Shorts Program Archive – November 2025

Saturday, November 1st:

4:45 PM
Marta Mateus Selects, PGM 2: Mateus + de Oliveira – 50 min.
Bread (35mm) [1963] dir. Manoel de Oliveira – 23 min.
Barbs, Wastelands (DCP) [2017] dir. Marta Mateus – 25 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Marta Mateus Selects – Tickets

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Friday, November 7th:

7:00 PM
Marta Mateus Selects, PGM 2: Mateus + de Oliveira – 50 min.
Bread (35mm) [1963] dir. Manoel de Oliveira – 23 min.
Barbs, Wastelands (DCP) [2017] dir. Marta Mateus – 25 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Marta Mateus Selects – Tickets

7:30 PM
Bradley Eros, PGM 1: Bradley Eros / Jeanne Liotta: Mediamystics – 95 min.
Soma Sema (1988) dir. Bradley Eros & Jeanne Liotta – 13 min.
Open Sesame (Video) [1989] dir. Bradley Eros & Jeanne Liotta – 7 min.
fungus eroticus (1990) dir. Bradley Eros & Jeanne Liotta – 30 min.
Dervish Machine (1992) dir. Bradley Eros & Jeanne Liotta – 10 min.
Eros/Liotta/Mediamystics With Circle X (Video) [1988-92] – 7 min.
Subverted Horseplay (Chamber piece for projectors) (1994-97) dir. Bradley Eros & Jeanne Liotta – 20 min.
with 35mm analog original slides from 1988-98
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Bradley Eros: Hẏstéry in Every Media – Tickets

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Saturday, November 8th:

7:00 PM
Bradley Eros, PGM 2: Eros & Others: Collaborations 1 – 95 min.
Venus to Penis (Video) [1983] dir. Bradley Eros & Aline Mare – 14 min.
Pyrotechnics (1985) dir. Bradley Eros & Aline Mare – 11 min.
27 Aphorisms for Jonas (Digital) [2019] dir. Bradley Eros & Richard Sylvarnes – 6 min.
Bela Lugois’s Dead (Vampÿrates) (Digital) [2021] dir. Bradley Eros & Richard Sylvarnes – 11 min.
Transtrans (Transformers Transformed) (Digital) [2009] dir. Bradley Eros & Tim Geraghty – 12 min.
{Housini} Séance {The Trailer} (Digital) [2016] dir. Bradley Eros & Tim Geraghty – 4 min.
Eau de cinema {The Avant Ad} (Digital) [2014] dir. Bradley Eros & Tim Geraghty – 2 min.
Aerodynamics of the Black Sun (Digital) [2006] dir. Bradley Eros & Lili Chin – 6 min.
X-Ray Eros (Digital) [2025] dir. Bradley Eros & Qianqi Zhang – 4 min.
Other works with Circle X, Optipus, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Arcana Project, HPSCHD, including Brian Frye, Joel Schlemowitz, Lary Seven, LeLe Dai, Marie Losier, Bruce Witsiepe, and Jeanne Liotta – 20 min.
with 35mm analog original slides from 1980-2025
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Bradley Eros: Hẏstéry in Every Media – Tickets

9:30 PM
Bradley Eros, PGM 3: Eros & Others: Collaborations 2 – 95 min.
Electramorphic (1987) dir. Bradley Eros & Aline Mare – 11 min.
27 Aphorisms for Jonas (Digital) [2019] dir. Bradley Eros & Richard Sylvarnes – 6 min.
Dahlia Noir (Vampÿrates) (Digital) [2022] dir. Bradley Eros & Richard Sylvarnes – 11 min.
Eros c’est Lamour (Digital) [2008] dir. Bradley Eros & Tim Geraghty – 8 min.
{Houdini} Séance (Digital) [2010] dir. Bradley Eros & Tim Geraghty – 16 min.
Eau de cinema {The Avant Ad} (Digital) [2014] dir. Bradley Eros & Tim Geraghty – 2 min.
Rite of the Black Sun (Digital) [2005] dir. Lili Chin – 11 min.
X-Ray Eros (Digital) [2025] dir. Bradley Eros & Qianqi Zhang – 4 min.
Other works with Circle X, Optipus, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Arcana Project, HPSCHD, including Brian Frye, Joel Schlemowitz, Lary Seven, LeLe Dai, Marie Losier, Bruce Witsiepe, and Jeanne Liotta – 20 min.
with 35mm analog original slides from 1980-2025
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Bradley Eros: Hẏstéry in Every Media – Tickets

