GME NOTES THE CENTENNIAL OF JONAS MEKAS'S BIRTH, OFFERS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES OF HIS FILMS

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GME NOTES THE CENTENNIAL OF JONAS MEKAS'S BIRTH, OFFERS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES OF HIS FILMS

Coinciding with the centennial of his birth, Film at Lincoln Center and The Jewish Museum in New York, are mounting (beginning this week) screenings and exhibitions dedicated to the life, art and legacy of Jonas Mekas's 70-year career. GME is concurrently celebrating the legacy of Mekas’s storied filmmaking career. In addition to the DVD editions of The Films of Jonas Mekas that GME has long distributed to our institutional buyers, we have recently also made available high quality downloadable .mp4 files of his films for digital site licenses (DSL) to our university clientele, including the recent release of REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (1972) (included in 3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA).

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GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Kenneth Brown, Author of THE BRIG

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GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Kenneth Brown, Author of THE BRIG

Kenneth Brown, a Brooklyn native, rattled by his brutalizing experience in the brig for insubordination while enlisted in the U.S. Marines, converted his harrowing experience into the hyper-realistic play THE BRIG, successfully produced Off-Off Broadway by the Living Theater, and later brought to the screen by Jonas Mekas.

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GME Partners wtih FI:AF to Present Félix Dufour-Laperrière's NY Premiere of ARCHIPELAGO

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GME Partners wtih FI:AF to Present Félix Dufour-Laperrière's NY Premiere of ARCHIPELAGO

Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s ARCHIPELAGO offers a contemplative and poetic travelogue along the St. Lawrence River. It expands into a semi-fictional odyssey through the filmmaker’s native province: Quebec, captured in surprising, creative animation using a wide range of techniques. It is an imaginary documentary — linguistic, political, real and dreamt.

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Recap of GME Streamline's Presentation of the Complete INDEX Edition Collection Now Available as DVD/DSL Bundles Featuring New Releases by Maria Lassnig & Mara Mattushka

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Recap of GME Streamline's Presentation of the Complete INDEX Edition Collection Now Available as DVD/DSL Bundles Featuring New Releases by Maria Lassnig & Mara Mattushka

GME is pleased to present the complete INDEX Edition Collection from Austria, now available to our North American university colleagues as DVD/DSL bundles. The label INDEX Edition was founded in 2004 by sixpackfilm and Medienwerkstatt Wien. Its aim is to make available previously hard to find moving image works in digital editions. Similar to a small publishing house for quality literature, INDEX Edition releases and distributes audiovisual publications relevant to the history of Austrian (as well as Eastern European) film, video, and media art.

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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE'S NEW DSL AND DVD RELEASES FROM THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION FEATURING THE FILMS OF ROBERT KRAMER

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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE'S NEW DSL AND DVD RELEASES FROM THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION FEATURING THE FILMS OF ROBERT KRAMER

GME Streamline is pleased to announce the availability of a new selection of experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as high quality digital files for streaming on university intranet servers, as well as on DVD and Blu-ray. Our most recent releases from the Re:voir Collection include the first four fiction feature films by Robert Kramer, as well as stylistically diverse films centered around three locales—New York, Brussels and Lithuania: Jackie Raynal’s HOTEL NEW YORK and NEW YORK STORY; the travel diaries 3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA, by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas, and Pola Chapelle (Adolfas’s wife); and a City Symphony by Belgian filmmaker Boris Lehman, MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE (1978). In addition to offering these new releases as Digital Site Licenses, they are available as well in high quality DVD and Blu-ray editions with accompanying booklets in English and French about the filmmakers and their films.

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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE'S PRESENTATION OF THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE'S PRESENTATION OF THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

GME would like to remind you of the recently made availability of a premiere selection of experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as digital files for streaming on university intranet servers. For more than 20 years, Gartenberg Media Enterprises has partnered with Re:voir in making available a diverse and fragile body of experimental and independent films, both classic and contemporary, that merits exposure to a wider audience.

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RECAP OF FALL GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES

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RECAP OF FALL GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES

Through GME Streamline this past season we have presented limited, free streams of select titles, including Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Peter Tscherkassky's OUTER SPACE, and Leopold Lindtberg's SWISS TOUR. We are currently streaming TATITUDE (2009, 4 Minutes), by Vivian Ostrovsky from her collection PLUNGE. These films are representative samples of the recently added Re:voir and Index Edition collections and single title releases now available through GME Streamline and GME DVD and Blu-ray distribution. Collectively, they constitute a wealth of cinematic history that we now make available as DVD/DSL bundle releases and direct HD digital file downloads.

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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE FALL DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES

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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE FALL DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES

Through GME Streamline this past season we have presented limited, free streams of select titles, including Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Peter Tscherkassky's OUTER SPACE, and Leopold Lindtberg's SWISS TOUR. We are currently streaming TATITUDE (2009, 4 Minutes), by Vivian Ostrovsky from her collection PLUNGE. These films are representative samples of the recently added Re:voir and Index Edition collections and single title releases now available through GME Streamline and GME DVD and Blu-ray distribution. Collectively, they constitute a wealth of cinematic history that we now make available as DVD/DSL bundle releases and direct HD digital file downloads.

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"The Discovery of the Century" Painter and Filmmaker Maria Lassnig "Body Awareness" Article in New York Review of Books

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"The Discovery of the Century" Painter and Filmmaker Maria Lassnig "Body Awareness" Article in New York Review of Books

In his article “Body Awareness”, in the New York Review of Books, on Austrian artist Maria Lassning, James Quant explores the artist’s extreme, unsparing paintings together with her autobiographical, feminist, dance and experimental films. GME recently added MARIA LASSNIG FILMS IN PROGRESS (US, 1970-1979), together with the bound publication MARIA LASSNIG. FILM WORK (AUSTRIA, 2020) to our collection Lassnig film work, together with the earlier MARIA LASSNIG: ANIMATION FILMS (Austria, 1970-1992), for distribution on DVD/DSL bundle to the North American institutional market.

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Peter Tscherkassky's Film Soundtracks by Dirk Schaefer Available as Special Limited Editions on Purge.XXX

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Peter Tscherkassky's Film Soundtracks by Dirk Schaefer Available as Special Limited Editions on Purge.XXX

The original soundtracks by Dirk Schaefer for the films of Peter Tscherkassky. Newly mastered and available for the first time, this box set covers the partnership of Schaefer and Tscherkassky, from 2005’s INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE to 2021’s TRAIN AGAIN. Each 12" double vinyl album comes with a 7" flexi disc of Tscherkassky’s own soundtrack for 1999’s OUTER SPACE.

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