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

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

Today we recap events and celebrations from November — in New York City and beyond — related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME remembered Judith Jameson, and celebrated the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s season at Lincoln Center, with photographs by Jack Mitchell. GME also licensed footage from Martina Kudláček’s NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN (2006) for the launch of Artifacts, an online platform “connecting viewers with the cultural architects of the avant-garde, LGBTQ+, and underground arts.

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

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

Today we recap events and celebrations from October — in New York City and beyond — related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME dove deep into our film and photography collections in honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, highlighting a number of films by LGBTQ+ filmmakers that we distribute on DSL, Blu-Ray, and DVD, as well as photographs of pioneering dancers Louis Falco, Bill T. Jones, and Arnie Zane taken by Jack Mitchell.

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Revisiting Ken Jacobs' CYCLOPEAN 3D for Home Movie Day

Revisiting Ken Jacobs' CYCLOPEAN 3D for Home Movie Day

For last year’s Home Movie Day, GME highlighted Hollywood icon Rock Hudson, who appears in Mark Rappaport’s found footage video essay ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES. This year, we turn our attention to an avant-garde icon, Ken Jacobs, whose experimental “home movie” CYCLOPEAN 3D: LIFE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN was produced by GME through the Experimental Filmmakers Production Fund. GME President Jon Gartenberg presented CYCLOPEAN 3D the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in 2012, where he dubbed the film Jacobs’ “most directly autobiographical work to date.”

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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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Revisiting Mark Rappaport's Rock Hudson Collage Film For Home Movie Day

Revisiting Mark Rappaport's Rock Hudson Collage Film For Home Movie Day

Today, October 21st, is Home Movie Day. An essential work in the “home movie” genre is Mark Rappaport’s 1992 collage film ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES, currently available for North American institutional acquisition, as both a DSL file and DVD, from GME.

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