Composer William Susman Includes His Score for Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Distributed by GME, On New Album

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Composer William Susman Includes His Score for Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Distributed by GME, On New Album

William Susman, who composed the music for Steve Bilich’s 2005 experimental short NATIVE NEW YORKER, included his score for the film on his new album MUSIC FOR MOVING PICTURES, which was released on February 7th. Susman hosted a listening party for the album on Bandcamp on the 5th. NATIVE NEW YORKER is exclusively available, worldwide, from GME, for acquisition and exhibition by cultural organizations, as well as for clip licensing by commercial productions.

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January 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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January 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy Winter from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, and celebrations from January, in New York City and beyond, related to GME colleagues, as well as films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. Notably, Anthology Film Archives screened a number of titles (by esteemed filmmakers like Sergei Eisenstein and Carl Th. Dreyer) that we currently distribute. Additional screenings of work related to GME and our colleagues appeared at various venues around the globe — ranging from august organizations like the International Film Festival of Rotterdam and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, to exciting newer festivals like Animation First and Film Diary NYC.

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GME Remembers Mary Weiss, Lead Singer of The Shangri-Las

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GME Remembers Mary Weiss, Lead Singer of The Shangri-Las

GME remembers singer Mary Weiss, best known as the frontwoman of the 1960s girl group The Shangri-Las, who passed away on January 19th, 2024, at the age of 75. The cover photo for The Shangri-Las’ first album, Leader of the Pack, was taken by photographer Hugh Bell, whose vast collection GME represents. Notably, GME licensed Bell’s Leader of the Pack cover art for the 2022 film Call Jane, a 1970s-set abortion drama directed by Phyllis Nagy and starring Elizabeth Banks, which features the LP in one of its scenes.

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Two Zanzibar Films Distributed by GME Play at the Harvard Film Archive on February 3rd

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Two Zanzibar Films Distributed by GME Play at the Harvard Film Archive on February 3rd

Jackie Raynal’s DEUX FOIS (1969) and Philippe Garrel’s LA CICATRICE INTERIEURE (1972) will play at the Harvard Film Archive on February 3rd in conjunction with the publication of The Afterimage Reader: a compendium of essays, assembled by The Visible Press, from the magazine Afterimage. GME distributes, to the North American university market, DEUX FOIS as both a DVD and a DSL file, and LA CICATRICE INTERIEURE as both a DVD/Blu-Ray combo pack and a DSL file.

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GME's FluxFilm Anthology Is a Perfect Companion to the Forthcoming "Happenings" Program at the Film-Makers' Cooperative

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GME's FluxFilm Anthology Is a Perfect Companion to the Forthcoming "Happenings" Program at the Film-Makers' Cooperative

On Monday, January 29th, at 7pm, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative will show four films about “Happenings” in a program aptly titled WHAT’S HAPPENING?. A perfect companion to this program is the 17-film boxset FLUXFILM ANTHOLOGY, which GME distributes to the North American university market as both a DSL file and DVD.

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GME Distributes Robert Flaherty's NANOOK OF THE NORTH In Conjunction with Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Screening This Month

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GME Distributes Robert Flaherty's NANOOK OF THE NORTH In Conjunction with Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Screening This Month

As part of their Essential Cinema series, a collection of films screened on a repertory basis, Anthology Film Archives will show Robert Flaherty’s 1922 drama NANOOK OF THE NORTH on January 28th, at 5:45pm. GME distributes NANOOK OF THE NORTH on Blu-Ray to the North American university market.

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Works by Vivian Ostrovsky and Peter Weibel Showing at the IFFR, Distributed by GME in North America

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Works by Vivian Ostrovsky and Peter Weibel Showing at the IFFR, Distributed by GME in North America

On Friday, January 26th, at 6:45pm, both Vivian Ostrovsky’s U.S.S.A. and Peter Weibel’s TV & VT-WORKS, are screening in the DINAMO: Information program at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Both of these filmmakers are distributed by GME to universities in North America.

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2024 Jerome Robbins Dance Division Annual Symposium To Honor Martha Graham On the Occasion of Her Dance Company's Centennial Anniversary

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2024 Jerome Robbins Dance Division Annual Symposium To Honor Martha Graham On the Occasion of Her Dance Company's Centennial Anniversary

On January 26th, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center will present the 2024 Jerome Robbins Dance Division Annual Symposium, a “day-long exploration of Martha Graham and her legacy as her company celebrates its centennial anniversary.” In the 1960s and ‘70s, Graham and her dance company were documented extensively by photographer Jack Mitchell, whose collection GME proudly represents.

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GME Pays Homage to Adrienne Mancia's Passion for Animation and Contributions to International Film Culture Coinciding With This Year's Animation First Film Festival

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GME Pays Homage to Adrienne Mancia's Passion for Animation and Contributions to International Film Culture Coinciding With This Year's Animation First Film Festival

From Tuesday, January 23rd to Sunday, January 28th, the French Institute Alliance Française will present the seventh annual Animation First Film Festival. The program Best of Annecy 2023, which highlights work from last year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival, will play on Friday, January 26th, at 9:45pm, at the FIAF Florence Gould Hall. The late Adrienne Mancia, a close friend and colleague of GME President Jon Gartenberg going back to the early 1970s, when they both worked in the Department of Film at The Museum of Modern Art, was one of the first curators to introduce the Annecy Film Festival in North America. She was also a jury member in 1993.

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Film by GME Consultant Matt McKinzie Plays in Film Diary NYC's Annual Festival This Week

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Film by GME Consultant Matt McKinzie Plays in Film Diary NYC's Annual Festival This Week

On Wednesday, January 24th, at 4pm, the experimental short film QUEER DREAM TRIPTYCH, made by GME consultant Matt McKinzie, will screen in Film Diary NYC’s third annual film festival, titled “Coldest Winter.” Organized by Saint Piñero and Sage Ó Tuama, Film Diary NYC “programs experimental non-fiction films that capture the personal history and daily experiences of the filmmaker and the world they encounter.” GME is proud to distribute diary films of personal and poetic nature to the North American university market.

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