December 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues
/Today we recap news, events and celebrations from December, in New York City and beyond, related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. On World AIDS Day, GME welcomed Jim Hubbard’s documentary ELEGY IN THE STREETS (1989) into our library of films currently available for international institutional acquisition. On December 11th, GME launched the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room, where you can now stream films, clips, and other audiovisual ephemera related to the professional career of legendary film programmer and curator Adrienne Mancia.
STILL: JIM HUBBARD’S ELEGY IN THE STREETS (1989). SOURCE: JIM HUBBARD.
December 1st — GME
December 1st was World AIDS Day, an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic and honoring those who we have lost to HIV/AIDS. On this day of consciousness-raising, mourning, and remembrance, GME was honored to welcome Jim Hubbard’s ELEGY IN THE STREETS (1989) on DSL into our library of films currently available for international institutional acquisition.
OFFICIAL LOGO FOR THE ADRIENNE MANCIA STREAMING ROOM. SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.
December 11th — GME
On December 11th, GME launched The Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room. Here, you can stream films, clips, and other audiovisual ephemera related to the professional career of legendary film programmer and curator Adrienne Mancia. Mancia, who passed away in 2022 at the age of 95, was a friend and colleague of GME’s. She worked closely with Jon Gartenberg in the film department at the Museum of Modern Art during the 1970s and ‘80s, where she redefined the field of film programming. To commemorate the holiday season, GME’s launch of the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room comprised an international array of short, holiday-themed films, a format that Adrienne championed throughout her career.
STILL: ROBERT KRAMER’S ICE (1969). SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.
December 12th — Austrian Film Museum
In October and November, the Austrian Film Museum mounted a retrospective of the films of Robert Kramer. On December 12th, GME highlighted the Museum’s retrospective by sharing eight Kramer titles we distribute to the North American university market, four of which — THE EDGE, ICE, GUNS, IN THE COUNTRY, and VIDEOLETTERS — were featured in the retrospective.
PETER TSCHERKASSKY’S OUTER SPACE (1999). SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.
December 12th — ICA London
In November, YES & NO Magazine celebrated their 13th edition YES & NO Kino+Film Austria, which shed light on more than 100 years of Austrian cinema by presenting a two-part program with the ICA and sixpackfilm. On December 12th, GME highlighted the films featured in this program that we distribute as DVDs and DSL/DVD bundles, in collaboration with Index Edition/sixpackfilm, to the North American institutional market.
OFFICIAL LOGO FOR SHORT FILM DAY.
December 21st — GME
December 21st is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and has therefore been declared Short Film Day in Germany. December 28th is also recognized as Short Film Day in the United States, in honor of the Lumière brothers’ first public screening of moving pictures (all of which were shorts) at the Grand Café in Paris on December 28th, 1895. On the 21st, GME celebrated Short Film Day with our program of holiday-themed shorts, which is now available to view in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room.