2024

January 5: Boredom Loop: farO at Light Industry
January 9: Isan Film Group's Tongpan
January 23: NO!art, No President presented by J. Hoberman
January 30: Reading with Jean-Luc Godard
February 6: Noah Teichner's Navigators
February 13: Tang Shu Shuen's The Arch
February 20: Five Films by Leonard M. Henny curated by Tom Day
February 27: Robert Frank's Conversations in Vermont + Camille Billops and James Hatch's Suzanne, Suzanne introduced by Melissa Anderson
March 5: Two Films by Jocelyne Saab introduced by Kaleem Hawa
March 11: Two by Harun Farocki
March 19: Christine Smallwood on La Captive
March 26: Ngozi Onwurah's The Body Beautiful + Amber Film Collective's Byker introduced by Ashley Clark
April 13: The Children's Cinema
April 17: New York Cinema Unions a roundtable moderated by Alex Press
April 30: Ron Peck's Fighters
May 9: Prismatic Ground
May 14: Five Films by Arthur Lipsett
May 21: Chez Parker and Charles: A Benefit for Light Industry
June 4: Chris Marker: Eternal current events
June 20: Night Fever presented by Shanay Jhaveri
June 24-27: Summer Movies at the Seth Low Older Adult Club
June 25: The Cult of Valentino presented by Alissa Bennett
July 2: Richard Cawston's Television and the World
July 9: Peter Whitehead's Benefit of the Doubt
July 16: Nine Films by Stephanie Barber
August 6: Japanese Paper Films presented by Eric Faden
August 13: From the Collection of Skip Elsheimer
August 20: Queer Palestine + Mohammed Soueid's Cinema Fouad presented with Pinko
August 24: The Children's Cinema at the Rockaway Film Festival
September 11: Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth Century China a lecture by Ying Qian
September 17: VALIE EXPORT's Invisible Adversaries
September 21: S.M. Eisenstein: Complete Works
September 30: The Metropolis of Spectacle: Casablanca’s Cinema Architecture and the Colonial Public Sphere a lecture by Craig Buckley
October 8: Carlos Saura's Los Golfos
October 16: A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner's Community Action Center

Details about future programs coming soon.

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Past Events

2023

January 3: Seth Price's Romance + Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac
January 17: Michael Putnam's The Hard Swing + Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor's Lonely Boy
January 24: Six Videos by Rodney Werden
January 28: Michael Oppitz's Shamans of the Blind Country
January 31: Maya Deren's Ritual in Transfigured Time + Barbara McCullough's Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes
February 7: Rubén Gámez's The Secret Formula
February 16: Stop Cop City Teach-In and Fundraiser
February 21: Learning to Be Human curated by Brittany Gravely
February 25: Henri Plaat's Fashion from New York + R.D. Laing's Glasgow introduced by Luke Fowler
February 28: Resolution Film Collective's Redevelopment: A Marxist Analysis introduced by Malcolm Harris
March 17-19: Yasunao Tone Weekend organized with Artists Space and Go Hirasawa
March 25: The Children's Cinema
March 28: Étienne O'Leary + Alain Montesse
April 8: Borhane Alaouié's It Is Not Enough for God to Be with the Poor introduced by Hicham Awad
April 21-23: Fan Ho Weekend curated by Timmy Chih-Ting Chen and presented with Speculative Place
April 25: Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez's Manakamana
May 2: Colonial Stutters curated by Yasmina Price
May 6: Prismatic Ground
May 9: Ian Penman's Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
May 23: A Provisional Account of Some Clothes on Film presented by Lisa Cohen
June 14: Marguerite's Kitchen: A Benefit for Light Industry
June 20: Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema presented by Michael Zryd
June 23: Janis Cole and Holly Dale's Hookers on Davie introduced by Elizabeth Purchell
June 27: Menelik Shabazz's Step Forward Youth + David Koff's Blacks Britannica introduced by Ashley Clark
July 11: Val Guest's The Day the Earth Caught Fire introduced by Dan Fox
July 18: Deprivation Theory presented by Hannah Zeavin
July 25: Ken Jacobs's XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
July 31: Monday Night Books: The Film Books
August 1: F.W. Murnau's Faust introduced by Mary Gaitskill
August 12: The Children's Cinema curated by Harriet Parker and Genevieve Yue
August 17: Robert Smithson's Hotel Palenque introduced by Ann Reynolds
August 22: Victor Schonfeld and Myriam Alaux's The Animals Film
August 29: Gregory Markopoulos's Du sang, de la volupté et de la mort introduced by P. Adams Sitney
September 12: Through the Image of an Animal presented by Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
September 18: Yann Le Masson and Bénie Deswarte's Kashima Paradise
September 23: An Evening with Donna Kerness
October 24: Jean-Louis Jorge's Serpents of the Pirate Moon introduced by Micah Gottlieb
October 28: Two Slide Works by Luther Price
October 31: Peggy Ahwesh's The Scary Movie + Carlos Enrique Taboada's Even the Wind Is Afraid
November 1-7: James N. Kienitz Wilkins and John Aaron Frank's LEWISTON
November 4: Last Movies presented with Stanley Schtinter
November 14: Pare Lorentz's The Plow That Broke the Plains + Joris Ivens's Power and the Land
November 29: World Socialist Cinema a lecture by Masha Salazkina
December 3: Les' Kitchen: A Benefit for Light Industry
December 5: Silent Scarface introduced by Benoît Carpentier
December 10: Peter Wollen's Friendship's Death introduced by Audrey Wollen
December 12: Heddy Honigmann's Crazy presented with The Baffler
December 19: La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror presented with Alfreda's Cinema

