LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Showing in ALAIN RESNAIS 100 Series at Film Forum

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LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Showing in ALAIN RESNAIS 100 Series at Film Forum

“Masterpiece of masterpieces!” (Jonathan Rosenbaum), LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (France, 1961), directed by Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, “is a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside time, and a shocking intimation of perfection.” (J. Hoberman). A hypnotically beautiful puzzle box of a film, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD is one of the most influential in the history of cinema.

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GME Gem 22: Rose Lowder's Bouquet of Images

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GME Gem 22: Rose Lowder's Bouquet of Images

For many years Rose Lowder has been developing an exceptional technique of weaving together images gathered frame- by-frame to form scintillating patterns of light. By oscillating the focal plane of photographs shot in the same place over time, her layered tapestries produce a new relationship between filmed reality and filmic image.

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GME Gem 21: Paul Clipson's Immersive Cinema

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GME Gem 21: Paul Clipson's Immersive Cinema

Paul Clipson’s cinema is one of eternal recurrence. Subjects continually repeat themselves: bridges, buildings, fences, gratings, trains, airplanes, trees, suns, leaves, grass, eyes, power lines, and especially bodies of water. Clipson creates layered superimpositions of these objects through rewinding the camera and re-exposing the film stock from another iteration of the subject.

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GME Streamline Presents a Free Stream of Marie Losier's SLAP THE GONDOLA

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GME Streamline Presents a Free Stream of Marie Losier's SLAP THE GONDOLA

GME is pleased to announce a special free stream for the month of August of this musical with music, musicians, muses and fish… On a giant ferry, two mermaids (Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge) play violin to attract the fish from the sea, when suddenly a giant fish with 30 dancers in its stomach lands on board.

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NYC's Poster House Exhibits Revolutionary Soviet Films Posters

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NYC's Poster House Exhibits Revolutionary Soviet Films Posters

The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s explores the origins, high points, and eventual demise of this golden age of Soviet graphic design, a revolutionary, though doomed visual language that for a short time represented the explosion of dynamic, innovative filmmaking in the new Socialist society. Gartenberg Media distributes several of the milestone Soviet films which are well represented in this exhibition, including KINO-EYE (1924), BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926), A SIXTH PART OF THE WORLD (1926), and TURKSIB (1929).

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GME Gem 20: HENRI STORCK - SCENES OF SUMMER BY THE SEA

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GME Gem 20: HENRI STORCK - SCENES OF SUMMER BY THE SEA

Henri Storck (Ostend 1907 - Brussels 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to lyrical documentary. He is recognised as a pioneer of Belgian cinema and a key figure in documentary. An eyewitness of his times, he made socially engaged films, but also poetic and experimental short films, films on art and a fiction feature. His body of work consists of 70 films, including a series of accounts, presented on this Blue-ray/DVD edition, on his native city of Ostend of which he was the chronicler and which remained, for him, the Queen of beaches.

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Films and Filmmakers Distributed by GME Showing in New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema Series and Exhibition by Film at Lincoln Center, Film Forum and the Jewish Museum

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Films and Filmmakers Distributed by GME Showing in New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema Series and Exhibition by Film at Lincoln Center, Film Forum and the Jewish Museum

1962 to 1964 was a pivotal moment in the evolution of American arts and culture, especially in New York City. These years, crucial to the development of Pop, Minimalism, and performance, saw the emergence of a new generation of radical artists, as well as venues that gave their iconoclastic work a home and a context. Movies, meanwhile, were undergoing a transformation of their own: the rise of a truly independent cinema, of works unencumbered by the medium’s aesthetic conventions and commercial imperatives.

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GME Streamline Presents a Free Stream of Vivian Ostrovsky's COPACABANA BEACH

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GME Streamline Presents a Free Stream of Vivian Ostrovsky's COPACABANA BEACH

GME is pleased to announce the a special free stream for the month of July of this humorous glimpse at what happens every morning on the wavy sidewalks of Copacabana beach, as conceived by Vivian Ostrovsky, a citizen of the world who has made films in Brazil, France, Israel, Japan, the Soviet Union and the United States.

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The Flaherty Film Seminar Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of NANOOK OF THE NORTH

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The Flaherty Film Seminar Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of NANOOK OF THE NORTH

NANOOK OF THE NORTH premiered 100 years ago at the Capitol Theater in New York City, on June 11 1922. The film’s unprecedented commercial success inspired a century of documentary filmmaking. On the centennial anniversary of NANOOK OF THE NORTH, The Flaherty invites viewers and scholars of the film to consider the complex legacy of NANOOK OF THE NORTH in settler-colonial as well as indigenous cultures.

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