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12-580: The New York Underground Film Festival was an annual event that occurred each March at Anthology Film Archives in New York City from 1994 through 2008. It was founded by filmmakers Todd Phillips ( Road Trip , Old School ) and Andrew Gurland. After Phillips and Gurland turned the festival over to programmer Ed Halter , it became noted for documentary and experimental film programming, and occasionally courted controversy, particularly in its early years. Some of these have included: premiering

24-462: A particular focus on independent , experimental , and avant-garde cinema. The film archive and theater is located at 32 Second Avenue on the southeast corner of East 2nd Street, in a New York City historic district in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan . Anthology Film Archives evolved from roots and visions that date from the early 1960s, when Lithuanian artist Jonas Mekas ,

36-506: A popular weekly series having screened many thousands of documentary, short, and feature films. Anthology Film Archives screens nearly 1,000 public programs annually; features weekly in-person appearances by artists with their work; and publishes historical and scholarly books and catalogs. Anthology maintains an invaluable collection of approximately 20,000 films and 5,000 videotapes and preserves 25-35 films each year with more than 900 titles preserved to date. Anthology's research library holds

48-653: The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) documentary Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys in 1994; premiering a film in 1995 that accused Quentin Tarantino of plagiarism; being protested by Reverend Fred Phelps in 2002 (apparently for not choosing to show a film about Phelps); and premiering a theatrical version of Brad Neely 's Harry Potter parody Wizard People, Dear Reader , which eventually led to action by Warner Brothers to suppress future theatrical performances of

60-842: The building became a youth center for the Police Athletic League . After 1948, the building was known as the Lower Manhattan Magistrate's Courthouse . The building lies within the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District , designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2012. In the 2004 film Spider-Man 2 , the Anthology Film Archives building was used as

72-467: The founder and director of the Film-makers’ Cinematheque, a showcase for avant-garde films, dreamed of establishing a permanent home where the growing number of new independent and avant-garde films could be shown on a regular basis. This dream became a reality in 1969 when Jerome Hill , P. Adams Sitney , Peter Kubelka , Stan Brakhage , and Mekas drew up plans to create a museum dedicated to

84-527: The need for more adequate space, it acquired its present home, a former municipal courthouse , in 1979. Under the guidance of the architects Raimund Abraham and Kevin Bone and at a cost of $ 1,450,000, the building was adapted to house two motion picture theaters, a reference library , a film preservation department, offices, and a gallery, opening to the public on October 12, 1988. In 1998, New York University film students began NewFilmmakers, which became

96-412: The torch to a younger generation—as has been the tradition—the 15th festival would be the last. Instead two of the former organizers intend to create a new festival under the name Migrating Forms (taking the name from a film by James Fotopoulos ). Anthology Film Archives Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation , study , and exhibition of film and video, with

108-563: The vision of the art of cinema as guided by the avant-garde sensibility. A Film Selection committee – James Broughton , Ken Kelman , Kubelka, Mekas, and Sitney – was formed to establish a definitive collection of films (The Essential Cinema Repertory) and to determine the structure of the new institution. Anthology opened on November 30, 1970, at Joseph Papp's Public Theater with Jerome Hill as its sponsor. After Hill's death in 1974, Anthology relocated to 80 Wooster Street in SoHo . Pressed by

120-458: The work. Nevertheless, though the festival has remained a small affair, and has little value as a market, its programming has attained a certain prestige, especially among younger or more experimental filmmakers. The first year showcased the work of independent animator Bill Plympton . The New York Times described the event "as a collection of love and independence". In February 2008 the festival organizers announced that, instead of passing on

132-439: The world's largest collection of paper materials documenting the history of American and international film and video as art, and is accessed weekly by students, scholars, researchers, writers, artists, and curators. Manhattan Third District Magistrate's Courthouse and Jail , aka New Essex Market Courthouse , at 32 Second Avenue (aka 43-45 East 2nd Street), opened on April 30, 1919. The three-story brick and terra cotta building

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144-520: Was designed in the Renaissance Revival style by Alfred Hopkins , author of a book on prison construction. The design replaced a more ambitious 1913 plan for a 14-story municipal tower. One of the most notorious gang murders in a neighborhood then notorious for its gangs occurred outside the courthouse doors on August 28, 1923, when "Kid Dropper" was assassinated by gunman Louis Cohen . The court relocated after February 1946, and

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