IDA Magazine, excerpt:
In 1974, Millennium moved to a full cinema, editing room, and gallery space at 66 East 4th Street in Manhattan, where then–Executive Director Howard Guttenplan oversaw the expansion of Jacobs’s original programming, including the creation of the Millennium Film Journal in 1978. The workshop grew in popularity as such influential artists Carolee Schneemann, Stan Brakhage, and Andy Warhol, among many others, screened there.
However, like many scrappy nonprofits, over the ensuing decades, due to financial precarity, nearly all of Millenium’s valuable assets were sold or given up. Its archive was sold to MoMA, its space on 4th Street was lost, and its community was spread thin. Programs were almost entirely paused. In 2017, the board brought in a new executive director, Joey Huertas, who adapted to the lack of permanent physical space by conducting a nomadic program of pop-up screenings known as “HIJACK Open Screenings.” Because of COVID-19, in 2020 events were moved online and gained a new international audience alongside an expanded local one.
Full Article LINK:
https://www.documentary.org/online-feature/reemergence-millennium-film-workshop
