Distributor of Avant-Garde Films Threatened With Eviction

The Film-Makers' Cooperative is in a real estate dispute which imperils the future of the financially troubled organization. Last month the Film-Makers' Cooperative received an eviction notice that would force it out of its office and archive in a building in TriBeCa, space that is controlled by the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, another bulwark of the city's avant-garde artistic establishment. P.S. 1, which is based in Long Island City, Queens, and sponsors exhibitions and provides artists with studio space, intends to give up the 8,200 square feet on the 13th floor at 108 Leonard Street and turn it over to Alanna Heiss, who founded P.S. 1 in 1971 and until her departure at the end of last year was its executive director. Ms. Heiss, in turn, wants to use the location as a base for her latest project, an Internet radio station called Art International Radio.