New York City has a rich history of short-lived, unorthodox screening venues and societies that have buoyed the underground film movement along from its beginning. For some examples, in the 1960s, there was Jonas Mekas‘s Film-makers’ Cinematheque; while the late ’70s had Eric Mitchell and James Nares’s New Cinema.
In 1998, Brian L. Frye was a transplant from San Francisco looking to open a new microcinema in NYC, having been inspired by Craig Baldwin‘s Other Cinema at Artists Television Access and David Sherman and Rebecca Barten’s Total Mobile Home. Despite not having a venue to call his own, Frye came to an agreement with the alternative performance space Collective Unconscious at 145 Ludlow Street in the Lower East Side to screen films on Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. (Collective Unconscious formed in 1993 originally at 28 Avenue B, until a fire a year later forced them to relocate to Ludlow Street.
In 1998, Brian L. Frye was a transplant from San Francisco looking to open a new microcinema in NYC, having been inspired by Craig Baldwin‘s Other Cinema at Artists Television Access and David Sherman and Rebecca Barten’s Total Mobile Home. Despite not having a venue to call his own, Frye came to an agreement with the alternative performance space Collective Unconscious at 145 Ludlow Street in the Lower East Side to screen films on Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. (Collective Unconscious formed in 1993 originally at 28 Avenue B, until a fire a year later forced them to relocate to Ludlow Street.
- 1/28/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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