Where Cinema Endures
A permanent, equitable home for cinema.
A living archive of the moving image.
Discover lineage, not algorithms.
Direct support for artists.
The Disappearance
Films vanish. Licenses expire. Platforms change. Access is revoked.
The Cinemat keeps the work in circulation and connects it through the lineages that shaped it.
Why Now
Vanishing Catalogs
Films disappear as licenses expire and platforms shift.
Algorithm Fatigue
Discovery is optimized for churn, not context.
Artist Precarity
Attention on the internet rarely translates to survival for the creator.
Cultural Memory
The infrastructure of cinema was built to sell. We are building it to last.
Led By
Annie Berman
Annie Berman is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and educator. Her work has screened at museums, festivals, and cinematheques internationally. She is a member of Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and Film Fatales, and holds an MFA from Hunter College.
Matt Mankins
Matt Mankins is an inventor and entrepreneur working on creative economies, web monetization, and micropayment systems for artists. He previously served as CTO of Fast Company and Director of Monetization at Condé Nast. He is a Mozilla Fellow and MIT Media Lab alum.
They previously built a custom release platform for Berman's film The Faithful.
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For filmmakers, estates, archivists, educators, programmers, scholars, and cinephiles interested in what comes next.