GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

Women 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.

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NAM JUNE PAIK Documentary and Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST Showing at Film Forum

NAM JUNE PAIK Documentary and Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST Showing at Film Forum

Amanda 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.

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Abigail Child Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

Abigail Child Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

This 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.

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MoMI Presents a Major Exhbition Devoted to José Val Del Omar

MoMI Presents a Major Exhbition Devoted to José Val Del Omar

“Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar,” a major exhibition devoted to the work of José Val del Omar (1904–1982), a visionary Spanish artist, filmmaker, and inventor who approached cinema as a multi-sensory experience, is on view at the Museum of the Moving Image through October 1, 2023.

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Philippe Garrel's THE PLOUGH (LE GRAND CHARLOT) at Film at Lincoln Center

Philippe Garrel's THE PLOUGH (LE GRAND CHARLOT) at Film at Lincoln Center

Examining family history and turmoil has fueled much of the greatest work of Philippe Garrel (REGULAR LOVERS, THE SALT OF TEARS), whose new film pays tribute to his late father (and regular cast member) Maurice’s background as a puppeteer. Simon (Aurélien Recoing), the head of a puppet troupe, works alongside his children, all played by Philippe’s actual children: son Louis (Louis Garrel) and daughters Martha (Esther Garrel) and Lena (Lena Garrel, making an auspicious first appearance in the Garrel family filmography).

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February Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

February Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

This 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.

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Complete Dominic Angerame Series, Including his CITY SYMPHONIES, at Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland, CA

Complete Dominic Angerame Series, Including his CITY SYMPHONIES, at Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland, CA

Since 1968 Dominic Angerame has produced more than 30 films on 16mm and several newer works in digital format. Some of these films have never had a public screening. Many of Angerame’s films show San Francisco, the city he has lived and worked in since 1979, and its varying cityscape as it looks and changes over time.

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Maria Lassnig Restored Films in Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

Maria Lassnig Restored Films in Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

To celebrate Maria Lassnig’s moving-image work, the restoration of her films, and the publication of “Maria Lassnig: Film Works”, Anthology Film Archives is presenting three programs devoted to both her “canonical” films and the newly completed “non-canonical” works that have expanded and enriched our understanding of her cinema.

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Michael Snow Remebered in Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

Michael Snow Remebered in Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

It’s no exaggeration to say that Michael Snow’s body of moving-image work represents one of the great achievements in the history of the art form – films such as WAVELENGTH, <---> (BACK AND FORTH), and LA RÉGION CENTRALE, each being shown during this short retrospective, are among the seminal works of experimental cinema.

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GME Notes Critically Acclaimed New and Notable Bandcamp Release by William Susman

GME Notes Critically Acclaimed New and Notable Bandcamp Release by William Susman

American composer William Susman has created a distinctively expressive voice in contemporary classical music, with a catalog that includes orchestral, chamber, and vocal music, as well as numerous film scores. He is the composer of the haunting score for Steven Bilich’s 2006 award winning NATIVE NEW YORKER, a film that reflects on the enormity of the 9/11 attack on New York…

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