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

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

Happy March from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, and celebrations from February, in New York City and beyond, related to GME colleagues, as well as titles and/or artists in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. Notably, films by French cinema icons Jackie Raynal and Philippe Garrel screened at Anthology Film Archives, while CARRIAGE TRADE, the magnum opus of Warren Sonbert — whose work and legacy GME is proud to represent — returned to the Centre Pompidou 48 years after it was first shown there.

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Warren Sonbert's Magnum Opus CARRIAGE TRADE Plays at the Centre Pompidou

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Warren Sonbert's Magnum Opus CARRIAGE TRADE Plays at the Centre Pompidou

Today, Warren Sonbert’s film CARRIAGE TRADE — which the artist himself described as his “magnum opus” — will screen at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Sonbert’s film plays in their exhibition A History of Cinema, which “draws an alternative narrative to the dominant cinematic canons and constitutes the founding moment of the Museum’s film collection.” CARRIAGE TRADE is currently distributed on 16mm by the Film-Makers’ Cooperative in New York, Canyon Cinema in San Francisco, and Light Cone in Paris. GME is the custodian of Sonbert’s legacy and proud to represent his significant body of work.

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

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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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Light Cone Presents the Third Edition of "Scratch Collection" Film Festival

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Light Cone Presents the Third Edition of "Scratch Collection" Film Festival

Beginning on October 3rd of this year, Light Cone presented the third edition of their film festival Scratch Collection. GME has a long-standing relationship with Light Cone. While working as a film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, Jon Gartenberg sat in on screenings when the company was being formed in 1982 in Yann Beauvais and Miles McKane’s apartment. Later, Gartenberg acquired films of Beauvais’ for MoMA’s permanent collection. We are currently working with Emmanuel Lefrant, the director of Light Cone, to distribute the international touring program of films by Warren Sonbert.

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Warren Sonbert's FRIENDLY WITNESS Screens at NYU

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Warren Sonbert's FRIENDLY WITNESS Screens at NYU

On Friday, September 22nd, 2023, at 7pm, Warren Sonbert’s 1989 “musical montage” film FRIENDLY WITNESS will screen at New York University, at 721 Broadway Room 674, as part of Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) student Andrew Reichel’s program Three by Three by Three Hundred: Rare 16mm Films. GME represents the work and legacy of Warren Sonbert, and currently distributes five of his films as DSL downloads: AMPHETAMINE (1966), THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1967), HALL OF MIRRORS (1966), THE TENTH LEGION (1967), and WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? (1966). FRIENDLY WITNESS, along with the rest of Sonbert’s montage films, will become available for institutional acquisition and rental through GME in the near future.

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Luke Fowler at MoMA and Light Industry This Week

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Luke Fowler at MoMA and Light Industry This Week

Luke Fowler’s BEING IN A PLACE: A PORTRAIT OF MARGARET TAIT (2022) will screen with Tait’s 1998 GARDEN PIECES in MoMA’s Doc Fortnight 2023 Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media on 2/24. At Light Industry on 2/25, Fowler will introduce Henri Plaat’s FASHION FROM NEW YORK (1980) and John McGreevy’s R.D. LAING’S GLASGOW (1979).

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Warren Sonbert's 1978 DIVIDED LOYALTIES to Screen in Luke Fowler's Film Portrait Series in Paris

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Warren Sonbert's 1978 DIVIDED LOYALTIES to Screen in Luke Fowler's Film Portrait Series in Paris

Warren Sonbert’s film about art vs. industry and their various crossovers will conclude Scratch: PORTRAITS FILMED BY LUKE FOWLER, presented by Light Cone at Le Luminor Hôtel de ville, on February 14th. DIVIDED LOYALTIES will be accompanied by a sound composition Fowler created in collaboration with Richard McMaster.

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24th Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna

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Jon Gartenberg & Jeff Capp had the pleasureto be in Bologna for Il Cinema Ritrovato.

This year's festival, the 24th Edition, ran from June 26 - July 03, 2010.

Among this year's award winners for DVD excellence was THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN

(a GME catalog title), was recognized for the "Best Critical Research On A DVD."  

For more information on this year's festival visit here:

www.cinetecadibologna.it