2022

January 19: Dimitri Kirsanoff's Ménilmontant x 2 presented by P. Adams Sitney
February 1: Alan and Jeanne Abel's Is There Sex after Death? introduced by Andrew Lampert
February 8: Two Videos by Richard Foreman
February 8 - March 1: Sílvia das Fadas's A Casa, a Verdadeira e a Seguinte, Ainda Está por Fazer presented with the 25th Media City Film Festival
February 21: Les Levine's The Troubles: An Artist's Document of Ulster
March 1: György Kovásznai's Bubble Bath introduced by Dash Shaw
March 8: Jerry Hunt's Procession and The Death of the Piano presented with Blank Forms
March 15: Early Castle introduced by Haden Guest
March 22: The Greatest Hits of Scratch Video
March 29: Rosa Barba's Printed Cinema
April 19: Howard Lester's Children of Synanon + Theodore Conant's The Child of the Future: How Might He Learn
May 30: Light Industry at Arverne Cinema: Mary Field + Ray Harryhausen
September 26: Early Films by Peter Tscherkassky
September 28: Luc Moullet's Genesis of a Meal presented with Semiotexte
October 4: Jeff Kreines's The Plaint of Steve Kreines... introduced by Kelly Reichardt
October 11: Esther Shatavsky's Bedtime Story + Lewis Seiler's Women's Prison
October 18: James N. Kienitz Wilkins's Public Hearing
October 22: Maximilian Schell's Marlene introduced by Melissa Anderson
October 25: Two Films by Jill Craigie
November 1: A Little History of Sleeping at the Movies a lecture by Jean Ma
November 12: Anna Karina's Vivre Ensemble
November 14: Nancy Holt's Underscan + Bruce Pavlow's Survival House
November 29: skate video parts worth watching presented by Charles Broskoski
December 3: From the Collection of Jake Perlin
December 6: Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's The New Babylon
December 13: John Abraham's Amma Ariyan
December 21: The Mushroom Archive presented by Bradley Eros

2021

March 17-23: Jem Cohen's Lost Book Found
April 5: Tiffany Sia + Sky Hopinka
May 10: Osaki Midori and the Film Theory Complex in Japan a lecture by Aaron Gerow
June 3: A Conversation with Jurij Meden
June 18: DIVA TV introduced by Sarah Schulman
June 22: Tom DeSimone, Jack Deveau, and Robert Alvarez's Good Hot Stuff introduced by Elizabeth Purchell
June 25 - July 1: Kathleen Collins's Losing Ground presented with Artists Space
July 1: James Benning's Ten Skies introduced by Erika Balsom
July 6: Christian Ghazi's A Hundred Faces for a Single Day introduced by Kaleem Hawa
July 13: William A. Wellman's Goodbye, My Lady introduced by Gina Telaroli
July 27: Kirk Tougas's Letters from Vancouver
August 3: Two Early Works by Isaac Julien presented with Alfreda's Cinema
August 10: Safi Faye's Kaddu Beykat
August 17: Four Films by Bess Lomax Hawes
August 24: Wan Laiming's Havoc in Heaven
August 31: An Evening with ZAP Cassettes and Jeff Perkins
September 7: Werner Schroeter's Eika Katappa introduced by Nick Mauss
September 18: Light Industry at Snug Harbor: Tony Gatlif's Latcho Drom
October 12: Spencer Nakasako and Sokly Ny's a.k.a. Don Bonus introduced by Matt Wolf
October 19: The Visual Taboo
October 23: Two Works by Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers introduced by Tiffany Sia
October 31: Martha Colburn's Evil of Dracula + Erle C. Kenton's Island of Lost Souls
November 2: From the Basement to Godzilla: The Legacy of Asian American Activism introduced by Howie Chen
November 13: A Conversation with Jackie Raynal
November 30: Laura Dern Onscreen: 1974-2006 an illustrated lecture by Melissa Anderson
December 15: In the Land of the Elevator Girls curated Whitney Claflin

2020

January 14: Hollis Frampton's Palindrome + Owen Land's Wide Angle Saxon introduced by P. Adams Sitney
January 21: Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts a lecture by Gregory Zinman
February 8: The Children's Cinema
February 18: Ann Hui's Song of the Exile introduced by Nick Pinkerton
February 25: Dance of Values: Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Project a lecture by Elena Vogman
February 29: Lewis Klahr's Circumstantial Pleasures
March 7: Enrique Rosas's El automóvil gris
April 17 - 19: Paulino Viota's Contactos
April 24 - 30: Ben Rivers's Now, at Last! presented by Laida Lertxundi
May 1: On the Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund
June 10: A Conversation with Adrienne Kennedy
June 11: Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History, 1950s-1980s a lecture by Elana Levine
June 18: Collecting Queer Cinema: A Conversation with Jenni Olson
July 13: Jonathan Walley and Erika Balsom on Expanded Cinema
July 31 - August 6: Michael Gitlin's The Birdpeople
September 15: In the Studio
October 2: Blair McClendon + Dónal Foreman

