GME's September 2026 Roundup

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GME's September 2026 Roundup

Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from September related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, a number of artists distributed by or associated with GME were featured in The Museum of Modern Art's film series Long Live the Underground!: Celebrating Six Decades of The Film-Makers' Cooperative and Millennium Film Workshop. Moreover, three polyvalent montage films by Warren Sonbert were screened on 16mm at the Coop later in the month. Various films and filmmakers distributed by GME were also shown earlier in the month at Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry.

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Broughton & Singer

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Broughton & Singer

GME is pleased to present five films by James Broughton and Joel Singer: Together (1976), Song of the Godbody (1977), Hermes Bird (1979), Devotions (1983), and Scattered Remains (1988) in a curated package devoted to their decades-long personal and creative partnership.

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James Broughton: The Second Act

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James Broughton: The Second Act

After The Pleasure Garden was honored at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival, James Broughton was offered a Hollywood movie deal, which he turned down. The artist instead took a 15-year hiatus from filmmaking altogether to focus on his poetry. Upon returning to the medium in 1967, the counterculture had become the mainstream culture, and Broughton’s cinematic comeback met this euphoric and liberating moment. GME is pleased to present The Bed (1967), The Golden Positions (1970), and Testament (1974) in a curated package devoted to the second act in Broughton’s multifaceted career as a filmmaker.

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Early Films by James Broughton

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Early Films by James Broughton

From 1948 to 1953, James Broughton crafted a series of humorous, at times fantastical, and often playfully anti-authoritarian films imbued with his poetic practice that earned him the reputation of “the father of West Coast experimental cinema.” GME is pleased to present three of those films — Broughton’s solo debut Mother's Day (1948), 1951’s Four in the Afternoon, and the artist’s crowning achievement from this period, 1953’s The Pleasure Garden — in the curated package Early Films by James Broughton.

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GME Presents The Films of James Broughton and Joel Singer

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GME Presents The Films of James Broughton and Joel Singer

This fall, Gartenberg Media is pleased to welcome a selection of films by James Broughton and Joel Singer into our distribution library as Digital Site Licenses. These films are currently available for acquisition by academic and cultural institutions worldwide. For rental or purchase inquiries, please contact sales@gartenbergmedia.com.

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Experimental Film: From 16mm to 2K

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Experimental Film: From 16mm to 2K

This fall, GME is pleased to welcome into our DSL distribution library new 2K digital restorations of Warren Sonbert's polyvalent montage films, as well as new digital transfers of select films by James Broughton and Joel Singer.

Sonbert's films will be available for rental or purchase to academic and cultural institutions worldwide, both individually and across three curated packages: Sonbert in the Seventies, Sonbert in the Eighties, and Warren Sonbert: Music & Montage. Broughton and Singer's films will also be available individually and across three curated packages on an institutional, worldwide basis: Early Films by James Broughton, James Broughton: The Second Act, and Broughton & Singer.

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Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 with Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER

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Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 with Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, GME is proud to present Steve Bilich's Native New Yorker for rental or acquisition to academic and cultural institutions worldwide as a Digital Site License.

Over two decades since 9/11, Bilich's film remains a powerful cinematic work, political statement, and educational tool. Shot on a Cine-Kodak camera, it is likely the only 16mm film documentation of the event, which was otherwise captured on video — the dominant format of the time.

To rent or purchase this title for academic or cultural use, please contact: sales@gartenbergmedia.com.

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June 2026 Roundup

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June 2026 Roundup

Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from June related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, Warren Sonbert's debut film AMPHETAMINE and its follow-up WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Morgan Library, respectively; both films were later featured in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room on what would have been Sonbert's 79th birthday. Additionally, films by Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage screened at Anthology Film Archives throughout the month.

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