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

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

Happy Summer from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today we reflect on screenings, events, and celebrations from June, in New York City and beyond, related to GME’s multifaceted projects. Notably, a suite of films by Warren Sonbert, whose body of work and legacy GME represents, played at the National Gallery of Art, while several films by Alexander Kluge, whose work GME distributes to the North American University Market, were shown at e-Flux Screening Room as part of an extensive, week-long retrospective.

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Alexander Kluge Films GME Distributes Featured in Upcoming Series at e-Flux Screening Room

Alexander Kluge Films GME Distributes Featured in Upcoming Series at e-Flux Screening Room

On June 13th, 15th, and 18th, e-Flux Screening Room will mount the series Phoenix Cinema: Meeting with Alexander Kluge, which takes place in-person, in four parts, at e-Flux, and in six parts online through July 17th. GME distributes Kluge’s features YESTERDAY’S GIRL (1966) and PART-TIME WORK OF A DOMESTIC SLAVE (1973) on a DVD publication with Edition Filmmuseum that includes five of the German artist’s short films as bonus features: BRUTALITY IN STONE (1961), TEACHERS (1963), AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE, AN VERTOV (both 1998), and SAM REMEMBERS PAPA KONG (2006). Kluge’s participation in the Oberhausen Manifesto is also represented in our library, with his 1961 film BRUTALITÄT IN STEIN (a collaboration with filmmaker Peter Schamoni) included in the 2-disc DVD publication THE OBERHAUSEN MANIFESTO.

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