RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES AND STREAMED CONTENT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY
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This 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.
Through GME Streamline we have recently presented limited, free streams of 3 digitally remastered, early films from the Warren Sonbert Collection, which we have also made available for DSL acquisition. In addition, we offer several curated collections of films and video art from important archives and boutique publishers of DVDs. These include classic motion pictures from the Kino Lorber collection, a diverse genre of moving image works from Spain and Latin America, and a wide range of avant-garde and cutting-edge films from Edition Filmmuseum – Vienna. Collectively, they constitute a wealth of cinematic history that we now make available as DVD/DSL bundle releases, and in the case of the Kino Lorber titles, in direct HD digital file downloads. These curated collections are noted in more detail below.
This initial installment of digital transfers of AMPHETAMINE, HALL OF MIRRORS and WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? demonstrate Sonbert’s unique ability to capture the spirit of his generation. All these films, made in 1966 while he was still a teenager and a filmmaking student at NYU, reveal that Sonbert was inspired both by his university milieu and also by the denizens of the Warhol art scene, including superstars Rene Ricard and Gerard Malanga. In these loosely structured narratives, he boldly experiments with the relationship between filmmaker and protagonists through extensively choreographed hand-held camera movements; he further modulates the mood of these films by use of chiaroscuro and rock-and-roll soundtracks.
GME would like to remind our university clientele about our exclusive partnership with Kino Lorber, the leader in showcasing the finest arthouse films, enabling us to make a premiere selection of moving image classics available as Digital Site Licenses for the North American university market. These titles were carefully selected by GME President and curator Jon Gartenberg not only for their historical and artistic importance, but also for the outstanding technical quality of these releases. For this initial outing, we offer 10 Kino Lorber titles, encompassing noteworthy motion pictures from the silent and sound film eras, as well as genre movies and documentaries. They include films directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Alfred Hitchcock, Ida Lupino, Curtis Harrington, Alain Resnais, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean Luc-Godard, and Bernardo Bertolucci.
Furthering our presentations of GME Streamline, we now offer digital site licenses as DVD/DSL bundles of films and videos from Spain and Latin America. These releases consist of four historic compilations of moving image works in a wide range of genres, encompassing experimental cinema, video art, animation and documentary, as well as monographic publications of films by Segundo de Chomón, Val Del Omar and Nicolás Pereda.
GME Streamline is also pleased to present a curated collection of DVD publications from Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna, comprised of 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).
For a list of all Streamline titles available as Digital Site Licenses, click here.