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Martin Scorsese reflects on his formative years as a film student and NYC, discovering “the excitement of a new kind of cinema” being made in New York and shown at the legendary Bleecker Street Cinema. Accompanied by scenes of the Bleecker Street Cinema filmed by Warren Sonbert.
Read MoreCineteca di Bologna presents Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968) in it’s program The Rediscovered Cinema | Outside the Hall. In this indecipherable period, where cinemas are closed for the first time since 1895, the Cineteca di Bologna is bringing its most precious experience into everyone's homes, that of The Cinema Ritrovato, the largest festival in the world dedicated to the history of cinema.
Read MoreGME Streamline is a new section on Gartenberg Media's website for the distribution of films and videos that we are making available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL) to the North American academic community, in addition to the occasional presentation of viewable streams on Streamline's title pages, including free streaming of Warren Sonbert’s first 3 films for a limited time.
Read MoreIn commemoration this October of LGBTQ History Month, GME pays homage to experimental filmmaker Warren Sonbert.
Read MoreGME is participating in global Home Movie Day on October 17th by featuring stills and clips from films in our collection that celebrate the genre.
Read More“With CARRIAGE TRADE (1973 version, 61 min, 16mm), Sonbert began to challenge the theories espoused by the great Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s; he particularly disliked the ‘knee-jerk’ reaction produced by Eisensteinian montage. In both lectures and writings about his own style of editing, Sonbert described CARRIAGE TRADE as ‘a jig-saw puzzle of postcards to produce varied displaced effects.’ This approach, according to Sonbert, ultimately affords the viewer multi-faceted readings of the connections between shots through the spectator’s assimilation of ‘the changing relations of the movement of objects, the gestures of figures, familiar worldwide icons, rituals and reactions, rhythm, spacing, and density of images.” –Jon Gartenberg
Read MoreAs Black History Month draws to a close, Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is pleased to announce that the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) has acquired six lifetime silver gelatin prints from the Hugh Bell archive for their permanent collection. Says GME Fine Arts Curator David Deitch, “In preserving the legacy of an artist, there is nothing more gratifying than the prestige that comes from a museum acquiring his work. We are especially pleased that NMAAHC, the premiere international institution dedicated to the history, culture and artistic achievements of the African American community, recognizes the significance of Hugh Bell ‘s photographs within this context.”
Read MoreRappaport’s visual essay collage films,, ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES and FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG screen on 2/13 and 2/16 at 7pm and 8:45pm respectively.
Read MoreA weeklong retrospective film series at MoMA (January 28 – February 5) entitled “Now We Think as We Fuck: Queer Liberation to Activism” traces queer activism from the film archive's permanent collection. Works featured include those by Barbara Hammer, Gregg Bordowitz, Cheryl Dunye, Uzi Parnes, Warren Sonbert, Jean Carlomusto and Maria Maggenti, Gay Men's Health Crisis Inc, and the series' titular anchor, Marlon Riggs, with special appearances from Su Friedrich, William E. Jones, Lauren Halsted, and Ellen Spiro.
Read MoreFilms by Georges Méliès and Marie Menken featured in GME’s distribution program are being screened as part of Anthology Film Archive’s Essential Cinema Repertory series to kick off their new year of programming.
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