July 27, 2022

Films and Filmmakers Distributed by GME Showing in New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema Series and Exhibition by Film at Lincoln Center, Film Forum and the Jewish Museum

July 27, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

1962 to 1964 was a pivotal moment in the evolution of American arts and culture, especially in New York City. These years, crucial to the development of Pop, Minimalism, and performance, saw the emergence of a new generation of radical artists, as well as venues that gave their iconoclastic work a home and a context. Movies, meanwhile, were undergoing a transformation of their own: the rise of a truly independent cinema, of works unencumbered by the medium’s aesthetic conventions and commercial imperatives.

February 18, 2022

GME NOTES THE CENTENNIAL OF JONAS MEKAS'S BIRTH, OFFERS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES OF HIS FILMS

February 18, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

Coinciding with the centennial of his birth, Film at Lincoln Center and The Jewish Museum in New York, are mounting (beginning this week) screenings and exhibitions dedicated to the life, art and legacy of Jonas Mekas's 70-year career. GME is concurrently celebrating the legacy of Mekas’s storied filmmaking career. In addition to the DVD editions of The Films of Jonas Mekas that GME has long distributed to our institutional buyers, we have recently also made available high quality downloadable .mp4 files of his films for digital site licenses (DSL) to our university clientele, including the recent release of REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (1972) (included in 3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA).

January 25, 2022

RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE'S NEW DSL AND DVD RELEASES FROM THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION FEATURING THE FILMS OF ROBERT KRAMER

January 25, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

GME Streamline is pleased to announce the availability of a new selection of experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as high quality digital files for streaming on university intranet servers, as well as on DVD and Blu-ray. Our most recent releases from the Re:voir Collection include the first four fiction feature films by Robert Kramer, as well as stylistically diverse films centered around three locales—New York, Brussels and Lithuania: Jackie Raynal’s HOTEL NEW YORK and NEW YORK STORY; the travel diaries 3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA, by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas, and Pola Chapelle (Adolfas’s wife); and a City Symphony by Belgian filmmaker Boris Lehman, MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE (1978). In addition to offering these new releases as Digital Site Licenses, they are available as well in high quality DVD and Blu-ray editions with accompanying booklets in English and French about the filmmakers and their films.

January 20, 2022

RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE'S PRESENTATION OF THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

January 20, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

GME would like to remind you of the recently made availability of a premiere selection of experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as digital files for streaming on university intranet servers. For more than 20 years, Gartenberg Media Enterprises has partnered with Re:voir in making available a diverse and fragile body of experimental and independent films, both classic and contemporary, that merits exposure to a wider audience.

January 14, 2022

RECAP OF FALL GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES

January 14, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

Through GME Streamline this past season we have presented limited, free streams of select titles, including Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Peter Tscherkassky's OUTER SPACE, and Leopold Lindtberg's SWISS TOUR. We are currently streaming TATITUDE (2009, 4 Minutes), by Vivian Ostrovsky from her collection PLUNGE. These films are representative samples of the recently added Re:voir and Index Edition collections and single title releases now available through GME Streamline and GME DVD and Blu-ray distribution. Collectively, they constitute a wealth of cinematic history that we now make available as DVD/DSL bundle releases and direct HD digital file downloads.

December 15, 2021

RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE FALL DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES

December 15, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Through GME Streamline this past season we have presented limited, free streams of select titles, including Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Peter Tscherkassky's OUTER SPACE, and Leopold Lindtberg's SWISS TOUR. We are currently streaming TATITUDE (2009, 4 Minutes), by Vivian Ostrovsky from her collection PLUNGE. These films are representative samples of the recently added Re:voir and Index Edition collections and single title releases now available through GME Streamline and GME DVD and Blu-ray distribution. Collectively, they constitute a wealth of cinematic history that we now make available as DVD/DSL bundle releases and direct HD digital file downloads.

November 17, 2021

GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS NEW DSL & DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES FROM THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION INCLUDING THE FILMS OF ROBERT KRAMER

November 17, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME Streamline is pleased to announce the availability of a new selection of experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as high quality digital files for streaming on university intranet servers, as well as in DVD format. Our most recent releases from the Re:voir Collection include the first four fiction feature films by Robert Kramer, as well as stylistically diverse films centered around three locales—New York, Brussels and Lithuania: Jackie Raynal’s HOTEL NEW YORK and NEW YORK STORY; the travel diaries 3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA, by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas, and Pola Chapelle (Adolfas’s wife); and a City Symphony by Belgian filmmaker Boris Lehman, MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE (1978). In addition to offering these new releases as Digital Site Licenses, they are available as well in high quality DVD editions with accompanying booklets in English and French about the filmmakers and their films.

November 11, 2021

GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

November 11, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME is pleased to announce the availability of a premiere selection of experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as high quality digital files for streaming on university intranet servers. For more than 20 years, Gartenberg Media Enterprises has partnered with Re:voir in making available a diverse and fragile body of experimental and independent films, both classic and contemporary, that merits exposure to a wider audience. We have kept current with the technological changes in formats for the delivery of these cutting edge works to our educational clients, first by releasing editions of Re:voir publications in VHS, then DVD, and now, in high quality digital files as digital site licenses.

January 11, 2021

Gideon Bachmann's UNDERGROUND NEW YORK streaming from Cineteca di Bologna through 1/17

January 11, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Cineteca di Bologna presents Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968) in it’s program The Rediscovered Cinema | Outside the Hall. In this indecipherable period, where cinemas are closed for the first time since 1895, the Cineteca di Bologna is bringing its most precious experience into everyone's homes, that of The Cinema Ritrovato, the largest festival in the world dedicated to the history of cinema.

October 12, 2020

GME Notes the Recent Passing of Peter Beard

October 12, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

GME notes the recent passing of genre-bending wildlife photographer Peter Beard, an international adventurer and species protector, as well as a participant in the early days of the New American Cinema.

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