2019

January 8: From the Collection of Jason Simon
January 14: Light Industry at MoMA: An Evening with Peggy Ahwesh
January 22: Peggy Ahwesh's She Puppet + Doris Wishman's Indecent Desires
February 16: Jonas Mekas's Walden: Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
February 19: Hugo Santiago's The Wolf of the West Coast introduced by Mariano Llinás
February 26: Edward Dmytryk's Give Us This Day aka Christ in Concrete
March 6: An Evening with Craig Baldwin
March 16: Light Industry at Metrograph: Doris Wishman's Bad Girls Go to Hell + Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn's The Deadman
March 19: Lewis Klahr's Engram Sepals
March 26: An Evening with Marilyn Nance and Al Santana
April 2: Patrick Keiller's The Dilapidated Dwelling
April 8: Bette Gordon's An Algorithm + JODI's All Wrongs Reversed ©1982
April 26: William E. Jones's Massillon + Fall into Ruin
April 27: Instant Failure: Polaroid's Polavision, 1977-1980 a lecture by Erika Balsom
April 28: Laida Lertxundi: Landscape Plus
May 7: Hannah Frank's Frame by Frame presented by Sam Frank
May 15: Jorge Jácome's Flores + Basma Alsharif's Ouroboros presented with Ellipsis
May 21: Jordan Belson + Donald Cammell's Demon Seed
June 4: Louis Massiah's The Bombing of Osage Avenue introduced by Hilton Als
June 18: Lev Kuleshov's By the Law
June 25: Gay Girls Riding Club
July 2: Chantal Akerman's My Mother Laughs presented with The Song Cave
July 11: Light Industry Summer Benefit at Matthew Marks
July 16: The Skin Flick's Theory of the Prop a lecture by Elena Gorfinkel
July 23: Chromatic Modernity a lecture by Joshua Yumibe
July 30: Jennifer Reeves's Three Projectors for Three Approaches to Psychotherapy
August 15: Lis Rhodes: Whose History?
August 17: Early Films by Phil Solomon
August 27: Catherine Gund and Zoe Leonard's Keep Your Laws off My Body + José Rodríguez Soltero's Dialogue with Che presented with Pinko
September 3: Seven Films by Greta Snider
September 17: Mike Plante on Cinemad
September 24: Cecelia Condit's Possibly in Michigan + Jim Trainor's The Fetishist
October 1: William A. Wellman's The Next Voice You Hear + A New Beginning introduced by J. Hoberman
October 11-13: Carolyn Lazard's A Recipe for Disaster
October 22: René Viénet's Can Dialectics Break Bricks? introduced by Keith Sanborn
October 29: Films from The New Woman's Survival Catalog
November 5: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Film Projection (But Were Afraid to Ask)
November 9: Tony Conrad: Movie Show introduced by Constance DeJong and Andrew Lampert
November 19: Mati Diop's Atlantiques + Nagisa Oshima's Death by Hanging introduced by Daniel Schmidt
November 26: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Permutations + Sara Driver's You Are Not I
December 10: On Mary Manning introduced by Fanny Howe, Helen Howe, and Susan Howe

2018

January 16: Jorge Sanjinés's The Secret Nation
January 23: Two Diptychs by Peter Thompson
January 30: Peter Emshwiller's Jr. Star Trek + Alex Bag's Untitled (Project for the Whitney Museum)
February 9: Charles Atlas's Hail the New Puritan introduced by Tobi Haslett
February 20: The Smoker: A Brief History of the Stag Film presented with Inpatient Press
February 28: An Evening with Walden
March 13: Dyke TV curated by Kelly Rakowski and Ainara Tiefenthäler
March 24: Light Industry Tenth Anniversary Benefit at Bridget Donahue
April 10: From the Collection of J. Hoberman: The Complete Works
April 21: Maurice Lemaître's Has the Film Already Started?
April 24: Hiroyuki Okiura's Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade introduced by Paige K. Bradley
May 8: From the Collection of Pearl Bowser curated by Ina Archer
May 15: Marziyeh Meshkini's The Day I Became a Woman introduced by Eliza Hittman
May 29: An Evening with Rhonda Lieberman
June 9: Steve Reinke's The Hundred Videos
June 14: Other Tongue: An Evening with NANG
July 10: Babette Mangolte's The Sky on Location
July 18: Muntadas's Credits + William E. Jones's Finished
July 23: Ogawa Shinsuke's Magino Village: A Tale introduced by Hara Kazuo
July 31: Robert Drew's On the Road with Duke Ellington + Thomas Reichman's Mingus introduced by Ephraim Asili
September 4: Animal Charm vs. Paper Rad
September 11: Seven Films by Renate Sami introduced by Robert Beavers
September 18: Uday Shankar's Kalpana introduced by Shai Heredia
September 26: Wakefield Poole's Take One
October 2: Nino Oxilia's Satanic Rhapsody introduced by Angela Dalle Vacche
October 13: Nelly Kaplan's A Very Curious Girl introduced by Laura Mulvey
October 16: Reconstructing the 1938 International Amateur Movie Show introduced by Charles Tepperman
October 17: Mani Kaul's Dhrupad introduced by Anjalika Sagar of The Otolith Group
October 20: Jean-Claude Rousseau's La Vallée close
October 30: Bright Signals a lecture by Susan Murray
November 13: Evgenii Bauer's The Dying Swan presented by Oksana Chefranova, Emily Coates, and Josiah McElheny
November 19: Cinema/Politics/Philosophy a lecture by Nico Baumbach
November 27: Julio García Espinosa's Third World, Third World War
December 11: Boris Barnet's By the Bluest of Seas introduced by A. S. Hamrah and presented with n+1
December 15-16: Light Industry at the Metrograph Holiday Film Book Fair
December 16: Henrik Galeen's The Student of Prague introduced by Charles Burnett

