Naughty Films at the Library: Avant-Garde Works in the NYPL's Reserve Film and Video Collection

Naughty Films at the Library: Avant-Garde Works in the NYPL's Reserve Film and Video Collection

Thursday, September 19th, at 5:30pm at the Bruno Walter Auditorium in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Curator Jon Gartenberg, in collaboration with NYPL Film Collection Specialist Elena Rossi-Snook, will present a program of avant-garde films from the Library's Reserve Film and Video Collection that deals with sex and censorship. After the screening, Gartenberg and Rossi-Snook will discuss the history and interpretation of these rarely-screened works. This event is free to attend and can be RSVPed here.

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Film by GME Consultant Matt McKinzie Plays in Film Diary NYC's Annual Festival This Week

Film by GME Consultant Matt McKinzie Plays in Film Diary NYC's Annual Festival This Week

On Wednesday, January 24th, at 4pm, the experimental short film QUEER DREAM TRIPTYCH, made by GME consultant Matt McKinzie, will screen in Film Diary NYC’s third annual film festival, titled “Coldest Winter.” Organized by Saint Piñero and Sage Ó Tuama, Film Diary NYC “programs experimental non-fiction films that capture the personal history and daily experiences of the filmmaker and the world they encounter.” GME is proud to distribute diary films of personal and poetic nature to the North American university market.

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November 2023 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

November 2023 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy Holidays from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Now that it’s already December, 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 that we distribute to the North American university market. November’s events offered a unique selection of work by GME artists and associates, from Alexandra Dean and Nancy Buirski, to a number of fascinating titles featured in MoMA’s ongoing Adrienne Mancia tribute.

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TCM Pays Tribute to Friend and Collaborator of GME, Filmmaker Nancy Buirski

TCM Pays Tribute to Friend and Collaborator of GME, Filmmaker Nancy Buirski

Earlier this week, on Tuesday, November 27th, 2023, Turner Classic Movies paid tribute to accomplished documentary filmmaker Nancy Buirski, who passed away earlier this year. Gartenberg Media Enterprises was thrilled to collaborate with Buirski on her final film, the documentary DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY, AND THE LEGEND OF ‘MIDNIGHT COWBOY’.

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

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

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.

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Signals: How Video Transformed the World Exhibition at MoMA Includes Installation Originally Commissioned by GME Consultant

Signals: How Video Transformed the World Exhibition at MoMA Includes Installation Originally Commissioned by GME Consultant

Video is everywhere today—on our phones and screens, defining new spaces and experiences, spreading memes, lies, fervor, and power. Shared, sent, and networked, it shapes public opinion and creates new publics. In other words, video has transformed the world. Bringing together a diverse range of work from the past six decades, Signals reveals the ways in which artists have posed video as an agent of global change—from televised revolution to electronic democracy.

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Jeff Preiss - “Orchard Documents,” 8mm & 16mm Films at Clementin Seedorf, Cologne thru 4/21

Jeff Preiss - “Orchard Documents,” 8mm & 16mm Films at Clementin Seedorf, Cologne thru 4/21

Following the in-person screening of his film STOP (1995-2012) at the Odeon Kino on March 3rd, Preiss’ shorter films from the 1980s through 2006 that comprise “Orchard Documents,” will be on view at the Clementin Seedorf gallery in Cologne until April 21, including TAPE_SPLICES_for_WARREN.

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Nam June Paik Documentary Screens at MoMA

Nam June Paik Documentary Screens at MoMA

Fearlessly innovative and playfully prophetic, Nam June Paik comes to life in Amanda Kim’s feature debut through a skillful assembly of interviews and archival footage that portrays the father of video art both in his time and through his far-reaching legacy.

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GOATS and Other Great Films at GME

GOATS and Other Great Films at GME

In the spirit of the year-end lists of recent and retrospective, enduring film triumphs, GME is happy to share in some of the list-making and cinematic memories.  Excitement and conversations (and arguments) stirred up by 2022’s prominent list highlights from BFI's Sight Sound has prompted us to round up a somewhat broader, consensus driven collection of films from across a diverse categorization of filmic art, the zone in which GME lives.

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