From September 27th, 2023, to February 4th, 2024, the Noguchi Museum — which is dedicated to the work of world-famous sculptor Isamu Noguchi — mounted A Glorious Bewilderment: Marie Menken’s ‘Visual Variations on Noguchi’, curated by Kate Wiener. This exhibit paired Marie Menken’s first film, 1945’s VISUAL VARIATIONS ON NOGUCHI (in which Menken captures Noguchi’s sculptures “in motion” via frenetic manipulation of a 16mm Bolex camera) with a selection of related sculptures by Noguchi. GME President Jon Gartenberg and GME Fine Arts Curator David Deitch attended the exhibit earlier this month, which showed Menken’s film in its original 16mm format. GME distributes Martina Kudláček’s 2006 documentary NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN to the North American university market as a DVD and DVD/DSL bundle. Included on GME’s release is VISUAL VARIATIONS ON NOGUCHI, in addition to some of Menken’s later films: 1957’s vernal wonder GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN, 1961’s colorful and hypnotic ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER, and 1966’s Yuletide dazzler LIGHTS.

Beginning on February 19th, ten short works by experimental filmmaker and animator Maria Lassnig will play at the Berlin International Film Festival. GME is proud to distribute these Lassnig titles in the collection MARIA LASSNIG: ANIMATION FILMS, which is available to the North American university market as both a DVD and a DVD/DSL bundle. GME also distributes a 72 minute-long compendium of unfinished works and works-in-progress by Lassnig, titled MARIA LASSNIG: FILM WORKS.

On the occasion of the Martha Graham Dance Company’s centennial celebration, GME revisits Jack Mitchell’s rich repository of photographs chronicling Graham and her collaborators, taken during a period in the legendary dancer’s career that was marked by intense creative transformation and rebirth.