2017

January 6-8: Peter Watkins's The Journey introduced by Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith
January 17: Slatan Dudow's Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World?
January 31: Masao Adachi's Female Student Guerrilla introduced by Go Hirasawa
February 7: David Larcher's Mare's Tail
February 14: Joris Ivens's The Spanish Earth + Frontier Films's Heart of Spain
February 22: Some American Feminists introduced by Margo Jefferson
March 7: Four Films by Richard P. Rogers presented by Jeremy Rossen
March 19: Carbon Life curated by Mary Helena Clark
March 21: Light Industry Benefit at Bridget Donahue
March 28: Helen Levitt's In the Street, Lionel Ngakane's Jemima + Johnny, and Djibril Diop Mambéty's The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun presented by Ashley Clark
April 11: Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield's Craig Owens: An Interview
April 18: Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann's The Laughing Man introduced by Eric Baudelaire
April 25: Su Friedrich's Sink or Swim + Michelle Citron's Daughter Rite
May 2: Mok Chiu-yu and Li Ching's Letter to the Young Intellectuals of Hong Kong + Vlado Kristl's Death to the Audience presented by George Clark
May 23: Danny Lyon's El Otro Lado introduced by Max Nelson
June 13: William Raban's 2'45" + Dan Graham and Glenn Branca's Performance and Stage-Set Utilizing Two-Way Mirror and Video Time Delay
June 20: The Miners' Campaign Tapes
July 11: The Film Sense and the Painting Sense curated by Ann Reynolds
July 20: Jorge Bodanzky and Orlando Senna's Iracema introduced by Jonathas de Andrade
August 1: Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen's Benjamin Smoke
August 8: Thomas Harlan's Torre Bela
August 15: Anand Patwardhan's Prisoners of Conscience + Chandrasekhar Nair's The New Wave
September 13: Three Paintings by Josiah McElheny
September 13: A Straighter Kind of Hip a lecture by Felicity D. Scott
September 26: Filmmaker as Film Theorist: Brakhage, Deren, Frampton a lecture by P. Adams Sitney
October 10: A Ghost Town in Reverse: Films by Steve Polta
October 17: Against Riefenstahl introduced by J. Hoberman
October 22: From the Files of Police Squad! curated by Nellie Killian
October 31: Photographing a Ghost curated by Caroline Golum
November 7: On Twilight Arc a lecture by Jenny Perlin
November 14: René Allio's I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister and My Brother...
November 20: Robinson Devor and Michael Guccione's Angelyne + George Cukor's It Should Happen to You introduced by Naomi Fry
November 28: Christine Choy's From Spikes to Spindles presented with Art Against Displacement
December 12: A Sleeping World presented by Joshua Gen Solondz

2016

January 19: Three Notes by Saul Levine
January 26: Sharon Greytak's Weirded Out and Blown Away presented by Canaries
February 2: Lifestyle Porn, Part I curated by Gabriel Abrantes, Alexander Carver, Benjamin Crotty, and Daniel Schmidt
February 12: To Be Is to Be Updated: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun presented with Triple Canopy
February 23: Andrew Noren's Charmed Particles
March 9: A Conversation with Lynn Hershman Leeson
March 11: Light Industry Benefit at Galerie Buchholz
March 18: Pere Portabella's Cuadecuc, vampir introduced by Andrew Bujalski
March 22: D.W. Griffith's True Heart Susie
April 5: Tony Conrad's Paul Sharits: Prescription and Collapsed Temporality + Paul Sharits's Razor Blades
April 12: Black Audio Film Collective's Twilight City introduced by Tobi Haslett
May 10: Dotting the Eyes of Distortion
May 17: Amie Siegel: Ways of Seeing
May 24: Two Videos by Adrian Piper
June 7: Four Films by Will Hindle
June 13: Horace Ové's Pressure introduced by Ashley Clark
June 21: Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media a lecture by Noam M. Elcott
June 28: Two Films by Lois Weber
July 5: Arthur Dong's Licensed to Kill introduced by Matt Wolf
July 12: Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria
July 19: Eye and Ear Control: ESP-DISK' on Film curated by Brian Belovarac
August 16: Felix Finds a Way: Otto Messmer and Early Animation
August 23: Jesse Lerner's Ruins
August 30: Anti-Ethnography curated by Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil
September 6: Eric Saks's Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord introduced by Mike S. Ryan
September 12: Morgan Fisher's Phi Phenomenon + Newsreel's Community Control
September 19: An Evening with Douglas Crimp presented with Dancing Foxes Press
October 24: Hervé Guibert's Modesty, or Immodesty introduced by Bruce Hainley
October 31: Don Sharp's Psychomania + Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising
November 22: Projective Life: Lucy Ives + Ken Okiishi presented with The Song Cave
November 29: Robert Kramer's Ice
December 10: John Marshall's Pittsburgh Police Series presented with Metrograph

