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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.
Read MoreSince 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.
Read MoreWarren Sonbert’s film about art vs. industry and their various crossovers will conclude Scratch: PORTRAITS FILMED BY LUKE FOWLER, presented by Light Cone at Le Luminor Hôtel de ville, on February 14th. DIVIDED LOYALTIES will be accompanied by a sound composition Fowler created in collaboration with Richard McMaster.
Read MoreRunning from January 12 to February 2, 2023, this year’s program will open and close with the restoration premieres of two major silent films from MoMA’s archive: Paul Leni’s horror comedy THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927) and Ernst Lubitsch’s comedy THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE (1924), respectively.
Read MoreIn the spirit of the year-end lists of recent and retrospective, enduring film triumphs, GME is happy to share in some of the list-making and cinematic memories. Excitement and conversations (and arguments) stirred up by 2022’s prominent list highlights from BFI's Sight Sound has prompted us to round up a somewhat broader, consensus driven collection of films from across a diverse categorization of filmic art, the zone in which GME lives.
Read MoreGME 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.
Read MoreErnst Lubitsch was invited to Hollywood by Mary Pickford to direct her in what would become her first adult role. The result is this thoroughly enchanting blend of the “cast of thousands” period films that Lubitsch had been making in Germany and his emerging interest in bittersweet romantic comedy.
Read MorePierre Clémenti’s magnetic screen presence captured the imagination of countless moviegoers during the cultural heyday of the 1960s and ’70s. His roles are as unforgettable as they are varied, brushing up against the sacred and the profane in characters often adapted from mythology, literature, theater, and religion. Angel, demon, hippie, rebel, poet: a child of 1960s counterculture, Clémenti played—and was—all of them. Behind his striking physical performances, which bore the imprint of Antonin Artaud, Lettrist cinema, and the Living Theater, was an ardent, lifelong commitment to creative freedom.
Read MoreSilent movies encompass a large selection of GME DVD, Blu-ray and DSL publications of films directed by major artists from around the world: Georges Méliès, Abel Gance, René Clair, Marcel L’Herbier, and Louis Feuillade (France); E.A. Dupont, F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttmann, Ernst Lubitsch, and Georg Willhelm Pabst (Germany); Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Kalatozov, and Dziga Vertov (USSR); Alfred Hitchcock (UK); Segundo de Chomón (Spain); and Erich von Stroheim, Josef von Sternberg, Paul Leni, Charles Chaplin, Mack Sennett, Lewis Milestone, King Vidor, Allan Dwan, and Robert Flaherty (United States). The Danish Silent Cinema section of GME’s website highlights work of this country’s major directors of the silent era, including Alfred Lind, August Blom, Benjamin Christensen, and Carl Th. Dreyer. GME also distributes silent films from Portugal and Norway. The overlooked role of women filmmakers throughout silent film history is addressed by EARLY WOMEN FILMMAKERS: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY, presented in a multi-disc DVD/Blu-ray boxed set. This illustrative tome features films directed by Alice Guy Blaché. Lois Weber, and Germaine Dulac, among others. Early cinema’s actualities are represented by compilations of short films from Austria and Denmark.
Read MoreAfter a decade in Greenpoint, Light Industry has moved to East Williamsburg and begin their fall season with a selection of early films by Peter Tscherkassky. The works assembled here stand as some of the most vital cinematic experiments of the late 20th century, appealing, at once, to the eye through the virtuosity of their formal construction, and to the theoretical imagination through their rigorous conceptual strategies.
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