March 2025 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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March 2025 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from March related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME celebrated Women’s History Month by spotlighting works by women filmmakers that we distribute on DSL, DVD, and Blu-Ray. In the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room, GME streamed Hiroshi Teshigahara's WOMAN IN THE DUNES (which Mancia wrote about at length in Film Comment) and featured a number of rare archival treasures from Mancia's papers. Additionally, MIX NYC publicly shared the filmed Q&A session from their festival's closing night program in November 2024, which featured remarks from GME President Jon Gartenberg, commenting on GME associate Matt McKinzie's film and the other films in the program. At the end of the month, Gartenberg contributed program notes for Abigail Child's screening of her film THE SUBURBAN TRILOGY at the Film-Makers' Cooperative.

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Watch an Excerpt from the Closing Night Q&A at MIX Fest 2024, Featuring GME President Jon Gartenberg and GME Associate Matt McKinzie

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Watch an Excerpt from the Closing Night Q&A at MIX Fest 2024, Featuring GME President Jon Gartenberg and GME Associate Matt McKinzie

On November 23rd, 2024, QUEER DREAM TRIPTYCH, a found footage poem film by GME associate Matt McKinzie, screened at the Quad Cinema in the closing night program of MIX: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. The post-screening Q&A session with the filmmakers involved rich, cross-generational discourse pertaining to depictions of pleasure versus depictions of trauma, as related to queer identity and sexuality, in the selected films. This Q&A session was filmed and made available to the public on March 21st. GME President Jon Gartenberg, in attendance that evening with GME Fine Arts Curator David Deitch, commended the filmmakers for “externalizing their interior struggles on the screen,” praising their willingness to be “vulnerable” in their work and remarking that he found this kind of filmmaking — wherein the artists confronted their trauma in their art — to be “new and refreshing.”

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Maria Tallchief Centennial Celebration

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Maria Tallchief Centennial Celebration

Maria Tallchief, America's first prima ballerina who, with choreographer George Balanchine, was credited with revolutionizing American ballet, would have been 100 years old today. In February, the New York City Ballet will celebrate Tallchief's centennial with a program featuring some of her most celebrated roles, including FIREBIRD, which brought her international stardom. GME commemorates Tallchief's centennial with these indelible photographs, taken by Jack Mitchell, of Tallchief's role in FIREBIRD, which capture the artist's poise, prowess, and star power in her signature role.

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Hou Hsiao-Hsien's THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI Screens at New York's Asia Society and Museum on January 8th

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Hou Hsiao-Hsien's THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI Screens at New York's Asia Society and Museum on January 8th

Tonight, January 8th, at 6:30pm, an imported 35mm print of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI (1983) will screen at New York’s Asia Society and Museum as part of Films To See Before You Die, an ongoing monthly series featuring “classic films and underseen gems from across Asia and the Asian diaspora with extended introductions by Asia Society's Curator of Film.” GME distributes THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI in the collection HOU HSIAO-HSIEN: EARLY WORKS, which also features the filmmaker’s earlier features CUTE GIRL (1980) and THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME (1982). The collection is available to North American academic institutions as a DVD published by Cinematek, which includes three audiovisual essays by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López as bonus features, and is accompanied by a multi-lingual booklet by Tom Paulus.

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Watch Jon Gartenberg Introduce His Program of Politically-Trenchant New York City Symphony Films at Allied Productions Project Space

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Watch Jon Gartenberg Introduce His Program of Politically-Trenchant New York City Symphony Films at Allied Productions Project Space

On August 9th, 2024, at 7pm, GME President Jon Gartenberg presented a program of politically-trenchant New York city symphony films, spanning 1984 to 2006, at Allied Productions Project Space (368 East 8th Street). The program featured Steve Bilich’s NATIVE NEW YORKER (2005) and Jem Cohen’s NYC WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (2006) digitally, and Jack Waters’ BERLIN/NY (1984), Abigail Child’s B/SIDE (1996), and Jim Hubbard’s ELEGY IN THE STREETS (1989) on 16mm. To view Gartenberg’s introduction to the program — and to hear artist and co-founder of Allied Productions, Jack Waters, introduce Gartenberg — watch the video here.

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Jon Gartenberg Presents a Suite of Politically-Trenchant New York City Symphony Films at Allied Productions Project Space on August 9th

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Jon Gartenberg Presents a Suite of Politically-Trenchant New York City Symphony Films at Allied Productions Project Space on August 9th

On Friday, August 9th, 2024, at 8pm, curator Jon Gartenberg will present five politically-trenchant New York city symphony films at Allied Productions Project Space (368 East 8th Street, Storefront West, near Avenue C, on the ground floor). To RSVP to this event, click here.

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