2015

January 27: Workers Film and Photo League + Busby Berkeley
February 8: Living in the World: A Benefit for Joe Gibbons introduced by Tony Oursler
February 13: Gil J Wolman's L'anticoncept introduced by Kaira M. Cabañas
February 25: Three Films by Mark LaPore
March 17: Forcefield
March 24: Leslie Thornton's Adynata + Abigail Child's Mayhem
March 31: Edward Owens: Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts
April 4: The morning after experience design a lecture by Olia Lialina
April 7: John Schott and EJ Vaughn's America's Pop Collector: Robert C. Scull – Contemporary Art at Auction
April 12: Light Industry Benefit Art Auction at Off Vendome
April 21: OVERDUE: Thierry Zéno's Des morts + Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
April 28: Quality Television a screening and lecture by Martine Syms
May 4: An Evening with Carolee Schneemann
May 12: Berwick Street Collective's Nightcleaners introduced by Dan Kidner
May 26: Owen Land's A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front of Berkeley, California + TVTV's Lord of the Universe
June 9: Mike Builds a Shelter presented by Michael Smith and Paul Slocum
June 23: Rosa von Praunheim's Tally Brown, New York introduced by Melissa Anderson
July 16: André Gide and Marc Allégret's Voyage au Congo introduced by Hilton Als
July 28: You Only Live Once: Production Takes from a Film in the Making + Noël Burch's Correction Please, or How We Got into Pictures
August 11: Jason Sato's Brothers + Norman Yonemoto and Nicholas Ursin's Second Campaign
August 18: Why Couldn't She Have Two Lives?
August 27: Chandigarh Is in India curated by Shanay Jhaveri
September 8: Four Films by David Lamelas
September 23: Bill Daniel's Who Is Bozo Texino?
September 29: Elliott Erwitt's Beauty Knows No Pain + Frederick Wiseman's Basic Training
October 13: William Wyler's The Big Country introduced by Vanessa Renwick
October 17: Dan Barnett's White Heart introduced by Scott MacDonald
November 10: Robert Fulton's Reality's Invisible introduced by Martin Beck
November 17: Lim on Lynch
November 24: Fred Tan's Split of the Spirit + Ben Rivers's Things
December 1: JoAnn Elam's Rape + Jennifer Montgomery's Home Avenue with a lecture by Johanna Fateman
December 8: Designers in Film: Goldsholl Design Associates curated by Amy Beste
December 9: An Evening with Andrea Fraser
December 15: Michel Auder + Rebekah Rutkoff: Sunsets and Other Stars

2014

January 14: Derek Jarman's Caravaggio presented by Leo Bersani
January 23: Nineteen Films by Kurt Kren
January 31: Light Industry Benefit Art Auction at Maccarone
February 18: Jon Jost's Last Chants for a Slow Dance (Dead End)
February 22
: Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives introduced by Alex Waterman
March 8: Bill Douglas Trilogy
March 25: An Evening with Laida Lertxundi
March 27: Wild, Wild Beach introduced by Albert Serra
April 8: Alexander Dovzhenko's Poem of an Inland Sea
April 15: Five Films by Margaret Tait
April 19: Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct + Abbas Kiarostami's Homework introduced by Sam Lewitt
April 29: Brian Frye: The Waste Books
May 13: Martín Rejtman and Federico León's Elementary Training for Actors + Lisandro Alonso's Untitled (Letter for Serra) introduced by Matías Piñeiro
May 18: Out of Alternatives presented by Common Practice New York and CCS Bard
May 27: Chromatic Modernisms: Color Cinema of the Silent Era a lecture by Joshua Yumibe
June 14: A Pedagogical Projection by J. Hoberman
June 17: Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia's I am micro + Kamal Swaroop's Om Dar Ba Dar
June 21: A Conversation with Jean-Pierre Gorin
July 8: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's The Driver's Seat introduced by Eric Banks
July 22: Peter Tscherkassky's Outer Space + Karl Freund's Mad Love
August 2: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Outline of a Screenplay for a Film about Saint Paul (in the Form of Notes for a Production Director)
August 12: Radical Sex Education Films: San Francisco's Multi-Media Resource Center
August 19: George Kuchar's Secrets of the Shadow World presented with Primary Information
August 26: Maya Deren's A Study in Choreography for Camera + Sharon Lockhart's Goshogaoka
September 16: Gregory Markopoulos's Galaxie presented with The Visible Press
September 22: Persistence of Revision presented by Ross Lipman
September 30: William E. Jones's The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography + Craig Baldwin's Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies under America
October 7: Kenneth Anger's Puce Moment + Alla Nazimova's Salomé
October 28: Kathy Acker and Alan Sondheim's Blue Tape
November 11: Penny Allen's Property introduced by Kelly Reichardt
November 18: Humphrey Jennings's Listen to Britain + Peter Watkins's The War Game
November 23: Scheerbartian Cinema from the Collection of Mr. Glass presented by Guy Maddin
December 2: Vincente Minnelli's I Dood It introduced by Gina Telaroli
December 9: Vaudeville Deluxe curated by Dennis Nyback

