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This past month saw the work of several filmmakers distributed by GME programmed in venues in the U.S. and abroad. It is a reminder of both the durability of these artists and their works and the ongoing interest in the kinds of notable independent and experimental moving image work that GME strives to provide to our buyers.
Read MoreBeginning in 1968, with The TUXEDO THEATRE, Sonbert began traveling the world and created tightly edited, silent montage films. He became known as the leading proponent of polyvalent montage, in which, according to Sonbert, his films were “not strictly involved with plot or morality but rather the language of film as regards time, composition, cutting, light, distance, extension of backgrounds to foregrounds, what you see and what you don’t, a jig-saw puzzle of postcards to produce various displace effects.”
Read MoreFramework: The Journal of Cinema and Media has co-sponsored the symposium, "Transatlantic Experimental Film Connections and Influences: New American Cinema and Europe in the 1960s and Afterwards," held May 26, 2022 in Turin Italy. The symposium brings together scholars, archivists and writers to discuss the occasion of the momentous introduction of the New American Cinema (NAC) at Spoleto in 1961 and the longevity of its impact.
Read MoreFilm Forum’s THE WOMEN BEHIND HITCHCOCK series presents thirty-one films on which Hitchcock collaborated with the most important and influential women during his career, most notably, his wife Alma Revile (variously in the roles of story editor, film editor, assistant director, and screenwriter), and producer and screenwriter, Joan Harrison.
Read MoreAVANT GARDE INFLUENCES MAINSTREAM MOVIES!
VENUE: FILM CENTER AMPHITHEATER
CATEGORIES: NYFF
Presented by New York Women in Film and Television. Organized by Terry Lawler, Executive Directorand NYWIFT Board Members Anne Hubbell and Eileen Newman.
For generations experimental filmmakers have been developing new cinematic techniques that haveredefined cinema. This panel of filmmakers, curators and educators looks at how the experiments andground-breaking new filmmaking by the avant garde have influenced and been adopted by mainstreamcinema.
Speakers include Ina Archer, Independent Media Artist; Sara Driver, director and producer, whose newlyrestored film, You Are Not I, is playing at the New York Film Festival; Roberta Friedman, independent producer and post production supervisor; Jon Gartenberg, independent curator and President, Gartenberg Media; and MM Serra, Executive Director, Filmmakers Coop. The panel will be moderated by Drake Stutesman, Editor, Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media.
SERIES: NYFF FORUMS
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Thu Oct. 6: 7:00 pm - AMP
Open Event
Couldn't make it to the forum? Check out our archived livestream video below.
