The Collective for Living Cinema was an outpost of avant-garde cinema located on White Street in Lower Manhattan in the United States of America. It regularly presented work by filmmakers such as Ken Jacobs, Johan van der Keuken, Yvonne Rainer, Christine Vachon, Dziga Vertov and many others who created films that were outside of the commercial mainstream in the United States. It also published a number of scholarly journals on film. Many of the founders studied film at SUNY Binghamton together, where they developed a particular interest in the avant-garde.
A recent retrospective show on the Collective's program organized by ORCHARD (orchard47.org) included the following note in its press release:
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