Photo by Ion Chibzii, 2011.
Photo by Ion Chibzii, 2011.
Film-Makers Cooperative

The Film-Makers' Cooperative series of radio conversations with filmmakers, musicians, writers, critics, and cinephiles provides a platform for active members of the community to express their views and visions on the past, present, and future of experimental and underground cinema. The series delivers a kaleidoscopic overview of auteurs both American and international, who are involved with cinema not for any personal or financial gain, but from a passion for the art of the moving image. Interviews highlight major figures in the history of underground cinema, as well as a driving forces in its current moment.

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Originally aired on Monday, May 12th, 2008
MM Serra interviews Takahiko Iimura.Read More
Originally aired on Monday, March 17th, 2008
Filmmaker and Film-Makers' Cooperative director MM Serra interviews Michael Snow.Read More
Originally aired on Monday, March 17th, 2008
The panel was recorded by Art Radio WPS1 on March 1, 2008, as part of the live event series for WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. With guests Carolee Schneemann, Peggy Ahwesh, Ara...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, November 5th, 2007
Filmmaker and Film-Coop director MM Serra interviews Peggy Ahwesh. Ahwesh's films combine narrative and documentary styles, improvised performance, Super-8 film, found footage, digital animation, and Pixelvision video....Read More
Originally aired on Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Mike Kuchar is a pioneer in the creation of underground cinema in New York City, along with his twin brother, George. He is the creator of a huge wealth of 8mm, 16mm, and video works, including his classic Sins of the...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, August 20th, 2007
Film-Makers' Cooperative director MM Serra in conversation with filmmaker Jennifer Reeves, whose works utilize complex optical-printing and animation techniques (45 minutes).Read More
Originally aired on Monday, June 25th, 2007
Filmmaker and director of the the Film-Makers' Cooperative M.M. Serra sits down with two essential activists from the world of film:

Ed Halter is a curator of film and media and a frequent contributor to...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, April 16th, 2007
Lynne Sachs, Bradley Eros, and MM Serra discuss the world of the Film-makers' Cooperative in advance of its 46th Anniversary Benefit at New York City's Angel Orensanz Center on Monday April 23rd, 2007. Special guests...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, January 15th, 2007
Filmmaker, artist, and theoretician Peter Kubelka in conversation with experimental film and videomaker MM Serra.

Kubelka's short works helped characterize and define the European and experimental...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, May 1st, 2006

For the 45th anniversary of the Film-makers' Cooperative, the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world, Jonas Mekas talked with MM Serra about events ithat help forge his New America Cinema movement.

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Originally aired on Monday, May 1st, 2006
In honor or the 45th anniversary of the Film-makers' Cooperative, the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world, Jonas Mekas, who founded the Coop with twenty-plus other...Read More
Originally aired on Monday, September 26th, 2005
WPS1's David Weinstein hosts a discussion with Film Co-op Executive Director MM Serra, composer Philip Glass and filmmaker Bill Morrison about the task of film preservation, archiving the avant garde, and the unique...Read More
Originally aired on Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
Multidisciplinary artist (and pioneer of the form) Carolee Schneemann, has elevated the discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender through her work and life. She was a full participant, and a courageous one, in the...Read More
Originally aired on Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
Film-Makers' Cooperative director and filmmaker MM Serra interviews the legendary American avant garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs. Ken Jacobs has been a central figure in experimental cinema since his beginnings in the 1960's...Read More
MM Serra interviews Joel Schlemowitz on Film-Makers' Cooperative.Read More
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