Pure Perception: Structure and Form in “Seventies Structures”

MoMA’s screening series “Long Live the Underground!” is a celebration in honor of two esteemed New York institutions. The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, founded in 1961, was and remains a distribution system for experimental and independent film and video. It was established by members of the New American Cinema Group, which included Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Andy Warhol, and Gregory J. Markopoulos. In 1960, the group published a manifesto that stated unequivocally, “We believe that cinema is indivisibly a personal expression. We...