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

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

Today we recap events and celebrations from October — in New York City and beyond — related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME dove deep into our film and photography collections in honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, highlighting a number of films by LGBTQ+ filmmakers that we distribute on DSL, Blu-Ray, and DVD, as well as photographs of pioneering dancers Louis Falco, Bill T. Jones, and Arnie Zane taken by Jack Mitchell.

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LIGHT CONE PRESENTS A TRIBUTE TO DORE O. (1946-2022)

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LIGHT CONE PRESENTS A TRIBUTE TO DORE O. (1946-2022)

The screening at Luminor City Hall in Paris pays tribute to the work and legacy of one of the great pioneers of German experimental cinema, yet relatively unknown to this day. In the 1960s, within the post-war German artistic landscape, the painter Dore O. was one of the first women to make experimental films independently and consistently.

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THEMATIC COURSE SUGGESTIONS FROM GME AND MORE AS WE HEAD INTO FALL

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THEMATIC COURSE SUGGESTIONS FROM GME AND MORE AS WE HEAD INTO FALL

Looking ahead to the fall semester, GME would like to remind you of some of our popular titles that can be utilized for thematic teaching purposes, while also preparing you for a selection of new titles from Kino Lorber, Re:voir, Index Edition, Edition Filmmuseum, and others, soon to be released as downloadable DSL files and Disk/DSL bundles through GME Streamline.

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ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES HONORS THE LEGACY OF DORE O.

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ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES HONORS THE LEGACY OF DORE O.

This recent screening series (June 17-19) paid tribute to the work and legacy of Dore O., one of Germany’s most influential and pioneering experimental filmmakers, who tragically passed away in early March 2022. The series also marked the announcement of the publication “Figures of Absence. The Films of Dore O.” (ed. Masha Matzke), which will be released in English by archivebooks in late 2022.

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RECAP OF THE SPRING GME STREAMLINE DSL & GME DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES

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RECAP OF THE SPRING GME STREAMLINE DSL & GME DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES

This semester, Gartenberg Media has presented a number of new selections on the GME Streamline section of our website for the distribution of films and videos, now available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), exclusively to the academic community for the streaming of moving image works via the university’s own intranet or closed circuit network, in order to further enrich curricula as well as for library and research use.

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GME SALUTES WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH WITH NEW DSL AND DISK RELEASES BY MARIE LOSIER AND DORE O.

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GME SALUTES WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH WITH NEW DSL AND DISK RELEASES BY MARIE LOSIER AND DORE O.

GME Streamline is excited to announce the release of new works from the Re:voir Collection, including key films by important women filmmakers Marie Losier and Dore O. during Women's History Month. As with all of our Re:voir releases, these titles are available as high quality digital files for streaming on university intranet servers, as well as on DVD and Blu-ray disk.

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

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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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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE'S NEW DSL AND DVD RELEASES FROM THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION FEATURING THE FILMS OF ROBERT KRAMER

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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE'S NEW DSL AND DVD RELEASES FROM THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION FEATURING THE FILMS OF ROBERT KRAMER

GME Streamline is pleased to announce the availability of a new selection of experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as high quality digital files for streaming on university intranet servers, as well as on DVD and Blu-ray. Our most recent releases from the Re:voir Collection include the first four fiction feature films by Robert Kramer, as well as stylistically diverse films centered around three locales—New York, Brussels and Lithuania: Jackie Raynal’s HOTEL NEW YORK and NEW YORK STORY; the travel diaries 3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA, by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas, and Pola Chapelle (Adolfas’s wife); and a City Symphony by Belgian filmmaker Boris Lehman, MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE (1978). In addition to offering these new releases as Digital Site Licenses, they are available as well in high quality DVD and Blu-ray editions with accompanying booklets in English and French about the filmmakers and their films.

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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE'S PRESENTATION OF THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE'S PRESENTATION OF THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

GME would like to remind you of the recently made availability of a premiere selection of experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as digital files for streaming on university intranet servers. For more than 20 years, Gartenberg Media Enterprises has partnered with Re:voir in making available a diverse and fragile body of experimental and independent films, both classic and contemporary, that merits exposure to a wider audience.

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RECAP OF FALL GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES

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RECAP OF FALL GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES

Through GME Streamline this past season we have presented limited, free streams of select titles, including Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Peter Tscherkassky's OUTER SPACE, and Leopold Lindtberg's SWISS TOUR. We are currently streaming TATITUDE (2009, 4 Minutes), by Vivian Ostrovsky from her collection PLUNGE. These films are representative samples of the recently added Re:voir and Index Edition collections and single title releases now available through GME Streamline and GME DVD and Blu-ray distribution. Collectively, they constitute a wealth of cinematic history that we now make available as DVD/DSL bundle releases and direct HD digital file downloads.

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