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Your involvement at this time is critically important, both to Anthology and to the films you will help to save through your support. There are many ways you can participate, ranging from a variety of membership opportunities to more specialized contribution packages. Please see the information below for details on how you can support Anthology Film Archives.
Membership allows you to attend all Essential Cinema programs at no charge and all Anthology programs at our discounted $5 rate. In addition, members may reserve tickets (up to 2) by calling the box office, and are invited to attend special Members Only screenings. (Students and seniors can purchase a discounted membership for $30 at the Box Office with a valid student ID/identification card; email wendyATanthologyfilmarchivesDOTorg or call 212-505-5181×13 for more info.)
One-Year Membership: $50
Contributor Membership: $100
Benefits of above, including ticket discounts for a guest.
Donor Membership: $250
Allows you to attend all Anthology programs at no cost, as well as attend Donor screenings of recently preserved works in the presence of the filmmakers. Recent preservation projects include works by Storm DeHirsch, Bruce Conner, Wallace Berman, Taylor Mead, George and Mike Kuchar, Larry Jordan.
Preservation Donor: $1,000
Includes privileges of Donor Membership as well as seat plate engraved with your name, and special acknowledgment at our annual Preservation Honors dinner.
Archival Donor: $3,000
Includes privileges of Donor Membership, seat plaque and your own personal copy of limited edition 16mm Stan Brakhage film, 4A.
By mail:
To become a member, please download and print the membership application form to send with your check to:
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Anthology Film Archives was conceived as a unique theater where a select group of films — chosen by a panel of poets, scholars and film-makers — was presented to the public, on a repeating basis, quickly becoming one of the first “cinema museums.” Each of the three hundred films in our Essential Cinema collection either marks a milestone in the evolution of cinema or a special achievement of personal expression. They are monuments of cinematic art.Anthology has also saved tens of thousands of films from disposal and disintegration, principally by housing materials in our historic East Village Courthouse building. We have been steadfastly committed to the preservation and exhibition of work by the most important American independent and experimental filmmakers of the last half-century.Films preserved by Anthology include those of Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell, Maya Deren, Bruce Baillie, Jordan Belson, Paul Sharits and Harry Smith, among others. We also provide a space for the presentation of a vast array of contemporary and classical work that otherwise has limited exposure. For us, the value of cinematic art is always realized through a combination of presentation and preservation; restricting efforts to one or the other can only lead to disappearance. Because of this, our ongoing development is geared to refining both our archival and exhibition spaces.
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