GME Unearths Jon Gartenberg's 1990 Article on Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM, Now Screening at MoMA

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GME Unearths Jon Gartenberg's 1990 Article on Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM, Now Screening at MoMA

On Wednesday, July 10th at 7pm, and Sunday, July 28th at 4pm, Michael Powell’s classic 1960 thriller PEEPING TOM will screen at The Museum of Modern Art as part of their month-long retrospective Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger. On the occasion of this celebration of Powell and Pressburger’s collaborations (and of Powell’s PEEPING TOM specifically — a controversial solo effort that horrified British audiences and film censors), GME has unearthed an archival gem from Jon Gartenberg’s papers pertaining to Powell’s still-shocking thriller. For the Spring 1990 issue of MoMA’s Members Quarterly, Gartenberg wrote an article that explores the psychological and voyeuristic capacities of the cinematic and photographic mediums as conveyed in both Powell’s PEEPING TOM and Alfred Hitchcock’s beloved 1954 thriller REAR WINDOW.

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June 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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June 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy Summer from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today we reflect on screenings, events, and celebrations from June, in New York City and beyond, related to GME’s multifaceted projects. Notably, a suite of films by Warren Sonbert, whose body of work and legacy GME represents, played at the National Gallery of Art, while several films by Alexander Kluge, whose work GME distributes to the North American University Market, were shown at e-Flux Screening Room as part of an extensive, week-long retrospective.

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Vittorio De Sica's SHOESHINE, the Ideal Filmic Complement to Raimondo Borea's Boys' Town of Italy Photo Essay, Plays at Film Forum This Month

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Vittorio De Sica's SHOESHINE, the Ideal Filmic Complement to Raimondo Borea's Boys' Town of Italy Photo Essay, Plays at Film Forum This Month

On October 17th, 2023, GME revisited, in honor of Italian-American Heritage Month, an indelible suite of images taken by Raimondo Borea, which documented the Boys’ Town of Italy in the early 1950s. Boys’ Town of Italy was a shelter created by Monsignor John Patrick Carroll-Abbing, an Irish priest working at the Vatican who witnessed the plights of homeless and orphaned children in Rome in the wake of World War II. Beginning this Friday, June 14th, and running through Thursday, June 27th, Vittorio De Sica’s SHOESHINE (1946) will play at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration by Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata, in association with Orium S.A. Restoration. Like Borea’s Boys’ Town of Italy photo essay, De Sica’s film chronicles the struggles of homeless and orphaned children in Italy after the war.

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Alexander Kluge Films GME Distributes Featured in Upcoming Series at e-Flux Screening Room

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Alexander Kluge Films GME Distributes Featured in Upcoming Series at e-Flux Screening Room

On June 13th, 15th, and 18th, e-Flux Screening Room will mount the series Phoenix Cinema: Meeting with Alexander Kluge, which takes place in-person, in four parts, at e-Flux, and in six parts online through July 17th. GME distributes Kluge’s features YESTERDAY’S GIRL (1966) and PART-TIME WORK OF A DOMESTIC SLAVE (1973) on a DVD publication with Edition Filmmuseum that includes five of the German artist’s short films as bonus features: BRUTALITY IN STONE (1961), TEACHERS (1963), AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE, AN VERTOV (both 1998), and SAM REMEMBERS PAPA KONG (2006). Kluge’s participation in the Oberhausen Manifesto is also represented in our library, with his 1961 film BRUTALITÄT IN STEIN (a collaboration with filmmaker Peter Schamoni) included in the 2-disc DVD publication THE OBERHAUSEN MANIFESTO.

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May 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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May 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

It’s finally June, and with the start of summer officially just around the corner, here is a recap of screenings, events, and celebrations from May, in New York City and beyond, related to GME’s multifaceted projects. Notable exhibition programs include a suite of films by Man Ray at Boston’s Brattle Theatre and a collaboration between the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Film at Lincoln Center; both programs featured filmmakers and films GME distributes to universities in North America. Also in May, MoMA and Anthology Film Archives mounted retrospectives of the work of Warren Sonbert’s colleagues Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, both of whom GME featured in a compilation reel of clips from Sonbert’s films. Additionally, GME licensed three photographs from the Raimondo Borea collection for two books and a documentary film.

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Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE Screens at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin June 7th-9th

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Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE Screens at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin June 7th-9th

From June 7th to 9th, Warren Sonbert’s debut film AMPHETAMINE (1966, co-directed with Wendy Appel) will screen in Berlin at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art, as part of Billy Bultheel and James Richards’ multimedia exhibition Workers in Song. Bultheel and Richards’ show premiered at WIELS last year, and was co-commissioned by WIELS, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, and the KW Institute.

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Warren Sonbert Retrospective at the National Gallery of Art June 8th-9th

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Warren Sonbert Retrospective at the National Gallery of Art June 8th-9th

A series of films by Warren Sonbert, curated and presented by GME President Jon Gartenberg, will screen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. in June as part of the museum’s annual Pride Month event We Have Always Been Here. Gartenberg adapted these Sonbert programs from the Sonbert retrospective that played at The Museum of Modern Art in May of last year.

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Dominic Angerame Co-Curates Program of Bay Area Films To Play at the Film-Makers' Cooperative on June 7th

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Dominic Angerame Co-Curates Program of Bay Area Films To Play at the Film-Makers' Cooperative on June 7th

On June 7th, at 7pm, experimental filmmaker and former Executive Director of Canyon Cinema, Dominic Angerame, will present a program of eight films catalogued by both Canyon and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, titled From West and East: Canyon Cinema Meets the Coop. Scholar and educator Kornelia Boczkowska co-curated the program with Angerame, which features two of Angerame’s recent films: LUMINAE (2023) and AEON (2024). GME is proud to distribute nine of Angerame’s city symphony films in the collection CITYSCAPES, which is available to the North American university market as both a DVD and DSL.

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Man Ray Films GME Distributes Play at Brattle Theatre

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Man Ray Films GME Distributes Play at Brattle Theatre

From Friday, May 31st, to Monday, June 3rd, four films by Man Ray — RETURN TO REASON, EMAK-BAKIA, L’ETOILE DE MER, and LES MYSTERES DU CHATEAU DU DE — will play at Boston’s Brattle Theatre, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of RETURN TO REASON, in the program MAN RAY: RETURN TO REASON. GME distributes Ray’s RETURN TO REASON and EMAK-BAKIA to the North American university market in the eight-film DVD collection CINÉMA DADA. This collection also includes films by early experimental cinema pioneers like Hans Richter and Fernand Léger.

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April 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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April 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy May from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, and celebrations from April, in New York City and beyond, related to GME colleagues, as well as titles and/or artists in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. Notably, films by Warren Sonbert and Jean-Pierre Melville played at Sweet Void Cinema and Film Forum, respectively. GME also highlighted Hugh Bell’s portraits of jazz legends for International Jazz Day, and reflected on Jack Mitchell’s photos of dancer and choreographer Arthur Mitchell, founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem, on the occasion of DTH’s festival-style weekend of performances at New York City Center.

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