Anthology Film ARchives

Anthology Film Archives, founded in 1970, is an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema. We screen more than 900 programs annually, preserve an average of 25 films per year with over 1,000 works preserved to date, and house a reference library containing the world’s largest collection of books, periodicals, stills, and other paper materials related to avant-garde film.

Fueled by the conviction that the index of a culture’s health and vibrancy lies largely in its margins, in those works of art that are created outside the commercial mainstream, Anthology strives to advance the cause and protect the heritage of a kind of cinema that is in particular danger of being lost, overlooked, or ignored.

  • Anthology's current home was built as the Second Avenue Courthouse, and later was used by organizations including Bread and Puppet Theater and the Millennium Film Workshop. Many films have been shot in the building, including Robert Downey's Chafed Elbows, Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, Robert Kramer's Ice, Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2, and many others.

    Architect David Rockwell designed the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, which opened in 2011, and presents cinema programming and events year-round.

  • B&H Dairy and the Ukrainian National Home