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Sunday, November 9th:

7:30 PM
Bradley Eros, PGM 4: Eros.ion: Solo Works – 110 min.
Osmosis (1972-2002) dir. Bradley Eros – 11 min.
Aurora Borealis (Digital) [2002] dir. Bradley Eros – 12 min.
Deliquescence (Digital) [2002] dir. Bradley Eros – 8 min.
Spidery (Digital) [2002] dir. Bradley Eros – 9 min.
Burn (or, the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics) (Digital) [2004] dir. Bradley Eros – 5 min.
Burn (or, the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics) (Digital) [2004] dir. Bradley Eros – 5 min.
Mutable Fire! (1984) dir. Bradley Eros – 8 min.
Hystèry (Digital) [1985] dir. Bradley Eros – 11 min.
Excess & Ecstasy (Digital) [2025] dir. Bradley Eros – 24 min.
with a selection of 35mm analog original slides (1969-2025)
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Bradley Eros: Hẏstéry in Every Media – Tickets

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Friday, November 14th:

7:00 PM
Ann Deborah Levy: Illusions – 83 min.
Watercolors (2007) dir. Ann Deborah Levy – 13 min.
Rain Painting (Video) [2014] dir. Ann Deborah Levy – 6 min.
WATER FALLS, New York City (Video) [2019] dir. Ann Deborah Levy – 12 min.
WATERSCAPE: illusions (2007) dir. Ann Deborah Levy – 52 min.
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative – Tickets
*Followed by a discussion and Q&A with the filmmaker, moderated by Matt McKinzie

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Saturday, November 15th:

12:00 PM
Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Fall Follies – 60 min.
Tommy Stathes joins Metrograph in mid-November with Fall Follies, a selection of vintage animated shorts with cozy and cool autumnal themes. Come enjoy a wacky woodpecker’s mishaps with his hibernation banquet; Tom Turkey’s clever escape from becoming Thanksgiving dinner; a bear cub’s run-in with Jack Frost; feathered fowls who should fly south as temperatures cool; square-dancing dogs having a musical night under the mountaintop moonlight; and other fun tales. Spanning the 1930s through the ’50s, this assortment showcases classic characters such as Molly Moo-Cow, Daffy Duck, Woody Woodpecker, Farmer Al Falfa, and others.
Metrograph – Part of Screen Time at Metrograph – Tickets

6:30 PM
Avant-Garde Ads: Advertisements (1920s-40s) – 65 min.
Der Sieger (DCP) [1921] dir. Walter Ruttmann – 2 min.
Das Wunder (DCP) [1922] dir. Walter Ruttmann – 3 min.
The Secret of the Marquise (DCP) [1922] dir. Lotte Reiniger – 3 min.
The Barcarole (DCP) [1924] dir. Julius Pinschewer & Lotte Reiniger – 4 min.
Film (DCP) [1925] dir. Julius Pinschewer & Guido Seeber – 6 min.
Two Penny Magic (1929) dir. Hans Richter – 2 min.
Health Tonic (DCP) [1926] dir. Lotte Lendesdorff & Walter Ruttmann – 2 min.
Der Feinschmecker (Digital) [1934] dir. Egon von Tresckow – 2 min.
Circles (1933-34) dir. Oskar Fischinger – 2 min.
Muratti Gets in the Act (1934) dir. Oskar Fischinger – 3 min.
Muratti Privat (1935) dir. Oskar Fischinger – 2 min.
Bubbles Game (DCP) [1936] dir. Karel Dodal & Irena Dodalová – 2 min.
An Autumn Song (DCP) [1937] dir. Karel Dodal & Irena Dodalová – 2 min.
Kaleidoscope (35mm) [1935] dir. Len Lye – 4 min.
Incandescent Love (DCP) [1939] dir. Gyula Macskássy – 2 min.
Light (DCP) [1942] dir. Gyula Macskássy & György Szénásy – 1 min.
The Birth of a Robot (35mm) [1935] dir. Len Lye – 7 min.
The Highway Sings (35mm) [1937] dir. Alexander Hammid & Elmar Klos – 4 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Avant-Garde Ads: Part 1 – Tickets

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Sunday, November 16th:

