Films by Michael Snow, Straub and Huillet, Dreyer and Godard Included in Jeanne Dielman and Its Roots Series at MoMI

Films by Michael Snow, Straub and Huillet, Dreyer and Godard Included in Jeanne Dielman and Its Roots Series at MoMI

As part the series examining the films that influenced director Chantal Ackerman on her way to creating her masterpiece JEAN DIELMAN, Michael Snow’s LA RÉGION CENTRAL and WAVELENGTH, are being presented, along with Straub and Huillet’s MOSES AND AARON, Carl Th. Dreyer’s GERTRUD, and Jean Luc Godard’s TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER, among other films that impacted the development of JEAN DIELMAN.

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GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

Women directors have long been a mainstay of film production, beginning with Alice Guy Blaché at the turn of the 19th century. However, their voices have frequently been omitted from film historical discourse. Ongoing efforts by the Women Film Pioneers Project has aimed to rectify these omissions by bringing their contributions center stage. In addition to featuring women silent film directors in GME’s distribution catalogue, we have also endeavored to highlight the significant contribution women artists have made to the development of avant-garde and experimental cinema, as well as to the documentary form and narrative filmmaking.

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NAM JUNE PAIK Documentary and Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST Showing at Film Forum

NAM JUNE PAIK Documentary and Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST Showing at Film Forum

Amanda Kim’s premiere NYC theatrical run of her engrossing documentary about video artist Nam June Paik’s “joyfully disruptive presence,” and back by popular demand, Bernardo Bertolucci’s devastating “operatic triumph of feeling and style,” are currently at Film Forum.

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Abigail Child Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

Abigail Child Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

This spring, Anthology hosts a long-overdue retrospective of the work of the moving-image artist, writer, and poet Abigail Child. A leading figure of the generation of experimental filmmakers that emerged in the late 1970s-early 1980s, Child has continued to make innovative and challenging work – in a dizzying variety of forms and on a wide range of topics – ever since.

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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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Another Year, Another Oscar Nomination for Jay Rosenblatt

Another Year, Another Oscar Nomination for Jay Rosenblatt

A father films his daughter every year on her birthday, asking the same questions. In a mere 29 minutes we see a girl go from a toddler to a young woman with all the beautiful and awkward stages in between while the father/daughter relationship evolves in all its complexities.

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

February 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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Yvonne Rainer Films, Newly Restored in 4K, in Retrospective at Metrograph

Yvonne Rainer Films, Newly Restored in 4K, in Retrospective at Metrograph

With her boundary-pushing, de-glamorized, stripped-down approach to modern dance, Rainer was already established as one of the most innovative forces in choreography before she’d started to make her first standalone films in 1972, bringing the same spirit of invention to this new medium.

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Luke Fowler at MoMA and Light Industry This Week

Luke Fowler at MoMA and Light Industry This Week

Luke Fowler’s BEING IN A PLACE: A PORTRAIT OF MARGARET TAIT (2022) will screen with Tait’s 1998 GARDEN PIECES in MoMA’s Doc Fortnight 2023 Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media on 2/24. At Light Industry on 2/25, Fowler will introduce Henri Plaat’s FASHION FROM NEW YORK (1980) and John McGreevy’s R.D. LAING’S GLASGOW (1979).

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Nam June Paik Documentary Screens at MoMA

Nam June Paik Documentary Screens at MoMA

Fearlessly innovative and playfully prophetic, Nam June Paik comes to life in Amanda Kim’s feature debut through a skillful assembly of interviews and archival footage that portrays the father of video art both in his time and through his far-reaching legacy.

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