March 2025 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues
/Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from March related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME celebrated Women’s History Month by spotlighting works by women filmmakers that we distribute on DSL, DVD, and Blu-Ray. In the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room, GME streamed Hiroshi Teshigahara's WOMAN IN THE DUNES (which Mancia wrote about at length in Film Comment) and featured a number of rare archival treasures from Mancia's papers. Additionally, MIX NYC publicly shared the filmed Q&A session from their festival's closing night program in November 2024, which featured remarks from GME President Jon Gartenberg, commenting on GME associate Matt McKinzie's film and the other films in the program. At the end of the month, Gartenberg contributed program notes for Abigail Child's screening of her film THE SUBURBAN TRILOGY at the Film-Makers' Cooperative.
IDA LUPINO DIRECTING NEVER FEAR (1949). SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.
March 13th — GME
This march, GME paid tribute to women filmmakers from our catalogue in honor of Women’s History Month. GME distributes films by women in DSL, DVD, and Blu-Ray formats, which we make available exclusively to academic institutions in North America in collaboration with an array of archives and boutique publishers worldwide, including Cameo Media, Flicker Alley, Index Edition, Kino Lorber, Light Cone, and Re:Voir, among others. The role of women filmmakers has been generally overlooked in the writing of film histories. GME has carefully curated a selection of works from these organizations so as to more fully represent the significant contributions that women filmmakers have made from the birth of moving pictures.
STILL FRM HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA’S WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964). SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.
March 18th — GME
In addition to her work as a film programmer, Adrienne Mancia was an accomplished writer of film criticism and film treatments. Hiroshi Teshigahara’s 1964 avant-garde psychological thriller WOMAN IN THE DUNES was a film Mancia championed at length in Film Comment, and is one of the titles GME’s team selected to stream in March in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room. Mancia invoked the writing of her colleague, Japanese cinema expert Donald Richie, in her Film Comment essay. Richie and Mancia worked together for a number of years at The Museum of Modern Art, where Richie was Curator of Film from 1969 to 1972. Mancia and Richie even collaborated on a treatment for a feature film, titled LOVE’S TENT, that Richie was set to direct in 1969. Mancia's Film Comment essay and the treatment she co-wrote with Richie were made available to view in the Streaming Room last month, alongside Teshigahara's film. Furthermore, Richie was an accomplished director of experimental films, which he made in Japan beginning in the early 1960s. These shorts were also included in March’s program in the Streaming Room as bonus features.
March 21st — MIX NYC
On November 23rd, 2024, QUEER DREAM TRIPTYCH, a found footage poem film by GME associate Matt McKinzie, screened at the Quad Cinema in the closing night program of MIX: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. The post-screening Q&A session with the filmmakers involved rich, cross-generational discourse pertaining to depictions of pleasure versus depictions of trauma, as related to queer identity and sexuality, in the selected films. This Q&A session was filmed and made available to the public on March 21st. GME President Jon Gartenberg, in attendance that evening with GME Fine Arts Curator David Deitch, commended the filmmakers for “externalizing their interior struggles on the screen,” praising their willingness to be “vulnerable” in their work and remarking that he found this kind of filmmaking — wherein the artists confronted their trauma in their art — to be “new and refreshing. To listen to Gartenberg’s contribution to the Q&A session and the filmmakers’ responses to his question, click on the video on the left.
DVD COVER FOR WALTHER RUTTMANN’S BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A CITY (1927) and MELODY OF THE WORLD (1929). SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.
March 23rd — Anthology Film Archives
On March 23rd at 5pm, Anthology Film Archives screened Walther Ruttmann’s BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A CITY / BERLIN, DIE SYMPHONIE DER GROSSTADT (1927) as part of their Essential Cinema series. GME distributes BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A CITY alongside Ruttmann’s MELODY OF THE WORLD (1929), plus 13 Ruttmann shorts, on DVD to North American universities.
DVD COVER FOR PAUL SHARITS: MANDALA FILMS. SOURCE: GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES.
March 27th — Anthology Film Archives
On March 27th at 6:30pm Anthology Film Archives screened Hans Richter’s RHYTHMUS 21 (1921), TWO PENNY MAGIC / ZWEIGROSCHENZAUBER (1929), and EVERYTHING REVOLVES, EVERYTHING TURNS / ALLES DREHT SICH, ALLES BEWEGT SICH (1929), as well as Paul Sharits’ N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968), T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1969), S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED (1968—70), and COLOR SOUND FRAMES (1974), as part of their Essential Cinema series. GME distributes all three Richter films in the collection HANS RICHTER: EARLY WORKS, which is available to North American universities as a DVD and downloadable DSL files. Additionally, GME distributes Sharits’ N:O:T:H:I:N:G and T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G in the collection MANDALA FILMS, which is also available as a DVD and downloadable DSL files.
OFFICIAL POSTER FOR ABIGAIL CHILD’S THE SUBURBAN TRILOGY AT THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE, DESIGNED BY MATT MCkINZIE.
March 28th — The Film-Makers’ Cooperative
On Friday, March 28th, filmmaker and poet Abigail Child presented her feature-length cinematic triptych THE SUBURBAN TRILOGY at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, of which she is a longtime member. GME President Jon Gartenberg is a longtime friend and collaborator of Child’s and has programmed her work at film festivals internationally, including THE SUBURBAN TRILOGY, which he screened at the Pesaro Film Festival. Gartenberg contributed the program note for Child’s screening of THE SUBURBAN TRILOGY at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, which can be read here.