ABOUT BASEMENT FILMS
Founded in Albuquerque in 1991, Basement Films is a volunteer-run microcinema supporting experimental and under-represented forms of media-making through public screenings, performances, workshops, and lectures.
Our membership is made up of artists, activists, media makers and “film buffs.” Basement Films provides a forum for voices not heard in mainstream media. We are a resource for artists, filmmakers, and students interested in exploring new, old, dead and experimental approaches to moving image art.
To this end, Basement Films is interested in championing communities of cinematic experimentalists (regional and international), and we feel it is our responsibility to keep the experimentalists part of the current, statewide conversation about movie making.
More than anything, the membership of Basement Films enjoys exploring new and unique ways to introduce audiences to our archive of analogue films.
Exhibitions include multi-projection environments, curated screening programs, drive-by projections (using a gas powered generator), guerrilla-style drive in movie nights, a Da Da-esque flim strip lecture series, Cinemas Publicus (open screening nights), and everything in between!
"As New Mexico re-imagines itself as a new Hollywood, Basement Films is reaching “deep into our mission” to broaden popular notions of what a film might be."
As New Mexico thinks about it’s media-future, Basement Films believes that it is important for our organization to insert itself into this state-wide conversation and expand the dialogue beyond “Hollywood models” to include diverse and underrepresented media histories and practices.
Basement Films hopes to inspire individual’s to recognize the value of their media voices, make movies in ways we never imagined possible and to participate in shaping future trends in cultural representation.
PERSONNEL
Board of Directors:
President – Bryan Konefsky
Vice president – Beth Hansen
Treasurer – Nina Shoenfeld
Secretary – James Lawrence
Officer – Peter Lisignoli
Basement Films Members:
Jenette Isaacson
Alys Griego
Chloe Graf
Lacey Chrisco
Chandler Wigton
Kris Mills
Milo Friedensohn
Asha Hopkins
Nicole Del Mar
David Camarena
Board of Advisors:
Andrew Barrow
Keif Henley
Ariel Dougherty
Josephine Sherer
Caryn Cline
Marika Borgeson
