MEETING MM (2024)

Mary Magdalene Serra, NYC-based experimental filmmaker talks about her work in connection to queerness, identity, and how to navigate our deeply flawed, and hyper-censored society.

Film by Josie Willems, 2024.

THE LO-DOWN CULTURE CAST: MM Serra (2023)

MM Serra joins host Traven Rice to talk about her career as an avant garde and experimental filmmaker. Serra has been based on the Lower East Side for over three decades. She is also an author, curator, and professor at Parsons at the New School. For 32 years, she was the Executive Director of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, the world’s oldest and largest archive of independent film.

Brooklyn Rail New Social Environment #623 (2022)

Filmmaker MM Serra joins Rail Director of Programs
Chloe Stagaman for a conversation

Brooklyn Rail New Social Environment #700 (2022)

Alchemy, the Metaphysical, and Psychic Automatism Rail Editor-at-Large

Ann McCoy, artist Olga Spiegel, and filmmaker MM Serra join Rail contributor Andrew Woolbright for a conversation

Lynne Sachs and MM Serra in conversation (2020)

Filmmaker and Executive Director of the Film-Maker's Coop MM Serra talks with artist and Board of Advisers member Lynne Sachs about MM's life and work over the last few decades.

MM Serra at the 8th Diversions International Short Film Festival (2021)

In conversation with Dr. Nikica Gilić and Zorko Sirotić (Croatia, July 2021)

Filmmakers’ Cooperative:
Panel Discussion with Lynne Sachs, Bradley Eros, MM Serra, and Jack Waters (2021)

In celebration of the Museum of the Moving Image’s online Lynne Sachs retrospective, The Film-Makers’ Coop is proud to present a Q&A Discussion of Sachs’ nonfiction filmography, including her new feature, Film About a Father Who

My Creative Space:
MM Serra in New York (2019)

Interview for Soho House - June 2019

MM Serra Interviewed atLudlow House (2019)

Excerpts from an Interview by Armand Ruhlman at Ludlow House NYC, sometime around 2016. Armand Ruhlman is a writer and Filmmaker in New York City working on multiple projects including feature films and plays about New York City.

James Franco and Rob Pruitt’s Interview
with Jonas Mekas & MM Serra (2019)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

BBC World News' Tom Brook visits the FMC! (2019)

Tom Brook from BBC World News' Talking Movies visits The Film-Makers' Cooperative in 2014

Final Draft:
MM Serra on Film (2015)

In this interview, MM Serra discusses studying with Shirley Clarke (The Connection, Portrait of Jason) at UCLA, her appreciation of Arthur Rimbaud's poetry, and how questioning her name inspired her to become an avant-garde filmmaker. MM Serra visited the IU Cinema in February 2015 for several public events and a lecture as part of the Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series.