2013

January 26: The American Serial: 1914-1944
January 29: Richard Kern's The Bitches + Abram Room's Bed and Sofa
February 5: Dan Graham's Minor Threat + Peter Adair's Holy Ghost People
February 9: Stan Brakhage's The Art of Vision introduced by P. Adams Sitney
February 17: Infermental presented by James Richards
February 19: Electronic Tonalities: The Film Scores of Louis and Bebe Barron a lecture by Geeta Dayal
February 26: Rob Tregenza's Talking to Strangers introduced by Matt Porterfield
March 12: Christopher Wilcha's The Target Shoots First introduced by Sasha Frere-Jones
March 19: Two Films by Marjorie Keller
March 26: Hollis Frampton's Poetic Justice + Beatrice Gibson's The Tiger's Mind
April 4: Studio des Ursulines: January 21, 1926 introduced by Noam M. Elcott
April 10: Nicole Védrès's Paris 1900 introduced by Luc Sante
April 16: Alice Childress's Wedding Band introduced by Hilton Als
April 23: Original Copies: The Limited Edition in Film and Video a lecture by Erika Balsom
April 30: Object Worshipping: Notes on Claes Oldenburg’s Films, or the Ballad of the Turning Woman
May 14: Augen: Super Ball and Ziggy Atem presented by C. Spencer Yeh
May 21: Dash Shaw + Bobby's Girl
May 23: Two Films by Charles Dekeukeleire
June 4: Michelle O'Marah's Valley Girl
June 11: Johan van der Keuken's The White Castle introduced by Peter Hutton
June 25: Three Films by James Scott curated by Jesse Pires
June 27: Carl Marzani and Union Films, 1946-1953 curated by Charles Musser
July 2: Anthony McCall and Andrew Tyndall's Argument
July 9: Leah Gilliam's Apeshit + Wesley Barry's The Creation of the Humanoids
July 16: Ray L. Birdwhistell's Microcultural Incidents in Ten Zoos + Asch and Chagnon's The Ax Fight
July 23: Roland Barthes in Montreal introduced by Yve-Alain Bois
July 30: Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga
August 10: Radley Metzger's The Lickerish Quartet introduced by Dan Graham
August 15: Barbara Hammer's Audience + Cecilia Dougherty's Gay Tape: Butch and Femme
August 20: An Evening with Wayne Koestenbaum
August 27: Aleksandr Medvedkin's The New Moscow introduced by Juliet Koss
September 7: Three Videos by George Kuchar introduced by Aaron Flint Jamison
September 14: Asco’s No Movies: Glitter and Gangrene a lecture by C. Ondine Chavoya
September 24: An Evening with Grey Room
September 30: Electric Affinities: Close Up and Queer Modernism a lecture by Mal Ahern
October 6: Light Industry at Empire Drive-In: A Samuel Z. Arkoff Double Feature
October 8: Ernie Gehr's Signal—Germany on the Air and Side/Walk/Shuttle
October 15: Anand Patwardhan's Bombay: Our City introduced by Sukhdev Sandhu
October 19: Films by Derek Boshier curated by Alex Kitnick
October 22: Fluxus TV presented by Sven Lütticken
October 29: Beyond the Shot, Behind the Scene: The Old and the New a lecture by Devin Fore
November 5: Mary Ellen Bute: Abstronics
November 19: Yvonne Rainer's Lives of Performers introduced by Gregg Bordowitz
November 26: Carry on Talking a lecture by Felicity D. Scott
December 10: Jerome Hiler's In the Stone House + Nathaniel Dorsky's Hours for Jerome

2012

January 24: Charles Atlas's Torse presented by Sam Frank and David Velasco
January 31: Yvonne Rainer's Kristina Talking Pictures
February 7: Jennifer Reeves's Chronic + Sadie Benning's Flat Is Beautiful
February 8: Trinh T. Minh-ha's Naked Spaces—Living Is Round
February 21: D.A. Pennebaker's Elizabeth and Mary presented with MoMA's Documentary Fortnight
February 26: Ogawa Shinsuke's Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress
March 10: Three Tapes by Carole Roussopoulos presented by Ridykeulous and Stuart Comer
March 13: Tony Buba's Lightning Over Braddock introduced by LaToya Ruby Frazier
April 11: Sara Gómez's De cierta manera
April 21: Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's France/Tour/Detour/Two/Children
April 28: Thom Andersen and Noël Burch's Red Hollywood introduced by Lucy Raven
May 8: Scott Bartlett's OffOn + Kinji Fukasaku's The Green Slime
May 14: Andy Warhol's Paul Swan introduced by Douglas Crimp
June 9: Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli's Anna introduced by Dennis Lim
June 12: Michael Thomas's Meat Rack
June 23: Ed Pincus's Diaries (1971-76) introduced by Nicolas Rapold
June 26: An Evening with Cinenova
July 3: René Clair's The Crazy Ray + Robert Frank's C'est vrai
July 17: Shirley Clarke's The Cool World introduced by Amy Taubin
July 24: Nathaniel Dorsky + Susan Howe
August 26: For Chris Marker
September 9: Michael Snow's La Région centrale introduced by Chantal Akerman
September 18: Todd Haynes's Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud + Todd Phillips's Hated: G.G. Allin and The Murder Junkies
September 25: Michael Almereyda's Another Girl Another Planet
October 8: Esfir Shub's The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty introduced by Hito Steyerl
October 12: Darmstadt/ISSUE Project Room at Light Industry: David Grubbs + Anthony McCall
October 16: James Benning's 11 x 14 introduced by Julie Ault
October 17-20: Light Industry Benefit Auction at Miguel Abreu Gallery
October 23: The Interface Effect a lecture by Alexander R. Galloway presented with Triple Canopy
November 13: Alexander Kluge's Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed introduced by Gary Indiana
November 19: Tony Bicât's Skinflicker + Arthur Johns's Solarflares Burn for You presented by William Fowler
November 27: David Hall + Marlon Riggs

