Anthology Film Archives

Anthology Film Archives is a company founded by filmmakers and collectors independent museum preservation, exhibition and study of cinema. Its headquarters are in New York City.

Has its origins until today unique institution in the early 1960s, when Jonas Mekas, the current experimental films showed in his Film-Makers ' Cinematheque, developed the plan to become permanent for regular screenings and a focal point for filmmakers. 1969 took the plans to concrete form, as Mekas, along with Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka, and Stan Brakhage a museum for cinematography designed that should focus exclusively on the avant-garde cinema. An organizing committee consisting of Mekas, Kubelka, Adams Sitney, James Broughton, Ken Kelman and joined together to make a representative selection of film works of art ( The Essential Cinema Repertory ).

On November 30, 1970 Anthology Film Archives opened its doors in Joseph Papp's Public Theater in 1974 production was moved to the Wooster Street, and finally they found the final location in 1979 in the Second Avenue of Manhattan, where you acquired a former courthouse. The house now has two projection rooms, a specialized library and a restoration workshop.

The Library was designed in 1998 by the architect Raimund Abraham österreichischstämmigen.