Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE Screens at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin June 7th-9th

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Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE Screens at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin June 7th-9th

From June 7th to 9th, Warren Sonbert’s debut film AMPHETAMINE (1966, co-directed with Wendy Appel) will screen in Berlin at the KW Institute of Contemporary Art, as part of Billy Bultheel and James Richards’ multimedia exhibition Workers in Song. Bultheel and Richards’ show premiered at WIELS last year, and was co-commissioned by WIELS, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, and the KW Institute.

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Warren Sonbert Retrospective at the National Gallery of Art June 8th-9th

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Warren Sonbert Retrospective at the National Gallery of Art June 8th-9th

A series of films by Warren Sonbert, curated and presented by GME President Jon Gartenberg, will screen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. in June as part of the museum’s annual Pride Month event We Have Always Been Here. Gartenberg adapted these Sonbert programs from the Sonbert retrospective that played at The Museum of Modern Art in May of last year.

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September 2023 Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

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September 2023 Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

Happy Autumn from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! As we enter October, we’re looking back at a myriad of screenings from last month, in New York City and beyond, featuring films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. GME-associated artists were well-represented in September — from pioneering filmmakers like Ida Lupino, Jean-Luc Godard, Jose Val Del Omar, Maya Deren, and Man Ray, to contemporary artists like Karel Doing, Rose Lowder, and Lav Diaz. The work of Warren Sonbert, which is exclusively represented by GME, was also screened in various venues in September.

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Warren Sonbert's FRIENDLY WITNESS Screens at NYU

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Warren Sonbert's FRIENDLY WITNESS Screens at NYU

On Friday, September 22nd, 2023, at 7pm, Warren Sonbert’s 1989 “musical montage” film FRIENDLY WITNESS will screen at New York University, at 721 Broadway Room 674, as part of Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) student Andrew Reichel’s program Three by Three by Three Hundred: Rare 16mm Films. GME represents the work and legacy of Warren Sonbert, and currently distributes five of his films as DSL downloads: AMPHETAMINE (1966), THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1967), HALL OF MIRRORS (1966), THE TENTH LEGION (1967), and WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? (1966). FRIENDLY WITNESS, along with the rest of Sonbert’s montage films, will become available for institutional acquisition and rental through GME in the near future.

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Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE to Screen at WIELS with New Score

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Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE to Screen at WIELS with New Score

Since the success of our Warren Sonbert retrospective at MoMA earlier this year, there has been renewed international interest in the artist’s extraordinary life and body of work, as evidenced by the forthcoming exhibition Billy Bultheel & James Richards: Workers in Song at WIELS in Brussels. Gartenberg Media Enterprises has granted permission for Richards to include Sonbert’s 1966 masterpiece AMPHETAMINE in this program — with a brand new score — which plays on Saturday, September 9th, and Sunday, September 10th, 2023.

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Enjoy All Tomorrow's Holiday Parties with Scenes and Bonus Materials Licensed from GME for Criterion's Blu-Ray Release of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

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Enjoy All Tomorrow's Holiday Parties with Scenes and Bonus Materials Licensed from GME for Criterion's Blu-Ray Release of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

GME is happy to announce Criterion's DVD and Blu-ray release of Todd Haynes celebrated documentary THE VELVET UNDERGOUND, for which we have provided both numerous clip licenses (for the documentary) and additional films included in the Blu-ray bonus features.  These extras include the complete Jonas Mekas film AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964, 9 min) and a 7 minute excerpt from Mekas' landmark 1969 diary film collection WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES.

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Announcing Updated Clip and Photo Licensing Section of GME’s Website, Highlighting Our Work with Todd Haynes’ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Film

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Announcing Updated Clip and Photo Licensing Section of GME’s Website, Highlighting Our Work with Todd Haynes’ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Film

GME provided scenes from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), Peter Emmanuel Goldman's ECHOES OF SILENCE (1964), Jonas Mekas’ AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1963-1990), and WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), and Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) to Todd Haynes and Swish Productions for upcoming Film Forum release and Apple TV+ broadcast of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND.

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GME STREAMLINE IS HAPPY TO NOTE THE PREMIERE OF TODD HAYNES’S DOCUMENTARY “THE VELVET UNDERGROUND” AT THE 74TH CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

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GME STREAMLINE IS HAPPY TO NOTE THE PREMIERE OF TODD HAYNES’S DOCUMENTARY “THE VELVET UNDERGROUND” AT THE 74TH CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

GME provided scenes from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), Peter Emmanuel Goldman's ECHOES OF SILENCE (1964), Jonas Mekas’ AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1963-1990), and WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), and Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) to Todd Haynes and Swish Productions for upcoming Apple TV+ broadcast of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND.

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Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE and Other Works Featured in Recent Exhibitions in NYC & London

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AMPHETAMINE, along with other films by Warren Sonbert, was recently featured in two presentations - one in New York and one in London - each focusing on the works of queer and underground filmmakers. 

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04/25/2012  •NEW YORK•DIRTY LOOKS

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Dirty Looks is a Monthly Platform for

    Queer Experimental Film and Video

    Bradford Nordeen's April program featured works by

    "two key figures in queer and underground film" 

    Warren Sonbert and Tom Chomont.

    The program included Warren Sonbert's 

AMPHETAMINE (1966, with Wendy Appel),

DIVIDED LOYALTIES (1975-78) and 

HONOR AND OBEY (1987).

04/14/2012  •LONDON•  THE LITTLE JOE CLUBHOUSE

    The Little Joe Clubhouse is a unique  

temporary film space from the creators of 

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    a magazine about queers and cinema, mostly.

    In a special program, as part of this year's

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    AMPHETAMINE (1966), was presented by Stuart Comer,

    Film Curator at London's Tate Modern.