GME Streamline is a new section on GME's website for the distribution of films and videos that we are making available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), in addition to the occasional presentation of viewable streams on Streamline's title pages (see The Warren Sonbert Collection). 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 decade, 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, as well as new titles of moving image works that are only available as digital files and that will bypass the step of a DVD publication. As we add 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 catalog, in addition to enjoying our occasional presentation of viewable streams on Streamline's title pages (ie, the Warren Sonbert release from 1967, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, and Jay Rosenblatt’s THE D TRAIN, 2011).
Our current free stream offering is Warren Sonbert’s early classic HALL OF MIRRORS (1966, 7 min.).
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“Sonbert’s most recent film refines the premises of his work over the past 15-odd years. His bravura-acrobatic camera and editing style of the ‘70s pale next to the seemingly effortless spectacle he produces today... The film is so dense it’s impossible to apprehend it at a single viewing… It is Sonbert’s darkest work.” —Amy Taubin, Village Voice