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A Basement Films hosted event with local music opening the night, Unessential Cinema presents: From the vast basement and back alley of New York City’s Anthology Film Archives comes this panoramic journey through the very bowels of one of America’s foremost film dumping grounds. Founded in 1968 by critic and filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Anthology is an international center for the preservation, promotion and presentation of experimental, independent and avant-garde cinema. While Anthology has preserved hundreds of rare and classic films, very few know about the literally thousands of long unseen gems and incomplete productions that have been collected from trash cans, widowers, deceased laboratories and total weirdos. Please come join Basement Films alumni Emily Davis and Anthology dude Andrew Lampert for an evening-length tour of unearthed reels from our world-renowned basement. Possible titles may include: Founded in 1968 by filmmaker Jonas Mekas, New York City¹s Anthology Film Archives is a not-for-profit cinema museum dedicated to the preservation, promotion and projection of experimental, avant-garde film and video. Anthology¹s collection contains more than 20,000 films, 5,000 videos and a library containing more than one million documents. Anthology also operates a 2-screen theater that presents more than 900 programs annually. To date, Anthology has preserved more than 700 rare and unique films and continues to do so at a rate of 25-30 titles per year. In addition to these acknowledged masterpieces, Anthology has a heaping collection of unfinished, unknown, unwanted and unnecessary films that have been forgotten by both their makers and time itself. This collection is known as The Unessential Cinema. As previously mentioned, Andrew Lampert & Emily Davis from the Anthology Archiving Department will be in person for talk and Q&A!
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