The Gartenberg Media Clip Licensing Sampler, includes scenes from experimental and independent films available through GME for theatrical, television and streaming projects, containing imagery of notable personalities Andy Warhol, Jackie Kennedy and extended family, John & Yoko, Miles Davis (shooting hoops with Lennon at a celebrity gathering in Riverdale), Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga (all performing with the Velvet Underground), Alan Ginsburg, Michaelangelo Antonioni (visiting Shirley Clarke and Jonas Mekas at the Filmmakers Cooperative) and a score of others. Clips from this collection depicting the scenesters and lifestyles, especially of NYC in the 1960s, though also including films from the 1940s onward, have been licensed to productions by leading directors including Martin Scorsese, Todd Haynes, Errol Morris, Ric Burns, Joe Berlinger, and for broadcast on PBS, BBC, VH-1, Showtime, AppleTV+, WDR, and other networks and for theatrical release. Filmmakers whose work is popular with our licensing clients include Jonas Mekas, Warren Sonbert, Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Gideon Bachmann, Jackie Raynal and Jack Waters. Many other filmmakers, not represented in the sample reel, are also available via GME's extensive distribution collection of experimental and avant-garde films, and documentaries. Our objective in this enterprise is to increase the value and import of these artist-driven moving image works by placing them into a larger cultural context.
In addition, Gartenberg Media licenses the picture libraries of photographers Hugh Bell and Raimondo Borea.
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GME specializes in the distribution and licensing of the films of personal film visionary Jonas Mekas, an icon of the independent film scene, whose work widely documents alternative culture, especially in NYC, during the 1960s through the new millenium. Mekas’s vivid portraits include a young Caroline Kennedy and John Jr. frolicking in the ocean at the Montauk Estate of Andy Warhol in the early 1970’s, John Lennon’s birthday party with Yoko Ono in a hotel room in Syracuse, New York, and the Velvet Underground and Nico performing at a psychiatrist’s convention, in addition to scenes of Mick Jagger, Allen Ginsberg, George Maciunas and Timothy Leary, and many, many others. Click for the list of Jonas Mekas films available from GME.
Gartenberg Media is also the exclusive licensor of moving images from the Estate of Warren Sonbert, including scenes from New York in the 1960s as well as shots from his global travels from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. A shot list, corresponding to the complete (15 minute version with time-code, available upon request) for Sonbert’s film WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO (1966) is available here. For the new digital releases of Sonbert’s early films see: The Warren Sonbert Collection. For more information on Warren Sonbert see: Programming & Curating
GME also licenses, on a selective basis, clips from DVDs that we distribute to the university market. See: DVD Home Page
Please feel free to review GME’s extensive pictorial selection of work by the photographers Hugh Bell and Raimondo Borea.
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Many of these clips are licensed in conjunction with our European partner Re:voir, also in accord with the individual filmmakers or their estates.
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 for upcoming Apple TV+ broadcast of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND.