The Early Films of Peter Tscherkassky are Screening at Light Industry

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The Early Films of Peter Tscherkassky are Screening at Light Industry

After a decade in Greenpoint, Light Industry has moved to East Williamsburg and begin their fall season with a selection of early films by Peter Tscherkassky. The works assembled here stand as some of the most vital cinematic experiments of the late 20th century, appealing, at once, to the eye through the virtuosity of their formal construction, and to the theoretical imagination through their rigorous conceptual strategies.

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Introducing GME's Featured Filmmakers Collection

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Introducing GME's Featured Filmmakers Collection

Gartenberg Media is proud to present multiple DVD, Blu-ray and DSL editions of several featured filmmakers in our catalog, including extensive representation of the work of James Benning, Philippe Garrel, Marie Losier, Jonas Mekas, Warren Sonbert, Henri Storck, Dziga Vertov and others.

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GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Filmmaking Legend Jean-Luc Godard

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GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Filmmaking Legend Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard upended cinematic conventions and expectations with his La Nouvelle Vague debut and international hit, BREATHLESS, and continued to astound, confront, and reinvent cinema, and sometimes confound audiences for the next 60 years. Though in the company of many great auteur talents of the period, Godard stood out in his strident social and aesthetic development, working in narrative, documentary and television formats simultaneously, while remaking each in the mold of his own, highly personal vision.

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THEMATIC COURSE SUGGESTIONS FROM GME AND MORE AS WE HEAD INTO FALL

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THEMATIC COURSE SUGGESTIONS FROM GME AND MORE AS WE HEAD INTO FALL

Looking ahead to the fall semester, GME would like to remind you of some of our popular titles that can be utilized for thematic teaching purposes, while also preparing you for a selection of new titles from Kino Lorber, Re:voir, Index Edition, Edition Filmmuseum, and others, soon to be released as downloadable DSL files and Disk/DSL bundles through GME Streamline.

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LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Showing in ALAIN RESNAIS 100 Series at Film Forum

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LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Showing in ALAIN RESNAIS 100 Series at Film Forum

“Masterpiece of masterpieces!” (Jonathan Rosenbaum), LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (France, 1961), directed by Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, “is a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside time, and a shocking intimation of perfection.” (J. Hoberman). A hypnotically beautiful puzzle box of a film, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD is one of the most influential in the history of cinema.

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GME Gem 22: Rose Lowder's Bouquet of Images

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GME Gem 22: Rose Lowder's Bouquet of Images

For many years Rose Lowder has been developing an exceptional technique of weaving together images gathered frame- by-frame to form scintillating patterns of light. By oscillating the focal plane of photographs shot in the same place over time, her layered tapestries produce a new relationship between filmed reality and filmic image.

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GME Gem 21: Paul Clipson's Immersive Cinema

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GME Gem 21: Paul Clipson's Immersive Cinema

Paul Clipson’s cinema is one of eternal recurrence. Subjects continually repeat themselves: bridges, buildings, fences, gratings, trains, airplanes, trees, suns, leaves, grass, eyes, power lines, and especially bodies of water. Clipson creates layered superimpositions of these objects through rewinding the camera and re-exposing the film stock from another iteration of the subject.

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GME Streamline Presents a Free Stream of Marie Losier's SLAP THE GONDOLA

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GME Streamline Presents a Free Stream of Marie Losier's SLAP THE GONDOLA

GME is pleased to announce a special free stream for the month of August of this musical with music, musicians, muses and fish… On a giant ferry, two mermaids (Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge) play violin to attract the fish from the sea, when suddenly a giant fish with 30 dancers in its stomach lands on board.

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NYC's Poster House Exhibits Revolutionary Soviet Films Posters

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NYC's Poster House Exhibits Revolutionary Soviet Films Posters

The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s explores the origins, high points, and eventual demise of this golden age of Soviet graphic design, a revolutionary, though doomed visual language that for a short time represented the explosion of dynamic, innovative filmmaking in the new Socialist society. Gartenberg Media distributes several of the milestone Soviet films which are well represented in this exhibition, including KINO-EYE (1924), BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926), A SIXTH PART OF THE WORLD (1926), and TURKSIB (1929).

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Films and Filmmakers Distributed by GME Showing in New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema Series and Exhibition by Film at Lincoln Center, Film Forum and the Jewish Museum

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Films and Filmmakers Distributed by GME Showing in New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema Series and Exhibition by Film at Lincoln Center, Film Forum and the Jewish Museum

1962 to 1964 was a pivotal moment in the evolution of American arts and culture, especially in New York City. These years, crucial to the development of Pop, Minimalism, and performance, saw the emergence of a new generation of radical artists, as well as venues that gave their iconoclastic work a home and a context. Movies, meanwhile, were undergoing a transformation of their own: the rise of a truly independent cinema, of works unencumbered by the medium’s aesthetic conventions and commercial imperatives.

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