MARTIN SCORSESE'S NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN (2005) SCREENING AT NETFLIX'S PARIS THEATER

MARTIN SCORSESE'S NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN (2005) SCREENING AT NETFLIX'S PARIS THEATER

Scorses’s chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star is running in the BOB DYLAN FILM SERIES at New York’s Paris Theater June 5-6, along with Scorsese’s ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A BOB DYLAN STORY and THE LAST WALTZ. GME provided footage from Jonas Mekas’ films to acclaimed director Martin Scorsese for this Peabody Award-winning portrait of Bob Dylan, originally released on PBS in 2005.

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GME President And Curator Jon Gartenberg Gives A Virtual Keynote Address For Seminar On Jonas Mekas Sponsored By The Bezalel Academy Of Arts And Design In Jerusalem, Israel

GME President And Curator Jon Gartenberg Gives A Virtual Keynote Address For Seminar On Jonas Mekas Sponsored By The Bezalel Academy Of Arts And Design In Jerusalem, Israel

Accompanying the exhibition on Jonas Mekas held at the Mamuta Art and Research Center in Jerusalem (organized with the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design), as President of Gartenberg Media Enterprises, and former curator and archivist in The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film (MoMA), Jon Gartenberg was invited to give a virtual keynote address. Alongside art historian Inesa Brasiske, Jon addressed the legacy of Jonas Mekas, the universally acknowledged godfather of the American avant-garde, experimental, underground, and independent cinema. He spoke extensively about the influence Jonas Mekas has had on Jon’s own professional career, as well as the numerous encounters that he enjoyed over the past 50 years working with Jonas Mekas, his films and the institutions that he created.

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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES AND STREAMED CONTENT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES AND STREAMED CONTENT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

This semester, Gartenberg Media introduced GME Streamline, a new section on GME's website for the distribution of films and videos that we are now making available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), in addition to the occasional presentation of viewable streams on Streamline's title pages. We are offering this service exclusively to the academic community for the streaming of moving image works via the university’s own intranet or closed circuit network, in order to further enrich curricula as well as for library and research use.

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RECAPPING GME STREAMLINE'S PRESENTATION OF FILMS FROM EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA AVAILABLE AS DVD/DSL BUNDLES

RECAPPING GME STREAMLINE'S PRESENTATION OF FILMS FROM EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA AVAILABLE AS DVD/DSL BUNDLES

This past season GME Streamline was pleased to present a curated collection of DVD publications from Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna, all of which we have now made available as DVD/DSL bundles. These works comprise early cinema actualities shot in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, classic silent American fiction films, monumental works of Soviet cinema, American experimental narratives, Austrian independent films, and cinema from Thailand in the postmodern era. This array of works comprise films by directors James Benning, Josef von Sternberg and Eric Von Stroheim (US), Dziga Vertov , Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Michail Kalatozov (USSR), and Martina Kudláček, Michael Pilz, and Canadian transplant John Cook (Austria), as well as Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand). Ideal for academic study and research, these DVD Editions contain multitudes of extras as well as bilingual texts in English and German about the respective films and their filmmakers.

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GME PRESENTS CUTTING-EDGE NARRATIVES BY JOSEF VON STERNBERG AND APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL, NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

GME PRESENTS CUTTING-EDGE NARRATIVES BY JOSEF VON STERNBERG AND APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL,   NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

GME Streamline is pleased to present two cutting edge films by moviemakers working 75 years and continents apart: THE SALVATION HUNTERS (1925) by Josef von Sternberg and MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (2000) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. GME is pleased to offer these two works as Digital Site Licenses via DVD/DSL bundle packages, which we now make available exclusively to our university clientele in North America.

