NOW PLAYING: The Somatic Lens

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On the occasion of Women’s History Month in March, GME is pleased to present four short films by pioneering women filmmakers that foreground the human body, particularly within the context of dance and movement. We are honored to show these films in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room. Mancia, a legendary exhibition curator at MoMA, spent her career championing the work of such female cineastes as Shirley Clarke, Agnès Varda, and Maya Deren. Deren’s late-1950s presentation of her magnum opus MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943) proving a particularly formative experience for Mancia. Therefore, we offer Deren’s final work, the dreamlike dance film THE VERY EYE OF NIGHT (1959), alongside rare behind-the-scenes footage of Deren shooting the film. We are also pleased to present INTROSPECTION (1941), the debut film of a long-overlooked contemporary of Deren’s, Sara Kathryn-Arledge. Finally, we offer Stella Simon’s vanguard 1927 short HANDE, made in collaboration with Miklos Bandy.

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NOW PLAYING: Péter Lichter THE GENEVA MECHANISM: A GHOST MOVIE

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NOW PLAYING: Péter Lichter THE GENEVA MECHANISM: A GHOST MOVIE

In August, GME announced its move towards focusing on the distribution of film titles from our library on digital formats. As the educational film market has shifted from 16mm film distribution to DVD and Blu-ray editions, and most recently streaming, the contours of film history are being radically reshaped. Well-known films are now re-released in new, high-quality digital transfers by film archives and boutique publishers, and lesser-known films from the course of moving image history are made available for the first time in digital formats. More recently, with the rise of Covid-19 and the shift to remote teaching, the demand for server-based digital media over disk distribution has grown, and librarians have been tasked with rethinking the physical moving image format for their acquisition programs. In recognition of these technological changes, as well as the malleability and evolution of the filmic medium at large, GME is proud to present Péter Lichter’s timely and fascinating short film THE GENEVA MECHANISM: A GHOST MOVIE in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room this month.

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NOW PLAYING: Warren Sonbert's HALL OF MIRRORS, In Celebration of Short Film Week

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NOW PLAYING: Warren Sonbert's HALL OF MIRRORS, In Celebration of Short Film Week

December 21st is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and has therefore been declared Short Film Day in Germany. December 28th is also recognized as Short Film Day in the United States, in honor of the Lumière brothers’ first public screening of moving pictures (all of which were short films) at the Grand Café in Paris on December 28th, 1895. GME has thus declared December 21st—28th “Short Film Week.” Now through December 28th, celebrate Short Film Week with Warren Sonbert’s shortest film — 1966’s HALL OF MIRRORS — now available to view for free in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room.

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NOW PLAYING: Hiroshi Teshigahara's WOMAN IN THE DUNES, Plus Short Films by Donald Richie and Rare Archival Treasures

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NOW PLAYING: Hiroshi Teshigahara's WOMAN IN THE DUNES, Plus Short Films by Donald Richie and Rare Archival Treasures

In addition to her work as a film programmer, Adrienne Mancia was an accomplished writer of film criticism and film treatments. Hiroshi Teshigahara’s 1964 avant-garde psychological thriller WOMAN IN THE DUNES was a film Mancia championed at length in Film Comment, and is one of the titles GME’s team has selected to stream this month in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room.

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NOW PLAYING: Holiday Films

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NOW PLAYING: Holiday Films

As the holiday season approaches, GME’s launch of the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room comprises an international array of short films, a format that Adrienne championed throughout her career. The movies streamed here are primarily in the experimental vein, and thus are lesser-known movies in the canon of holiday films.

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