Films by Michael Snow, Straub and Huillet, Dreyer and Godard Included in Jeanne Dielman and Its Roots Series at MoMI

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Films by Michael Snow, Straub and Huillet, Dreyer and Godard Included in Jeanne Dielman and Its Roots Series at MoMI

As part the series examining the films that influenced director Chantal Ackerman on her way to creating her masterpiece JEAN DIELMAN, Michael Snow’s LA RÉGION CENTRAL and WAVELENGTH, are being presented, along with Straub and Huillet’s MOSES AND AARON, Carl Th. Dreyer’s GERTRUD, and Jean Luc Godard’s TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER, among other films that impacted the development of JEAN DIELMAN.

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GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

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GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

Women directors have long been a mainstay of film production, beginning with Alice Guy Blaché at the turn of the 19th century. However, their voices have frequently been omitted from film historical discourse. Ongoing efforts by the Women Film Pioneers Project has aimed to rectify these omissions by bringing their contributions center stage. In addition to featuring women silent film directors in GME’s distribution catalogue, we have also endeavored to highlight the significant contribution women artists have made to the development of avant-garde and experimental cinema, as well as to the documentary form and narrative filmmaking.

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NAM JUNE PAIK Documentary and Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST Showing at Film Forum

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NAM JUNE PAIK Documentary and Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST Showing at Film Forum

Amanda Kim’s premiere NYC theatrical run of her engrossing documentary about video artist Nam June Paik’s “joyfully disruptive presence,” and back by popular demand, Bernardo Bertolucci’s devastating “operatic triumph of feeling and style,” are currently at Film Forum.

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Abigail Child Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

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Abigail Child Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

This spring, Anthology hosts a long-overdue retrospective of the work of the moving-image artist, writer, and poet Abigail Child. A leading figure of the generation of experimental filmmakers that emerged in the late 1970s-early 1980s, Child has continued to make innovative and challenging work – in a dizzying variety of forms and on a wide range of topics – ever since.

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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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Jeff Preiss - “Orchard Documents,” 8mm & 16mm Films at Clementin Seedorf, Cologne thru 4/21

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Jeff Preiss - “Orchard Documents,” 8mm & 16mm Films at Clementin Seedorf, Cologne thru 4/21

Following the in-person screening of his film STOP (1995-2012) at the Odeon Kino on March 3rd, Preiss’ shorter films from the 1980s through 2006 that comprise “Orchard Documents,” will be on view at the Clementin Seedorf gallery in Cologne until April 21, including TAPE_SPLICES_for_WARREN.

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MoMI Presents a Major Exhbition Devoted to José Val Del Omar

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MoMI Presents a Major Exhbition Devoted to José Val Del Omar

“Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar,” a major exhibition devoted to the work of José Val del Omar (1904–1982), a visionary Spanish artist, filmmaker, and inventor who approached cinema as a multi-sensory experience, is on view at the Museum of the Moving Image through October 1, 2023.

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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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Never-Before-Seen Footage Offers Intimate Portrait of Thelonious Monk in Paris Showing at BAM Mar 10-16

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Never-Before-Seen Footage Offers Intimate Portrait of Thelonious Monk in Paris Showing at BAM Mar 10-16

A wealth of never-before-seen footage in offers a gripping and intimate portrait of Thelonious Monk in Paris, 1969. The legendary pianist and composer arrives for a TV interview before his evening concert, where he is met with racist, colonialist acts both large and small.

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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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