March 31, 2020

Women’s History Month: GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

March 31, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

As March draws to a close, GME feels it is important to pay tribute to Women Filmmakers from our catalogue of digital moving image publications. The role of women filmmakers has been generally overlooked in the writing of film histories. In order to rectify these omissions in the field of academic film studies, GME is proud to distribute significant moving image works created by female artists in DVD format.

Mack Sennett at Biograph Films Screening at MOMA March 6th

March 05, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Mack Sennett spent his formative years at Biograph, emerging from the ranks of the Griffith stock company to become a regular comic lead and, soon, the primary director of Biograph’s comedy unit. These short, “split-reel” comedies, all from Sennett’s first year as a director, find him developing the broad, frenetic slapstick style that he would bring to his own company, Keystone, in 1912.

GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

May 12, 2019/ Jon Gartenberg

The role of women filmmakers has been generally overlooked in the writing of film histories. In order to rectify these omissions in the field of academic film studies, GME is proud to distribute significant moving image works created by female artists in DVD format.

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