FILMS IN NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL BY TODD HAYNES, APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL AND PROGRAMMED BY AMOS VOGEL FOR CINEMA 16
/We are proud to note the inclusion of several important filmmakers whose work is either distributed by GME, or, in the case of Todd Haynes’ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, utilized extensive clips from GME’s collection of experimental films.
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. A hypnotic new documentary and the first major film to tell the band’s legendary story. Playing in theaters and on Apple TV+ October 15
From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia. GME distributes Weerasethakul’s earlier MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (Thailand, 2000) on DVD/DSL Bundle to the North American educational market.
Amos Vogel Centenary Retrospective
At a time when moviegoing in New York was dominated by Hollywood offerings, Amos Vogel, a young Austrian émigré, and his wife Marcia saw the need for a new kind of venue. In the fall of 1947, they founded Cinema 16, inspired by European film societies as well as by the daily screenings at the Museum of Modern Art, the shows Maya Deren organized of her own work at the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village, and Frank Stauffacher’s Art in Cinema series in San Francisco. The organization, named after the gauge of the independent filmmaker, would become the most important film society of its era.
GME distributes several films to the North American educational market by filmmakers being presented in NYFF’s Amos Vogel Centenary Retrospective, and that appeared in Cinema 16’s programs, including Maya Deren, Oskar Fischinger, Tony Conrad and Peter Emmanuel Goldman.