Museum of Moving Image 

• “Advances the understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media by presenting exhibitions, education programs, significant moving-image works, and interpretive programs, and collecting and preserving moving-image related artifacts.”

• Screenings of classics, experimental new films, exhibitions featuring real props and artifacts from auteurs’ films as well as others relating to new media, educational opportunities for different age groups. One of the most popular film museums in the city.

 

Metrograph

• “An independent movie theater at 7 Ludlow that focuses on premieres, rare archival screenings (35mm and digital), and special Q&As, for a wide spectrum of audiences, filmmakers, and communities. Metrograph NYC includes an on-site restaurant and a bookstore. Est 2016”

• Theater screening many avant garde classics, arthouse cinema for sure. Website also features a film journal. Standard tickets run $17 and member tickets $10. Annual membership is $50. 

 

Film Forum

• “An alternative screening space for independent films with as many as 250,000 annual admissions, 500 seats and 50 employees”

• Another very fun very indie arthouse cinema. Began in 1970, lots of historic theatre here. Tickets run $11-15 ($11 with student ID card). 

 

Anthology Film Archives

• “an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema.”

• Theatre with daily screenings. Also home to one of the world’s most extensive collections of avant-garde films. Often holds events including panels and arena discussions with working filmmakers. 

 

IFC Center

• “the ultimate entertainment space for New Yorkers seeking out the best in independent film”

• Screens theatrical premieres of new independent, foreign and documentary features. Home to the Holds many director or theme-based series, weekly documentary series, monthly program featuring LGBTQ guest curators, 

 

The Film-maker’s Cooperative

• “The largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world”

• Offers screenings, workshops, and a huge array of rental options - more valuable as a resource for finding films and filmmakers you can then go look for elsewhere online, the dvd rentals are obscenely expensive (40$ for a short dvd rental!) Fun fact: it was filmmaker Maya Deren’s fundraising that led to the start of the Co-Op.

 

Angelika Film Center

• Offers screenings of new (and old) films, many of which are arthouse. Also has food and drink on-site. Tickets run $18 for adults. 

 

Millennium Film Collective 

• “For over fifty years, Millennium Film Workshop has served as a world renowned center for independent experimental film production and exhibition. In the early years Jacobs conceived Millennium as both a distinguished venue for leading experimental film artists and a community-based media arts organization dedicated to providing Open Screenings, low-cost equipment rental and training programs. These distinctive aspects of Millennium made it unique among underground film artists and media arts organizations looking for a community sharing a non-commercial ethos.”

• Collective, community based and historically incredibly involved film collective. Open screenings, workshops and more.