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.

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.

May 18, 2021

GME President And Curator Jon Gartenberg Gives A Virtual Keynote Address For Seminar On Jonas Mekas Sponsored By The Bezalel Academy Of Arts And Design In Jerusalem, Israel

May 18, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Accompanying the exhibition on Jonas Mekas held at the Mamuta Art and Research Center in Jerusalem (organized with the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design), as President of Gartenberg Media Enterprises, and former curator and archivist in The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film (MoMA), Jon Gartenberg was invited to give a virtual keynote address. Alongside art historian Inesa Brasiske, Jon addressed the legacy of Jonas Mekas, the universally acknowledged godfather of the American avant-garde, experimental, underground, and independent cinema. He spoke extensively about the influence Jonas Mekas has had on Jon’s own professional career, as well as the numerous encounters that he enjoyed over the past 50 years working with Jonas Mekas, his films and the institutions that he created.

January 11, 2021

Gideon Bachmann's UNDERGROUND NEW YORK streaming from Cineteca di Bologna through 1/17

January 11, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Cineteca di Bologna presents Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968) in it’s program The Rediscovered Cinema | Outside the Hall. In this indecipherable period, where cinemas are closed for the first time since 1895, the Cineteca di Bologna is bringing its most precious experience into everyone's homes, that of The Cinema Ritrovato, the largest festival in the world dedicated to the history of cinema.

December 08, 2020

GME Licenses Footage From Jonas Mekas Films For The New Errol Morris Documentary MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY

December 08, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY is the newest documentary from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris. This film is structured as a psychedelic head trip, crossed with the story of a possible CIA conspiracy, and wrapped in a fascinating love story told by the late Joanna Harcourt-Smith about her time with Timothy Leary. Among the archival clips included in this movie are scenes shot by experimental filmmaker Jonas Mekas from his own film REPORT FROM MILLBROOK (shots of which were also re-incorporated in his magnum opus WALDEN).

October 12, 2020

GME Notes the Recent Passing of Peter Beard

October 12, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

GME notes the recent passing of genre-bending wildlife photographer Peter Beard, an international adventurer and species protector, as well as a participant in the early days of the New American Cinema.

January 23, 2020

Jonas Mekas Tribute Screenings at Anthology Film Archives January 23-29

January 23, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Noting the first anniversary of his passing, Anthology Film Archives is presenting the 35mm restoration premiere of Jonas Mekas’ 1962 feature GUNS OF THE TREES, in addition to several other important works of his in the series Jonas Mekas Tribute Screenings. Included in Part 4: Arts and Culture is also AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964).

August 19, 2019

GME DVD Distribution: Essential Cinema at the End of Summer

August 19, 2019/ Jon Gartenberg

Over the past two decades, GME has assembled a curated collection of significant films throughout the entire course of moving image history, which we offer in DVD and Blu-ray editions to educational institutions in North America. A substantial number of these films are represented in Anthology Film Archives’s Essential Cinema Repertory program.

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