January 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues
/Happy Winter from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, and celebrations from January, in New York City and beyond, related to GME colleagues, as well as films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. Notably, Anthology Film Archives screened a number of titles (by esteemed filmmakers like Sergei Eisenstein and Carl Th. Dreyer) that we currently distribute. Additional screenings of work related to GME and our colleagues appeared at various venues around the globe — ranging from august organizations like the International Film Festival of Rotterdam and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, to exciting newer festivals like Animation First and Film Diary NYC.
FILMMAKER CARL TH. DREYER. SOURCE: DANISH FILM INSTITUTE.
January 6th — Anthology Film Archives
As part of their Essential Cinema series — a “collection of films screened on a repertory basis… consist[ing] of 110 programs [and] 330 titles assembled [from] 1970 [to] 1975” — Anthology Film Archives showed seven works by Danish filmmaker Carl Th. Dreyer from January 6th to January 13th. Five additional works by Dreyer, distributed by GME on DVD and/or Blu-Ray to the North American university market, are a perfect complement to this program.
FILMMAKER SERGEI EISENSTEIN. SOURCE: SENSES OF CINEMA.
January 13th — Anthology Film Archives
As part of their Essential Cinema series, a collection of films screened on a repertory basis, Anthology Film Archives showed five works by Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein from January 13th to January 24th. GME is proud to distribute three Eisenstein titles to the North American university market — BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926/1930), OCTOBER (1928), and OLD AND NEW (1929) — all of which are featured in Anthology’s program.
2024 ANIMATION FIRST FILM FESTIVAL, OFFICIAL GRAPHIC. SOURCE: FIAF.ORG.
January 23rd — FIAF / Animation First Festival
From Tuesday, January 23rd to Sunday, January 28th, the French Institute Alliance Française presented the seventh annual Animation First Film Festival. The program Best of Annecy 2023, which highlighted work from last year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival, played on Friday, January 26th, at 9:45pm, at the FIAF Florence Gould Hall. The late Adrienne Mancia, a close friend and colleague of GME President Jon Gartenberg going back to the early 1970s, when they both worked in the Department of Film at The Museum of Modern Art, was one of the first curators to introduce the Annecy Film Festival in North America. She was also a jury member in 1993. GME paid homage to Mancia’s passion for animation and contributions to international film culture in conjunction with this year’s festival.
OFFICIAL POSTER FOR FILM DIARY NYC III: COLDEST WINTER, DESIGNED BY MARGO DELA CRUZ. SOURCE: FILM DIARY NYC.
January 24th — Film Diary NYC
On Wednesday, January 24th, at 4pm, the experimental short film QUEER DREAM TRIPTYCH, made by GME consultant Matt McKinzie, screened in Film Diary NYC’s third annual film festival, titled “Coldest Winter.” Organized by Saint Piñero and Sage Ó Tuama, Film Diary NYC “programs experimental non-fiction films that capture the personal history and daily experiences of the filmmaker and the world they encounter.” GME is proud to distribute numerous diary films of personal and poetic nature to the North American university market.
OFFICIAL LOGO OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF ROTTERDAM. SOURCE: IFFR.
January 26th — IFFR
On Friday, January 26th, at 6:45pm, both Vivian Ostrovsky’s U.S.S.A. and Peter Weibel’s TV & VT-WORKS, screened in the DINAMO: Information program at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), which showcases “works which deal with the presentation of information, facts and knowledge; works which address issues of journalism, reporting or the writing of history; works that function at the level of intellect, language and communication; works that uphold or critique systems of knowledge production.” Films by both Ostrovsky and Weibel are distributed by GME to universities in North America.
STILL: ROBERT FLAHERTY’S NANOOK OF THE NORTH (1922). SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.
January 28th — Anthology Film Archives
As part of their Essential Cinema series, a collection of films screened on a repertory basis, Anthology Film Archives showed Robert Flaherty’s 1922 drama NANOOK OF THE NORTH on January 28th, at 5:45pm. GME distributes NANOOK OF THE NORTH on Blu-Ray to the North American university market.
OFFICIAL POSTER FOR WHAT’S HAPPENING?, DESIGNED BY MATT MCKINZIE. SOURCE: THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE.
January 29th — The Film-Makers’ Cooperative
On Monday, January 29th, at 7pm, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative showed four films about “Happenings” in a program aptly titled WHAT’S HAPPENING?. A perfect companion to this program is the 17-film boxset FLUXFILM ANTHOLOGY, which GME distributes to the North American university market as both a DSL file and DVD.