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Films by Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Alfred Hitchcock, Ken Jacobs, and GME consultant Fred Riedel are screening in this extensive series presented in association with the Museum of the City of New York’s centennial exhibition This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreNoted film critic Amy Taubin has accepted an invitation by The Museum of Modern Art to delve into their archives to conjure a thrilling, thrumming vision of New York City, the place she has called home her entire life.
Read MoreIn typical Godardian fashion, ALPHAVILLE is a science fiction film, shot entirely on location, which uses no special frills to create a futuristic, truly alien ambience. Classical Parisian architecture mingles with Modernist high-rise buildings, and characters refer both to an imaginary future and to real current events. ALPHAVILLE is as slick, stylish, and improvisational as its New Wave siblings, but it is more concerned with big concepts like history, authoritarianism, and individual freedom than it is with interpersonal relationships.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreWomen 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.
Read MoreAmanda 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreVideo 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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