Collections / Overview
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Don’t miss out! Subscribe to our weekly mailing of screenings and events.Anthology Film Archives may be best known to the public at large for our film exhibition program, but our extensive archival collections represent a crucially important part of our activities and mission. Anthology holds one of the world’s most extensive and invaluable collections of avant-garde movies, housing, protecting, and preserving works on 35mm, 16mm, and Regular- and Super-8mm film, and on various video formats, as well as film stills and audio recordings. And Anthology’s reference library boasts the world’s largest collection of paper materials relating to independent and experimental cinema, encompassing books, periodicals, documents, letters, manuscripts, and more. Taken together, these collections constitute an unparalleled treasure-trove of materials relating to avant-garde filmmaking, qualifying Anthology as one of the most important centers for the preservation and study of this realm of cinema.
It is our goal to place as many of the materials online as possible; we will be launching a dedicated Library section soon. For now we present a few video and audio selections from our collections.
