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Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s ARCHIPELAGO offers a contemplative and poetic travelogue along the St. Lawrence River. It expands into a semi-fictional odyssey through the filmmaker’s native province: Quebec, captured in surprising, creative animation using a wide range of techniques. It is an imaginary documentary — linguistic, political, real and dreamt.
Read MoreWHEN WE WERE BULLIES begins with a mind boggling "coincidence" from 25 years ago which ultimately leads the filmmaker to track down his 5th grade class (and 5th grade teacher) to see what they remember of a bullying incident from 50 years ago. In a playful yet poignant way, he begins to understand his complicity and the bully in all of us.
Read MoreThrough 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.
Read MoreA tale of seduction in the South Tyrol Alps (the Vienna-born Stroheim hones his signature role of the “dirty Hun”), Blind Husbands was a remarkable success with critics and the public alike, a cynical portrait of modern marriage that pits continental wit and eroticism against priggish moralizing. This restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s directorial debut brings us closer to the original 1919 version than ever thought possible.
Read MoreA retrospective screening of the films of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler (curated by Francisco Algarin and Carlos Saldaña) is taking place at the Filmoteca de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) on January 14 and 15, 2022. To announce the exhibition on the Filmoteca’s website, a film frame of the two filmmakers at a rewind table is featured from Warren Sonbert’s THE TENTH LEGION (1967), which will be released by GME for the first time in a 1080 HD digital format this winter.
Read MoreIn Correspondencias : Cartas como películas, many of these letters do not only reveal secret friendships (Louis Lumière and George Méliès), but also unknown collaborations (Orson Welles and Robert J. Flaherty) or projects, which without these letters would have remained undocumented (Maya Deren’s idea of making a film about the circus, Pasolini’s proposal to Jacques Tati to participate in Porcile); other letters mark the end of a collaboration (Marguerite Duras, proposing a script to Alain Resnais, who after being rejected, would go on to film it herself). Other correspondences asking for help at times of creative confusion (Paul Sharits to Stan Brakhage, Stan Brakhage to Hollis Frampton, Gregory Markopoulos to Stan Brakhage); they document major historical moments (the War in the case of F. W. Murnau or Robert J. Flaherty, the political situation in Indonesia, Italy or France in the case of Joris Ivens, Pasolini or Truffaut), they appear like the chronicles of a journey (S. M. Eisenstein, Chick Strand and Ron Rice from Mexico, Warren Sonbert from Morocco, Resnais from Hiroshima, Ivens from Australia, Peter Hutton from Germany, Murnau from Latvia, Allen Ginsberg from India) or even greet other poets (like the letters-gift from Eric Rohmer, Anne-Marie Miéville or Chris Marker).
Read MoreIn the film series Carte Blanche, in conjunction with his exhibition Who Is Queen? at the Museum of Modern Art , Adam Pendleton brings together a diverse selection of moving-image works, probing the relationships between subjectivity, Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde, including films by Hans Richter and Man Ray distributed by GME.
Read MoreThrough 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.
Read MoreThai visionary Apichatpong Weerasethakul drifts through dream states in this Palme d’Or-winning jungle ghost story in which a dying man reconnects with the spirit of his dead wife as he journeys through his previous lives. Suffused with references to Thai mythology and the country’s classic cinema, this lushly surreal, profoundly mysterious work unfolds with the otherworldly aura of a trance. It is being presented as part of the program Danny Glover and Louverture Films, a Series Embodying the Work of an Actor, Activist, and a Groundbreaking Production Company on Dec. 3 and 4.
Read MoreFilmmaker Abigail Child’s MUTINY, the second installment of Child’s ambitious IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR? series will be featured in Art of the Real Program 4: Living Among Ruins on November 20th. Motion picture pioneer Alice Guy’s 1906 MADAME A DES ENVIES/MADAME’S CRAVINGS, which will be presented in Program 6: Troublemakers: Subversive Fictions on November 21st.
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