Initiated amid the flowering of artisanal cinema in 1960s New York and continuing uninterrupted until today, the moving-image careers of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler are among the most captivating in film history. Their art, driven by the quest for a humanely lyrical cinema, transfigures ordinary surroundings into intimate glimpses of transcendence and offers audiences the experience of vision as an open form of poetry.

Four Parts of a Folding Screen + Fenster + a spoon

Shot in Berlin, Four Parts of a Folding Screen explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime. In part, centred around objects, this programme also includes two short films: Peter Todd's a spoon and Anthea Kennedy & Ian Wiblin’s Fenster. The filmmakers will be in conversation with Gareth Evans after the screening.

The 11th Annual New Year/New Work Festival

Two Nights of New Work by FMC Members for a selection of exciting new works by filmmakers in our collection! Playing at the Film-Makers' Cooperative - Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Tuesday, April 23rd, and Thursday, April 25th, at 7pm,

Program 1: Exploding the Eye/"I" (April 23rd)

A tribute afternoon in memory of Shirouyasu Suzuki, to celebrate his work in almost half a century behind the camera and to reconnect with the films made by his son Nonoho Suzuki and his son's wife Yuri Muraoka.