Dominic Angerame Co-Curates Program of Bay Area Films To Play at the Film-Makers' Cooperative on June 7th

Dominic Angerame Co-Curates Program of Bay Area Films To Play at the Film-Makers' Cooperative on June 7th

On June 7th, at 7pm, experimental filmmaker and former Executive Director of Canyon Cinema, Dominic Angerame, will present a program of eight films catalogued by both Canyon and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, titled From West and East: Canyon Cinema Meets the Coop. Scholar and educator Kornelia Boczkowska co-curated the program with Angerame, which features two of Angerame’s recent films: LUMINAE (2023) and AEON (2024). GME is proud to distribute nine of Angerame’s city symphony films in the collection CITYSCAPES, which is available to the North American university market as both a DVD and DSL.

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GME Distributes Work by Filmmakers Featured in the Film-Makers' Cooperative and Film at Lincoln Center's Series "Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York"

GME Distributes Work by Filmmakers Featured in the Film-Makers' Cooperative and Film at Lincoln Center's Series "Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York"

From May 3rd to 7th, Film at Lincoln Center and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative mounted a 10-program series of films and video art titled Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative Collection and Beyond. Today is the final day of this series, which highlights works from within and outside of the FMC’s archive that chronicle New York City from a diverse array of perspectives. GME is proud to distribute, to the North American university market, titles by a number of filmmakers whose films appear in this series, such as Stan Brakhage, Holly Fisher, Marie Menken, Ian Hugo, Francis Thompson, and Rudy Burckhardt. GME distributes, as well, many other international city symphony films — not only of New York, but also San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, Ostend, Granada, Lourdes, Cassis, Brussels, and elsewhere. To view a complete list of our city symphony titles, click here. To read Jon Gartenberg’s article about New York city symphony films, click here.

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Jerome Hiler Retrospective at Berkeley Art Museum This Month

Jerome Hiler Retrospective at Berkeley Art Museum This Month

Since September, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive has hosted a retrospective of the work of experimental filmmaker, painter, and stained glass artist Jerome Hiler. Hiler appears with his partner Nathaniel Dorsky in the work of Warren Sonbert, whose catalogue of experimental films, dating back to the 1960s, is exclusively represented by Gartenberg Media Enterprises. Notably, Hiler and Dorsky show up in the final sequences of Sonbert’s THE TENTH LEGION (1967) and NOBLESSE OBLIGE (1981).

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New James Benning Documentary Playing at NYFF

New James Benning Documentary Playing at NYFF

On Sunday, October 8th, and Monday, October 9th, 2023, James Benning’s new film ALLENSWORTH will screen at the New York Film Festival in the Currents section. Benning remains one of our most significant, formalist avant-garde filmmakers, and GME is proud to be the sole distributor of his films to the North American university market. Currently available from GME as both DVDs and DVD/DSL bundles are Benning’s films 11 X 14, ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE, 27 YEARS LATER (1977-2012), GRAND OPERA (1979), AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST & FOUND) (1984), O PANAMA (1985), LANDSCAPE SUICIDE (1986), 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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Dominic Angerame Program at SF's Roxie This Saturday

Dominic Angerame Program at SF's Roxie This Saturday

This Saturday, October 7th, 2023, nine short works by filmmaker, theorist, and avant-garde activist Dominic Angerame will screen at San Francisco’s Roxie in a program titled The Soul of Cinema. GME is proud to distribute nine of Angerame’s “city symphonies” in the collection CITYSCAPES, which is available to the North American university market as both a DSL file and physical DVD.

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Eduardo Darino Retrospective Playing at the Film-Makers' Cooperative

Eduardo Darino Retrospective Playing at the Film-Makers' Cooperative

Eight films by legendary filmmaker and animator Eduardo Darino will play at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative on Friday, September 29th, at 7pm, to celebrate Darino’s six-decade career. GME associate Matt McKinzie curated and will present this program. GME highlights the work of Darino’s contemporaries, similarly groundbreaking Latin American moving image artists, in the must-have collection CINE A CONTRACORRIENTE: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE OTHER LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA.

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Man Ray and Abel Gance Films To Screen at NYFF 61

Man Ray and Abel Gance Films To Screen at NYFF 61

At this year’s New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center and playing in New York City from September 9th to October 15th, 2023, films by Man Ray and Abel Gance will screen in the Revivals section, which spotlights “important works from renowned filmmakers that have been digitally remastered, restored, and preserved with the assistance of generous partners.” GME distributes on DVD, with Re:Voir Video, to the North American university market, Ray’s RETURN TO REASON and EMAK-BAKIA in the eight-film collection CINÉMA DADA. GME is also proud to distribute Gance’s LA ROUE on DVD, to the North American university market, in conjunction with Flicker Alley. GME additionally distributes Gance’s J’ACCUSE (1919) on DVD with the same label.

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Films by Mark Street to Screen at Millennium Film Workshop

Films by Mark Street to Screen at Millennium Film Workshop

On Saturday, September 23rd, 2023, at 7:30pm, six recent observational films by Mark Street will play at the Millennium Film Workshop in the program Street Life: The Personal Cinema of Mark Street. Street is a longtime friend of GME’s. Jon Gartenberg programmed numerous films by Street — including FULTON FISH MARKET, A YEAR, and ROCKAWAY — while working at the Tribeca Film Festival from 2003 to 2014. Gartenberg once remarked of Street’s work: “The globe is Mark Street’s cinematic canvas, onto which he impresses shimmering reflections and lyric montage sequences.”

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Light Industry Presents An Evening with Donna Kerness

Light Industry Presents An Evening with Donna Kerness

This Saturday, September 23rd, 2023, at 7:30pm, our friends at Light Industry are showing three films starring the legendary Donna Kerness, including Mike Kuchar’s SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS. GME distributes this title to the North American University market on DVD. GME also distributes several films by Marie Losier, who was directly inspired by the work of Mike Kuchar and his brother, George.

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