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

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

Today we recap the numerous screenings, events, and celebrations from October — in New York City and beyond — related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME President Jon Gartenberg collaborated with Elena Rossi-Snook to curate a program of films dealing with sex and censorship that screened at the New York Public Library. Additionally, a number of titles that GME distributes to North American universities appeared in screenings mounted by several noteworthy institutions last month, including the Harvard Film Archive, Metrograph, Light Industry, and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative.

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Jon Gartenberg Presents a Suite of Politically-Trenchant New York City Symphony Films at Allied Productions Project Space on August 9th

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Jon Gartenberg Presents a Suite of Politically-Trenchant New York City Symphony Films at Allied Productions Project Space on August 9th

On Friday, August 9th, 2024, at 8pm, curator Jon Gartenberg will present five politically-trenchant New York city symphony films at Allied Productions Project Space (368 East 8th Street, Storefront West, near Avenue C, on the ground floor). To RSVP to this event, click here.

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

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

Happy March from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, and celebrations from February, in New York City and beyond, related to GME colleagues, as well as titles and/or artists in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. Notably, films by French cinema icons Jackie Raynal and Philippe Garrel screened at Anthology Film Archives, while CARRIAGE TRADE, the magnum opus of Warren Sonbert — whose work and legacy GME is proud to represent — returned to the Centre Pompidou 48 years after it was first shown there.

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NHTI – Concord’s Community College Presents Walther Ruttmann's BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Germany, 1927)

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NHTI – Concord’s Community College Presents Walther Ruttmann's BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Germany, 1927)

NHTI’s Friday NIght Film Series presents Walther Ruttmann 1927 documentary of life in Weimar Berlin, Germany, BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (BERLIN, DIE SINFONIE DER GROßSTADT), one of the most famous silent classics films and a leading, early example of a genre that’s come to be known as City Symphony, an aesthetic also developed early on by Dziga Vertov, and Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand. As a means of expressing the life and vitality of a city through cinematic means, the City Symphony aesthetic has also influenced the work of generations of filmmakers throughout film history including Leitão de Barros, Henri Storck, Boris Lehman, Steve Bilich, Dominic Angerame, and others.

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