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GME PRESENTS THE FILMS OF JAMES BENNING NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

GME PRESENTS THE FILMS OF JAMES BENNING NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

GME Streamline is extremely proud to present an extensive collection of 14 of James Benning’s films (comprising 6 DVD editions), as well as CIRCLING THE IMAGE (2003), a documentary on Benning’s meticulous investigation of landscape locations, camera position, and shot duration. These collected works comprising 16mm films span a 30 year period from 1977 (11x14) through to 2007 (RR), and have been mastered in high quality digital format by Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna. Benning’s born-digital films date from 2009 (RUHR) through to 2014 (NATURAL HISTORY) and exemplify Benning’s shift from working with film grain to pixels. We now make each of these films available as DVD/DSL bundles on an exclusive basis to the North American university market.

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GME STREAMLINE CELEBRATES NATIONAL POETRY MONTH THE FILM POETRY OF DZIGA VERTOV NOW AVAILABLE AS DVD/DIGITAL SITE LICENSE BUNDLES

GME STREAMLINE CELEBRATES NATIONAL POETRY MONTH THE FILM POETRY OF DZIGA VERTOV NOW AVAILABLE AS DVD/DIGITAL SITE LICENSE BUNDLES

GME Streamline celebrates National Poetry Month and the DVD/DSL bundle release of the landmark films of Dziga Vertov. Sharing with poetry concepts of sound and rhythm through shot and montage via his "Kino-Eye" aesthetic, Vertov created one of the most innovative and influential bodies of cinematic work and theoretical writings in the history of moving image artistic expression. Through our relationship with Edition Filmmuseum, GME can now offer, for the first time, digital site licenses of these pioneering works with the purchase of DVD/DSL bundles.

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS FILMS FROM EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA NOW AVAILABLE AS DVD/DSL BUNDLES

GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS FILMS FROM EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA NOW AVAILABLE AS DVD/DSL BUNDLES

GME Streamline is pleased to present a curated collection of DVD publications from Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna, all of which we now make available as DVD/DSL bundles. These works comprise early cinema actualities shot in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, classic silent American fiction films, monumental works of Soviet cinema, American experimental narratives, Austrian independent films, and cinema from Thailand in the postmodern era. This array of works comprise films by directors James Benning, Josef von Sternberg and Eric Von Stroheim (US), Dziga Vertov , Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Michail Kalatozov (USSR), and Martina Kudláček, Michael Pilz, and Canadian transplant John Cook (Austria), as well as Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand). Ideal for academic study and research, these DVD Editions contain multitudes of extras as well as bilingual texts in English and German about the respective films and their filmmakers.

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS THE SPANISH FILMS OF SEGUNDO DE CHOMÓN AND VAL DEL OMAR NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES IN DVD/DSL BUNDLES

GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS THE SPANISH FILMS OF SEGUNDO DE CHOMÓN AND VAL DEL OMAR NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES IN DVD/DSL BUNDLES

GME Streamline is pleased to present digital publications of two under-recognized yet important Spanish cinema pioneers, Segundo de Chomón and José Val del Omar, now available from GME as DVD/DSL bundles. Chomon was a rival of Georges Méliès, and cinema poet Val Del Omar flourished during the Silver Age of Spanish Culture, alongside compatriot and friend Federico Garcia Lorca. Our objective in presenting these two monographic digital publications of these experimental pioneers of the moving image is to reposition them within the discourse of world cinema, rather than only to the confines of Spanish film history.

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS NICOLÁS PEREDA: 6 FILMS NOW AVAILABLE AS A DVD/DIGITAL SITE LICENSE BUNDLE

GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS NICOLÁS PEREDA: 6 FILMS NOW AVAILABLE AS A DVD/DIGITAL SITE LICENSE BUNDLE

Following our recent GME Streamline announcement of DVD/DSL bundles of films and videos from Spain and Latin America, we continue with one of the major new voices in contemporary Latin American and world cinema, the young Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolás Pereda (b. 1982). Pereda has emerged from seemingly out of nowhere to be feted with career retrospectives, festival screenings, and glowing critical praise. The DVD boxed set entitled NICOLÁS PEREDA brings together his first six feature films made between 2007 and 2012, as well as his short film INTERVIEW WITH THE EARTH (2009).

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