lucy working at film-makers coop
My Spring 2024 internship took place at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative/New American Cinema Group, which has functioned as a distributor and supporter of avant-garde and experimental film and video since 1961. My tasks over the course of the internship assisted with a range of the coop’s projects and materials, including print distribution, programming, research assistance, and intellectual control. I cleaned, inspected, & filled out inspection cards for dozens of recently returned and ingested 16mm prints. I conducted an inventory of prints in FMC's cold storage not accounted for in its catalog, projected films for visiting scholars and researchers, scanned and edited film stills, and digitized VHS tapes from the collection. While at FMC, I also selected, wrote notes for, and introduced a program, "Portraits of Trans Lives c. 1970," as part of the coop's "Films for Social Change: Revisited and Expanded" series.
