The Film-Makers' Cooperative

The film - makers ' Cooperative is a company incorporated in New York City in 1962 and an independent non-commercial organization of filmmakers, which serves the purpose of dissemination of film art. Your seat it has in the Leonard Street in Manhattan.

Founded as the cooperative of Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke and more than 20 other film artists, after 1960 experimental filmmaker had met in New York in the year to form themselves into a separate organization. The New American Cinema Group met under Mekas ' chairmanship of the episode monthly to implement their vision of a non-commercial, uncensored avant-garde cinema in the act. In particular, the distribution presented a problem that needed to be solved. Since only the profit stood at the existing organizations in the foreground, the solution could only exist in a self-organized distribution.

The founding members were, among others, Stan Vanderbeek, Ron Rice, Rudy Burckhardt, Jack Smith, Lloyd Williams, Robert Breer, David Brooks, Ken Jacobs, Gregory Markopoulos, Ray Wisniweski, Doc Humes and Robert Downey senior.

Today, the Coop has more than 12000 movies and videos, of which 5000 awarded to those interested world.