As a reminder about GME's initial foray into the distribution of approximately 100 digital site licenses (DSL) available for films in our catalog, whether as DVD/DSL bundles or directly downloadable HD DSL files from our server, we present the following selection of initial GME Streamline offerings. Many more titles will soon become available from GME Streamline in both formats, in addition to new titles reflecting our recent partnership with Kino Lorber, new artists to be announced this fall, and additional resources from various, international boutique publishers. Please feel free to contact us at anytime to inquire about DSL and/or DVD and Blu-ray disk releases available from our online catalog, or regarding titles that don't yet appear on our website.

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In March of this year, while developing a platform for streaming titles in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, GME presented a new feature on its website, GME Streamline, to both directly stream content and for the acquisition of DSL media for our North American institutional clientele. Though not yet then a streaming service, GME, as the exclusive representatives of the Estate of Warren Sonbert, initially was able to share what we felt were important, newly digitized early works of Sonbert's that spoke to some of the conditions many of us found ourselves in while coping with the pandemic, especially in the portrayal of sudden isolation following a sense of community. GME made Sonbert's first three films, AMPHETAMINE, WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO?, and HALL OF MIRRORS, all from 1966, available as free streams through our website, for a limited time (while also currently being available as downloadable DSL files). This turned out to be a very popular presentation and will lead to more free streams of additional early Sonbert films this fall. We also look forward to presenting streams of other important independent work as we add new titles in the coming months.

At the end of 2020 in the spring of this year, GME also announced a new, exclusive partnership with the renown theatrical and home video distributor Kino Lorber in order to make available to the North American university market a premiere selection of moving image titles from across the span of film history. In announcing this new collaboration, Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber has written:

“Jon Gartenberg and I became friends too many years ago to admit when were both working at the Museum of Modern Art so it’s an overdue reunion to have the chance to collaborate anew. We could have no better partner than Gartenberg Media Enterprises in releasing expanded editions to the educational market some of the most important films from the Kino Lorber collection. Jon’s well-earned reputation for his dedication to film history and commitment to the unique and enduring value of film as an educational resource make him an ideal partner. We look forward to growing this relationship in the future.”

All the films in this selection are available for purchase either in DVD or Blu-ray format, as DVD or Blu-ray/DSL bundles, or as digital files for streaming on the university user’s internal internet system. More international, documentary, independent and classic films dedicated to cinematic excellence will be added to the Kino Lorber Collection at GME Streamline this coming fall.

GME Streamline is also pleased to present a curated collection of DVD publications from Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna, all of which we now make available as DVD/DSL bundles. These works comprise 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). Ideal for academic study and research, these DVD Editions contain multitudes of extras as well as bilingual texts in English and German about the respective films and their filmmakers.

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 comprise three historical overviews of moving image works from Spain, encompassing experimental cinema (FROM ECSTASY TO RAPTURE), video art (VIDEO ITINERARIES FROM THE SPANISH CONTEXT) and animation (FROM DOODLES TO PIXELS: A JOURNEY THROUGH SPANISH ANIMATION). Important cinema pioneers Segundo de Chomón and Val Del Omar, and contemporary avant-garde Mexican born artist Nicolás Pereda are represented in separate monographic publications as DVD/DSL bundles.

Index Edition titles from the Austrian Avant-Garde (1957-present) are now available for pre-order. These stylistically varied works include experimental films by Kurt Kren, Gustav Deutsch, Valie Export, Peter Tscherkassky, Dieter Brehm, Maria Lassnig and Peter Weibel, among many others; this section also includes representation of selected artists from Eastern European countries which are also now available as DVD/DSL bundles through GME Streamline.

Peter Tscherkassky´s OUTER SPACE (1999) — Peter Tscherkassky´s *OUTER SPACE* (1999)

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DVD/DSL BUNDLES AND DOWNLOADABLE FILES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE