GME News
This recent screening series (June 17-19) paid tribute to the work and legacy of Dore O., one of Germany’s most influential and pioneering experimental filmmakers, who tragically passed away in early March 2022. The series also marked the announcement of the publication “Figures of Absence. The Films of Dore O.” (ed. Masha Matzke), which will be released in English by archivebooks in late 2022.
Read MoreGERMAINE DULAC: CINEMATIC SENSATIONS AT THE HOUSE OF DREAMS presents nearly 30 films by Germaine Dulac, feminist, socialist and avant-garde pioneer of the 1920s. The two most famous, the impressionist LA SOURIANTE MADAME BEUDET (1923), with its heroine with modern tastes confined to a bourgeois marriage, and LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN (1927), the first surrealist film in history, conceived as an essay on the rhythm, have durably transformed the cinematographic landscape.
Read MoreJean-Louis Trintignant, a leading French actor of subtle power who appeared in some of the most celebrated European films of the last 50 years, among them Bernardo Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST, Eric Rohmer’s MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S and Claude Lelouch’s A MAN AND A WOMAN, passed away recently at his home in southern France. He was 91.
Read MoreEsfir (Esther) Shub’s SEGODNYA (USSR, 1930), straight from Gosfilmofond, the most extensive Russian film archive, will be screened for the first time in the US since 1932. It will be shown June 2nd at Women and the Silent Screen (WSS), a biennial international conference sponsored by Women and Film History International (WFHI).
Read MoreThis semester, Gartenberg Media has presented a number of new selections on the GME Streamline section of our website for the distribution of films and videos, now available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), exclusively to the academic community for the streaming of moving image works via the university’s own intranet or closed circuit network, in order to further enrich curricula as well as for library and research use.
Read MoreGartenberg Media is pleased to note this recent, thorough presentation of Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller’s work at Anthology Film Archives, with the filmmaker present at the screenings that ran from April 21-26. Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller is an Austrian photographer, filmmaker and visual artist born in London, England in 1946. Her photographic practice has been attributed to a 20th-century movement known as Feminist Actionism or Viennese Actionism.
Read MoreGME is proud to announce our unprecedented release of the 7th digital edition of the films of James Benning, comprising O PANAMA (1985) and GRAND OPERA. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE (1979). Altogether, GME now offers a total of 16 feature length films (and one short form work) by this renowned independent American auteur. We make all of these films available (either as DVDs or DVD/DSL bundles) exclusively to North American academic institutions so as to afford professors, librarians, students and researchers an in-depth study of the arc of this noteworthy artist’s career, from 11x14 (1977) to NATURAL HISTORY (2014). About his filmmaking oeuvre, Benning has observed, that “since I started making films, I’ve always tried to open a new narrative space from the juxtaposition of sound and image, or text and image — how the spectator experiences them, how they quote each other.” Benning’s films are carefully planned in terms of the placement of the camera, the duration of the individual extended takes, and the juxtaposition of shots, creating mesmerizing contemplations of both the natural and manmade world.
Read MoreGME Streamline is excited to announce the release of two volumes of short films by internationally recognized artist Jay Rosenblatt, now available as standalone DVD editions as well as collections of DSL downloads, all available for our North American university clientele. Rosenblatt has been working as an independent filmmaker since 1980. His films have been shown worldwide, in film festivals, museum retrospectives, and on television, and have garnered many awards. His most recent movie, WHEN WE WERE BULLIES (2021), was nominated for an Academy Award.
Read MoreThis complements GME’s distribution of other key genre films, directed by such filmmakers as Ida Lupino, Richard Fleischer, and Curtis Harrington. Sirk was one of the major directors of melodrama during the 1950s, including MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, WRITTEN ON THE WIND, IMITATION OF LIFE. Based on a novel by William Faulkner (Pylon), THE TARNISHED ANGELS evokes depression-era New Orleans, enhanced by glorious black-and-white CinemaScope photography, Sirk's riveting chronicle of personal obsession, romantic longing and irreconcilable desires is one of the most noteworthy films to emerge from 1950s Hollywood.
Read MoreThe French New Wave of the 1950s and ’60s radically transformed the language of cinema. While its leading figures are widely recognized—over the years, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, Jacques Demy, and Chris Marker have all had retrospectives at MoMA and beyond—there were many other New Wave filmmakers whose work has remained largely unsung.
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