John & Yoko, Jackie O, Warhol and others Star in Clip Licensing Sampler Added to GME's Website

John & Yoko, Jackie O, Warhol and others Star in Clip Licensing Sampler Added to GME's Website

This brief, bouncy Gartenberg Media Clip Licensing Sampler, includes scenes from experimental and independent films that GME makes available for clip licensing purposes to film and television productions worldwide. The clips that we license comprise riveting and dynamic imagery of notable scenesters and their lifestyles, featuring Andy Warhol, Jackie Kennedy and extended family, John & Yoko, Miles Davis (shooting hoops with Lennon at a celebrity gathering in Riverdale), Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga (all performing with the Velvet Underground), Alan Ginsburg, Michelangelo Antonioni (visiting Shirley Clarke and Jonas Mekas at the Film-Makers' Cooperative) and a score of other key figures from the artistic and cultural worlds. GME’s library of clip licensing footage also features unique street scenes of New York City from the 1940’s onward (with a particular focus on the 1960’s), that have been utilized as B-roll footage by various production companies.

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GME NOTES THE CENTENNIAL OF JONAS MEKAS'S BIRTH, OFFERS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES OF HIS FILMS

GME NOTES THE CENTENNIAL OF JONAS MEKAS'S BIRTH, OFFERS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES OF HIS FILMS

Coinciding with the centennial of his birth, Film at Lincoln Center and The Jewish Museum in New York, are mounting (beginning this week) screenings and exhibitions dedicated to the life, art and legacy of Jonas Mekas's 70-year career. GME is concurrently celebrating the legacy of Mekas’s storied filmmaking career. In addition to the DVD editions of The Films of Jonas Mekas that GME has long distributed to our institutional buyers, we have recently also made available high quality downloadable .mp4 files of his films for digital site licenses (DSL) to our university clientele, including the recent release of REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (1972) (included in 3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA).

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THIS SIDE OF PARADISE Screening August 20th as part of Anthology Film Archives’ Retrospective: “Jonas Mekas Tribute Screenings”

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE Screening August 20th as part of Anthology Film Archives’ Retrospective: “Jonas Mekas Tribute Screenings”

Jonas Mekas on his film THIS SIDE OF PARADISE (1999): "I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy's and her sister Lee Radziwill's families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, a key part of our friendship."

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GME PRESENTS THE FILMS OF JONAS MEKAS

GME PRESENTS THE FILMS OF JONAS MEKAS

With the release of these DVD editions (published by Re:Voir), GME pays tribute to Jonas Mekas (1922-2019), who led a remarkable life both as the Godfather of avant-garde cinema as well as the signature artist who propelled the film diary into new dimensions of time, space, and memory.

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