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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November 2023 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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November 2023 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy Holidays from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Now that it’s already December, we’re looking back at events, screenings, and celebrations from last month, in New York City and beyond, related to colleagues of GME, as well as films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. November’s events offered a unique selection of work by GME artists and associates, from Alexandra Dean and Nancy Buirski, to a number of fascinating titles featured in MoMA’s ongoing Adrienne Mancia tribute.

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Esfir Shub and Dziga Vertov Films Screen at BAM in November

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Esfir Shub and Dziga Vertov Films Screen at BAM in November

Two Soviet films (THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY and THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA) that GME distributes to the North American university market are playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November.

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Revisiting Mark Rappaport's Rock Hudson Collage Film For Home Movie Day

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Revisiting Mark Rappaport's Rock Hudson Collage Film For Home Movie Day

Today, October 21st, is Home Movie Day. An essential work in the “home movie” genre is Mark Rappaport’s 1992 collage film ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES, currently available for North American institutional acquisition, as both a DSL file and DVD, from GME.

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Films by Ernst Lubitsch and Paul Leni Screening in To Save and Project Archival Films Series at the Museum of Modern Art

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Films by Ernst Lubitsch and Paul Leni Screening in To Save and Project Archival Films Series at the Museum of Modern Art

Running from January 12 to February 2, 2023, this year’s program will open and close with the restoration premieres of two major silent films from MoMA’s archive: Paul Leni’s horror comedy THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927) and Ernst Lubitsch’s comedy THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE (1924), respectively.

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Esfir (Esther) Shub's Work to be Discussed during Women and the Silent Screen Archival Screenings

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Esfir (Esther) Shub's Work to be Discussed during Women and the Silent Screen Archival Screenings

Esfir (Esther) Shub’s SEGODNYA (USSR, 1930), straight from Gosfilmofond, the most extensive Russian film archive, will be screened for the first time in the US since 1932. It will be shown June 2nd at Women and the Silent Screen (WSS), a biennial international conference sponsored by Women and Film History International (WFHI).

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