July 09, 2024

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

July 09, 2024/ Jon Gartenberg

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.

June 14, 2024

Vittorio De Sica's SHOESHINE, the Ideal Filmic Complement to Raimondo Borea's Boys' Town of Italy Photo Essay, Plays at Film Forum This Month

June 14, 2024/ Jon Gartenberg

On October 17th, 2023, GME revisited, in honor of Italian-American Heritage Month, an indelible suite of images taken by Raimondo Borea, which documented the Boys’ Town of Italy in the early 1950s. Boys’ Town of Italy was a shelter created by Monsignor John Patrick Carroll-Abbing, an Irish priest working at the Vatican who witnessed the plights of homeless and orphaned children in Rome in the wake of World War II. Beginning this Friday, June 14th, and running through Thursday, June 27th, Vittorio De Sica’s SHOESHINE (1946) will play at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration by Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata, in association with Orium S.A. Restoration. Like Borea’s Boys’ Town of Italy photo essay, De Sica’s film chronicles the struggles of homeless and orphaned children in Italy after the war.

September 12, 2023

Summer 2023 Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

September 12, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

With the end of summer fast approaching, GME returns from our seasonal hiatus to recap a slew of exciting screenings that happened between June and August, in New York City and beyond, featuring films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market.

May 20, 2023

Films and Filmmakers Distributed by GME Showing in The City: Real and Imagined Series at Film Forum

May 20, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

Films by Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Alfred Hitchcock, Ken Jacobs, and GME consultant Fred Riedel are screening in this extensive series presented in association with the Museum of the City of New York’s centennial exhibition This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture.

April 03, 2023

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

April 03, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

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.

March 25, 2023

NAM JUNE PAIK Documentary and Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST Showing at Film Forum

March 25, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

Amanda Kim’s premiere NYC theatrical run of her engrossing documentary about video artist Nam June Paik’s “joyfully disruptive presence,” and back by popular demand, Bernardo Bertolucci’s devastating “operatic triumph of feeling and style,” are currently at Film Forum.

July 27, 2022

Films and Filmmakers Distributed by GME Showing in New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema Series and Exhibition by Film at Lincoln Center, Film Forum and the Jewish Museum

July 27, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

1962 to 1964 was a pivotal moment in the evolution of American arts and culture, especially in New York City. These years, crucial to the development of Pop, Minimalism, and performance, saw the emergence of a new generation of radical artists, as well as venues that gave their iconoclastic work a home and a context. Movies, meanwhile, were undergoing a transformation of their own: the rise of a truly independent cinema, of works unencumbered by the medium’s aesthetic conventions and commercial imperatives.

October 11, 2021

Announcing Updated Clip and Photo Licensing Section of GME’s Website, Highlighting Our Work with Todd Haynes’ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Film

October 11, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME provided scenes from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), Peter Emmanuel Goldman's ECHOES OF SILENCE (1964), Jonas Mekas’ AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1963-1990), and WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), and Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) to Todd Haynes and Swish Productions for upcoming Film Forum release and Apple TV+ broadcast of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND.

July 21, 2012

Tribeca Film Festival Experimental Film Selections Receive Theatrical Distribution

July 21, 2012/ Alex Westhelle

In his capacity as Experimental-Film Programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival,

Jon Gartenberg selected two films for TFF 2011 that, we are proud to announce,

have received U.S. distribution and are currently playing around the country -

Bill Morrison's THE MINERS' HYMN from Icarus Films &

Marie Losier's THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE from Adopt Films.

Bill Morrison's THE MINERS' HYMNS (2011)

The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison. Their story is told entirely without words, yet the film is far from silent: it features a remarkable original score by the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Using rarely-seen footage from the British Film Institute, the BBC, and other archives, THE MINERS' HYMNS celebrates social, cultural, and political aspects of the extinct industry. Focusing on the Durham coalfield located in northeastern England, it depicts the hardship of pit work, the role of Trade Unions in organizing and fighting for workers' rights, the years of increased mechanization and the annual Miners' Gala in Durham.

• In U.S. Distribution through ICARUS FILMS.

• Theatrical Run begins on February 8th, 2012 at New York's FILM FORUM.

• US Release / DATE AND THEATRES.

Marie Losier's THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE (2011)

An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his other half and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their “Pandrogyne” project.

• In U.S. Distribution through ADOPT FILMS.

• Theatrical Run begins on March 8th, 2012 in NYC at the CHELSEA CINEMAS.

• US Release / DATE AND THEATRES.

July 16, 2012

Erich von Stroheim's BLIND HUSBANDS at Film Forum and Other Recent Screenings of Interest Around NYC

July 16, 2012/ Alex Westhelle

The Color of Nothingness,

a presentation by Tom Gunning &

THE PEARL (LE PERLE) • Henri d'Ursel

May 5 - 2:00 PM

MISS MEND • Feodor Ozep, Boris Barnet

April 28 - 2:30 PM

MISS MEND • Feodor Ozep, Boris Barnet

April 26 - 4:00 PM

George Méliès • A TRIP TO THE MOON

& Other Travels Presented by Serge Bromberg

April 9 - 7:00 PM

Michael Pilz • HEAVEN AND EARTH

March 18 - 2:30 PM

Michael Pilz • HEAVEN AND EARTH

March 17 - 6:00 PM

Michael Pilz • FACTS FOR FICTION

March 17 - 2:15 PM

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