3:00 PM
16mm Cartoons: Rude, Sexy & Risqué – 90 min.
‘Pre-code’ animated cartoons of the 1920s and early 1930s were made to entertain the adults in movie theater audiences—often more so than the children! Salacious sexiness, lustful adultery, cross-dressing, Peeping Toms, hardcore drinking, and unusually cruel violence were only some of the wonderfully vulgar themes present in these shorts before strict censorship codes took hold in the the Great Depression-addled American film industry. To showcase these envelope-pushing cartoons of yesteryear, animation archivist and historian Tommy José Stathes will share some especially raunchy examples from his personal 16mm film print archive. An infamous 1920s hardcore pornographic cartoon will round out the program, which is clearly intended for a more mature audience.
Roxy Cinema New York – Tickets
*Followed by a Q&A

5:15 PM
Avant-Garde Ads: Advertisements (1950s-90s) – 70 min.
Nuart Theatre no smoking PSA (35mm) [1982] dir. John Waters & Douglas Brian Martin – 1 min.
EZTV No smoking PSA (Video) [ca. 1985] dir. Mark Shepard – 1 min.
Bris Soap Commercials [selection] (DCP) [1951] dir. Ingmar Bergman – 7 min.
Muntz TV (1953) dir. Oskar Fischinger – 2 min.
Chronicle (DCP) [1955] dir. Jordan Belson – 2 min.
The Subject Was Wrinkles (Digital) [1960s] dir. Paul Bartel – 8 min.
Rhythm (1957) dir. Len Lye – 1 min.
Adebar (35mm) [1957] dir. Peter Kubelka – 1 min.
Schwechater (1958) dir. Peter Kubelka – 1 min.
Anonymous Commercials for d-c-fix and INKU GF-Kante (35mm) [1963/65] – 4 min.
Pepsi-Cola-Commercial (1960) dir. Dwinell Grant – 1 min.
Sears Sox (1968) dir. Pat O’Neill, Neon Park, & Chick Strand – 5 min.
Luden’s Cough Drops ad (Video) [1967] dir. Ed Seeman & Frank Zappa – 1 min.
Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes (Video) [1980] dir. Dara Birnbaum – 4 min.
Father Guido Sarducci On Art School (Video) [1982] dir. George Manupelli & William Farley – 1 min.
MTV: Artbreak (Video) [1987] dir. Dara Birnbaum – 1 min.
ABC promo – Michael Jackson (Video) [1987] dir. David Daniels – 1 min.
Honda Scooter ad (Video) [1988] dir. David Daniels – 1 min.
Idiot Box opening sequence (Video) [1990] dir. David Daniels – 1 min.
Clearasil ad (Video) [1995] dir. David Daniels – 1 min.
America’s Best Contacts and Eyeglasses commercial (Video) [1990] dir. M. Henry Jones & Tom Marsan – 1 min.
Closed Jeans ads (Video) [1987/88] dir. Jean-Luc Godard – 2 min.
Nike Air 180 ad (Video) [1991] dir. Jean-Luc Godard – 1 min.
Schick Aftershave ad (Video) [1991] dir. Jean-Luc Godard – 1 min.
Parisienne People Cigarettes ad (Video) [1992] dir. Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville – 1 min.
Nike Air 180 ad (Video) [1990] dir. David Cronenberg – 1 min.
Caramilk ad (Video) [1990] dir. David Cronenberg – 1 min.
Georgia Coffee ads (Digital) [1991] dir. David Lynch – 2 min.
Michael Jackson Dangerous Short Films intro (Digital) [1991] dir. David Lynch – 1 min.
Adidas the Wall ad (Digital) [1993] dir. David Lynch – 1 min.
Sci Fi Channel interstitials (Digital) [1997] dir. David Lynch – 1 min.
Parisienne People (Digital) [1998] dir. David Lynch – 1 min.
Playstation 2 ad (Digital) [2000] dir. David Lynch – 1 min.
David Lynch Coffee ad (Digital) [2011] dir. David Lynch – 4 min.
Nike: Joel / Hippies (Digital) [1993] dir. Jeff Preiss – 1 min.
Cherry Coke: Rugby (Digital) [1998] dir. Jeff Preiss – 1 min.
Yellow Pages: Tour / Critic / Green Room (Digital) [1998] dir. Jeff Preiss – 2 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Avant-Garde Ads: Part 1 – Tickets

