The Homestead Act

Millennium Film Workshop, the non-profit media arts center and cinema, located in the East Village, has been around since 1965, dedicated to the exhibition, study & practice of avant-garde and experimental film, video, and all technologies of the moving image. It’s Personal Cinema Series, from the local to the international, has been ongoing since the beginning.
This Millennium Nomadic series of programs will feature works from the current “new era” of Millennium, a time when dozens of artists & filmmakers have joined together to keep this vital space alive. In this moment of dwindling funds & dispersed focus, makers, teachers & curators have banded together to infuse new blood into a potentially disappearing institution in an act of creative self-determination. Exciting programs, essential workshops, & a thriving journal signal the “irrepressible” nature of this DIY cultural venue. Come see the film & video works of three generations of fiercely independent & wildly experimental media artists that refuse to quit or join the corporate spectacle.
Millennium Nomadic will consist of 3 programs & a panel, spanning a wide gamut of approaches, styles, techniques, attitudes & visions, from abstraction to appropriation, performance to animation, material to structural, lyrical to satirical, critical to poetic. Celluloid works will mingle with digital, and the single channel with expanded cinema. And both the programs & the panel will derive from New York artists engaged as curators, teachers, board members and equipment facilitators at Millennium, as well as from the journal and technical workshops.  So as a way to meet & solicit new artists, to increase our visibility to other communities, and to experience satellite venues, we come displaying the pulse of this post-millennial Millennium.