ken Weaver – anarchic East Village beat poets who could barely play their instruments – The Fugs are credited as the first true underground band. Their lo-fi folk music could be challenging and weird but they had a knack for catchy pop songs, such as “Supergirl” and ‘Slum Goddess”. One of the most crucial figures in countercultural history, Sanders founded the Peace Eye bookstore and the arts journal “F*** You: A Magazine of the Arts”, and, among other late-1960s antics, attempted to levitate the Pentagon and staged a funeral for flower power in San Francisco. Chuck Smith’s vital documentary features eye-popping archival footage and interviews with Sanders, Aline & R. Crumb, Lenny Kaye, Penny Arcade, Jeffrey Lewis, and many others, to tell the story of NYC’s original punks.<br /><br /><strong>The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Penny Arcade, Steven Taylor and other participants from the film!</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 24 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62033 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 24 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62002 <p>With Anne Waldman. Producer: Sarah Riggs; Executive Producer: Martin Scorsese.<br /><br />Poet/filmmaker Alystyre Julian’s OUTRIDER is a kinetic portal into fast-speaking poet Anne Waldman’s transcendent role as a visionary word-worker, from her “hearthome” in Greenwich Village and The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, to the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and outwards to Big Sur, Morocco, and Mexico. OUTRIDER is a portal to her path of imagination, her vow to poetry and activism, and her vortex of artists/collaborators: Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Thurston Moore, Meredith Monk, Allen Ginsberg, Laurie Anderson, Douglas Dunn, Eileen Myles, Amiri Baraka, James Brandon Lewis, Cecilia Vicuña, Pat Steir, Ha-Yang Kim, Daniel Carter, Eleni Sikelianos, Bob Holman, Janice Lowe, No Land, Akilah Oliver, Lee Ann Brown, Brenda Coultas, and many others. Guided by ancestors of the Beat generation and poetic kinships with radical female musicians, OUTRIDER channels the ancient, bardic tradition – celebrating the thunderous power of poetry.<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Richard Levine AFTER BASHŌ 2026, 8 min, DCP<br />Twenty haikus by Bob Holman – written while he was following “A Narrow Path Into the Interior,” the walk that Japan’s National Poet, Matsuo Bashō, took in 1689 – are the starting point of this animated collaboration by filmmaker Richard Levine, musician Phillip Johnston, and poet Bob Holman. The poems originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine.<br /><br /><strong>Followed by a Q&A with Alystyre Julian & Anne Waldman!</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 24 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62035 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 24 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62038 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 25 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62004 <p>IN THE MOMENT features charismatic poets and musicians who are masters of the art of improvisation, dueling with one another and commenting on the meaning of these traditions and of life itself in improvised rhymes. The film introduces viewers to payadores, emboladores, decimistas, band bertsolari poets, as well as freestyle rap. The poets hail from Argentina, Canary Islands, Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Trinidad, the Basque region of Spain, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and the U.S.<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Richard Levine AFTER BASHŌ 2026, 8 min, DCP<br />Twenty haikus by Bob Holman – written while he was following “A Narrow Path Into the Interior,” the walk that Japan’s National Poet, Matsuo Bashō, took in 1689 – are the starting point of this animated collaboration by filmmaker Richard Levine, musician Phillip Johnston, and poet Bob Holman. The poems originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine.<br /><br /><strong>Followed by Q & A with Steve Zeitlin and Amanda Dargan!</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 25 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62040 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 25 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62006 <p>AZUL is a documentary about the poetic soul of Nicaragua. Twenty-four poems interweave with interviews to create a narrative of Nicaragua’s poetry and the historical contexts and individuals who formed it. With poems from the creator of Modernismo, Rubén Darío, to Ernesto Cardenal, Carlos Rigby, and Gioconda Belli, to people reciting spontaneously in the street and soldiers workshopping poems on the frontlines, AZUL reveals a nation alive with the creative spirit and a profound belief in poetry as a crucible for change and expression. Originally filmed during the height of the Contra War, the film has been restored digitally.<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Richard Levine AFTER BASHŌ 2026, 8 min, DCP<br />Twenty haikus by Bob Holman – written while he was following “A Narrow Path Into the Interior,” the walk that Japan’s National Poet, Matsuo Bashō, took in 1689 – are the starting point of this animated collaboration by filmmaker Richard Levine, musician Phillip Johnston, and poet Bob Holman. The poems originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine.<br /><br /><strong>Followed by a Q&A with co-producer and editor Joanna Kiernan!</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 25 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62043 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 25 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62046 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Monday, October 26 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62049 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Monday, October 26 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62051 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Tuesday, October 27 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62054 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Tuesday, October 27 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62056 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, October 28 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61979 <p>Basilio is hired to watch over a remote beach on Mexico's Baja California coast, a seemingly idyllic stretch of shoreline where little appears to happen. But beneath the tranquil surface lies a community governed by its own codes, where illicit activities coexist with everyday life. Guided by an unwavering moral compass, Basilio is determined to do what he believes is right – only to discover that justice is far more elusive than he imagined. Set against a breathtaking coastal landscape, EL GUARDIÁN, the striking fiction debut by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Nuria Ibáñez (THE NAKED ROOM, A WILD STREAM), is a gripping and quietly unsettling meditation on ethics, belonging, and the fragile boundaries between duty and survival.