GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS FILMS FROM EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA NOW AVAILABLE AS DVD/DSL BUNDLES

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS FILMS FROM EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA NOW AVAILABLE AS DVD/DSL BUNDLES

GME Streamline is pleased to present a curated collection of DVD publications from Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna, all of which we now make available as DVD/DSL bundles. These works comprise early cinema actualities shot in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, classic silent American fiction films, monumental works of Soviet cinema, American experimental narratives, Austrian independent films, and cinema from Thailand in the postmodern era. This array of works comprise films by directors James Benning, Josef von Sternberg and Eric Von Stroheim (US), Dziga Vertov , Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Michail Kalatozov (USSR), and Martina Kudláček, Michael Pilz, and Canadian transplant John Cook (Austria), as well as Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand). Ideal for academic study and research, these DVD Editions contain multitudes of extras as well as bilingual texts in English and German about the respective films and their filmmakers.

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS THE SPANISH FILMS OF SEGUNDO DE CHOMÓN AND VAL DEL OMAR NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES IN DVD/DSL BUNDLES

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS THE SPANISH FILMS OF SEGUNDO DE CHOMÓN AND VAL DEL OMAR NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES IN DVD/DSL BUNDLES

GME Streamline is pleased to present digital publications of two under-recognized yet important Spanish cinema pioneers, Segundo de Chomón and José Val del Omar, now available from GME as DVD/DSL bundles. Chomon was a rival of Georges Méliès, and cinema poet Val Del Omar flourished during the Silver Age of Spanish Culture, alongside compatriot and friend Federico Garcia Lorca. Our objective in presenting these two monographic digital publications of these experimental pioneers of the moving image is to reposition them within the discourse of world cinema, rather than only to the confines of Spanish film history.

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS NICOLÁS PEREDA: 6 FILMS NOW AVAILABLE AS A DVD/DIGITAL SITE LICENSE BUNDLE

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS NICOLÁS PEREDA: 6 FILMS NOW AVAILABLE AS A DVD/DIGITAL SITE LICENSE BUNDLE

Following our recent GME Streamline announcement of DVD/DSL bundles of films and videos from Spain and Latin America, we continue with one of the major new voices in contemporary Latin American and world cinema, the young Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolás Pereda (b. 1982). Pereda has emerged from seemingly out of nowhere to be feted with career retrospectives, festival screenings, and glowing critical praise. The DVD boxed set entitled NICOLÁS PEREDA brings together his first six feature films made between 2007 and 2012, as well as his short film INTERVIEW WITH THE EARTH (2009).

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS CUTTING EDGE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS FROM SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES IN DVD/DSL BUNDLES

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS CUTTING EDGE 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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Tribeca Film Festival Experimental-Film-Programmer Jon Gartenberg Presents 4 New Programs at TFF 2012

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Jon Gartenberg, Experimental Film Programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented four new programs at TFF 2012, attracting high-profile filmmakers from Hollywood and the avant-garde alike.

Avant-Garde Masters: A Decade of Film Preservation

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Consuming Spirits

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Francophenia (or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is)

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Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Landscapes

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For his introduction to the Avant-Garde Masters program,

Jon Gartenberg read a special note from Martin Scorsese:

Throughout film history, artists have used film to expand the boundaries of cinema to create deeply personal works that evoke the full range of human experience and emotion. Unbound by narrative conventions, the Avant-Garde has inspired audiences and influenced mainstream filmmakers. For the past 10 years, the National Film Preservation Foundation and The Film Foundation have preserved more than 100 films through the Avant-Garde Masters Grants.  There's no other program of its kind, and I'm thrilled that the Tribeca Film Festival is recognizing the program and highlighting the work of such artists as George Kuchar, Carolee Schneeman, Larry Gottheim, Abigail Child, and Kenneth Anger that have been preserved and—equally important—made available so audiences can actually see these extraordinary works. - Martin Scorcese

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(l-r) Programmer of Experimental Films Jon Gartenberg, Artist Abigail Child, Filmmaker Larry Gottheim, Artist Carolee Schneemann and Assistant Director of the National Film Preservation Foundation Jeff Lambert speak at Tribeca Talks After The Movie: AVANT-GARDE MASTERS: A DECADE OF FILM PRESERVATION at the School of Visual Arts on April 21.

For the opening night of FRANCOPHRENIA, Jon Gartenberg conducted a Q&A with filmmaker Ian Olds, co-filmmaker and actor James Franco, and Paul Felton, the film's co-writer. Gartenberg pursued a line of questioning with James Franco about his interest in an array of experimental filmmakers (including Kurt Kren), and about Franco's commitment to experimenting with film form in his own work.

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(l-r) Programmer of Experimental Films Jon Gartenberg leads filmmaker Ian Olds, filmmaker & actor James Franco and writer Paul Felton in an on-stage Q&A following FRANCOPHENIA at the School of Visual Arts on April 22.  Below, Ian Olds & James Franco.

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Fred

    FRED Radio's Natasha Senjanovic talks with

    Jon Gartenberg about programming TFF 2012 

    and other projects on which he works.  

    The podcast is available here.