Anthology Film Archives

Film Screenings / Programs / Retrospectives

BRADLEY EROS: HẎSTÉRY IN EVERY MEDIA

November 7 – November 9

November 7-9, 2025

This fall, Anthology celebrates the moving-image work of the one and only Bradley Eros, who for the past 50 years has been one of the presiding spirits of downtown NYC underground culture. Eros’s contributions to the experimental film community have been as unquantifiable as they are enormous. Above and beyond his visible production as a filmmaker, artist, and curator – not to mention as a longtime staff member of Anthology, where he has played a crucial role in sustaining the institution, both practically and philosophically – he has played the more invisible role of catalyzing agent, inspiring generations of experimental filmmakers with his boundless energy, enthusiasm, creativity, inventiveness, and knowledge, and his radically welcoming spirit.

In the wake of his recent exhibition at Microscope Gallery, we present three programs surveying his film, video, and expanded cinema work, including his collaborations with Aline Mare, Jeanne Liotta, and many other collaborators past and present. In keeping with Eros’s gleefully multimedia approach, the screenings will encompass films, digital works, projector performances, slideshows, and more!

“Bradley Eros is a mediamystic maverick, who prefers the night & the perfume of eau de cinema. Eros is an artist-catalyst actively involved in diverse aspects of the New York underground, working with myriad media – experimental film & video, collage, photography, poetry, performance, sound, text, installation, expanded & contracted cinema – as well as a curator, designer, researcher, composer & investigator. Concepts include: Mediamystics, Optipus, ephemeral cinema, Erotic Psyche, subterranean science, Vampÿrates, Mushroom Archive, Ocula, cinema povera, metaBody, poetic accidents, fragmentstein, musique plastique, Oysters of the Id, Narcolepsy Cinema, Artaud-Butoh, The Owl of Minerva, Velvet Hermetic System, Imageless Film & Black Hole Cinema.” –Bradley Eros

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