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GME is expanding its international distribution reach and is thrilled to incorporate works by Asian filmmakers, including Lav Diaz (Philippines), Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand). These films span narrative and experimental modalities and are available to the North American university market in digital formats.
Read MoreLooking ahead to the fall semester, GME would like to remind you of some of our popular titles that can be utilized for thematic teaching purposes, while also preparing you for a selection of new titles from Kino Lorber, Re:voir, Index Edition, Edition Filmmuseum, and others, soon to be released as downloadable DSL files and Disk/DSL bundles through GME Streamline.
Read MoreThe 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).
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreAs a reminder about GME's initial foray into the distribution of approximately 100 digital site licenses (DSL) available for films in our catalog, whether as DVD/DSL bundles or directly downloadable HD DSL files from our server, we present the following selection of inital GME Streamline offerings. Many more titles will soon become available from GME Streamline in both formats, in addition to new titles reflecting our recent partnership with Kino Lorber, new artists to be announced this fall, and additional resources from various, international boutique publishers.
Read MoreThis semester, Gartenberg Media introduced GME Streamline, a new section on GME's website for the distribution of films and videos that we are now making available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), in addition to the occasional presentation of viewable streams on Streamline's title pages. We are offering this service 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 MoreThis past season GME Streamline was pleased to present a curated collection of DVD publications from Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna, all of which we have now made 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.
Read MoreGME Streamline is pleased to present two cutting edge films by moviemakers working 75 years and continents apart: THE SALVATION HUNTERS (1925) by Josef von Sternberg and MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (2000) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. GME is pleased to offer these two works as Digital Site Licenses via DVD/DSL bundle packages, which we now make available exclusively to our university clientele in North America.
Read MoreGME Streamline is extremely proud to present an extensive collection of 14 of James Benning’s films (comprising 6 DVD editions), as well as CIRCLING THE IMAGE (2003), a documentary on Benning’s meticulous investigation of landscape locations, camera position, and shot duration. These collected works comprising 16mm films span a 30 year period from 1977 (11x14) through to 2007 (RR), and have been mastered in high quality digital format by Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna. Benning’s born-digital films date from 2009 (RUHR) through to 2014 (NATURAL HISTORY) and exemplify Benning’s shift from working with film grain to pixels. We now make each of these films available as DVD/DSL bundles on an exclusive basis to the North American university market.
Read MoreGME Streamline celebrates National Poetry Month and the DVD/DSL bundle release of the landmark films of Dziga Vertov. Sharing with poetry concepts of sound and rhythm through shot and montage via his "Kino-Eye" aesthetic, Vertov created one of the most innovative and influential bodies of cinematic work and theoretical writings in the history of moving image artistic expression. Through our relationship with Edition Filmmuseum, GME can now offer, for the first time, digital site licenses of these pioneering works with the purchase of DVD/DSL bundles.
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