GME News
Rapper and actor Common recently made his Broadway debut in New York Times Critic Pick “Between Riverside and Crazy.” The Pulitzer Prize winning play by Stephen Adly Guirgis enjoyed a successful, holiday season run at the Helen Hayes Theater.
Read MoreWith her boundary-pushing, de-glamorized, stripped-down approach to modern dance, Rainer was already established as one of the most innovative forces in choreography before she’d started to make her first standalone films in 1972, bringing the same spirit of invention to this new medium.
Read MoreLuke Fowler’s BEING IN A PLACE: A PORTRAIT OF MARGARET TAIT (2022) will screen with Tait’s 1998 GARDEN PIECES in MoMA’s Doc Fortnight 2023 Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media on 2/24. At Light Industry on 2/25, Fowler will introduce Henri Plaat’s FASHION FROM NEW YORK (1980) and John McGreevy’s R.D. LAING’S GLASGOW (1979).
Read MoreFearlessly innovative and playfully prophetic, Nam June Paik comes to life in Amanda Kim’s feature debut through a skillful assembly of interviews and archival footage that portrays the father of video art both in his time and through his far-reaching legacy.
Read MoreSince 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 Black History Month this year, GME would like to share some of the many outstanding photographs by Jack Mitchell of African American artists and individuals taken during his half century professional career chronicling a unique history of creators in the fields of dance, theater, music, the fine arts, and film and television.
Read MoreIn their recent Under the Allied Umbrella announcement, Allied Productions Inc. highlighted having GME staff over to their East Village studio to review materials and help plan for their placement in external repositories.
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 MoreThe iconoclastic figurative painter amidst the surging reign of abstract expressionist painters of the 1960, Alfred Leslie was also a noted filmmaker, especially well-known for his films THE CEDAR TAVERN (1952, from his own play of the same title), and the definitive Beat film, PULL MY DAISY (1959), made with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank and other luminaries from the scene.
Read More
