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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Signals: How Video Transformed the World Exhibition at MoMA Includes Installation Originally Commissioned by GME Consultant

Signals: How Video Transformed the World Exhibition at MoMA Includes Installation Originally Commissioned by GME Consultant

Video is everywhere today—on our phones and screens, defining new spaces and experiences, spreading memes, lies, fervor, and power. Shared, sent, and networked, it shapes public opinion and creates new publics. In other words, video has transformed the world. Bringing together a diverse range of work from the past six decades, Signals reveals the ways in which artists have posed video as an agent of global change—from televised revolution to electronic democracy.

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Yvonne Rainer Films, Newly Restored in 4K, in Retrospective at Metrograph

Yvonne Rainer Films, Newly Restored in 4K, in Retrospective at Metrograph

With her boundary-pushing, de-glamorized, stripped-down approach to modern dance, Rainer was already established as one of the most innovative forces in choreography before she’d started to make her first standalone films in 1972, bringing the same spirit of invention to this new medium.

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Nam June Paik Documentary Screens at MoMA

Nam June Paik Documentary Screens at MoMA

Fearlessly innovative and playfully prophetic, Nam June Paik comes to life in Amanda Kim’s feature debut through a skillful assembly of interviews and archival footage that portrays the father of video art both in his time and through his far-reaching legacy.

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African American Life and Legends Photographed by Jack Mitchell

African American Life and Legends Photographed by Jack Mitchell

To celebrate Black History Month this year, GME would like to share some of the many outstanding photographs by Jack Mitchell of African American artists and individuals taken during his half century professional career chronicling a unique history of creators in the fields of dance, theater, music, the fine arts, and film and television.

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Scenes of Nam June Paik Licensed for Documentary World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival

Scenes of Nam June Paik Licensed for Documentary World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival

GME provided clips from Jonas Mekas’ ZEFIRO TORNA (1992), LOST LOST LOST (1976), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1992), and RE: MACIUNAS AND FLUXUS (2011), as well as  from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), for this documentary feature by Amanda Kim on the father of video art, that is having its World Premiere January 22nd at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Hugh Bell’s Iconic Photo Hot Jazz (1952) Installed at the Museum of Modern Art

Hugh Bell’s Iconic Photo Hot Jazz (1952) Installed at the Museum of Modern Art

Hugh Bell’s iconic photograph Hot Jazz  (1952) was exhibited in Edward Steichen’s groundbreaking exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, The Family of Man, in 1955.  Now, for the first time since then, this photograph is currently installed in MoMA”s Gallery 402, which is dedicated to the theme In and Around Harlem.

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Enjoy All Tomorrow's Holiday Parties with Scenes and Bonus Materials Licensed from GME for Criterion's Blu-Ray Release of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Enjoy All Tomorrow's Holiday Parties with Scenes and Bonus Materials Licensed from GME for Criterion's Blu-Ray Release of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

GME is happy to announce Criterion's DVD and Blu-ray release of Todd Haynes celebrated documentary THE VELVET UNDERGOUND, for which we have provided both numerous clip licenses (for the documentary) and additional films included in the Blu-ray bonus features.  These extras include the complete Jonas Mekas film AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964, 9 min) and a 7 minute excerpt from Mekas' landmark 1969 diary film collection WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES.

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JONAS MEKAS CLIPS LICENSED TO DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY CURRENTLY SCREENING IN MAJOR FESTIVALS

JONAS MEKAS CLIPS LICENSED TO DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY CURRENTLY SCREENING IN MAJOR FESTIVALS

DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY will screen at the 2022 Hamptons Doc Fest on Saturday, December 3rd at 4pm ET followed by a Q&A with Director Nancy Buirski and Producer Susan Margolin.

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