The Theater of the Matters is a programming group devoted to the relationship between the theater and the world it inhabits. We present screenings, performances, and publications that bring cinema into conversation with literature, theater, music, and visual art. Our programs focus on historically significant and underrepresented work, accompanied by original writing, translations, archival material, and other publications. We are based in New York City.
Founding Members
Graham L. Carter
Tommy Cunningham
Andrei Hirschhorn
Edward McCarry
Patrick Preziosi
Come as you are, don’t expect any transfiguration from the cinema, there will be no aura.
- Serge Daney
The future of cinema, like the future of revolution, is extremely uncertain.
- Shiguéhiko Hasumi
No finis to the film unless
The ending is your own.
Turn off the lights, remind
The operator of his union card:
Sit forward, let the screen reveal
Your heritage, the logic of your destiny.
- ‘Subtitle’ by Weldon Kees
Friend, this is enough. Should you wish to read more,
Go and yourself become the writing, yourself the essence.
- Angelus Silesius