April Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings
/Last month saw the work of several filmmakers distributed by GME programmed in venues in the U.S. and abroad. It is a reminder of both the durability of these artists and their works and the ongoing interest in the kinds of notable independent and experimental moving image work that GME strives to provide to our institutional buyers.
March 31 - April 9 - Museum of the Moving Image
The series "Jeanne Dielman and Its Roots" examines the influence of films the director, Chantal Ackerman, saw while living in New York City in 1971 and 1972. GME distributes work by filmmakers whose films inspired Ackerman, including films by Michael Snow, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Carl Th. Dreyer, and Jean-Luc Godard.
March 3 - April 21 - Clementin Seedorf, Cologne
Jeff Preiss - “Orchard Documents,” 8mm & 16mm “lyric home newsreels” and other films, including TAPE_SPLICES_for_WARREN from 8mm footage shot at Warren Sonbert’s home in the 1980s. Gartenberg Media is the custodian of the legacy of Warren Sonbert (1947-1995). A complete retrospective of Warren Sonbert’s films in 16mm, The Experimental Narratives of Warren Sonbert, screens at the Museum of Modern Art from May 11-19; Preiss’ homage to Sonbert will also be shown.
March 10 - Oct. 1 - Museum of the Moving Image
Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar presents a major exhibition devoted to the work of José Val del Omar (1904–1982), a visionary Spanish artist, filmmaker, and inventor who approached cinema as a multisensory experience. GME distributes a DVD/DSL Bundle release of the complete works of Val del Omar, including ELEMENTARY TRYPTIC OF SPAIN.
March 20 - July 8 - The Museum of Modern Art
"Signals: How Video Transformed the World" highlights over 70 media works, drawn primarily from MoMA’s collection, with many never before seen at the Museum. Featured artists include work by Nam June Paik, Eugènia Balcells, Valie Export, and Antoni Muntadas, whose films and videos are included in DVD editions distributed by GME. Signals enables audiences to experience video art’s wildly varied formats, settings, and global reach, from closed-circuit surveillance to viral video, from large-scale installation to social networks.
April 7- June 17 - Galerie Charlot, Paris
"It is in search of a treasure that my gaze wanders along the lines, spinning along the walls, sliding on the ridges, on the summits, crossing the woods suspended from the cliffs, sliding on the steep peaks of crumbling rocks. My eyes, sometimes with my camera, sometimes without, make a fortune out of nothing accumulated in my heart. Slowly, without thinking, without desiring, they forget and discover a wonderful adventure in life." GME distributes JACQUES PERCONTE - CORPS, a collection of his video work from 2002-2003, on DVD and as a downloadable DSL file.
April 14 & 23 - Museum of the Moving Image
SUNRISE, directed by F. W. Murnau. 1927, 94 mins. 35mm. With Janet Gaynor, George O’Brien. Murnau came to America and used the best of Hollywood’s resources to create SUNRISE, possibly his greatest achievement and certainly one of the high points in silent cinema. This exquisite story of love, marriage, temptation, and the lure of the big city is bursting with glorious visual poetry. It won Best Unique and Artistic Production at the first Academy Awards ceremony. GME distributes Murnau's PHANTOM (1922) and THE LAST LAUGH (1924) on DVD and Blu-ray.
April 15 - November 26 - 80 Washington Square East Gallery (NYU)
Up The Illusion is a momentous survey exhibition celebrating the 90th birthday of Ken Jacobs, one of our most iconic and indefatigable moving image artists. Curated by artist and writer Andrew Lampert, this street level exhibition features a panoramic selection of Jacobs’ nearly 70 years of pioneering films and digital videos in the Broadway Windows gallery. Gartenberg Media produced Jacobs' CYCLOPEAN 3D: LIFE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN (2012), Ken Jacobs’ most directly autobiographical work to date, through the Experimental Filmmakers Production Fund. Click for more information about GME’s Production Projects.
April 22 - Museum of the Moving Image
Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera, a new book and program of Deren’s most iconic films screened on 16mm, followed by a reading and discussion by author Mark Alice Durant. Deren's work possesses dreamlike qualities, features innovative editing and camera techniques, and serves as an exploration of the unconscious mind. GME distributes volumes of experimental and dance films by Maya Deren on DVD.
April 24 - The Museum of Modern Art
ALPHAVILLE (1965) is as slick, stylish, and improvisational as its New Wave siblings, but it is more concerned with big concepts like history, authoritarianism, and individual freedom than it is with interpersonal relationships. In the titular ALPHAVILLE, love, poetry, and emotion are banned, but that doesn’t stop Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) and programmer Natasha von Braun (Anna Karina) from falling for each other anyway. Gartenberg Media includes this amazing 1965 French New Wave classic in it’s distribution catalog along with outstanding examples of World Cinema Selects, available on Blu-Ray and DVD and as a downloadable DSL files.
April 21 - Film-Makers' Cooperative
Robert Kramer's ICE (1969) follows an underground revolutionary group as they carry out urban guerrilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States, while struggling against internal strife. This narrative is intermixed with sequences that explain the philosophy of radical action and play down the melodrama inherent in the thriller genre. Presented in 16mm by FMC curator Robert Schneider. GME distributes Kramer’s ICE (1969) and THE EDGE (1969), in addition to other important films by Robert Kramer on Blu-ray/DVD editions and as downloadable DSL files.
April 27 - May 26 - The Museum of Modern Art
Noted film critic Amy Taubin accepted an invitation by MoMA to delve into their archives to conjure a thrilling, thrumming vision of New York City, the place she has called home her entire life. The month-long Carte Blanche series includes films by Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, and others, many of whom are seen in or have produced films represented by GME.
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