Anthology Film Archives

Anthology Film Archives is a major center for independent, noncommercial and avant-garde cinema. The organization maintains and operates an internationally recognized facility for the physical preservation, exhibition and study of essential works of film and video art. In addition to its film preservation and public screening programs, the organization offers in-person artist appearances, lectures, tours and seminars for the public and visiting school groups; publishes program catalogs and books of scholarly research; and maintains an extensive research library that serves students, scholars and writers associated with universities, museums, Archives and cinemas across the country and abroad. The organization's primary activities are to exhibit a broad program of historic and contemporary cinema; to preserve its own vast collection of rare and unique artist-made films; and to collect and publish documentation in this field.