GME Streamline Presents NATIVE NEW YORKER in Honor of Native American History and Culture in Cinema During National Native American Heritage Month

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GME Streamline Presents NATIVE NEW YORKER in Honor of Native American History and Culture in Cinema During National Native American Heritage Month

Winner of numerous awards upon its release in 2006, Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER reflects on the enormity of the 9/11 attack on New York as Shaman Trail Scout 'Coyote' takes a journey which transcends time, from Inwood Park (where the island was traded for beads and booze), down a native trail (now 'Broadway'), into lower Manhattan (sacred burial ground, now including the newest natives of this island empire).

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS NEW DSL & DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES FROM THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION INCLUDING THE FILMS OF ROBERT KRAMER

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS NEW DSL & DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES FROM THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION INCLUDING 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 in DVD format. 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 editions with accompanying booklets in English and French about the filmmakers and their films.

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

GME is pleased to announce the availability of a premiere selection of experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as high quality 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. We have kept current with the technological changes in formats for the delivery of these cutting edge works to our educational clients, first by releasing editions of Re:voir publications in VHS, then DVD, and now, in high quality digital files as digital site licenses.

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New Digital Copies of Early Warren Sonbert Films Screened at CINEINFINITO Santander, Spain

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New Digital Copies of Early Warren Sonbert Films Screened at CINEINFINITO Santander, Spain

Warren Sonbert’s HALL OF MIRRORS (1966), THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1967), and THE TENTH LEGION (1967) were recently presented in the Cineinfinito #165: Warren Sonbert program at Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo. The 2K DCP versions of these films were prepared by Light Cone, the European distributor of the films of Warren Sonbert in both 16mm and several now as digital versions, which are also available exclusively to the North American educational market by Gartenberg Media via GME Streamline. A total of five early Sonbert titles (the above 3 plus AMPHETAMINE, WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO?, both from 1966), are available as downloadable 2K DSL files from GME.

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GME Streamline Presents SWISS TOUR Now Available for DSL Download and as a Limited Time Free Stream

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GME Streamline Presents SWISS TOUR Now Available for DSL Download and as a Limited Time Free Stream

American soldiers stationed in Europe in the aftermath of WWII are on leave in Switzerland. Among them is marine Stanley Robin (Cornel Wilde) who loses his heart to a watch seller Suzanne (Josette Day). In the glamorous nightlife of Zermatt, however, seductive Yvonne (Simone Signoret) puts their young love to the test. But Stanley, a lovelorn soldier, moves heaven and earth to win back Suzanne by entering a ski race at the foot of the Matterhorn. There is little time left to consummate the delicate bonds of transnational love.

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Short Films at Maysles Cinema through 10/28

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Short Films at Maysles Cinema through 10/28

In addition to several features, including the Palme d’Or–winning UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010), Weerasethakul has produced dozens of short films and installation pieces. Each Thursday in October, Maysles Cinema has been running one of four distinct programs organized by the filmmaker himself, featuring work made between 1997 and 2020, spanning from two to sixty minutes, and often made on commission or in connection with longer work.

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Announcing Updated Clip and Photo Licensing Section of GME’s Website, Highlighting Our Work with Todd Haynes’ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Film

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Announcing Updated Clip and Photo Licensing Section of GME’s Website, Highlighting Our Work with Todd Haynes’ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Film

GME provided scenes from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), Peter Emmanuel Goldman's ECHOES OF SILENCE (1964), Jonas Mekas’ AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1963-1990), and WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), and Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) to Todd Haynes and Swish Productions for upcoming Film Forum release and Apple TV+ broadcast of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND.

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FILMS IN NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL BY TODD HAYNES, APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL AND PROGRAMMED BY AMOS VOGEL FOR CINEMA 16

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FILMS IN NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL BY TODD HAYNES, APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL AND PROGRAMMED BY AMOS VOGEL FOR CINEMA 16

We are proud to note the inclusion of several important filmmakers whose work is either distributed by GME, or, in the case of Todd Haynes, whose documentary THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, relies on licensing deals with GME.

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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

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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 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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Nicolás Pereda's WHERE ARE THEIR STORIES? Now Streaming in MoMA's Virtual Cinema through 9/28

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Nicolás Pereda's WHERE ARE THEIR STORIES? Now Streaming in MoMA's Virtual Cinema through 9/28

Together with his relative contemporaries Lisandro Alonso in Argentina, Pedro Costa in Portugal, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul in Thailand, the Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolás Pereda imbues the lives of the working poor with dignity, complexity, and resigned humor, making the marginal central to our attention through his use of fragmentary narratives, oblique angles, near-wordless communication, anti-psychology, and a destabilizing interplay between neorealist “truth” (nonprofessional actors, indigenous locations) and staged “fiction.” In WHERE ARE THEIR STORIES?, about a familial conflict over land, Pereda introduces Teresa Sánchez and Gabino Rodríguez, actors who would continue to play mother and son in very different guises in subsequent films like TOGETHER, PERPETUUM MOBILE, SUMMER OF GOLIATH, and GREATEST HITS.

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