LGBTQ+ Films and Filmmakers

LGBTQ+ Films and Filmmakers

Beginning in the 1980s, Queer Studies became popular in academic curricula and has resulted, over the ensuing decades, in a body of literature about films and filmmakers viewed through this lens. In honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, GME highlights an array of moving image works that we distribute (both classic and contemporary) by LGBTQ+ artists and/or about topics and themes relevant to the LGBTQ+ community. These works are available to academic institutions in North America, and are distributed in collaboration withIndex Edition, Re:Voir Video, Flicker Alley, MētisPresses, Kino Lorber, and Edition Filmmuseum.

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

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

Today we recap the numerous screenings, events, and celebrations from October — in New York City and beyond — related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME President Jon Gartenberg collaborated with Elena Rossi-Snook to curate a program of films dealing with sex and censorship that screened at the New York Public Library. Additionally, a number of titles that GME distributes to North American universities appeared in screenings mounted by several noteworthy institutions last month, including the Harvard Film Archive, Metrograph, Light Industry, and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative.

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

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

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.

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Signals: How Video Transformed the World Exhibition at MoMA Includes Installation Originally Commissioned by GME Consultant

Signals: How Video Transformed the World Exhibition at MoMA Includes Installation Originally Commissioned by GME Consultant

Video is everywhere today—on our phones and screens, defining new spaces and experiences, spreading memes, lies, fervor, and power. Shared, sent, and networked, it shapes public opinion and creates new publics. In other words, video has transformed the world. Bringing together a diverse range of work from the past six decades, Signals reveals the ways in which artists have posed video as an agent of global change—from televised revolution to electronic democracy.

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Recap of GME Streamline's Presentation of the Complete INDEX Edition Collection Now Available as DVD/DSL Bundles Featuring New Releases by Maria Lassnig & Mara Mattushka

Recap of GME Streamline's Presentation of the Complete INDEX Edition Collection Now Available as DVD/DSL Bundles Featuring New Releases by Maria Lassnig & Mara Mattushka

GME is pleased to present the complete INDEX Edition Collection from Austria, now available to our North American university colleagues as DVD/DSL bundles. The label INDEX Edition was founded in 2004 by sixpackfilm and Medienwerkstatt Wien. Its aim is to make available previously hard to find moving image works in digital editions. Similar to a small publishing house for quality literature, INDEX Edition releases and distributes audiovisual publications relevant to the history of Austrian (as well as Eastern European) film, video, and media art.

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GME Presents the Complete INDEX Edition Collection Now Available as DVD/DSL Bundles Featuring New Releases by Maria Lassnig & Mara Mattushka

GME Presents the Complete INDEX Edition Collection Now Available as DVD/DSL Bundles Featuring New Releases by Maria Lassnig & Mara Mattushka

GME is pleased to present the complete INDEX Edition Collection from Austria, now available to our North American university colleagues as DVD/DSL bundles. The label INDEX Edition was founded in 2004 by sixpackfilm and Medienwerkstatt Wien. Its aim is to make available previously hard to find moving image works in digital editions. Similar to a small publishing house for quality literature, INDEX Edition releases and distributes audiovisual publications relevant to the history of Austrian (as well as Eastern European) film, video, and media art.

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Women’s History Month: GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

Women’s History Month:  GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

As March draws to a close, GME feels it is important to pay tribute to Women Filmmakers from our catalogue of digital moving image publications. The role of women filmmakers has been generally overlooked in the writing of film histories. In order to rectify these omissions in the field of academic film studies, GME is proud to distribute significant moving image works created by female artists in DVD format.

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