The Film-Makers' Coop Will Host a 60th Anniversary Benefit Screening of Andy Warhol's SLEEP on December 1st and 2nd

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The Film-Makers' Coop Will Host a 60th Anniversary Benefit Screening of Andy Warhol's SLEEP on December 1st and 2nd

Tonight, December 1st, and tomorrow, December 2nd, 2023, at 7pm, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative is hosting a benefit screening of Andy Warhol’s first major film, SLEEP (1963), at The Bunker at 222 Bowery. In the mid-1980s, while working in the Museum of Modern Art’s Film Department, GME President Jon Gartenberg was instrumental in the resuscitation of Warhol’s films, like SLEEP, which were thought to be lost or destroyed after Warhol pulled them out of circulation.

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An Evening with Bill Brand at Maysles Documentary Center

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An Evening with Bill Brand at Maysles Documentary Center

This past Saturday, September 22nd, 2023, experimental film and video artist, educator, activist, and film preservationist Bill Brand screened four of his films and gave a presentation connecting his moving image works to his paintings and drawings at the Maysles Documentary Center. Brand is a longtime friend and colleague of Gartenberg Media Enterprises. In the late 1990s, GME President Jon Gartenberg worked as the program director for the Film Preservation Program of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS. As part of that role, Gartenberg enlisted BB Optics — Brand’s preservation laboratory — to work on the Project’s preservation of work by multimedia artists David Wojnarowicz, Curt McDowell, and Jack Waters.

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Films by Ernst Lubitsch and Paul Leni Screening in To Save and Project Archival Films Series at the Museum of Modern Art

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Films by Ernst Lubitsch and Paul Leni Screening in To Save and Project Archival Films Series at the Museum of Modern Art

Running from January 12 to February 2, 2023, this year’s program will open and close with the restoration premieres of two major silent films from MoMA’s archive: Paul Leni’s horror comedy THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927) and Ernst Lubitsch’s comedy THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE (1924), respectively.

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Erich von Stroheim's FOOLISH WIVES Screening in MoMA's Film in the Sculpture Garden Series

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Erich von Stroheim's FOOLISH WIVES Screening in MoMA's Film in the Sculpture Garden Series

Advertised as “the first million-dollar movie” when it was released in 1922, Erich von Stroheim’s FOOLISH WIVES offered American audiences a sweeping vision of European decadence, unforgettably embodied by the director himself in his starring performance as Count Sergius Karamzin, a phony Russian aristocrat who bilks the naïve tourists of Monte Carlo with the help of his two dubious “cousins” (Mae Busch and Maude George). Marking the film’s centennial, this will be the New York premiere of a major new restoration of this silent classic, produced by MoMA and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.

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Erich von Stroheim's BLIND HUSBANDS Screening in MoMA's To Save and Project Series

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Erich von Stroheim's BLIND HUSBANDS Screening in MoMA's To Save and Project Series

A tale of seduction in the South Tyrol Alps (the Vienna-born Stroheim hones his signature role of the “dirty Hun”), Blind Husbands was a remarkable success with critics and the public alike, a cynical portrait of modern marriage that pits continental wit and eroticism against priggish moralizing. This restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s directorial debut brings us closer to the original 1919 version than ever thought possible.

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