April 04, 2022

Peter Tscherkassky’s TRAIN AGAIN Screening at Lincoln Center's Art of the Real Showcase

April 04, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

GME distributed found footage filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky returns to Film at Lincoln Center with a propulsive investigation of the twinned histories of cinema and trains, splicing and superimposing historical images of locomotion in a collage of jarring mechanical and rhythmic power. TRAIN AGAIN (Austria, 2021, 20 min, 35mm) is screening with Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong’s feature COME HERE at 9pm on Tuesday, April 5th.

March 30, 2022

GME SALUTES WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH WITH NEW DSL AND DISK RELEASES BY MARIE LOSIER AND DORE O.

March 30, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

GME Streamline is excited to announce the release of new works from the Re:voir Collection, including key films by important women filmmakers Marie Losier and Dore O. during Women's History Month. As with all of our Re:voir releases, these titles are available as high quality digital files for streaming on university intranet servers, as well as on DVD and Blu-ray disk.

February 18, 2022

GME NOTES THE CENTENNIAL OF JONAS MEKAS'S BIRTH, OFFERS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES OF HIS FILMS

February 18, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

Coinciding with the centennial of his birth, Film at Lincoln Center and The Jewish Museum in New York, are mounting (beginning this week) screenings and exhibitions dedicated to the life, art and legacy of Jonas Mekas's 70-year career. GME is concurrently celebrating the legacy of Mekas’s storied filmmaking career. In addition to the DVD editions of The Films of Jonas Mekas that GME has long distributed to our institutional buyers, we have recently also made available high quality downloadable .mp4 files of his films for digital site licenses (DSL) to our university clientele, including the recent release of REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (1972) (included in 3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA).

February 14, 2022

GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Kenneth Brown, Author of THE BRIG

February 14, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

Kenneth Brown, a Brooklyn native, rattled by his brutalizing experience in the brig for insubordination while enlisted in the U.S. Marines, converted his harrowing experience into the hyper-realistic play THE BRIG, successfully produced Off-Off Broadway by the Living Theater, and later brought to the screen by Jonas Mekas.

February 11, 2022

GME Partners wtih FI:AF to Present Félix Dufour-Laperrière's NY Premiere of ARCHIPELAGO

February 11, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s ARCHIPELAGO offers a contemplative and poetic travelogue along the St. Lawrence River. It expands into a semi-fictional odyssey through the filmmaker’s native province: Quebec, captured in surprising, creative animation using a wide range of techniques. It is an imaginary documentary — linguistic, political, real and dreamt.

February 02, 2022

Recap of GME Streamline's Presentation of the Complete INDEX Edition Collection Now Available as DVD/DSL Bundles Featuring New Releases by Maria Lassnig & Mara Mattushka

February 02, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

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.

January 25, 2022

RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE'S NEW DSL AND DVD RELEASES FROM THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION FEATURING THE FILMS OF ROBERT KRAMER

January 25, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

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 on DVD and Blu-ray. 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 and Blu-ray editions with accompanying booklets in English and French about the filmmakers and their films.

January 20, 2022

RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE'S PRESENTATION OF THE RE:VOIR COLLECTION AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

January 20, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

GME would like to remind you of the recently made availability of a premiere selection of experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as 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.

January 14, 2022

RECAP OF FALL GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES

January 14, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

Through GME Streamline this past season we have presented limited, free streams of select titles, including Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Peter Tscherkassky's OUTER SPACE, and Leopold Lindtberg's SWISS TOUR. We are currently streaming TATITUDE (2009, 4 Minutes), by Vivian Ostrovsky from her collection PLUNGE. These films are representative samples of the recently added Re:voir and Index Edition collections and single title releases now available through GME Streamline and GME DVD and Blu-ray distribution. Collectively, they constitute a wealth of cinematic history that we now make available as DVD/DSL bundle releases and direct HD digital file downloads.

December 15, 2021

RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE FALL DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES

December 15, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Through GME Streamline this past season we have presented limited, free streams of select titles, including Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Peter Tscherkassky's OUTER SPACE, and Leopold Lindtberg's SWISS TOUR. We are currently streaming TATITUDE (2009, 4 Minutes), by Vivian Ostrovsky from her collection PLUNGE. These films are representative samples of the recently added Re:voir and Index Edition collections and single title releases now available through GME Streamline and GME DVD and Blu-ray distribution. Collectively, they constitute a wealth of cinematic history that we now make available as DVD/DSL bundle releases and direct HD digital file downloads.

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