7:30 PM
Avant-Garde Ads: Stan Brakhage – 60 min.
Colorado Legend (DCP) [1961] dir. Stan Phillips – 11 min.
Ballad of the Colorado Ute (DCP) [1963] dir. Stan Phillips – 17 min.
Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself (1962) dir. Stan Brakhage – 41 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Avant-Garde Ads: Part 1 – Tickets

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Monday, November 17th:

6:15 PM
Avant-Garde Ads: Culture + Education – 75 min.
Film Magazine of the Arts (1963) dir. Jonas Mekas – 20 min.
Here I Am (1962) dir. Bruce Baillie – 11 min.
The Brookfield Recreation Center (1964) dir. Bruce Baillie – 6 min.
Children Are Our First Priority (1972) dir. Chick Strand – 13 min.
PBL #2 (1968) dir. Robert Breer – 1 min.
Geometry of Circles (Digital) [1979] dir. Cathryn Aison & Philip Glass – 3 min.
Library (DCP) [1970] dir. Jerome Hiler & Nathaniel Dorsky – 18 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Avant-Garde Ads: Part 1 – Tickets

7:00 PM
An Evening with Stephen Prina
The Way He Always Wanted It II (35mm) [2008] dir. Stephen Prina – 27 min.
Vinyl II (2002) dir. Stephen Prina – 21 min.
The Museum of Modern Art – Part of Modern Mondays & Stephen Prina: A Lick and a Promise – Tickets

8:15 PM
Avant-Garde Ads: Culture + Tourism – 80 min.
The New Apartment (DCP) [1930] dir. Hans Richter – 28 min.
Colour Flight (DCP) [1938] dir. Len Lye – 4 min.
Swinging the Lambeth Walk (35mm) [1939] dir. Len Lye – 4 min.
LIFE’S MUSICAL MINUTE (DCP) [1953] dir. Len Lye – 2 min.
Norman McLaren NEW YORK LIGHTBOARD RECORD (1961, 9 min, 35mm-to-DCP)
Pittsburgh (DCP) [1959] dir. Stan Brakhage, Weegee, Len Lye, Stan Vanderbeek – 28 min.
200 (DCP) [1975] dir. Vince Collins – 3 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Avant-Garde Ads: Part 1 – Tickets

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Wednesday, November 19th:

7:30 PM
Millennium Film Journal No. 82 Launch Screening – 90 min.
Repeat After Me (Digital) [2024] dir. Open Group – 17 min.
adieu ugarit (Digital) [2024] dir. Samy Benammar – 15 min.
Memory Theater 2 (Digital) [2022-25] dir. Claudia Hart – 5 min.
Rain (Digital) [2025] dir. Mike Hoolboom – 3 min.
White Harlem (Digital) [2024] dir. Mike Hoolboom – 10 min.
Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars (35mm) [2014] dir. Tomonari Nishikawa – 2 min.
Selected Works (Digital) [2025] dir. Undertime Slopper – 5 min.
Being John Smith (Digital) [2024] dir. John Smith – 27 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Tickets

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Friday, November 21st:

7:00 PM
Three Portraits By Lucas Kane – 55 min.
Impressions of Resistance and Erasure (2021) dir. Lucas Kane – 3 min.
Jacob’s House (2025) dir. Lucas Kane – 21 min.
Three Songs For Peter Brook (Digital) [work-in-progress] dir. Lucas Kane – 24 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Tickets
*Kane will be in attendance and will perform a live reading alongside Three Songs For Peter Brook, with an introduction and post-screening conversation led by Lily Jue Sheng

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Saturday, November 22nd:

8:00 PM
Avant-Garde Ads: Industrials/Communications 2: Technology + Mathematics – 90 min.
A Communications Primer (DCP) [1953] dir. Charles & Ray Eames – 22 min.
The Magic Ribbon (DCP) [1959] dir. Ferdinand Khittl – 21 min.
Communication (DCP) [1961] dir. Edgar Reitz – 11 min.
Test 0558 (DCP) [1965] dir. Bernard Longpré – 4 min.
Experiments In Motion Graphics (1968) dir. John Whitney, Sr. – 12 min.
Dimension soleils (DCP) [1970] dir. Raymond Brousseau & Bernard Longpré – 4 min.
Pixillation (DCP) [1970] dir. Lillian Schwartz – 4 min.
UFOS (DCP) [1971] dir. Lillian Schwartz & Ken Knowlton – 4 min.
Enigma (DCP [1972] dir. Lillian Schwartz – 4 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Avant-Garde Ads: Part 1 – Tickets

