May 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 buyers.
May 4th - Luminor City Hall, Paris
The Scratch session screening presented by Light Cone pays tribute to the work and legacy of Dore O., one of the great pioneers of German experimental cinema, yet relatively unknown to this day. In the 1960s, within the post-war German artistic landscape, the painter Dore O. was one of the first women to make experimental films independently and consistently. The event also celebrated the release of Figures of Absence - The Films of Dore O. (Strzelecki Books, editor: Masha Matzke). GME Streamline distributes several of Dore O.’s films in the FIGURES OF ABSENCE (1968-1976) collection, which includes several of the films being presented by Light Cone, and which is available as a downloadableDSL file from GME or on Blu-ray/DVD.
May 4–14 - Film at Lincoln Center
Among the 21st century’s most essential artists, Apichatpong Weerasethakul has amassed a richly original and transcendently mesmerizing body of work that few filmmakers can match. From his feature debut, Mysterious Object at Noon (2000, distributed by GME), to the Palme d’Or-winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), to his metaphysical latest, Memoria (2021), Weerasethakul’s formally daring oeuvre is marked by a meticulously controlled sense of cinematic sensuality and a powerful, understated gift for locating the political within the everyday.
May 6 - Millennium Film Workshop
On Austrian and American Structural Film at Millennium Film Workshop presented the emergent Structuralist filmmakers of the early 1960s, who arranged their shots according to mathematical principles, attempting to produce non-narrative and non-illusionist films to oppose the cinematic apparatus. Filmmakers Peter Kubelka, Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, and Kurt Kren, and some of a successive generation, including Virgil Widrich, are represented in the distribution catalog of GME.
May 11 - 19 - The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA presented The Experimental Narratives of Warren Sonbert, programmed by Guest Curator and Sonbert archivist Jon Gartenberg (GME). This retrospective of a seminal figure in experimental film encompassed Sonbert’s complete body of work from its beginning in 1966. Comprising seven programs screened almost entirely in 16mm, the series opens on the theme of queer identity, and goes on to focus on Sonbert’s early flirtation with Andy Warhol’s Factory scene, his travel diaries, the evolving styles, strategies, and poetics of his 16mm film work, and much more. This series at MoMA was the result of years of legacy building and planning and will be discussed at greater length in an upcoming piece from GME. Sonbert’s early classic HALL OF MIRRORS (1966, 7 min.), part of GME's digitally scanned titles in the Warren Sonbert Collection, is currently streaming for free on our website.
May 12 - June 8 - Film Forum
The City: Real and Imagined series presents over 60 feature films and special events, including THE NAKED CITY, REAR WINDOW, THE LANDLORD, KLUTE, TAXI DRIVER, DO THE RIGHT THING, SHAFT, THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, and many more. Programmed by Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum Repertory Artistic Director. Filmmakers represented by GME—Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Alfred Hitchcock, Ken Jacobs, Ian Hugo, and Helen Levitt—are screening in this extensive series, in addition to a co-production by GME consultant Fred Riedel with Jem Cohen, Peter Hutton and others.
May 13 - Film-Makers' Cooperative
“Colordance," a program of films relating dance, color and movement, sold out within 24 hours. It included work by Stan Brakhage, and Paul Sharits, both distributed by Gartenberg Media.
May 25 - Film-Makers' Cooperative
"Mirrored Identities: The Self as Multiple" examined the mutability of human identity through doubling, fracture, and dissolution, including work by Hans Richter, Maya Deren and Maria Lassnig, all distributed by GME.
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ONGOING SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
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.
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.
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.
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