October 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues
/Today we recap events and celebrations from October — in New York City and beyond — related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME dove deep into our film and photography collections in honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, highlighting a number of films by LGBTQ+ filmmakers that we distribute on DSL, Blu-Ray, and DVD, as well as photographs of pioneering dancers Louis Falco, Bill T. Jones, and Arnie Zane taken by Jack Mitchell.
October 11th — GME
In honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, GME presented a suite of photographs taken by Jack Mitchell of dancer and choreographer Louis Falco. Hailed as one of the finest performers of his generation, Falco was also a prescient multimedia artist. As a choreographer, Falco forecasted high-tech, computer-generated live entertainment that would become commonplace in the 21st century. Falco passed away in 1993, at the age of 50, due to complications from AIDS, though his body of work and legacy lives on through the Louis Falco Repertory and in photographs like those taken by Mitchell. Mitchell’s lens captures Falco’s “tempestuous charm” and “smoldering good looks,” and relishes his “powerful yet sensual physicality” that subverted modern dance traditions and imbued the art form with a heightened sense of excitement, curiosity, and expansiveness. Ultimately, these images crystallize the qualities that made Falco a trailblazer of the medium.
October 19th — GME
For last year’s Home Movie Day, GME highlighted Hollywood icon Rock Hudson, who appears in Mark Rappaport’s found footage video essay ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES. This year, we turned our attention to an avant-garde icon, Ken Jacobs, whose experimental “home movie” CYCLOPEAN 3D: LIFE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN was produced by GME through the Experimental Filmmakers Production Fund. GME’s work on CYCLOPEAN 3D is part of a larger initiative to provide strategic advice to independent producers and contemporary experimental filmmakers about creative projects, extending from their production phase through to distribution strategies and exhibition platforms. GME’s objective is to help cutting-edge filmmakers expand their visibility in the marketplace.
October 22nd — Brooklyn Academy of Music
On Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024, the Brooklyn Academy of Music screened Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet short film EVERY REVOLUTION IS A THROW OF THE DICE (1977) as an addendum to their double-feature tribute to filmmaker and painter Franz van de Staak. Straub once called van de Staak “the only true heir to Dziga Vertov.” GME distributes Straub and Hulliet’s feature-length adaptation of Franz Kafka’s AMERIKA, titled CLASS RELATIONS (KLASSENVERHÄLTNISSE), on DVD and as a DSL/DVD bundle in collaboration with Edition Filmmuseum. GME also distributes a number of films by Vertov, listed here.
October 30th — GME
In honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, GME highlighted an array of moving image works that we distribute (both classic and contemporary) by LGBTQ+ artists and/or about topics and themes relevant to the LGBTQ+ community. These works are available to academic institutions in North America, and are distributed in collaboration with Index Edition, Re:Voir Video, Flicker Alley, MētisPresses, Kino Lorber, and Edition Filmmuseum.
October 30th — Brooklyn Academy of Music
On Wednesday, October 30th, at 7:30pm, Bill T. Jones' groundbreaking and once-controversial multimedia dance show STILL/HERE returned to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where it first premiered 30 years ago. In 1983, Jones and his partner Arnie Zane founded the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, which is currently in its 42nd season. A year later, Jack Mitchell photographed the duo for the cover of Dance Magazine, posed in front of original artwork by Keith Haring. Zane and Haring passed away from AIDS-related complications in 1988 and 1990, respectively. On the occasion of Jones' STILL/HERE making its triumphant return to the BAM stage, GME featured Mitchell's photograph commemorating the legacy of Haring's visual art and Jones and Zane's partnership.