Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Short Films at Maysles Cinema through 10/28

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Short Films at Maysles Cinema through 10/28

In addition to several features, including the Palme d’Or–winning UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010), Weerasethakul has produced dozens of short films and installation pieces. Each Thursday in October, Maysles Cinema has been running one of four distinct programs organized by the filmmaker himself, featuring work made between 1997 and 2020, spanning from two to sixty minutes, and often made on commission or in connection with longer work.

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NHTI – Concord’s Community College Presents Walther Ruttmann's BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Germany, 1927)

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NHTI – Concord’s Community College Presents Walther Ruttmann's BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Germany, 1927)

NHTI’s Friday NIght Film Series presents Walther Ruttmann 1927 documentary of life in Weimar Berlin, Germany, BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (BERLIN, DIE SINFONIE DER GROßSTADT), one of the most famous silent classics films and a leading, early example of a genre that’s come to be known as City Symphony, an aesthetic also developed early on by Dziga Vertov, and Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand. As a means of expressing the life and vitality of a city through cinematic means, the City Symphony aesthetic has also influenced the work of generations of filmmakers throughout film history including Leitão de Barros, Henri Storck, Boris Lehman, Steve Bilich, Dominic Angerame, and others.

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Announcing Updated Clip and Photo Licensing Section of GME’s Website, Highlighting Our Work with Todd Haynes’ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Film

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Announcing Updated Clip and Photo Licensing Section of GME’s Website, Highlighting Our Work with Todd Haynes’ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Film

GME provided scenes from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), Peter Emmanuel Goldman's ECHOES OF SILENCE (1964), Jonas Mekas’ AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1963-1990), and WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), and Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) to Todd Haynes and Swish Productions for upcoming Film Forum release and Apple TV+ broadcast of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND.

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FILMS IN NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL BY TODD HAYNES, APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL AND PROGRAMMED BY AMOS VOGEL FOR CINEMA 16

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FILMS IN NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL BY TODD HAYNES, APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL AND PROGRAMMED BY AMOS VOGEL FOR CINEMA 16

We are proud to note the inclusion of several important filmmakers whose work is either distributed by GME, or, in the case of Todd Haynes, whose documentary THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, relies on licensing deals with GME.

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GME Presents the Complete INDEX Edition Collection Now Available as DVD/DSL Bundles Featuring New Releases by Maria Lassnig & Mara Mattushka

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GME Presents the Complete INDEX Edition Collection Now Available as DVD/DSL Bundles Featuring New Releases by Maria Lassnig & Mara Mattushka

GME is pleased to present the complete INDEX Edition Collection from Austria, now available to our North American university colleagues as DVD/DSL bundles. The label INDEX Edition was founded in 2004 by sixpackfilm and Medienwerkstatt Wien. Its aim is to make available previously hard to find moving image works in digital editions. Similar to a small publishing house for quality literature, INDEX Edition releases and distributes audiovisual publications relevant to the history of Austrian (as well as Eastern European) film, video, and media art.

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Nicolás Pereda's WHERE ARE THEIR STORIES? Now Streaming in MoMA's Virtual Cinema through 9/28

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Nicolás Pereda's WHERE ARE THEIR STORIES? Now Streaming in MoMA's Virtual Cinema through 9/28

Together with his relative contemporaries Lisandro Alonso in Argentina, Pedro Costa in Portugal, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul in Thailand, the Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolás Pereda imbues the lives of the working poor with dignity, complexity, and resigned humor, making the marginal central to our attention through his use of fragmentary narratives, oblique angles, near-wordless communication, anti-psychology, and a destabilizing interplay between neorealist “truth” (nonprofessional actors, indigenous locations) and staged “fiction.” In WHERE ARE THEIR STORIES?, about a familial conflict over land, Pereda introduces Teresa Sánchez and Gabino Rodríguez, actors who would continue to play mother and son in very different guises in subsequent films like TOGETHER, PERPETUUM MOBILE, SUMMER OF GOLIATH, and GREATEST HITS.

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ON THE EVE OF 9/11 GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS: NATIVE NEW YORKER AVAILABLE FOR DSL DOWNLOAD

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ON THE EVE OF 9/11 GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS: NATIVE NEW YORKER AVAILABLE FOR DSL DOWNLOAD

Winner of numerous awards upon its release in 2006, Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER reflects on the enormity of the 9/11 attack on New York as Shaman Trail Scout 'Coyote' takes a journey which transcends time, from Inwood Park (where the island was traded for beads and booze), down a native trail (now 'Broadway'), into lower Manhattan (sacred burial ground, now including the newest natives of this island empire).

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GME Takes on Exclusive Representation of the Jack Mitchell Photography Collection

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GME Takes on Exclusive Representation of the Jack Mitchell Photography Collection

GME is proud to announce our partnership with the Jack Mitchell archive granting us exclusive representation of the Jack Mitchell archive for placement of the collection with a cultural institution and for high profile exhibitions of his work. Jack Mitchell achieved renown as a freelance photographer for The New York Times Arts and Leisure Section. His stunning portraits of virtually every major figure in the Arts graced the pages of the Times, as well as myriad other national and international publications. They include choreographers and dancers, musicians and composers, actors and writers, and stars of theater, film and television.

GME’s Fine Arts Curator David Deitch and company President Jon Gartenberg recently returned from a work trip to survey the Jack Mitchell archive and to view a recent exhibition of his work at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama.

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GME Celebrates Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2nd Jury Prize at the 74th Cannes International Film Festival

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GME Celebrates Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2nd Jury Prize at the 74th Cannes International Film Festival

Just 11 years after winning the Palme d’Or for the jungle ghost story, UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (playing this week at The Museum of Modern Art in New York), Weerasethakul again takes a major award with his current MEMORIA, in which Tilda Swinton, a flower seller in Medellin, experiences something like Exploding Head Syndrome.

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THE WOMEN BEHIND HITCHCOCK SERIES AT FILM FORUM THRU AUG. 19TH

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THE WOMEN BEHIND HITCHCOCK SERIES AT FILM FORUM THRU AUG. 19TH

Film Forum’s THE WOMEN BEHIND HITCHCOCK series presents thirty-one films on which Hitchcock collaborated with the most important and influential women during his career, most notably, his wife Alma Revile (variously in the roles of story editor, film editor, assistant director, and screenwriter), and producer and screenwriter, Joan Harrison.

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