May 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues
/It’s finally June, and with the start of summer officially just around the corner, here is a recap of screenings, events, and celebrations from May, in New York City and beyond, related to GME’s multifaceted projects. Notable exhibition programs include a suite of films by Man Ray at Boston’s Brattle Theatre and a collaboration between the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Film at Lincoln Center; both programs featured filmmakers and films GME distributes to universities in North America. Also in May, MoMA and Anthology Film Archives mounted retrospectives of the work of Warren Sonbert’s colleagues Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, both of whom GME featured in a compilation reel of clips from Sonbert’s films. Additionally, GME licensed three photographs from the Raimondo Borea collection for two books and a documentary film.
OFFICIAL POSTER FOR “SEEING THE CITY: AVANT-GARDE VISIONS OF NEW YORK FROM THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE COLLECTION AND BEYOND.” SOURCE: FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER.
May 3rd — Film at Lincoln Center
From May 3rd to 7th, Film at Lincoln Center and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative mounted a 10-program series of films and video art titled Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative Collection and Beyond. The series highlighted works from within and outside of the FMC’s archive that chronicle New York City from a diverse array of perspectives. GME is proud to distribute, to the North American university market, titles by a number of filmmakers whose films appeared in this series, such as Stan Brakhage, Holly Fisher, Marie Menken, Ian Hugo, Francis Thompson, and Rudy Burckhardt. GME distributes, as well, many other international city symphony films — not only of New York, but also San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, Ostend, Granada, Lourdes, Cassis, Brussels, and elsewhere. To view a complete list of our city symphony titles, click here. To read Jon Gartenberg’s article about New York city symphony films, click here.
FILMMAKER SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF. SOURCE: FLICKR.
May 6th — GME
In collaboration with INDEX Edition, a joint venture of the Vienna-based Sixpackfilm and Medienwerkstatt established for the publication of Austrian films and video art, GME was proud to announce a new collection of 14 films by Siegfried A. Fruhauf, spanning 1998 to 2010, titled SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF: EXPOSED. This publication is currently available to the North American university market as a DVD and DSL/DVD bundle.
FILMMAKERS NATHANIEL DORSKY AND JEROME HILER APPEARING IN WARREN SONBERT’S FILM THE TENTH LEGION (1967). SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.
May 8th — MoMA & Anthology Film Archives
In May, The Museum of Modern Art mounted the series Illuminated Hours: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, which coincided with the American release of the book of the same name, edited by Francisco Algarín Navarro and GME associate Carlos Saldaña. Later in the month, Anthology Film Archives hosted the series Illuminated Hours: Three Evenings with Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, also in conjunction with Navarro and Saldaña’s book. Dorsky and Hiler were close friends and filmmaking colleagues of Warren Sonbert from the mid-1960s onward, and all three helped pioneer the editing style known as “polyvalent montage.” On May 8th, in recognition of these Dorsky/Hiler retrospectives, GME released a video that compiled the duo’s appearances in Sonbert’s films THE TENTH LEGION (1967), HOLIDAY (1968), and NOBLESSE OBLIGE (1981). The compilation was soundtracked by Frank Sinatra’s “Young at Heart,” which Sonbert featured in THE TENTH LEGION.
PHOTOGRAPHER RAIMONDO BOREA IN 1967. SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.
May 16th — GME
GME is proud to represent the work of photographer Raimondo Borea (b. 1926—d. 1982) who, over a four decade-long career, amassed an impressive portfolio that permeated all areas of fine art photography, television, music, publishing, and advertising. On May 16th, GME highlighted the renaissance Borea’s work has been experiencing as evidenced by the appearances of his photos in two books and a documentary within the past year.
STILL: MAN RAY’s RETURN TO REASON (1923). SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.
May 31st — Brattle Theatre
From Friday, May 31st, to Monday, June 3rd, four films by Man Ray — RETURN TO REASON, EMAK-BAKIA, L’ETOILE DE MER, and LES MYSTERES DU CHATEAU DU DE — played at Boston’s Brattle Theatre, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of RETURN TO REASON in 2023, in the program MAN RAY: RETURN TO REASON. GME distributes Ray’s RETURN TO REASON and EMAK-BAKIA to the North American university market in the eight-film DVD collection CINÉMA DADA. This collection also includes films by early experimental cinema pioneers like Hans Richter and Fernand Léger.