GME Presents 2 Austrian Avant-Garde Filmmakers: Alfred Kaiser and Virgil Widrich

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GME Presents 2 Austrian Avant-Garde Filmmakers: Alfred Kaiser and Virgil Widrich

The found footage works of Austrian filmmakers Alfred Kaiser (1940 – 1994) from the 1970s (DECOMPOSING NAZI PHRASEOLOGY) and the later films of Virgil Widrich (VIRGIL WIDRICH – SHORT FILMS [1998-2019]) are lesser known than those of Gustav Deutsch and Peter Tscherkassky, but are equally significant in their own right. Kaiser’s films illustrate and demolish the world of Nazi thought and imagery, while Widrich’s films explore time and space, especially the illusion of 3-dimensionality in cinema.

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GME Presents Films by Philippe Garrel

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GME Presents Films by Philippe Garrel

GME is pleased to add two new DVD editions of films by Philippe Garrel –- LA CICATRICE INTÉRIEURE (1972) and L’ENFANT SECRET (1979) -- to four other digital publications of this auteurist’s films that we previously have presented for academic study and research. Garrel began making movies at age sixteen, fired by a mythopoetic vision and a political fervor that crested and crashed in May ’68, whose turmoil he filmed in the long-lost, newly discovered ACTUA 1 (1968) and decades later re-created from memory in LES AMANTS REGULIERS (2005).

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Tassilo Adam in the Dutch East Indies in the 1920s for 2020 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

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Tassilo Adam in the Dutch East Indies in the 1920s for 2020 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

Gartenberg Media Enterprises presents a rare clip that Tassilo Adam filmed with the cooperation of the Royal authorities, who staged processions, and gatherings, and rituals for his camera. A number of these included representation of animals through dance. As the official ethnographer for the Dutch government of the East Indies, as well as a professional photographer, his moving image footage shows a considerably more sophisticated vision of the Dutch East Indies in the 1920s than other films of the period. Although transferred digitally, this material retains the lustrous sheen of the nitrate on which it was originally filmed.

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GME Presents the Films of Marcel Hanoun

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GME Presents the Films of Marcel Hanoun

Marcel Hanoun is one of the underappreciated directors of World Cinema stature. Since his death in 2012, his body of work remains generally unknown. His unique and varied cinematic career lives at the margins of modernist film, of the French New Wave, and even of experimental cinema.

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GME Presents the Films of Maurice Lemaître

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GME Presents the Films of Maurice Lemaître

“A major figure in the lettrist movement, Maurice Lemaître revolutionized cinema in 1951 with LE FILM EST DÉJÀ COMMENCÉ? (HAS THE FEATURE STARTED YET?) and invented a new form of performance: “Syncinema.” His many cinematic works, made between the 1960s and the present day, confirm his position as one of the most important avant-garde filmmakers of his generation." - Christian Lebrat

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GME Presents DVD and Blu-ray Releases for the Fall Academic Semester

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GME Presents DVD and Blu-ray Releases for the Fall Academic Semester

GME is pleased to present a robust selection (for the fall academic semester) of DVD and Blu-ray publications from the breadth and depth of a century of film history (the 1920’s to 2020).

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