GME Distributes Work by Filmmakers Featured in the Film-Makers' Cooperative and Film at Lincoln Center's Series "Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York"

OFFICIAL POSTER FOR THE 10-PROGRAM SERIES SEEING THE CITY: AVANT-GARDE VISIONS OF NEW YORK FROM THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE COLLECTION AND BEYOND, PRESENTED BY THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE AND FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER.

From May 3rd to 7th, Film at Lincoln Center and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative mounted a 10-program series of films and video art titled Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative Collection and Beyond. Today is the final day of this series, which highlights works from within and outside of the FMC’s archive that chronicle New York City, including city symphonies, films about public transit, documentaries about gentrification and urban renewal, a suite of Coney Island-themed films, and works covering architecture, gendered spaces, and downtown counter-narratives. GME is proud to distribute, to the North American university market, titles by a number of filmmakers whose films appear in this series, such as Stan Brakhage, Holly Fisher, Marie Menken, Ian Hugo, Francis Thompson, and Rudy Burckhardt.

GME distributes Brakhage’s 1958 film ANTICIPATION OF THE NIGHT — famously rejected by Cinema 16, which led to the creation of the Film-Makers’ Cooperative — in a Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack and as a DSL file. BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST, Fisher’s 1992 opus, is available on DVD and as a DSL from GME, in a package that also includes her films GLASS SHADOWS (1976), FROM THE LADIES (1977; this title plays in the Lincoln Center program), THIS IS MONTAGE (1978), and SOFTSHOE (1987).

Menken’s films VISUAL VARIATIONS ON NOGUCHI (1945), GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957), ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER (1961), and LIGHTS (1966) appear as bonus features on GME’s DVD and DVD/DSL bundle publication of Martina Kudláček’s fascinating 2006 documentary NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN. Menken’s 1965 film ANDY WARHOL also appears in our DVD collection VISIONS OF WARHOL; her 1957 film HURRY! HURRY! is available on our Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack MASTERWORKS OF AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE AND EXPERIMENTAL FILM: 1920—1970 as well. Also appearing in this combo pack is Hugo’s BELLS OF ATLANTIS (1953), Thompson’s N.Y. N.Y. (1958, which plays in the Lincoln Center program), and Burckhardt’s THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (1940).

GME distributes, as well, many other international city symphony films — not only of New York, but also San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, Ostend, Granada, Lourdes, Cassis, Brussels, and elsewhere. To view a complete list of our city symphony titles, click here. To read Jon Gartenberg’s article about New York city symphony films, click here.

For more information regarding the institutional acquisition of the aforementioned titles, please visit the ordering info page on our website.