GME Gem 23: Raimondo Borea Photos of People at Work

GME Gem 23: Raimondo Borea Photos of People at Work

Photographer Raimondo Borea covered a wide range of subjects, from iconic celebrity and historic figures captured during his tenure as the set photographer on Firing Line, The Today Show, and The Tonight Show, to candid portraits of orphaned and homeless war children housed in the Boys’ Towns of Italy, and to his work with the photographic group the Circle of Confusion, with its focus on social documentary.

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LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Showing in ALAIN RESNAIS 100 Series at Film Forum

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Showing in ALAIN RESNAIS 100 Series at Film Forum

“Masterpiece of masterpieces!” (Jonathan Rosenbaum), LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (France, 1961), directed by Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, “is a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside time, and a shocking intimation of perfection.” (J. Hoberman). A hypnotically beautiful puzzle box of a film, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD is one of the most influential in the history of cinema.

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GME Gem 22: Rose Lowder's Bouquet of Images

GME Gem 22: Rose Lowder's Bouquet of Images

For many years Rose Lowder has been developing an exceptional technique of weaving together images gathered frame- by-frame to form scintillating patterns of light. By oscillating the focal plane of photographs shot in the same place over time, her layered tapestries produce a new relationship between filmed reality and filmic image.

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Erich von Stroheim's FOOLISH WIVES Screening in MoMA's Film in the Sculpture Garden Series

Erich von Stroheim's FOOLISH WIVES Screening in MoMA's  Film in the Sculpture Garden Series

Advertised as “the first million-dollar movie” when it was released in 1922, Erich von Stroheim’s FOOLISH WIVES offered American audiences a sweeping vision of European decadence, unforgettably embodied by the director himself in his starring performance as Count Sergius Karamzin, a phony Russian aristocrat who bilks the naïve tourists of Monte Carlo with the help of his two dubious “cousins” (Mae Busch and Maude George). Marking the film’s centennial, this will be the New York premiere of a major new restoration of this silent classic, produced by MoMA and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.

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GME Gem 21: Paul Clipson's Immersive Cinema

GME Gem 21: Paul Clipson's Immersive Cinema

Paul Clipson’s cinema is one of eternal recurrence. Subjects continually repeat themselves: bridges, buildings, fences, gratings, trains, airplanes, trees, suns, leaves, grass, eyes, power lines, and especially bodies of water. Clipson creates layered superimpositions of these objects through rewinding the camera and re-exposing the film stock from another iteration of the subject.

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GME Streamline Presents a Free Stream of Marie Losier's SLAP THE GONDOLA

GME Streamline Presents a Free Stream of Marie Losier's SLAP THE GONDOLA

GME is pleased to announce a special free stream for the month of August of this musical with music, musicians, muses and fish… On a giant ferry, two mermaids (Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge) play violin to attract the fish from the sea, when suddenly a giant fish with 30 dancers in its stomach lands on board.

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NYC's Poster House Exhibits Revolutionary Soviet Films Posters

NYC's Poster House Exhibits Revolutionary Soviet Films Posters

The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s explores the origins, high points, and eventual demise of this golden age of Soviet graphic design, a revolutionary, though doomed visual language that for a short time represented the explosion of dynamic, innovative filmmaking in the new Socialist society. Gartenberg Media distributes several of the milestone Soviet films which are well represented in this exhibition, including KINO-EYE (1924), BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926), A SIXTH PART OF THE WORLD (1926), and TURKSIB (1929).

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