MoMA Presents Finger in the Dike Productions: An Evening with Ken Jacobs, Aug. 5

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MoMA Presents Finger in the Dike Productions: An Evening with Ken Jacobs, Aug. 5

The Museum of Modern Art recognizes more than 50 years of support for experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs with an expansive presentation in the Sculpture Garden including THE WHIRLED (1956–63) and the world premiere of ABSTRACT ETERNALISM (2021), with otherworldly explorations of paintings by Joan Mitchell and Jackson Pollock in the intercises. The screening also celebrates GME’s distribution partner Kino Lorber’s release of THE KEN JACOBS COLLECTION, a Blu-ray box set of 13 works, including MoMA’s own digital restoration of TOM TOM THE PIPER’S SON (1969).

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GME GEM 18 - Cool It Down with a SWISS TOUR

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GME GEM 18 - Cool It Down with a SWISS TOUR

Natural athlete Cornell Wilde (A SONG TO REMEMBER, 1945) plays klutzy on the slopes of Zermatt, and clumsy in the grip of love, squeezed between Josette Day (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, 1946) ) and Simone Signoret (LA RONDE, 1950). GME recently discovered a connection between the current CERVO Mountain Resort in Zermatt, Switzerland as the original location for director Leopold Lindtberg’s post-World War II holiday romp in the alps.

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EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS FROM SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES IN DVD/DSL BUNDLES

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EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS FROM SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES IN DVD/DSL BUNDLES

Furthering our presentations of GME Streamline, we now offer digital site licenses as DVD/DSL bundles of films and videos from Spain and Latin America. These releases comprise moving image works encompassing experimental cinema, video art, documentary, world cinema, silent film and animation, including works by Segundo de Chomón, Val Del Omar and Nicolás Pereda.

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GME STREAMLINE IS HAPPY TO NOTE THE PREMIERE OF TODD HAYNES’S DOCUMENTARY “THE VELVET UNDERGROUND” AT THE 74TH CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

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GME STREAMLINE IS HAPPY TO NOTE THE PREMIERE OF TODD HAYNES’S DOCUMENTARY “THE VELVET UNDERGROUND” AT THE 74TH CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

GME provided scenes from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), Peter Emmanuel Goldman's ECHOES OF SILENCE (1964), Jonas Mekas’ AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1963-1990), and WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), and Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) to Todd Haynes and Swish Productions for upcoming Apple TV+ broadcast of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND.

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DVD/DSL BUNDLES OF EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA TITLES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

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DVD/DSL BUNDLES OF EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA TITLES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

As part of this developing venture, GME Streamline is pleased to remind interested professors and librarians of GME's curated collection of DVD publications from Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna, all of which we now make available as DVD/DSL bundles. The Austrian Film Museum in Vienna was founded in 1964 by Peter Konlechner (1936–2016) and film artist Peter Kubelka (b. 1934). From its outset, the principal aims of the institution were the high-quality preservation and public presentation of film, as well as reaffirming the two important roles of cinema in society: as the most important form of artistic expression in modernity and as the chief historiographical source of the 20th century.

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DOWNLOADABLE DSL FILES OF KINO LORBER TITLES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

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DOWNLOADABLE DSL FILES OF KINO LORBER TITLES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

At the end of 2020 GME was proud to announce a new, exclusive partnership with the renown theatrical and home video distributor Kino Lorber in order to make available to the North American university market a premiere selection of moving image titles from across the span of film history. When GME Streamline was soon after developed, we were able to expand our announcement to include the availability of downloadable HD DSL files of canonical works across the span of motion picture history.

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