"The Discovery of the Century" Painter and Filmmaker Maria Lassnig "Body Awareness" Article in New York Review of Books

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"The Discovery of the Century" Painter and Filmmaker Maria Lassnig "Body Awareness" Article in New York Review of Books

In his article “Body Awareness”, in the New York Review of Books, on Austrian artist Maria Lassning, James Quant explores the artist’s extreme, unsparing paintings together with her autobiographical, feminist, dance and experimental films. GME recently added MARIA LASSNIG FILMS IN PROGRESS (US, 1970-1979), together with the bound publication MARIA LASSNIG. FILM WORK (AUSTRIA, 2020) to our collection Lassnig film work, together with the earlier MARIA LASSNIG: ANIMATION FILMS (Austria, 1970-1992), for distribution on DVD/DSL bundle to the North American institutional market.

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Peter Tscherkassky's Film Soundtracks by Dirk Schaefer Available as Special Limited Editions on Purge.XXX

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Peter Tscherkassky's Film Soundtracks by Dirk Schaefer Available as Special Limited Editions on Purge.XXX

The original soundtracks by Dirk Schaefer for the films of Peter Tscherkassky. Newly mastered and available for the first time, this box set covers the partnership of Schaefer and Tscherkassky, from 2005’s INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE to 2021’s TRAIN AGAIN. Each 12" double vinyl album comes with a 7" flexi disc of Tscherkassky’s own soundtrack for 1999’s OUTER SPACE.

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul's UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES Screens at Film at Lincoln Center

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul's UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES Screens at Film at Lincoln Center

Thai visionary Apichatpong Weerasethakul drifts through dream states in this Palme d’Or-winning jungle ghost story in which a dying man reconnects with the spirit of his dead wife as he journeys through his previous lives. Suffused with references to Thai mythology and the country’s classic cinema, this lushly surreal, profoundly mysterious work unfolds with the otherworldly aura of a trance. It is being presented as part of the program Danny Glover and Louverture Films, a Series Embodying the Work of an Actor, Activist, and a Groundbreaking Production Company on Dec. 3 and 4.

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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

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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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A Conversation with Jackie Raynal at Light Industry on November 13

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A Conversation with Jackie Raynal at Light Industry on November 13

Jackie Raynal is perhaps best known as the former programmer of two of New York’s premiere art cinemas – the Carnegie Hall and the Bleecker Street – who began her career in the 1960s as the film editor for New Wave directors such as Eric Rohmer, Jean-Daniel Pollet and Jean Eustache.

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A Memorial Tribute to Remember Suzan Pitt and Her Films of Psychic Liberation

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A Memorial Tribute to Remember Suzan Pitt and Her Films of Psychic Liberation

One of the most inventive and inspired experimental animators of her generation, Suzan Pitt passed away in the summer of 2019 at the age of 75. To celebrate her achievements, Anthology Film Archives will be hosting two programs surveying her career as a filmmaker.

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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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