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

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

Happy Summer from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today we reflect on screenings, events, and celebrations from June, in New York City and beyond, related to GME’s multifaceted projects. Notably, a suite of films by Warren Sonbert, whose body of work and legacy GME represents, played at the National Gallery of Art, while several films by Alexander Kluge, whose work GME distributes to the North American University Market, were shown at e-Flux Screening Room as part of an extensive, week-long retrospective.

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

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

Happy November from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! As we head into the holiday season, 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. October’s events offered a unique selection of GME artists and friends, from Dominic Angerame and James Benning, to Jeff Preiss and Jerome Hiler, both of whom were collaborators of Warren Sonbert, whose body of work GME exclusively represents.

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

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

This past month saw the work of several filmmakers distributed by GME programmed in venues in the U.S. and abroad. It is a reminder of both the durability of these artists and their works and the ongoing interest in the kinds of notable independent and experimental moving image work that GME strives to provide to our buyers.

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Complete Dominic Angerame Series, Including his CITY SYMPHONIES, at Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland, CA

Complete Dominic Angerame Series, Including his CITY SYMPHONIES, at Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland, CA

Since 1968 Dominic Angerame has produced more than 30 films on 16mm and several newer works in digital format. Some of these films have never had a public screening. Many of Angerame’s films show San Francisco, the city he has lived and worked in since 1979, and its varying cityscape as it looks and changes over time.

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

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

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.

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GME Presents Urban America, Rural America: The Films of Dominic Angerame and J.L. Anderson

GME Presents Urban America, Rural America: The Films of Dominic Angerame and J.L. Anderson

Adding to our roster of city symphony films and filmmakers (MANHATTA; BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY; LISBOA, CRÓNICA ANEDÓTICA; and THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA), we are pleased to present Dominic Angerame’s CITYSCAPES, an amalgam of his short films dating from 1982 to 2010. Mostly shot in San Francisco, these experimental works show urban deconstruction and cinematic construction as two sides of the same coin, as deconstruction even -- in which individual films are often replete with layered, multiple exposures and dynamic editing. In contrast, independent filmmaker Joseph Anderson’s little-known SPRING NIGHT SUMMER NIGHT (1967), is slow paced and spare, a rural family-centered drama shot in black-and-white.

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