RECAP OF FALL GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES
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Last semester, Gartenberg Media introduced a number of new, and updated, selections on the GME Streamline section of our website for the distribution of films and videos now available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), in addition to the occasional presentation of viewable streams via GME Streamline's home and 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 this past season we have presented limited, free streams of select titles, including Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Peter Tscherkassky's OUTER SPACE, and Leopold Lindtberg's SWISS TOUR. We are currently streaming TATITUDE (2009, 4 Minutes), by Vivian Ostrovsky from her collection PLUNGE. These films are representative samples of the recently added Re:voir and Index Edition collections and single title releases now available through GME Streamline and GME DVD and Blu-ray distribution. Collectively, they constitute a wealth of cinematic history that we now make available as direct 1080 HD and standard definition (SD) digital file downloads, and as DVD/DSL bundle releases.
Winner of numerous awards upon its release in 2006, Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER reflects on the enormity of the 9/11 attack on New York as Shaman Trail Scout 'Coyote' takes a journey which transcends time, from Inwood Park (where the island was traded for beads and booze), down a native trail (now 'Broadway'), into lower Manhattan (sacred burial ground, now including the newest natives of this island empire). Exclusively available from GME Streamline as a 1080/HD DSL downloadable file.
GME is pleased to present the complete INDEX Edition Collection from Austria, now available to our North American university colleagues as DVD/DSL bundles. The label INDEX Edition was founded in 2004 by sixpackfilm and Medienwerkstatt Wien. Its aim is to make available previously hard to find moving image works in digital editions. Similar to a small publishing house for quality literature, INDEX Edition releases and distributes audiovisual publications relevant to the history of Austrian (as well as Eastern European) film, video, and media art. Information about the film and video artists, their production methods, and analyses of the individual works are provided in a bilingual German-English booklet that accompanies each release. Our featured new release this semester is Maria Lassnig's FILMS IN PROGRESS.
SWISS TOUR
American soldiers stationed in Europe in the aftermath of WWII are on leave in Switzerland. Among them is marine Stanley Robin (Cornel Wilde) who loses his heart to a watch seller Suzanne (Josette Day). In the glamorous nightlife of Zermatt, however, seductive Yvonne (Simone Signoret) puts their young love to the test. But Stanley, a lovelorn soldier, moves heaven and earth to win back Suzanne by entering a ski race at the foot of the Matterhorn. There is little time left to consummate the delicate bonds of transnational love. Exclusively available from GME Streamline as a 1080/HD DSL downloadable file.
RE:VOIR COLLECTION
GME is pleased to announce the availability of a premiere selection of new and previously released experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as 1080 HD and standard definition (SD) digital files for streaming on university intranet servers. For more than 20 years, Gartenberg Media Enterprises has partnered with Re:voir in making available a diverse and fragile body of experimental and independent films, both classic and contemporary, that merits exposure to a wider audience. We have kept current with the technological changes in formats for the delivery of these cutting edge works to our educational clients, first by releasing editions of Re:voir publications in VHS, then DVD, and now, in mostly HD and some SD digital files as digital site licenses. New releases last semester included the films of Robert Kramer, the Mekas' brothers 3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA, Jackie Raynal's HOTEL NEW YORK, and Boris Lehman's city symphony MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE.
For a list of all Streamline titles available as Digital Site Licenses, click here.