HOWARD H. GUTTENPLAN (1934–2015)

Howard H. Guttenplan, who created the Millennium Film Workshop in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, has passed away, according to the New York Times’ Sam Roberts. He was eighty.

Guttenplan was the organization’s executive director at the workshop from 1971 until 2011. The workshop—which also publishes The Millennium Film Journal—made equipment available on loan or at low cost to filmmakers and artists like Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard, Bruce Conner, Todd Haynes, Yvonne Rainer, and Carolee Schneemann. Many of the directors supported by the workshop saw their films premiered there.

Amy Taubin, an Artforum_ contributor, said that Guttenplan’s legacy was to be found “in the hundreds of films and videos that were made thanks to cheap access to Millennium’s equipment, and in the thousands of viewers who were inspired by nearly forty years of experimental movie screenings, always with the makers in attendance.”

The Museum of Modern Art said it planned to acquire the workshop’s archives.