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, October 28 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62059 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, October 28 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61920 <p>(LA CHUTE DE LA MAISON USHER)<br /><br />Epstein deploys slow-motion, intricate lighting, and stylized sets to create an atmosphere of doom in this famous avant-garde expressionist Poe adaptation (combining both the eponymous tale and another Poe story, “The Oval Portrait”). Starring Marguerite Gance, wife of French director Abel Gance, it was also made with the participation of a young Luis Buñuel, who served as Epstein’s second assistant.<br /><br />“Since the French Impressionist school has always considered the cinema to be like a visual symphony, we might call this film by Epstein the cinematic equivalent of Debussy’s works.” –Henri Langlois<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Jean Epstein<br />THE THREE-SIDED MIRROR / LA GLACE À TROIS FACES<br />(1927, 38 min, 35mm. French intertitles with English voiceover.)<br />“[Epstein’s] dependence on the close-up, his obsession with the totemic power of the object, his freewheeling mastery of cutting, variation of camera speed, and trust in the interpretive abilities of the audience, all come to a head with THE THREE-SIDED MIRROR. The fractured narrative follows the relations of three separate women…with a handsome, stylish, affluent young man. In the course of the film, he breaks an engagement with each of them in turn, tooling off in a sports car to his eventual demise.” –Brad Weismann, SENSES OF CINEMA</p> <p><strong><strong><strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr">CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</a></strong></strong></strong></p> Thursday, October 29 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62061 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Thursday, October 29 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61921 <p>Flaherty’s pioneering ethnographic film depicts the struggle for survival of Inuit hunter Nanook and his family. Though rife with staged scenes, anachronisms, and an indulgence in the myth of the “noble savage” (Nanook was in fact an Inuit man named Allakariallak, who hunted not with harpoons and spears but with a rifle), NANOOK OF THE NORTH is a work of great lyricism, simplicity of design, and genuine affection for its protagonists, and its force is undiminished almost 100 years after it was made.</p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, October 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62036 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, October 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61922 <p>Flaherty’s third major film portrays the lives of a family of fisher folk on the Aran Islands off the coast of Galway, Ireland. Flaherty selected the location and subjects because of their isolation as the westernmost outpost of European civilization. In addition, the daily struggle between the islanders and the sea perfectly suited his interests and concerns. The scenes at sea are breathtaking.<br /><br />“His passionate devotion to the portrayal of human gesture and of a man’s fight for his family makes the film an incomparable account of human dignity. Better than anyone, Flaherty knew how to show the true face of Man.” –Georges Sadoul</p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, October 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62029 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, October 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62041 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61923 <p>ZORNS LEMMA<br />(1970, 60 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)<br />“A major poetic work. Created and put together by a very clear eye-head, this original and complex abstract work moves beyond the letters of the alphabet, beyond words and beyond Freud. If you don’t understand it the first time you see it, don’t despair, see it again! When you finally ‘get it,’ a small light, possibly a candle, will light itself inside your forehead.” –Ernie Gehr<br />&<br />HAPAX LEGOMENA I: (nostalgia)<br />(1971, 36 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives, MoMA, and the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation.)<br />“In (nostalgia) the time it takes for a photograph to burn (and thus confirm its two-dimensionality) becomes the clock within the film, while Frampton plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating, mythologizing his earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them both to the fire of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of his earlier masters, and he grins behind the facades of logic, mathematics, and physical demonstrations which are the formal metaphors for most of Frampton’s films.” –P. Adams Sitney<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 100 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62044 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61924 <p>Georges Franju<br />BLOOD OF THE BEASTS / LE SANG DES BÊTES<br />1949, 20 min, 16mm. In French with English subtitles.<br />“This documentary on the slaughterhouses of Paris is one of the great masterpieces of the subversive cinema; here, for once, we are face to face with death, and are neither protected nor cheated. […] A dream-like quality permeates the intense realism of the images; a surrealist intent – akin to Buñuel’s slitting of the eyeball in UN CHIEN ANDALOU – is discernible in this anti-bourgeois film. But the eyeball, however shocking, was fictional; BLOOD OF THE BEASTS is real.” –Amos Vogel, FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART<br /><br />Jean Genet<br />UN CHANT D’AMOUR<br />1950, 26 min, 35mm, silent. <strong>Brand-new 35mm print by Anthology!</strong><br />“Genet’s only film – hounded by the censors, unavailable, secret – is an early and remarkably moving attempt to portray homosexual passions. Already a classic, it succeeds as perhaps no other film to intimate the explosive power of frustrated sex…. Like all Genet’s early work, the entire film is, in effect, a single onanistic fantasy, filled with desperate frustration and sensuous nostalgia.” –Amos Vogel, FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART<br />“There’s no smoke without fire; UN CHANT D’AMOUR is a communion in which Genet takes us into the prison in order to liberate us from it.” –Derek Jarman<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 50 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62047 <p><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 31