May 04, 2022

Films by Philippe Garrel, Straub-Huillet, Hanoun, & Franju Screening in MoMA's Series of Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave

May 04, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

The French New Wave of the 1950s and ’60s radically transformed the language of cinema. While its leading figures are widely recognized—over the years, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, Jacques Demy, and Chris Marker have all had retrospectives at MoMA and beyond—there were many other New Wave filmmakers whose work has remained largely unsung.

April 04, 2022

Peter Tscherkassky’s TRAIN AGAIN Screening at Lincoln Center's Art of the Real Showcase

April 04, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

GME distributed found footage filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky returns to Film at Lincoln Center with a propulsive investigation of the twinned histories of cinema and trains, splicing and superimposing historical images of locomotion in a collage of jarring mechanical and rhythmic power. TRAIN AGAIN (Austria, 2021, 20 min, 35mm) is screening with Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong’s feature COME HERE at 9pm on Tuesday, April 5th.

March 30, 2022

GME SALUTES WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH WITH NEW DSL AND DISK RELEASES BY MARIE LOSIER AND DORE O.

March 30, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

GME Streamline is excited to announce the release of new works from the Re:voir Collection, including key films by important women filmmakers Marie Losier and Dore O. during Women's History Month. As with all of our Re:voir releases, these titles are available as high quality digital files for streaming on university intranet servers, as well as on DVD and Blu-ray disk.

February 24, 2022

GME is Proud to Announce our Exclusive Partnership with the Jack Mitchell Archive

February 24, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

Over the course of a career spanning more than half a century, Jack Mitchell (1925 – 2013) photographed dancers, artists, musicians, writers, and film and theatre performers, in more than 6,000 individual sessions. As part of GME’s ongoing commitment to further the legacy of photographers and their work, we are proud to announce an exclusive partnership with the Jack Mitchell Archives. Our goal is to place this unique and comprehensive collection with a major cultural institution, to secure high-profile exhibitions of his photographs worldwide, and to make available the licensing rights to these reproduced images.

February 18, 2022

GME NOTES THE CENTENNIAL OF JONAS MEKAS'S BIRTH, OFFERS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES OF HIS FILMS

February 18, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

Coinciding with the centennial of his birth, Film at Lincoln Center and The Jewish Museum in New York, are mounting (beginning this week) screenings and exhibitions dedicated to the life, art and legacy of Jonas Mekas's 70-year career. GME is concurrently celebrating the legacy of Mekas’s storied filmmaking career. In addition to the DVD editions of The Films of Jonas Mekas that GME has long distributed to our institutional buyers, we have recently also made available high quality downloadable .mp4 files of his films for digital site licenses (DSL) to our university clientele, including the recent release of REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (1972) (included in 3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA).

February 15, 2022

GME Streamline Presents a Limited Time Free Stream of NATIVE NEW YORKER, also Available as a DSL Download

February 15, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

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).

February 14, 2022

GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Kenneth Brown, Author of THE BRIG

February 14, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

Kenneth Brown, a Brooklyn native, rattled by his brutalizing experience in the brig for insubordination while enlisted in the U.S. Marines, converted his harrowing experience into the hyper-realistic play THE BRIG, successfully produced Off-Off Broadway by the Living Theater, and later brought to the screen by Jonas Mekas.

February 11, 2022

GME Partners wtih FI:AF to Present Félix Dufour-Laperrière's NY Premiere of ARCHIPELAGO

February 11, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s ARCHIPELAGO offers a contemplative and poetic travelogue along the St. Lawrence River. It expands into a semi-fictional odyssey through the filmmaker’s native province: Quebec, captured in surprising, creative animation using a wide range of techniques. It is an imaginary documentary — linguistic, political, real and dreamt.

February 09, 2022

Jay Rosenblatt's WHEN WE WERE BULLIES Nominated for Academy Award for Best Short Documentary

February 09, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

WHEN WE WERE BULLIES begins with a mind boggling "coincidence" from 25 years ago which ultimately leads the filmmaker to track down his 5th grade class (and 5th grade teacher) to see what they remember of a bullying incident from 50 years ago. In a playful yet poignant way, he begins to understand his complicity and the bully in all of us.

February 03, 2022

Video Librarian List Billie Holiday Documentary One of Best Documentaries of 2021

February 03, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

BILLIE, directed by James Erskine, is a portrait of legendary singer Billie Holiday based on more than 200 audio interviews conducted by journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl in the 1970s. A compelling look at the jazz legend who should never be forgotten. The film includes rare photos of Billie Holiday taken by Hugh Bell, licensed to the production by Gartenberg Media, the exclusive representative of the Estate of Hugh Bell.

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