2011

Couchsurfing (cont'd)

June 18/19: Light Industry at Dia:Chelsea
Anthony McCall's Long Film for Ambient Light presented with The Artist's Institute
June 26: Light Industry at Soloway
Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin's Chronicle of a Summer
August 11: Light Industry at the New Museum
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage introduced by Alex Kitnick
August 23: Light Industry at Audio Visual Arts
Geeta Dutt: Playback
August 30: Light Industry at Film Forum
Black Audio Film Collective's Handsworth Songs
September 27: Light Industry at Simone Subal Gallery
Films by Constantin Brancusi, 1923-1939 presented by Phillipe-Alain Michaud
October 4: Light Industry at Cabinet
Oscar Micheaux's The Exile introduced by Martine Syms

2010

January 6: Five Films by Joyce Wieland introduced by Emily Roysdon
January 12: Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx introduced by Emma Hedditch
January 19: Obedience presented by Zoe Beloff
January 26: Helsinki, Forever
February 9: Child Bride presented by Emma Brenner-Malin and Joshua Solondz
February 12: Perfumed Nightmare
February 16: Naomi Uman: The Ukrainian Time Machine
February 20: Impossible Geometries
February 23: Robert Gardner: 7 Fragments
March 2: Jeff Keen + White Zombie curated by Ben Rivers
March 9: Jon Moritsugu's Der Elvis + My Degeneration
March 16: Helke Sander's The All-Around Reduced Personality (aka Redupers) introduced by Yvonne Rainer
March 23: Harun Farocki's Images of the World and the Inscription of War
March 31: Jack Chambers' The Hart of London introduced by Carolee Schneemann
April 6: Doctor Who, and Cops with House Music presented by Paul Slocum
April 20: Videofreex curated by Dara Greenwald
April 27: Satisfaction: Consumption Art in Poland, 1973-1979 curated and introduced by £ukasz Ronduda
May 5: Two Films by Thomas Comerford
May 14-16: Light Industry at NO SOUL FOR SALE, Tate Modern
May 25: Chuck Jones's Duck Amuck + The Dziga Vertov Group's Wind from the East presented by Michael Chaiken
June 15: Movies with Roots in Hell curated by Jack Stevenson
June 18: In Collaboration: An Evening with Robert Fiore curated by William Smith
June 22: Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth + Angela Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer, and Dietmar Schipek's Flaming Ears presented by A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner
June 29: Edgar G. Ulmer's The Singing Blacksmith introduced by J. Hoberman
July 10: The Touching of Hands presented by Scott Treleaven
July 13: Onishi Kenji's A Burning Star
July 25: Michael Snow's Rameau's Nephew...
August 13: An Evening with Little Joe
August 20: Gordon Matta-Clark's Day's End + Arch Brown's Pier Groups introduced by Douglas Crimp
August 24: Hussein Kamal's Chitchat on the Nile introduced by Amy Sillman
August 31: Klaus vom Bruch's Das Schleyerband introduced by Redmond Entwistle
September 10: David Gatten's Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts
September 14: Anthony Ramos: About Media presented with Electronic Arts Intermix
September 21: All That Heaven Allows curated by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
September 28: Albert and David Maysles: Two Early Films presented by Albert Maysles
October 12: George Kuchar's The Devil's Cleavage
October 16: Home Movie Day
October 19: Anthony McCall, Claire Pajaczkowska, Andrew Tyndall, and Jane Weinstock's Sigmund Freud's Dora + Sarah Pucill's Backcomb introduced by Vivienne Dick
October 30: Line Describing a Cone and Related Films introduced by Anthony McCall

Couchsurfing

We crashed at our friends' places in November and December, organizing a series of events at like-minded venues across town while Light Industry relocated to its new space.

November 16: Light Industry at Anthology Film Archives
Stephanie Rothman Double Feature
November 22: Light Industry at PARTICIPANT INC
Morgan Fisher’s Standard Gauge + HC Potter’s Hellzapoppin’
November 30: Light Industry at BAM
Alexei Gherman's Khrustaliov, My Car! introduced by Kent Jones
December 7: Light Industry at Cleopatra’s
John MacKay on Dziga Vertov
December 15: Light Industry at ISSUE Project Room
Two Films by Warren Sonbert with readings by Charles Bernstein, Corrine Fitzpatrick, and Carla Harryman

