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WATER-MIRROR OF GRANADA (AGUAESPEJO GRANADINO) (1953-55)
Anthology Film Archives will be exhibiting the films of José Val del Omar in their programmed retrospective "Distant Touch: José Val del Omar: A Retrospective" from March 16th through March 19th. GME sells the DVD publication of the complete works of Val Del Omar for North American institutional sales.
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/46998
Anthology Film Archives will be showing "The Films of Dziga Vertov" as part of its Essential Cinema Repertory program from Saturday, February 11 through Monday, February 12. GME sells DVDs for all of these films for North American institutional sales, which includes KINO-EYE; FORWARD, SOVIET; A SIXTH OF THE WORLD; THE ELEVENTH YEAR; MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA; ENTHUSIASM, and THREE SONGS ABOUT LENIN.
ENTUZIAZM (1930)
“The film drama is the Opium of the people…down with Bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!” – Dziga Vertov
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=2&year=2017#showing-46870
Waren Sonbert's CARRIAGE TRADE will be playing as part of the Essential Cinema Repertory program at Anthology Film Archives. It will be screening one night only on Friday, February 3rd at 8:30pm.
“With CARRIAGE TRADE, Sonbert began to challenge the theories espoused by the great Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s; he particularly disliked the ‘knee-jerk’ reaction produced by Eisensteinian montage. In both lectures and writings about his own style of editing, Sonbert described CARRIAGE TRADE as ‘a jig-saw puzzle of postcards to produce varied displaced effects.’ This approach, according to Sonbert, ultimately affords the viewer multi-faceted readings of the connections between shots through the spectator’s assimilation of ‘the changing relations of the movement of objects, the gestures of figures, familiar worldwide icons, rituals and reactions, rhythm, spacing, and density of images.”
– Jon Gartenberg
THE LATE MATHIAS PASCAL will be shown at Film Forum in New York City with a live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner on Sunday, January 15th. The Blu-ray publication of the film is available from GME for North American institutional sales.
The Harvard Film Archive will be screening films from the London Film-Makers' Co-op as part of its program "Shoot Shoot Shoot" on Friday November 4th. The title for its program comes from a telegram addressed to Jonas Mekas and the New York Coop, announcing the formation of the London Film-Maker's Cooperative in 1966. GME distributes the DVD title of the same name featuring many of the same filmmakers exhibited in this Harvard program.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative, this screening presents a selection of work by some of innovative film artists who gathered there in its formative years: David Crosswaite, Marilyn Halford, Malcolm Le Grice, Mike Leggett, Annabel Nicolson, William Raban, Lis Rhodes and John Smith.
Inspired by the example set by Jonas Mekas and his colleagues in New York, the London Co-op was founded in 1966. In contrast to similar organizations, the LFMC’s activity was not limited to distribution; within a few years it was running a regular program in its own cinema and, most notably, had a workshop in which filmmakers could control every stage of the creative process.
The Museum of Modern Art begins its film series "From Doodles to Pixels: Over a Hundred Years of Spanish Animation" this Wednesday September 7th through September 15th. GME currently distributes for North American institutional sales the Cameo Media DVD publication FROM DOODLES TO PIXELS: A JOURNEY THROUGH SPANISH ANIMATION (DEL TRAZO AL PÍXEL: UN RECORRIDO POR LA ANIMACIÓN ESPAÑOLA), which presents many of the same animators featured in the MOMA series including Francisco Macián, Robert Balser, Isabel Herguera, Javier Mariscal, Mercedes Gaspar, Rodrigo Blaas, Anna Solanas, Laura Ginès & Alberto Vázquez.
SANGRE DE UNICORNIO (UNICORN BLOOD) (2013)
Marcel L'Herbier's L'INHUMAINE will be screening tonight at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, 7:30pm, presented with live score by the Alloy Orchestra. GME offers L'INHUMAINE on Blu-ray for North American university sales.
GME is the proud DVD/Blu-ray distributor in North America of the Ernst Lubitsch film THE LOVES OF PHARAOH which screened at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum on February 21st and is screening at the Cleveland Museum of Art on May 4th. Click below for more details from the Cleveland Museum of Art website:
Dagny Servaes as Theonis, the slave girl -
THE LOVES OF PHARAOH
Reviews on "Art of Jazz: Form/Performance/Notes" from both The Boston Globe and Harvard Magazine have appeared online, both featuring photographer Hugh Bell. Here is what they had to say:
Sarah Vaughan (1955)
There are books, posters, and photographs. The latter mostly offer portraits of musicians — Hugh Bell’s gorgeous presentation of a gorgeous Sarah Vaughan stands out…
Birds—caged and escaped, singing and flying—have figured prominently throughout the history of jazz, and of African-American arts more broadly, Grant explains: think Nina Simone’s “Blackbird” and John Coltrane’s Bye Bye Blackbird. In the exhibition, they are a visual motif stitching the installations together. Illustrated birds decorate the pages of picture books, while a black and white portrait of saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker by Hugh Bell hangs on the neighboring wall…
GME was a proud sponsor of the 2015 Film and Costume Design Conference held at NYU Steinhardt on October 17, 2015. The conference, organized by Nancy Deihl and Drake Stutesman, covered a wide scope of topics related to the role of costume in film. Click below for the full description and schedule from the conference and to watch the video featuring highlights from the conference.
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/art/costume/archive_events/film_costume_rendering_realities
