Notes after Long Silence - On Austrian and American Structural Film at Millennium Film Workshop

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Notes after Long Silence - On Austrian and American Structural Film at Millennium Film Workshop

In the early 1960s, a number of filmmakers emerged in the United States and Europe to produce remarkable films that challenged any previous formal tendency in avant-garde filmmaking. The Structuralist filmmakers—including Peter Kubelka, Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, and Kurt Kren––arranged their shots according to mathematical principles, attempting to produce non-narrative and non-illusionist films to oppose the cinematicapparatus. Similar to the advent of Minimalism in painting and sculpture, structural films insisted on shape, and their content was minimal and subsidiary to the outline.

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Amy Taubin Guest Curates Carte Blanche Series at MoMA

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Amy Taubin Guest Curates Carte Blanche Series at MoMA

Noted film critic Amy Taubin has accepted an invitation by The Museum of Modern Art to delve into their archives to conjure a thrilling, thrumming vision of New York City, the place she has called home her entire life.

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Robert Kramer's 1969 Feature ICE Screening at Film-Makers' Cooperative

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Robert Kramer's 1969 Feature ICE Screening at Film-Makers' Cooperative

Robert Kramer's ICE (1969) follows an underground revolutionary group as they carry out urban guerrilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States, while struggling against internal strife. This narrative is intermixed with sequences that explain the philosophy of radical action and play down the melodrama inherent in the thriller genre.

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MoMA Presents a Complete Retrospective of the Films of Warren Sonbert in 16mm May 11-19

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MoMA Presents a Complete Retrospective of the Films of Warren Sonbert in 16mm May 11-19

The Museum of Modern Art presents The Experimental Narratives of Warren Sonbert, organized by Ron Magliozzi, Curator, Department of Film, and Guest Curator GME President Jon Gartenberg. In a career that spanned the American experimental film world from New York City to San Francisco, filmmaker Warren Sonbert (1947–1995) was driven by the belief that “independent film…is the only avenue for those who want to take risks and satisfy their own self-imposed demands.”

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Heavenly Earth by Jacques Perconte at Galerie Charlot, Paris

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Heavenly Earth by Jacques Perconte at Galerie Charlot, Paris

"It is in search of a treasure that my gaze wanders along the lines, spinning along the walls, sliding on the ridges, on the summits, crossing the woods suspended from the cliffs, sliding on the steep peaks of crumbling rocks. My eyes, sometimes with my camera, sometimes without, make a fortune out of nothing accumulated in my heart. Slowly, without thinking, without desiring, they forget and discover a wonderful adventure in life…

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March Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

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March Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

This past month saw the work of several filmmakers distributed by GME programmed in venues in the U.S. and abroad. It is a reminder of both the durability of these artists and their works and the ongoing interest in the kinds of notable independent and experimental moving image work that GME strives to provide to our buyers.

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Signals: How Video Transformed the World Exhibition at MoMA Includes Installation Originally Commissioned by GME Consultant

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Signals: How Video Transformed the World Exhibition at MoMA Includes Installation Originally Commissioned by GME Consultant

Video is everywhere today—on our phones and screens, defining new spaces and experiences, spreading memes, lies, fervor, and power. Shared, sent, and networked, it shapes public opinion and creates new publics. In other words, video has transformed the world. Bringing together a diverse range of work from the past six decades, Signals reveals the ways in which artists have posed video as an agent of global change—from televised revolution to electronic democracy.

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Another Year, Another Oscar Nomination for Jay Rosenblatt

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Another Year, Another Oscar Nomination for Jay Rosenblatt

A father films his daughter every year on her birthday, asking the same questions. In a mere 29 minutes we see a girl go from a toddler to a young woman with all the beautiful and awkward stages in between while the father/daughter relationship evolves in all its complexities.

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Warren Sonbert Screening and Conversation with Drake Stutesman and Jon Gartenberg at Film-Makers' Cooperative

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Warren Sonbert Screening and Conversation with Drake Stutesman and Jon Gartenberg at Film-Makers' Cooperative

Beginning in 1968, with The TUXEDO THEATRE, Sonbert began traveling the world and created tightly edited, silent montage films. He became known as the leading proponent of polyvalent montage, in which, according to Sonbert, his films were “not strictly involved with plot or morality but rather the language of film as regards time, composition, cutting, light, distance, extension of backgrounds to foregrounds, what you see and what you don’t, a jig-saw puzzle of postcards to produce various displace effects.”

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Philippe Garrel's THE PLOUGH (LE GRAND CHARLOT) at Film at Lincoln Center

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Philippe Garrel's THE PLOUGH (LE GRAND CHARLOT) at Film at Lincoln Center

Examining family history and turmoil has fueled much of the greatest work of Philippe Garrel (REGULAR LOVERS, THE SALT OF TEARS), whose new film pays tribute to his late father (and regular cast member) Maurice’s background as a puppeteer. Simon (Aurélien Recoing), the head of a puppet troupe, works alongside his children, all played by Philippe’s actual children: son Louis (Louis Garrel) and daughters Martha (Esther Garrel) and Lena (Lena Garrel, making an auspicious first appearance in the Garrel family filmography).

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