January 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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January 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy Winter from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, and celebrations from January, in New York City and beyond, related to GME colleagues, as well as films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. Notably, Anthology Film Archives screened a number of titles (by esteemed filmmakers like Sergei Eisenstein and Carl Th. Dreyer) that we currently distribute. Additional screenings of work related to GME and our colleagues appeared at various venues around the globe — ranging from august organizations like the International Film Festival of Rotterdam and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, to exciting newer festivals like Animation First and Film Diary NYC.

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GME Distributes Robert Flaherty's NANOOK OF THE NORTH In Conjunction with Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Screening This Month

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GME Distributes Robert Flaherty's NANOOK OF THE NORTH In Conjunction with Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Screening This Month

As part of their Essential Cinema series, a collection of films screened on a repertory basis, Anthology Film Archives will show Robert Flaherty’s 1922 drama NANOOK OF THE NORTH on January 28th, at 5:45pm. GME distributes NANOOK OF THE NORTH on Blu-Ray to the North American university market.

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GOATS and Other Great Films at GME

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GOATS and Other Great Films at GME

In the spirit of the year-end lists of recent and retrospective, enduring film triumphs, GME is happy to share in some of the list-making and cinematic memories.  Excitement and conversations (and arguments) stirred up by 2022’s prominent list highlights from BFI's Sight Sound has prompted us to round up a somewhat broader, consensus driven collection of films from across a diverse categorization of filmic art, the zone in which GME lives.

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The Flaherty Film Seminar Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of NANOOK OF THE NORTH

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The Flaherty Film Seminar Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of NANOOK OF THE NORTH

NANOOK OF THE NORTH premiered 100 years ago at the Capitol Theater in New York City, on June 11 1922. The film’s unprecedented commercial success inspired a century of documentary filmmaking. On the centennial anniversary of NANOOK OF THE NORTH, The Flaherty invites viewers and scholars of the film to consider the complex legacy of NANOOK OF THE NORTH in settler-colonial as well as indigenous cultures.

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Letters by Warren Sonbert and Other Filmmakers Whose Works are Distributed by GME Included in "Correspondencias: Cartas Como Peliculas" Published by La Fabrica

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Letters by Warren Sonbert and Other Filmmakers Whose Works are Distributed by GME Included in "Correspondencias: Cartas Como Peliculas" Published by La Fabrica

In Correspondencias : Cartas como películas, many of these letters do not only reveal secret friendships (Louis Lumière and George Méliès), but also unknown collaborations (Orson Welles and Robert J. Flaherty) or projects, which without these letters would have remained undocumented (Maya Deren’s idea of making a film about the circus, Pasolini’s proposal to Jacques Tati to participate in Porcile); other letters mark the end of a collaboration (Marguerite Duras, proposing a script to Alain Resnais, who after being rejected, would go on to film it herself). Other correspondences asking for help at times of creative confusion (Paul Sharits to Stan Brakhage, Stan Brakhage to Hollis Frampton, Gregory Markopoulos to Stan Brakhage); they document major historical moments (the War in the case of F. W. Murnau or Robert J. Flaherty, the political situation in Indonesia, Italy or France in the case of Joris Ivens, Pasolini or Truffaut), they appear like the chronicles of a journey (S. M. Eisenstein, Chick Strand and Ron Rice from Mexico, Warren Sonbert from Morocco, Resnais from Hiroshima, Ivens from Australia, Peter Hutton from Germany, Murnau from Latvia, Allen Ginsberg from India) or even greet other poets (like the letters-gift from Eric Rohmer, Anne-Marie Miéville or Chris Marker).

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GME DVD Distribution: Essential Cinema at the End of Summer

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GME DVD Distribution: Essential Cinema at the End of Summer

Over the past two decades, GME has assembled a curated collection of significant films throughout the entire course of moving image history, which we offer in DVD and Blu-ray editions to educational institutions in North America. A substantial number of these films are represented in Anthology Film Archives’s Essential Cinema Repertory program.

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