December 07, 2023

Jon Gartenberg Recounts His Connection to the Films of Andy Warhol for the 60th Anniversary Benefit Screening of SLEEP

December 07, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

On December 2nd, 2023, GME President Jon Gartenberg provided background and context regarding the recovery of Andy Warhol’s film oeuvre at the 60th anniversary benefit screening of Warhol’s SLEEP, hosted by the Film-Makers’ Cooperative at The Bunker at 222 Bowery. Gartenberg was instrumental in the excavation and preservation of Warhol’s films in the 1980s.

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

December 01, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

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.

GME GEM 15 - JONAS MEKAS DISCUSSES JON GARTENBERG'S WORK ON WARREN SONBERT'S LEGACY

July 09, 2019/ Jon Gartenberg

In a moving video letter to curator John Hanhardt, LETTER TO JOHN FROM JONAS (1999), in which he stresses the need for Anthology Film Archives to resist the option of merging with the Guggenheim Museum, Jonas Mekas discusses the shift away from Anthology's role as the sole preservationist of experimental cinema, and, by example, the important work of Jon Gartenberg’s preservation of Warren Sonbert’s estate following Sonbert’s untimely death in 1995.

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