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In conjunction with the retrospective of artist - filmmaker Jonas Mekas at the Jewish Museum, films originally programmed at the Jewish Museum by Mekas in 1969 are being shown through the end of this month. Not shown in the current series, but screened back in 1969 was Warren Sonbert’s THE TUXEDO THEATRE.
Read MoreEsfir (Esther) Shub’s SEGODNYA (USSR, 1930), straight from Gosfilmofond, the most extensive Russian film archive, will be screened for the first time in the US since 1932. It will be shown June 2nd at Women and the Silent Screen (WSS), a biennial international conference sponsored by Women and Film History International (WFHI).
Read MoreFramework: The Journal of Cinema and Media has co-sponsored the symposium, "Transatlantic Experimental Film Connections and Influences: New American Cinema and Europe in the 1960s and Afterwards," held May 26, 2022 in Turin Italy. The symposium brings together scholars, archivists and writers to discuss the occasion of the momentous introduction of the New American Cinema (NAC) at Spoleto in 1961 and the longevity of its impact.
Read MoreThis semester, Gartenberg Media has presented a number of new selections on the GME Streamline section of our website for the distribution of films and videos, now available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), exclusively to the academic community for the streaming of moving image works via the university’s own intranet or closed circuit network, in order to further enrich curricula as well as for library and research use.
Read MoreTHROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE, probes the recesses of American history through images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost. Directed by Thomas Allen Harris. The film features the late photographer Hugh Bell.
Read MoreGartenberg Media is pleased to note this recent, thorough presentation of Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller’s work at Anthology Film Archives, with the filmmaker present at the screenings that ran from April 21-26. Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller is an Austrian photographer, filmmaker and visual artist born in London, England in 1946. Her photographic practice has been attributed to a 20th-century movement known as Feminist Actionism or Viennese Actionism.
Read MoreGME is proud to announce our unprecedented release of the 7th digital edition of the films of James Benning, comprising O PANAMA (1985) and GRAND OPERA. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE (1979). Altogether, GME now offers a total of 16 feature length films (and one short form work) by this renowned independent American auteur. We make all of these films available (either as DVDs or DVD/DSL bundles) exclusively to North American academic institutions so as to afford professors, librarians, students and researchers an in-depth study of the arc of this noteworthy artist’s career, from 11x14 (1977) to NATURAL HISTORY (2014). About his filmmaking oeuvre, Benning has observed, that “since I started making films, I’ve always tried to open a new narrative space from the juxtaposition of sound and image, or text and image — how the spectator experiences them, how they quote each other.” Benning’s films are carefully planned in terms of the placement of the camera, the duration of the individual extended takes, and the juxtaposition of shots, creating mesmerizing contemplations of both the natural and manmade world.
Read MoreGME Streamline is excited to announce the release of two volumes of short films by internationally recognized artist Jay Rosenblatt, now available as standalone DVD editions as well as collections of DSL downloads, all available for our North American university clientele. Rosenblatt has been working as an independent filmmaker since 1980. His films have been shown worldwide, in film festivals, museum retrospectives, and on television, and have garnered many awards. His most recent movie, WHEN WE WERE BULLIES (2021), was nominated for an Academy Award.
Read MoreFor the first time ever, GME Streamline is pleased to announce the release in digital format of 2 Warren Sonbert films from 1967, THE TENTH LEGION and THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL. This complements our previous release of Sonbert’s first three films, all from 1966: AMPHETAMINE, WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO?, and HALL OF MIRRORS. All five titles are now available via Digital Site Licenses as downloadable digital files. These films encompass Sonbert’s extant sound films from the 1960’s – the era of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. All of these early films of Warren Sonbert are now available for acquisition as DSL files for the North American university community, as well as for international exhibition.
Read MoreThis complements GME’s distribution of other key genre films, directed by such filmmakers as Ida Lupino, Richard Fleischer, and Curtis Harrington. Sirk was one of the major directors of melodrama during the 1950s, including MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, WRITTEN ON THE WIND, IMITATION OF LIFE. Based on a novel by William Faulkner (Pylon), THE TARNISHED ANGELS evokes depression-era New Orleans, enhanced by glorious black-and-white CinemaScope photography, Sirk's riveting chronicle of personal obsession, romantic longing and irreconcilable desires is one of the most noteworthy films to emerge from 1950s Hollywood.
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