LGBTQ+ Films and Filmmakers

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LGBTQ+ Films and Filmmakers

Beginning in the 1980s, Queer Studies became popular in academic curricula and has resulted, over the ensuing decades, in a body of literature about films and filmmakers viewed through this lens. In honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, GME highlights 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 withIndex Edition, Re:Voir Video, Flicker Alley, MētisPresses, Kino Lorber, and Edition Filmmuseum.

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Revisiting Ken Jacobs' CYCLOPEAN 3D for Home Movie Day

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Revisiting Ken Jacobs' CYCLOPEAN 3D for Home Movie Day

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 turn 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 President Jon Gartenberg presented CYCLOPEAN 3D the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in 2012, where he dubbed the film Jacobs’ “most directly autobiographical work to date.”

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September 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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September 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Today we recap the numerous screenings, events, and celebrations from October — in New York City and beyond — related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME President Jon Gartenberg collaborated with Elena Rossi-Snook to curate a program of films dealing with sex and censorship that screened at the New York Public Library. Additionally, a number of titles that GME distributes to North American universities appeared in screenings mounted by several noteworthy institutions last month, including the Harvard Film Archive, Metrograph, Light Industry, and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative.

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ZANZIBAR Film Collective

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ZANZIBAR Film Collective

During the volatile late 1960s in Paris, the filmmaking collective known as Zanzibar began creating outsider movies, many of which are now lost or neglected. Though all members were cinephiles, they had only modest filmmaking experience. Still, the Zanzibar films are infused with the countercultural energy and restlessness of the times, thanks to the group’s refreshing lack of experience and regard for cinematic convention. GME distributes a number of films that emerged from the Zanzibar collective on DSL and DVD to the North American institutional market. These films have continued relevance among cinephiles today; notably, Metrograph mounted the series One More Time: The Cinema of Daniel Pommereulle last month, which featured a number of Zanzibar titles that we also distribute.

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August 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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August 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

As the summer season winds down, we reflect on screenings, events, and celebrations from August related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME President Jon Gartenberg curated a program of politically-trenchant New York city symphony films that screened at Allied Productions Artist Space, while GME associate Matt McKinzie included two films by Warren Sonbert in a program of 1960s queer avant-garde shorts featuring Motown music at Spectacle Theater.

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July 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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July 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

It may be the dog days of summer, but that hasn’t stopped GME from keeping busy. Today, we reflect on screenings, events, and celebrations from July related to our multifaceted projects. Notably, an archival gem relevant to MoMA’s month-long Powell and Pressburger retrospective was unearthed from GME President Jon Gartenberg’s papers, and a true crime film by James Benning (whose films we exclusively distribute to North American universities) screened at Anthology Film Archives.

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REMINDER: Jon Gartenberg's "Politically-Trenchant New York City Symphony Films (1984-2006)" screens TONIGHT at 8pm at Allied Productions Project Space

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REMINDER: Jon Gartenberg's "Politically-Trenchant New York City Symphony Films (1984-2006)" screens TONIGHT at 8pm at Allied Productions Project Space

REMINDER: Jon Gartenberg's program Politically-Trenchant New York City Symphony Films (1984-2006) screens TONIGHT at 8pm at Allied Productions Project Space (368 East 8th Street, Storefront West). Read on to learn about Gartenberg's commitment to excavating and exhibiting city symphony films, dating back to the early 1970s.

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James Benning's LANDSCAPE SUICIDE Screens at Anthology Film Archives Later This Month

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James Benning's LANDSCAPE SUICIDE Screens at Anthology Film Archives Later This Month

On July 24th, at 9pm, and August 2nd, at 6:30pm, James Benning’s LANDSCAPE SUICIDE (1986) — which GME distributes to North American universities as both a DVD and DVD/DSL bundle — screens at Anthology Film Archives in the series Verbatim. A preeminent formalist filmmaker whose lengthy and distinguished career dates back to the early 1970s, GME is proud to be the sole distributor of Benning’s films to the North American institutional market. In addition to LANDSCAPE SUICIDE, GME distributes the following Benning titles as both DVDs and DVD/DSL bundles: 11 X 14, ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE, 27 YEARS LATER (1977—2012), GRAND OPERA (1979), AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST & FOUND) (1984), O PANAMA (1985), DESERET (1995), FOUR CORNERS (1997), his CALIFORNIA TRILOGY (1999—2001), CASTING A GLANCE (2007), RR (2007), NATURAL HISTORY (2009), and RUHR (2014).

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June 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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June 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy Summer from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today we reflect on screenings, events, and celebrations from June, in New York City and beyond, related to GME’s multifaceted projects. Notably, a suite of films by Warren Sonbert, whose body of work and legacy GME represents, played at the National Gallery of Art, while several films by Alexander Kluge, whose work GME distributes to the North American University Market, were shown at e-Flux Screening Room as part of an extensive, week-long retrospective.

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May 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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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.

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