2009

January 6: Jeff Krulik: Nuggets
January 13: 17 hours of darkness (reflections on this place I call home) curated by Christina Battle
January 14: Curse and Blessing (Film and Filing Cabinet) presented by Jem Cohen
January 20: James Benning's Landscape Suicide
January 27: The Roh and the Cooked: Structural Film, Actionism, Paracinema presented by Branden W. Joseph
January 30: Hooded and Headless: An Erratic Survey of Anonymity in Recent Video and Life curated by Harry Dodge
February 10: Only in Darkness Is Your Shadow Clear a projection performance by Bruce McClure
February 15: Rites of Return presented by Jonathan Kahana, Liza Johnson, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, and Michael Rakowitz
February 17: Winnipeg Babysitter curated and performed by Daniel Barrow
February 18: Made for TV: The Collected Works of Tom Rubnitz introduced by Charles Atlas
February 24: Jennet Thomas and Jim Trainor: Natural Selections
March 3: Theater of Code curated by Christiane Paul
March 10: Stormy Weather curated by Saul Levine and Rebecca Meyers
March 17: Return to LH6 curated by Ken Jacobs
March 25: τRξΔSVRΞ RθθM presented by Loshadka
March 31: Two Films by Klaus Wyborny introduced by Larry Gottheim
April 6: We Did It Ourselves! presented by Guthrie Lonergan
April 8: Time Batteries presented by David Joselit
April 14: Transfers: Three Works by Seth Price
April 21: M as in Maladie (Deleuze A-Z) presented by Chris Kraus and Laura Parnes
April 28: Touch Touch Touch Touch Feel curated by Abina Manning and Steve Reinke
May 6: Martha Rosler: The South Africa Tapes presented with Platform for Pedagogy
May 9: An Evening with Hara Kazuo
May 13: no comedy — no tragedy / no encore — no applause curated by Bob Nickas
May 18: Films by Kevin Jerome Everson
June 2: Disturbing History curated by Lauren Cornell and Hanne Mugaas
June 3: Lewis Klahr's Tales of the Forgotten Future
June 7: Utopia in Four Movements presented by Sam Green
June 16: The Speculative Frontier curated by Brel Froebe and Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
June 23 - 28: Obvious Dimensions - Light Industry at X-initiative's NO SOUL FOR SALE
July 14: Lindsay Anderson's Is That All There Is? introduced by Luke Fowler
July 21: The T.A.M.I. Show introduced by Melissa Anderson
July 28: Dear Andy: A Secret Screening introduced by Matt Wolf
August 4: Allan King's Warrendale
August 11: V.I. Pudovkin's Mechanics of the Brain introduced by Annette Michelson
August 18: Susan Sontag's Promised Lands
August 25: The Doris Wishman Memorial Lecture: Eric Schaefer
September 1: Wakefield Poole's Bijou introduced by Eileen Myles
September 8: Lev Kuleshov's The Death Ray introduced by Keith Sanborn
September 12: Ulrike Ottinger's Taiga presented by Ginger Brooks Takahashi
September 15: Jonathan Horowitz
September 22: In Search of Sunn presented by Ed Halter
September 29: Peter Gidal's Close Up
October 8: Omnium-Gatherum curated by Jeremy Rossen
October 13: Lucky Dragons + Rose Lowder: A Benefit for Showpaper
October 20: Mouth Room curated by James Richards
October 21: An Evening with Bidoun and Semiotexte
October 27: New York Stories curated by Matt Keegan
November 4-8: Wang Bing: Crude Oil presented with Triple Canopy
November 10: Not a Futurist Film but a Film Without a Future: Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder with Ben Owen
November 17: Untitled Performances: Emma Hart and Benedict Drew
November 24: We Dig Repetition: Peter Roehr curated by Mark Webber
December 1: Casting presented by Marysia Lewandowska and Maria Lind
December 2: The Last Days of Immanuel Kant introduced by Richard Brody
December 9: Car Wreckers and Home Lovers: The Automobile in Silent Slapstick a lecture by Karen Beckman
December 15: Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be curated by Sharon Hayes and Brooke O'Harra

2008

March 25: The Blazing World curated by Thomas Beard and Ed Halter
April 1: Fools! curated by Brian Frye and Bradley Eros
April 8: QQ More curated by Eddo Stern
April 15: We Melt Away (A Walking Picture Palace of Ice) curated by Mark McElhatten
April 22: The Way We Were (or: What Happened To Us?) curated by Jake Perlin
April 29: MTAA's Self-Selected Super St*rs
May 6: Moving Fight Pictures presented by Dan Streible
May 7: Action News presented by Small Change
May 13: The Green Light and the Lone Rose curated by David Gatten
May 20: Films by Jennifer Reeves
May 27: Eyes Upside Down presented by P. Adams Sitney
June 3: Tuning a Deaf Ear curated by Peggy Ahwesh
June 10: No Idle Hands curated by Sabrina Gschwandtner
June 17: Coleen Fitzgibbon: Internal Systems curated by Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder
July 1: Half of the People Are Stoned and the Other Half Are Waiting for the Next Election curated by Nick Hallett
July 8: People Are Strange (When You're a Stranger) presented by Marisa Olson
July 15: Games by Mark Essen
July 22: Spectacle Spectacular curated by Ben Coonley and Michael Smith
July 29: outsite with the others curated by eteam
August 5: Content Producer presented by Cory Arcangel
August 12: PUBLIC OPINION LABORATORY presents:
August 19: ANIMANIMAL/MAMMAL/MANIMAL curated by Brel Froebe and Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
August 26: Two Films by Fred Halsted presented by William E. Jones
September 2: Video Art and Film by K8 Hardy
September 9: Sax, Sex, Six, Sox, Sux curated by Rebecca Cleman
September 16: Peter Emmanuel Goldman's Echoes of Silence introduced by Jonas Mekas
September 23: Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: The bootleg video presented by Paul Chan
October 7: Come Softly - "Be Continuous Often" curated by Mark McElhatten
October 14: Crossroads: A Tribute to Bruce Conner
October 21: Genre Trouble curated by Su Friedrich
October 28: Far From Vietnam
October 31: It's Always Halloween presented by Jacob Ciocci
November 7: Films by Matt McCormick
November 9: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Too Early, Too Late introduced by Pedro Costa
December 2: Hellfire and Rhinestones curated by Leah Churner
December 16: The Lollipop Generation presented by G.B. Jones