Anthology Film Archives 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. The film
Anthology's 2nd Avenue building
Jonas Mekas, co-founder of Anthology Film Archives
Maya Deren was a Russian-born American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, write
Deren in the film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), her debut