GME ANNOUNCES GME STREAMLINE: NOW OFFERING DIGITAL SITE LICENSES AND STREAMED CONTENT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY
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GME Streamline is a new section on GME's website for the distribution of films and videos that we are making available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), in addition to the occasional presentation of viewable streams on Streamline's title pages. We are offering this service exclusively to the academic market for the streaming of moving image works through the university’s own intranet or closed circuit network, in order to further academic teaching as well as library and research use.
Over the past decade, GME has been distributing DVD and Blu-ray editions of key moving image works exclusively to the university market in North America. As the transition to server based media over disk distribution has grown, and even more so due to the teaching restrictions resultant with the spread of Covid-19, universities have been confronted with a shift to remote teaching and librarians with rethinking the physical moving image format for their acquisition programs. By offering these curatorially selected titles to the university market as Digital Site Licenses, GME is excited to embark on a renewed journey of making available new discoveries for academic consumption and study. Through this initiative, we endeavor to not only expand the integration of these works into canonical film and video histories, but also to broaden their usage and appreciation across a wide array of academic discourses.
For the current academic semester, GME will be announcing DSL offerings both for titles that we have already made available on DVD -- now as DVD/DSL bundles -- as well as new titles of moving image works that are only available as digital files and that bypass the step of a DVD publication.
Over the course of the next several months, we will be offering releases of curated titles from the following collections: Warren Sonbert, Kino Lorber, Edition Filmmuseum, Spanish and Latin American Avant-Garde Film and Animation, and Austrian Avant-Garde Film and Video.
As we transition into the GME Streamline, adding titles in the months ahead, please feel free to contact us about the possibility of acquiring DSL versions of any of the existing titles in our DVD catalog. In addition, look for the occasional presentation of viewable streams on Streamline's title pages (ie, the upcoming Warren Sonbert releases from 1967, THE TENTH LEGION and THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL). We previously offered free streaming on Sonbert’s first three films, all from 1966: AMPHETAMINE, WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO?, and HALL OF MIRRORS. We currently present highlighted clips from each of these films on their respective web pages. These three titles are currently available as Digital Site Licenses.
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For a list of all Streamline titles available as Digital Site Licenses, click here.