GME Presents Rare Silent Features as DSLs from Undercrank Productions

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GME Presents Rare Silent Features as DSLs from Undercrank Productions

In celebration of Silent Movie Day earlier this week (September 29th), Gartenberg Media is pleased to announce our new partnership with Undercrank Productions to distribute rare silent films to North American academic institutions on digital formats.

Undercrank Productions was founded in 2013 by silent film historian and composer Ben Model. Undercrank works with archives and private collectors to bring undiscovered classics of silent cinema from film cans to film fans. Each digital restoration has been spearheaded by Model and is presented in new digital scans in either HD or 2K, and features new musical scores on piano or theatre organ.

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Jean-Luc Godard's '60s French New Wave Classics Screening on 35mm at The Paris Theater Beginning on September 28th

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Jean-Luc Godard's '60s French New Wave Classics Screening on 35mm at The Paris Theater Beginning on September 28th

From September 28th through October 26th, The Paris Theater will celebrate the forthcoming release of Richard Linklater’s NOUVELLE VAGUE — which chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s BREATHLESS — with a series of Godard’s 1960s films presented on 35mm. The films showcased in this month-long celebration are BREATHLESS (1960), A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (1961), VIVRE SA VIE (1962), BAND OF OUTSIDERS (1964), PIERROT LE FOU (1965), and WEEKEND (1967). In conjunction with Kino Lorber, GME distributes one of Godard’s seminal works from this period — 1965’s ALPHAVILLE (1965) — to the North American university market as a Blu-Ray, DVD, and digital file. Bonus material on this release includes an interview with the film’s star, Anna Karina, and audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas.

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GME Presents The Pierre Clémenti Collection

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GME Presents The Pierre Clémenti Collection

Gartenberg Media Enterprises is pleased to announce our distribution of the films of Pierre Clémenti as new 2K digital restorations to North American academic institutions.

Though best known as an actor, Clémenti's directorial work constitutes a fascinating and long overlooked chapter in 1960s avant-garde film history. To inquire about the institutional acquisition of Clémenti's films, click here.

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GME Presents The Warren Sonbert Collection

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GME Presents The Warren Sonbert Collection

Warren Sonbert (1947—1995) was one of the seminal figures working in American experimental film. His early films — from 1966’s AMPHETAMINE through to 1973’s CARRIAGE TRADE — are currently available from GME on an exclusive basis as new 2K digital restorations for acquisition by universities, museums, and other cultural institutions worldwide.

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GME Presents Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER as a Digital Site License

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GME Presents Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER as a Digital Site License

Shot before, during and after 9/11,  Steve Bilich's experimental short documentary Native New Yorker took several years of filming with a 1924 hand-cranked Cine-Kodak camera. It follows Shaman Trail Scout 'Coyote' as he takes a journey that transcends time, from Inwood Park (where the island was traded for beads and booze), down a native trail (now “Broadway”), and into lower Manhattan (a sacred burial ground, now including the newest natives of this island empire). 24 years since the 9/11 attacks,  Bilich's film remains as powerful and relevant as ever.

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August 2025 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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August 2025 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from August related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. For lighter, end-of-summer fare, GME showcased Leopold Lindtberg’s SWISS TOUR in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room. We also announced a 20% sale on all DVD and Blu-Ray titles in our collection, ahead of our shift to focusing on the distribution of moving image works available as Digital Site Licenses (DSLs). Furthermore, GME was pleased to discover the mention of Warren Sonbert and Jon Gartenberg in two recent book publications.

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GME Announces Shift to Digital Distribution Beginning in Fall 2025

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GME Announces Shift to Digital Distribution Beginning in Fall 2025

We are pleased to announce new titles of moving image works that are only available as digital files from GME, including the early films of Warren Sonbert (1966-73) and the films of Pierre Clémenti (1967-1988), as well as the Kong Ngee Company's Nanyang Trilogy (1957). Stay tuned for a full slate of DSL releases for the fall semester.

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20% SALE on ALL GME DVDs and Blu-Rays!

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20% SALE on ALL GME DVDs and Blu-Rays!

Over the past several decades, GME has embarked on a distribution project to release DVDs and Blu-Rays of moving image works that are destined exclusively for purchase by the university market in North America. As the transition to server-based media has grown, we feel that this is the appropriate moment, due to the shift in technology, to offer our catalogue of DVD and Blu-Ray titles at a 20% discount. A number of these titles are rare, out-of-print editions for which GME still retains copies.

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Cool Off with SWISS TOUR, Now Playing in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room

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Cool Off with SWISS TOUR, Now Playing in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room

Over the past several months, GME has paid homage to Adrienne Mancia by showcasing films in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room that she championed throughout her prolific career as a film exhibitor and curator. We now turn our focus to one of our company’s major projects: the excavation of libraries of celluloid films that have been abandoned in warehouses which GME has subsequently repatriated to archives for preservation and exhibition. For lighter, end-of-summer fare, we present Leopold Lindtberg's SWISS TOUR (1949) — a project that cuts across the various facets and activities of our company, including film archiving, distribution, and exhibition.

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July 2025 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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July 2025 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from July related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME announced the release of a new digital restoration of Warren Sonbert’s groundbreaking debut film AMPHETAMINE (1966), which is currently available for institutional sale, rental, and clip licensing. Two films GME distributes on DVD — Guy Sherwin’s AT THE ACADEMY (1974) and Walther Ruttmann’s BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A CITY (1927) — screened at Light Industry and The Museum of Modern Art, respectively. Furthermore, GME screened Jim McBride’s genre-inventing “mockumentary” DAVID HOLZMAN’S DIARY this month in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room.

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