Emily Rose Apter is a Brooklyn-based cultural worker, whose work explores overlapping spheres of cultural production, (counter)archives, labor, and collective struggle. She works in public programming for film and cultural heritage organizations, formerly as the Director of Programming at Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem, Currently, she programs at Roxy Cinema and oversees film screenings and special projects for Solidarity Media Network, a grassroots abolitionist project supporting formerly incarcerated artists.
Emily has programmed at cinemas, museums, and schools around the country including: Maysles Cinema, Roxy Cinema, Spectacle Theater, Mayday Space, Museum of the City of NY, City College, Pratt University, Harlem Stage, the Film-Makers' Cooperative, among others. She has written for The Baffler, Another Gaze, Screen Slate, Millennium Film Journal, Analog Cookbook, Cinémovil, and Chute Film Coop.
Her zines are available through Maysles Documentary Center and Printed Matter, and her film, Bliss.jpg, through DA Films.
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contact: emilyapter1@gmail.com
emily@solidaritymedianetwork.org
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