LGBTQ+ Films and Filmmakers

LGBTQ+ Films and Filmmakers

Beginning in the 1980s, Queer Studies became popular in academic curricula and has resulted, over the ensuing decades, in a body of literature about films and filmmakers viewed through this lens. In honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, GME highlights an array of moving image works that we distribute (both classic and contemporary) by LGBTQ+ artists and/or about topics and themes relevant to the LGBTQ+ community. These works are available to academic institutions in North America, and are distributed in collaboration withIndex Edition, Re:Voir Video, Flicker Alley, MētisPresses, Kino Lorber, and Edition Filmmuseum.

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

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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Silent Movie Day

Today, September 29th, has been established by an international group of film archivists as Silent Movie Day! Head to the DVD Distribution section of our website and learn about the myriad International Silent Classics in our catalogue, currently available for institutional rental or acquisition in North America.

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Today is International Silent Movie Day!

Today is International Silent Movie Day!

Today, September 29th, has been established by an international group of film archivists as Silent Movie Day! Head to the DVD Distribution section of our website and learn about the myriad International Silent Classics in our catalogue, currently available for institutional rental or acquisition in North America.

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

April 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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GOATS and Other Great Films at GME

GOATS and Other Great Films at GME

In the spirit of the year-end lists of recent and retrospective, enduring film triumphs, GME is happy to share in some of the list-making and cinematic memories.  Excitement and conversations (and arguments) stirred up by 2022’s prominent list highlights from BFI's Sight Sound has prompted us to round up a somewhat broader, consensus driven collection of films from across a diverse categorization of filmic art, the zone in which GME lives.

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Letters by Warren Sonbert and Other Filmmakers Whose Works are Distributed by GME Included in "Correspondencias: Cartas Como Peliculas" Published by La Fabrica

Letters by Warren Sonbert and Other Filmmakers Whose Works are Distributed by GME Included in "Correspondencias: Cartas Como Peliculas" Published by La Fabrica

In Correspondencias : Cartas como películas, many of these letters do not only reveal secret friendships (Louis Lumière and George Méliès), but also unknown collaborations (Orson Welles and Robert J. Flaherty) or projects, which without these letters would have remained undocumented (Maya Deren’s idea of making a film about the circus, Pasolini’s proposal to Jacques Tati to participate in Porcile); other letters mark the end of a collaboration (Marguerite Duras, proposing a script to Alain Resnais, who after being rejected, would go on to film it herself). Other correspondences asking for help at times of creative confusion (Paul Sharits to Stan Brakhage, Stan Brakhage to Hollis Frampton, Gregory Markopoulos to Stan Brakhage); they document major historical moments (the War in the case of F. W. Murnau or Robert J. Flaherty, the political situation in Indonesia, Italy or France in the case of Joris Ivens, Pasolini or Truffaut), they appear like the chronicles of a journey (S. M. Eisenstein, Chick Strand and Ron Rice from Mexico, Warren Sonbert from Morocco, Resnais from Hiroshima, Ivens from Australia, Peter Hutton from Germany, Murnau from Latvia, Allen Ginsberg from India) or even greet other poets (like the letters-gift from Eric Rohmer, Anne-Marie Miéville or Chris Marker).

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GME STREAMLINE: PRESENTING CLASSIC SILENT FILMS BY HITCHCOCK AND MURNAU NOW AVAILABLE FOR DIGITAL SITE LICENSING

GME STREAMLINE:  PRESENTING CLASSIC SILENT FILMS BY HITCHCOCK AND MURNAU NOW AVAILABLE FOR DIGITAL SITE LICENSING

With GME Streamline, we continue to offer key classic films from the Kino Lorber collection, which we are proud to make available exclusively to the North American university market as Digital Site Licenses. We now present the HITCHCOCK: BRITISH INTERNATIONAL PICTURES COLLECTION, as well as F.W. Murnau’s seminal motion picture, THE LAST LAUGH (DET LETZTE MANN). Each of these releases are made available to academic institutions as standalone high resolution digital files , as well as being offered as DVD or Blu-ray bundle packages.

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