Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE to Screen at WIELS with New Score

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Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE to Screen at WIELS with New Score

Since the success of our Warren Sonbert retrospective at MoMA earlier this year, there has been renewed international interest in the artist’s extraordinary life and body of work, as evidenced by the forthcoming exhibition Billy Bultheel & James Richards: Workers in Song at WIELS in Brussels. Gartenberg Media Enterprises has granted permission for Richards to include Sonbert’s 1966 masterpiece AMPHETAMINE in this program — with a brand new score — which plays on Saturday, September 9th, and Sunday, September 10th, 2023.

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MoMA Presents a Complete Retrospective of the Films of Warren Sonbert in 16mm May 11-19

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MoMA Presents a Complete Retrospective of the Films of Warren Sonbert in 16mm May 11-19

The Museum of Modern Art presents The Experimental Narratives of Warren Sonbert, organized by Ron Magliozzi, Curator, Department of Film, and Guest Curator GME President Jon Gartenberg. In a career that spanned the American experimental film world from New York City to San Francisco, filmmaker Warren Sonbert (1947–1995) was driven by the belief that “independent film…is the only avenue for those who want to take risks and satisfy their own self-imposed demands.”

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Jeff Preiss - “Orchard Documents,” 8mm & 16mm Films at Clementin Seedorf, Cologne thru 4/21

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Jeff Preiss - “Orchard Documents,” 8mm & 16mm Films at Clementin Seedorf, Cologne thru 4/21

Following the in-person screening of his film STOP (1995-2012) at the Odeon Kino on March 3rd, Preiss’ shorter films from the 1980s through 2006 that comprise “Orchard Documents,” will be on view at the Clementin Seedorf gallery in Cologne until April 21, including TAPE_SPLICES_for_WARREN.

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Warren Sonbert Screening and Conversation with Drake Stutesman and Jon Gartenberg at Film-Makers' Cooperative

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Warren Sonbert Screening and Conversation with Drake Stutesman and Jon Gartenberg at Film-Makers' Cooperative

Beginning in 1968, with The TUXEDO THEATRE, Sonbert began traveling the world and created tightly edited, silent montage films. He became known as the leading proponent of polyvalent montage, in which, according to Sonbert, his films were “not strictly involved with plot or morality but rather the language of film as regards time, composition, cutting, light, distance, extension of backgrounds to foregrounds, what you see and what you don’t, a jig-saw puzzle of postcards to produce various displace effects.”

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Luke Fowler at MoMA and Light Industry This Week

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Luke Fowler at MoMA and Light Industry This Week

Luke Fowler’s BEING IN A PLACE: A PORTRAIT OF MARGARET TAIT (2022) will screen with Tait’s 1998 GARDEN PIECES in MoMA’s Doc Fortnight 2023 Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media on 2/24. At Light Industry on 2/25, Fowler will introduce Henri Plaat’s FASHION FROM NEW YORK (1980) and John McGreevy’s R.D. LAING’S GLASGOW (1979).

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Warren Sonbert's 1978 DIVIDED LOYALTIES to Screen in Luke Fowler's Film Portrait Series in Paris

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Warren Sonbert's 1978 DIVIDED LOYALTIES to Screen in Luke Fowler's Film Portrait Series in Paris

Warren 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.

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Introducing GME's Featured Filmmakers Collection

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Introducing GME's Featured Filmmakers Collection

Gartenberg Media is proud to present multiple DVD, Blu-ray and DSL editions of several featured filmmakers in our catalog, including extensive representation of the work of James Benning, Philippe Garrel, Marie Losier, Jonas Mekas, Warren Sonbert, Henri Storck, Dziga Vertov and others.

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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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Warren Sonbert Movie Still Promotes Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler Series at Filmoteca de Catalunya

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Warren Sonbert Movie Still Promotes Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler Series at Filmoteca de Catalunya

A 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.

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