GME Streamline is a new section on GME's website for the distribution of moving image works that we are making available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL). We are offering this service exclusively to the academic market for the streaming of moving image works through the university’s own intranet or closed circuit network, in order to further academic teaching as well as library and research use.
Over the past several decades, GME has embarked on a distribution project to release digital publications of moving image works that are destined exclusively for the university market in North America. As the transition to server based media over disk distribution has grown, and even more so due to the teaching restrictions resultant with the spread of Covid-19, universities have been confronted with a shift to remote teaching and librarians with rethinking the physical moving image format for their acquisition programs. By offering these curatorially selected titles to the university market as Digital Site Licenses, GME is excited to embark on a renewed journey of making available new discoveries for academic consumption. Through this initiative, we endeavor to not only expand the integration of these works into canonical film and video histories, but also to broaden their usage and appreciation across a wide array of academic discourses.
Having launched GME Streamline in 2020, we are pleased to continue announcing DSL offerings both for titles that we have already made available on DVD or Blu-ray, as well as new titles of moving image works that are only available as digital files and that have already bypassed the step of a physical publication. As we add DSL titles in the months ahead, please feel free to contact us about the possibility of acquiring DSL versions of any of the existing titles in our DVD/Blu-ray catalog.
Click here for a list of moving image works available as Digital Site Licenses.
Featured Title
ELEGY IN THE STREETS (US, 1989, Jim Hubbard)
STILL: ELEGY IN THE STREETS (1989). SOURCE: JIM HUBBARD.
Curator Jon Gartenberg writes that “ELEGY IN THE STREETS was shot by filmmaker Jim Hubbard during the height of the Reagan Presidency, when both Reagan and his political administration ignored the deadly disease that afflicted an endless parade of human beings who ultimately died of AIDS. Hubbard’s film is replete with imagery associated with this era, including Gay Pride marches, candlelight vigils, ACT UP demonstrations, T-shirts embossed with bloody hands, cardboard headstones, police arrests, and the American flag hung upside down. As such, this movie can be viewed as a counterculture tract, a political protest film, an experimental documentary, and a diary film about Hubbard’s deceased partner and fellow filmmaker Roger Jacoby.
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