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Since 1968 Dominic Angerame has produced more than 30 films on 16mm and several newer works in digital format. Some of these films have never had a public screening. Many of Angerame’s films show San Francisco, the city he has lived and worked in since 1979, and its varying cityscape as it looks and changes over time.
Read MoreTo celebrate Maria Lassnig’s moving-image work, the restoration of her films, and the publication of “Maria Lassnig: Film Works”, Anthology Film Archives is presenting three programs devoted to both her “canonical” films and the newly completed “non-canonical” works that have expanded and enriched our understanding of her cinema.
Read MoreIt’s no exaggeration to say that Michael Snow’s body of moving-image work represents one of the great achievements in the history of the art form – films such as WAVELENGTH, <---> (BACK AND FORTH), and LA RÉGION CENTRALE, each being shown during this short retrospective, are among the seminal works of experimental cinema.
Read MoreAmerican composer William Susman has created a distinctively expressive voice in contemporary classical music, with a catalog that includes orchestral, chamber, and vocal music, as well as numerous film scores. He is the composer of the haunting score for Steven Bilich’s 2006 award winning NATIVE NEW YORKER, a film that reflects on the enormity of the 9/11 attack on New York…
Read MoreGME’s president, Jon Gartenberg, met and worked alongside Adrienne Mancia at MoMA for many years, during which time they forged a life-long friendship that lasted until her very last days in NYC, where she lived until her recent death.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreEach of Michael Snow's works, spanning across painting, sculpture, video, film, photography, holography, drawing, publishing and music, invites us to experience, question and contemplate representation, its process and material.
Read MoreIn Mussolini’s Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode – and murder – joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his leftist mentor), he flashes back to a dance party for the blind; an insane asylum in a stadium; and wife Stefania Sandrelli and lover Dominique Sanda dancing the tango in a working class hall. But those are only a few of this political thriller’s anthology pieces, others including Trintignant’s honeymoon coupling with Sandrelli in a train compartment as the sun sets outside their window; a bimbo lolling on the desk of a fascist functionary, glimpsed in the recesses of his cavernous office; a murder victim’s hands leaving bloody streaks on a limousine parked in a wintry forest.
Read MoreSilent movies encompass a large selection of GME DVD, Blu-ray and DSL publications of films directed by major artists from around the world: Georges Méliès, Abel Gance, René Clair, Marcel L’Herbier, and Louis Feuillade (France); E.A. Dupont, F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttmann, Ernst Lubitsch, and Georg Willhelm Pabst (Germany); Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Kalatozov, and Dziga Vertov (USSR); Alfred Hitchcock (UK); Segundo de Chomón (Spain); and Erich von Stroheim, Josef von Sternberg, Paul Leni, Charles Chaplin, Mack Sennett, Lewis Milestone, King Vidor, Allan Dwan, and Robert Flaherty (United States). The Danish Silent Cinema section of GME’s website highlights work of this country’s major directors of the silent era, including Alfred Lind, August Blom, Benjamin Christensen, and Carl Th. Dreyer. GME also distributes silent films from Portugal and Norway. The overlooked role of women filmmakers throughout silent film history is addressed by EARLY WOMEN FILMMAKERS: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY, presented in a multi-disc DVD/Blu-ray boxed set. This illustrative tome features films directed by Alice Guy Blaché. Lois Weber, and Germaine Dulac, among others. Early cinema’s actualities are represented by compilations of short films from Austria and Denmark.
Read MoreAfter 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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