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For many years Rose Lowder has been developing an exceptional technique of weaving together images gathered frame- by-frame to form scintillating patterns of light. By oscillating the focal plane of photographs shot in the same place over time, her layered tapestries produce a new relationship between filmed reality and filmic image.
Read MorePaul Clipson’s cinema is one of eternal recurrence. Subjects continually repeat themselves: bridges, buildings, fences, gratings, trains, airplanes, trees, suns, leaves, grass, eyes, power lines, and especially bodies of water. Clipson creates layered superimpositions of these objects through rewinding the camera and re-exposing the film stock from another iteration of the subject.
Read MoreHenri Storck (Ostend 1907 - Brussels 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to lyrical documentary. He is recognised as a pioneer of Belgian cinema and a key figure in documentary. An eyewitness of his times, he made socially engaged films, but also poetic and experimental short films, films on art and a fiction feature. His body of work consists of 70 films, including a series of accounts, presented on this Blue-ray/DVD edition, on his native city of Ostend of which he was the chronicler and which remained, for him, the Queen of beaches.
Read MoreGartenberg Media confronts the heat with this “missing link of American independent cinema” that Richard Brody of The New Yorker calls a “tense, myth-drenched drama of liberation and retribution.”
Read MoreNatural athlete Cornell Wilde (A SONG TO REMEMBER, 1945) plays klutzy on the slopes of Zermatt, and clumsy in the grip of love, squeezed between Josette Day (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, 1946) ) and Simone Signoret (LA RONDE, 1950). GME recently discovered a connection between the current CERVO Mountain Resort in Zermatt, Switzerland as the original location for director Leopold Lindtberg’s post-World War II holiday romp in the alps.
Read MoreGartenberg Media celebrates the excitement of cinema with “The greatest documentary ever made” (Sight & Sound), one of many thrilling HD disk offerings in our extensive distribution catalog of seminal cinematic experiences across the span of film history and aesthetics.
Read MoreThis movie shows dissenters to the American mission marching down New York’s lower Broadway to gather at Zuccotti Park where the Occupy Wall Street kids were standing their ground. We live close to where the crowd turned onto Broadway and swept us along.
Read MoreHugh Bell (1927-2012) was born in New York to parents who emigrated from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. He spent a lot of time doing the thing he liked best, photographing jazz musicians, through which he gained notoriety while in his twenties. Hugh Bell also focused on documenting Gay Pride, Wigstock, and the Greenwich Village Halloween parade during the 1980s and 1990s.
Read MoreGME Gem #12: The Fall Art Scene, But Where Did Our Love Go?
It’s that time of year again when the film and art scenes get serious. In 1966 a young Warren Sonbert captured it in his second film, WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO?
Read MoreGME Gem #11: HENRI STORCK - OSTENDE, REINE DES PLAGES
Henri Storck (Belgium 1907 - 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to lyrical documentary. He especially enjoyed chronicling the adventures at the “Queen of beaches” in his native city of Ostend.
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