Warren Sonbert's HALL OF MIRRORS Screens at New Music Circle on January 18th

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Warren Sonbert's HALL OF MIRRORS Screens at New Music Circle on January 18th

On Saturday, January 18th, at 7pm, Missouri’s New Music Circle will screen Warren Sonbert’s third film, HALL OF MIRRORS (1966), in a program of experimental films that were made in the first decade of the organization’s existence (1959—1969). GME is the custodian of Sonbert’s legacy, and since his passing has worked on an extensive project to preserve, distribute, and curate career retrospectives of his films on an international basis, as well as publish original documents from the paper archive of his writings. HALL OF MIRRORS is an outgrowth of one of Sonbert’s film classes at NYU taught by Carl Lerner, the editor of such Hollywood features as 12 ANGRY MEN (1957) and REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT (1962). Sonbert was provided with outtakes from a Hollywood film photographed by Hal Mohr to re-edit into a narrative sequence.

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2025 Photo Licensing Reel

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2025 Photo Licensing Reel

GME's Photo Licensing Reel comprises a vast array of photographs taken by Raimondo Borea (1926—1982) and Hugh Bell (1927—2012), whose collections are represented by Gartenberg Media Enterprises for licensing, exhibition, and placement.

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

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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.

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

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

Today we recap events and celebrations from November — in New York City and beyond — related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME remembered Judith Jameson, and celebrated the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s season at Lincoln Center, with photographs by Jack Mitchell. GME also licensed footage from Martina Kudláček’s NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN (2006) for the launch of Artifacts, an online platform “connecting viewers with the cultural architects of the avant-garde, LGBTQ+, and underground arts.

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

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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.

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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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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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Two Warren Sonbert Films Screen in "The Motown Sound and the Queer Underground," curated by GME associate Matt McKinzie

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Two Warren Sonbert Films Screen in "The Motown Sound and the Queer Underground," curated by GME associate Matt McKinzie

On Friday, August 30th, at 7:30pm, Warren Sonbert’s first two films AMPHETAMINE (1966) and WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? (1966) will screen at Spectacle Theater (124 S. 3rd St.) in the program The Motown Sound and the Queer Underground, curated by GME associate Matt McKinzie as part of the series Sonic Visions: Experiments in Cinema and Music, presented by the Film-Makers’ Cooperative. Sonbert’s Estate has previously named GME as the custodian of his legacy, and since the artist’s untimely passing, GME has worked on an extensive project to preserve, distribute, and curate career retrospectives of his films on an international basis, as well as publish original documents from the paper archive of his writings.

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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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