April 08, 2025

March 2025 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

April 08, 2025/ Jon Gartenberg

Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from March related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME celebrated Women’s History Month by spotlighting works by women filmmakers that we distribute on DSL, DVD, and Blu-Ray. In the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room, GME streamed Hiroshi Teshigahara's WOMAN IN THE DUNES (which Mancia wrote about at length in Film Comment) and featured a number of rare archival treasures from Mancia's papers. Additionally, MIX NYC publicly shared the filmed Q&A session from their festival's closing night program in November 2024, which featured remarks from GME President Jon Gartenberg, commenting on GME associate Matt McKinzie's film and the other films in the program. At the end of the month, Gartenberg contributed program notes for Abigail Child's screening of her film THE SUBURBAN TRILOGY at the Film-Makers' Cooperative.

April 07, 2025

Watch an Excerpt from the Closing Night Q&A at MIX Fest 2024, Featuring GME President Jon Gartenberg and GME Associate Matt McKinzie

April 07, 2025/ Jon Gartenberg

On November 23rd, 2024, QUEER DREAM TRIPTYCH, a found footage poem film by GME associate Matt McKinzie, screened at the Quad Cinema in the closing night program of MIX: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival. The post-screening Q&A session with the filmmakers involved rich, cross-generational discourse pertaining to depictions of pleasure versus depictions of trauma, as related to queer identity and sexuality, in the selected films. This Q&A session was filmed and made available to the public on March 21st. GME President Jon Gartenberg, in attendance that evening with GME Fine Arts Curator David Deitch, commended the filmmakers for “externalizing their interior struggles on the screen,” praising their willingness to be “vulnerable” in their work and remarking that he found this kind of filmmaking — wherein the artists confronted their trauma in their art — to be “new and refreshing.”

October 26, 2023

Jeff Preiss Show at Columbia Runs Through October 30th

October 26, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

Multimedia artist Jeff Preiss presented a video installation at Columbia University’s CCCP@10 book and film launch, which opened on October 5th of this month and runs through October 30th. GME President Jon Gartenberg and Fine Arts Curator David Deitch were in attendance at the October 5th launch. Preiss was a student of filmmaker Warren Sonbert, whose films GME exclusively represents.

October 21, 2023

Revisiting Mark Rappaport's Rock Hudson Collage Film For Home Movie Day

October 21, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

Today, October 21st, is Home Movie Day. An essential work in the “home movie” genre is Mark Rappaport’s 1992 collage film ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES, currently available for North American institutional acquisition, as both a DSL file and DVD, from GME.

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.”

October 13, 2023

GME Remembers Senator Dianne Feinstein This LGBTQ+ History Month

October 13, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

GME remembers Senator Dianne Feinstein, who passed away on September 29th at the age of 90. Feinstein was celebrated for her advocacy, in general, of the queer community and LGBTQ+ rights. She was also captured on film by Warren Sonbert, an experimental filmmaker whose work included depictions of gay life on screen, as well as encoded in the subtext of a number of his films, and whose films are exclusively represented by Gartenberg Media Enterprises. Feinstein appears briefly in Sonbert’s 1981 film NOBLESSE OBLIGE, described by GME President Jon Gartenberg as “a masterfully edited work that features imagery Sonbert photographed of protests in San Francisco following the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Councilman Harvey Milk at the hands of White.”

September 07, 2023

Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE to Screen at WIELS with New Score

September 07, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

Since the success of our Warren Sonbert retrospective at MoMA earlier this year, there has been renewed international interest in the artist’s extraordinary life and body of work, as evidenced by the forthcoming exhibition Billy Bultheel & James Richards: Workers in Song at WIELS in Brussels. Gartenberg Media Enterprises has granted permission for Richards to include Sonbert’s 1966 masterpiece AMPHETAMINE in this program — with a brand new score — which plays on Saturday, September 9th, and Sunday, September 10th, 2023.

August 10, 2021

The Cinema According to Mark Rappaport at Anthology Film Archives Aug. 11-24

August 10, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Kino Lorber announces THE CINEMA ACCORDING TO MARK RAPPAPORT, a collection of works by the critically-acclaimed director of innovative narrative features and essay films, running at Anthology Film Archives, August 11—24. Programs will screen virtually August 11—24 and in theater August 19—22, the theater’s first-ever split virtual and in person series. Rappaport’s most well-known works—and the focus of the Anthology series—were created in the 1990s and onward, and feature his signature style of cinematic commentary comprised of archival film clips, including ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES and FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG (both available on disk and for DSL licensing from GME).

February 27, 2020

Warren Sonbert’s CARRIAGE TRADE in Anthology Film Archives Essential Cinema series March 1st

February 27, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

“With CARRIAGE TRADE (1973 version, 61 min, 16mm), Sonbert began to challenge the theories espoused by the great Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s; he particularly disliked the ‘knee-jerk’ reaction produced by Eisensteinian montage. In both lectures and writings about his own style of editing, Sonbert described CARRIAGE TRADE as ‘a jig-saw puzzle of postcards to produce varied displaced effects.’ This approach, according to Sonbert, ultimately affords the viewer multi-faceted readings of the connections between shots through the spectator’s assimilation of ‘the changing relations of the movement of objects, the gestures of figures, familiar worldwide icons, rituals and reactions, rhythm, spacing, and density of images.” –Jon Gartenberg

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.

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