October 20, 2023

GME Remembers Pioneering Activist, Author, and Film Historian Vito Russo This LGBTQ+ History Month

October 20, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

Vito Russo may be best known today as the author of the seminal book THE CELLULOID CLOSET, which examines the history of depictions of homosexuality in Hollywood films. Russo, however, had a long career as a film historian, archivist, and activist. GME President Jon Gartenberg worked with Russo at MoMA, and later appeared in the 2011 HBO documentary about his life, titled VITO. Gartenberg recalls: “What struck me about Vito was that he appeared to be completely comfortable in his own skin, which undoubtedly enabled him to be at the forefront of gay activism.”

June 29, 2023

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

June 29, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

This past month saw the work of several filmmakers distributed by GME programmed in venues in the U.S. and abroad. It is a reminder of both the durability of these artists and their works and the ongoing interest in the kinds of notable independent and experimental moving image work that GME strives to provide to our buyers.

February 23, 2023

Luke Fowler at MoMA and Light Industry This Week

February 23, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

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).

March 05, 2020

Mack Sennett at Biograph Films Screening at MOMA March 6th

March 05, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Mack Sennett spent his formative years at Biograph, emerging from the ranks of the Griffith stock company to become a regular comic lead and, soon, the primary director of Biograph’s comedy unit. These short, “split-reel” comedies, all from Sennett’s first year as a director, find him developing the broad, frenetic slapstick style that he would bring to his own company, Keystone, in 1912.

January 27, 2020

Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE at MOMA

January 27, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

A weeklong retrospective film series at MoMA (January 28 – February 5) entitled “Now We Think as We Fuck: Queer Liberation to Activism” traces queer activism from the film archive's permanent collection. Works featured include those by Barbara Hammer, Gregg Bordowitz, Cheryl Dunye, Uzi Parnes, Warren Sonbert, Jean Carlomusto and Maria Maggenti, Gay Men's Health Crisis Inc, and the series' titular anchor, Marlon Riggs, with special appearances from Su Friedrich, William E. Jones, Lauren Halsted, and Ellen Spiro.

October 25, 2019

GME Distributes Canonical Cinematic Works Prominently Featured in the Newly-Reopened MOMA Galleries

October 25, 2019/ Jon Gartenberg

The Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection has been reinstalled in radical fashion, opening up the narrative of modern art to incorporate film alongside the other fine arts, among them painting, drawing, and photography. GME distributes many of these canonical works in DVD exclusively to universities in North America, in order to further their appreciation and incorporation into teaching curricula.

July 16, 2012

Erich von Stroheim's BLIND HUSBANDS at Film Forum and Other Recent Screenings of Interest Around NYC

July 16, 2012/ Alex Westhelle

The Color of Nothingness,

a presentation by Tom Gunning &

THE PEARL (LE PERLE) • Henri d'Ursel

May 5 - 2:00 PM

MISS MEND • Feodor Ozep, Boris Barnet

April 28 - 2:30 PM

MISS MEND • Feodor Ozep, Boris Barnet

April 26 - 4:00 PM

George Méliès • A TRIP TO THE MOON

& Other Travels Presented by Serge Bromberg

April 9 - 7:00 PM

Michael Pilz • HEAVEN AND EARTH

March 18 - 2:30 PM

Michael Pilz • HEAVEN AND EARTH

March 17 - 6:00 PM

Michael Pilz • FACTS FOR FICTION

March 17 - 2:15 PM

Each Film is Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

in North America Exclusively from Gartenberg Media

These DVDs are available on an exclusive basis for sale to educational organizations in North America (universities, libraries, & other cultural institutions), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

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