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 Staff Visits Jewish Museum’s Jonas Mekas Exhibit

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GME Staff Visits Jewish Museum’s Jonas Mekas Exhibit

Jon, David and Fred recently visited Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running exhibition at the Jewish Museum to experience the multi-screen experience of this major filmmaking and cultural figure, who is also a central artist in GME’s collection.

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GME Celebrates Jewish Museum’s Reprise of Filmmakers’ Cinematheque Screenings

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GME Celebrates Jewish Museum’s Reprise of Filmmakers’ Cinematheque Screenings

In conjunction with the retrospective of artist - filmmaker Jonas Mekas at the Jewish Museum, films originally programmed at the Jewish Museum by Mekas in 1969 are being shown through the end of this month. Not shown in the current series, but screened back in 1969 was Warren Sonbert’s THE TUXEDO THEATRE.

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New American Cinema Tour, Which Included Warren Sonbert's 1966 Where Did Our Love Go?, Discussed at Turin Symposium

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New American Cinema Tour, Which Included Warren Sonbert's 1966 Where Did Our Love Go?, Discussed at Turin Symposium

Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media has co-sponsored the symposium, "Transatlantic Experimental Film Connections and Influences: New American Cinema and Europe in the 1960s and Afterwards," held May 26, 2022 in Turin Italy. The symposium brings together scholars, archivists and writers to discuss the occasion of the momentous introduction of the New American Cinema (NAC) at Spoleto in 1961 and the longevity of its impact.

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The Films and Photos of Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller Were Recently Presented by Anthology Film Archives

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The Films and Photos of Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller Were Recently Presented by Anthology Film Archives

Gartenberg Media is pleased to note this recent, thorough presentation of Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller’s work at Anthology Film Archives, with the filmmaker present at the screenings that ran from April 21-26. Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller is an Austrian photographer, filmmaker and visual artist born in London, England in 1946. Her photographic practice has been attributed to a 20th-century movement known as Feminist Actionism or Viennese Actionism.

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS TWO ADDITIONAL WARREN SONBERT FILMS FROM THE 1960’S AS DOWNLOADABLE DSL FILES

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS TWO ADDITIONAL WARREN SONBERT FILMS FROM THE 1960’S AS DOWNLOADABLE DSL FILES

For the first time ever, GME Streamline is pleased to announce the release in digital format of 2 Warren Sonbert films from 1967, THE TENTH LEGION and THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL. This complements our previous release of Sonbert’s first three films, all from 1966: AMPHETAMINE, WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO?, and HALL OF MIRRORS. All five titles are now available via Digital Site Licenses as downloadable digital files. These films encompass Sonbert’s extant sound films from the 1960’s – the era of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. All of these early films of Warren Sonbert are now available for acquisition as DSL files for the North American university community, as well as for international exhibition.

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Peter Tscherkassky’s TRAIN AGAIN Screening at Lincoln Center's Art of the Real Showcase

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Peter Tscherkassky’s TRAIN AGAIN Screening at Lincoln Center's Art of the Real Showcase

GME distributed found footage filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky returns to Film at Lincoln Center with a propulsive investigation of the twinned histories of cinema and trains, splicing and superimposing historical images of locomotion in a collage of jarring mechanical and rhythmic power. TRAIN AGAIN (Austria, 2021, 20 min, 35mm) is screening with Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong’s feature COME HERE at 9pm on Tuesday, April 5th.

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GME NOTES THE CENTENNIAL OF JONAS MEKAS'S BIRTH, OFFERS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES OF HIS FILMS

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GME NOTES THE CENTENNIAL OF JONAS MEKAS'S BIRTH, OFFERS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES OF HIS FILMS

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).

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GME Partners wtih FI:AF to Present Félix Dufour-Laperrière's NY Premiere of ARCHIPELAGO

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GME Partners wtih FI:AF to Present Félix Dufour-Laperrière's NY Premiere of ARCHIPELAGO

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.

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Jay Rosenblatt's WHEN WE WERE BULLIES Nominated for Academy Award for Best Short Documentary

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Jay Rosenblatt's WHEN WE WERE BULLIES Nominated for Academy Award for Best Short Documentary

WHEN 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.

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