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Sunday, November 23rd:

5:45 PM
Avant-Garde Ads: PSAs: Economy/War/Health – 80 min.
Inflation (DCP) [1928] dir. Hans Richter – 3 min.
Musical Poster No. 1 (35mm) [1940] dir. Len Lye – 3 min.
Kill or Be Killed (35mm) [1942] dir. Len Lye – 18 min.
Newspaper Train (DCP) [1942] dir. Len Lye – 6 min.
Work Party (35mm) [1942] dir. Len Lye – 7 min.
V For Victory (DCP) [1941] dir. Norman McLaren – 2 min.
Five For Four (DCP) [1942] dir. Norman McLaren – 3 min.
Keep Your Mouth Shut (DCP) [1944] dir. Norman McLaren – 3 min.
They Caught the Ferry (35mm) [1948] dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer – 11 min.
AIDS (Public Service Announcements) (Video) [1990] dir. Philip Mathews – 4 min.
Summer Of Love PSA (Video) [1990] dir. Tom Rubnitz – 1 min.
We Care About New York (Digital) [1991] dir. David Lynch – 1 min.
Jackson Song (Digital) [1990] dir. Jeff Preiss – 2 min.
Extra Ultra Super Gal (DCP) [2024] dir. Rachael Guma – 4 min.
Drug Abuse (Video) [1972] dir. Pat Lehman – 1 min.
The Reagans Speak Out On Drugs (1988) dir. Cliff Roth – 7 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Avant-Garde Ads: Part 1 – Tickets

8:00 PM
Avant-Garde Ads: Artist Ads – 85 min.
Television Delivers People (Video) [1973] dir. Richard Serra & Carlotta Schoolman – 7 min.
The TV Commercials 1973-1977 (Video) [1973-77/2000] dir. Chris Burden – 4 min.
Commercial For Myself (Video) [1978] dir. Lynn Hershman Leeson – 1 min.
Election Tape ’84 (Video) [1984] dir. Vito Acconci – 2 min.
This Is Not an Advertisement (Video) [1985] dir. Muntadas – 5 min.
Television Spots (Video) [1987-88] dir. Stan Douglas – 5 min.
Music-Video (Video) [2000] dir. Harun Farocki – 1 min.
30 Second Portraits: New York Artists (Video) [1982] dir. Joan Logue – 15 min.
Melting (1965) dir. Thom Andersen – 6 min.
Mike (Video) [1987] dir. Michael Smith – 4 min.
A Perfect Pair (Video) [1987] dir. Valie Export – 4 min.
Inforeceptor (Digital) [1994] dir. Kristin Lucas – 5 min.
Ad Vice (Digital) [1999] dir. Tony Cokes – 7 min.
Reparation Hardware (Digital) [2018] dir. Ilana Harris-Babou – 4 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Avant-Garde Ads: Part 1 – Tickets

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Monday, November 24th:

6:30 PM
Avant-Garde Ads: Ads As Found Footage, PGM 1 – 75 min.
Benetton (Digital) [2004] dir. Andrew Lampert – 5 min.
Waiting for Commercials 1966-72 (Video) [1992] dir. Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut – 7 min.
Poetry and Truth (1996-2003) dir. Peter Kubelka – 13 min.
A Day in the Life of a Consumer (DCP) [1993] dir. Harun Farocki – 44 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Avant-Garde Ads: Part 1 – Tickets

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Saturday, November 29th:

5:45 PM
Franju / Genet – 50 min.
Blood of the Beasts (1949) dir. Georges Franju – 20 min.
Un chant d’amour (35mm) [1950] dir. Jean Genet – 26 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets

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Sunday, November 30th:

7:45 PM
Eggeling / Grant / Jacobs & Fleischner – 60 min.
Symphonie Diagonale (35mm) [1924] dir. Viking Eggeling – 8 min.
Composition #2 Contrathemis (1941) dir. Dwinell Grant – 5 min.
Stop Motion Tests (1942) dir. Dwinell Grant – 3 min.
Color Sequence (1943) dir. Dwinell Grant – 3 min.
Blonde Cobra (35mm) [1959-63] dir. Ken Jacobs & Bob Fleischner – 35 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets

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