GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

Women directors have long been a mainstay of film production, beginning with Alice Guy Blaché at the turn of the 19th century.  However, their voices have frequently been omitted from film historical discourse.  Ongoing efforts by the Women Film Pioneers Project has aimed to rectify these omissions by bringing their contributions center stage.  In addition to featuring women silent film directors in GME’s distribution catalogue, we have also endeavored to highlight the significant contribution women artists have made to the development of avant-garde and experimental cinema, as well as to the documentary form and narrative filmmaking. 

Below is an alphabetical list of the women directors in GME’s distribution catalogue, comprising more than 100 individual artists. They include film and video makers throughout North, Central, and South America; Western Europe and Eastern Europe, and the U.S.S.R. and Japan. Each name in this list is linked to the relevant web page that describes the specific DVD edition in which their work appears. The country of production to which their moving image work have most been identified, as well as their individual birth and death dates, have also been included.

Gartenberg Media distributes work by women artists Eugènia Balcells (Spain) and Valie Export (Austria), both of whom are represented in the current, landmark MoMA exhibition entitled Signals: How Video Transformed the World. We are actively continuing to update our distribution catalogue to highlight other women film and video artists that deserve further recognition, as well as to add noteworthy titles by women filmmakers that we already represent through our distribution activities.

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Rocío Álvarez (Spain)

Alaitz Arenzana (Spain, b. 1976)

Usue Arrieta (Spain)

Dorothy Arzner  (U.S., 1897-1979)

Miriam Bajtala (Austria)

Eugènia Balcells (Spain, b. 1942)

EUGÈNIA BALCELLS

Águeda Bañón (Spain, b. 1974)

Cecilia Barriga (Spain, b. 1977)

Madeline Brandeis  (U.S., 1897-1937)

Christine Noll Brinckmann  (Germany, b. 1937)

Mary Ellen Bute (U.S., 1906-1983)

Helena Cabello (Spain, b. 1963)

Maite Cajaraville (Spain, b. 1967)

CHRISTINE NOLL BRINCKMANN

María Cañas (Spain, b. 1972)

Abigail Child (U.S., b. 1948)

Linda Christanell (Austria, b. 1939)

Kerstin Cmelka (Austria, b. 1974)

Liliana Couso (Spain)

Ximena Cuevas (Mexico, b. 1963)

Dorothy Davenport (Mrs. Wallace Reid) (U.S., 1895-1977)

Marta de Gonzalo (Spain, b. 1973)

Alexandra Dean (U.S.)

Maya Deren (U.S., 1917-1961)

MARGOT DIAS

Carola Dertnig (Austria, b. 1963)

Margot Dias (Netherlands, 1908-2001)

Germaine Dulac (France, 1882-1942)

Paz Encina (Paraguay, b. 1971)

Cristina Esteban (Spain, b. 1973)

Valie Export (Austria, b. 1940)

VALIE EXPORT

Holly Fisher (U.S., b. 1942)

Dora García (Spain, b. 1965)

Amy Greenfield (U.S., b. 1950)

Michaela Grill (Austria, b. 1971)

Marina Grzinic (Austria, b. 1958)

Sally Gutiérrez (Spain, b. 1965)

Alice Guy Blaché (U.S., 1873-1968)

Marilyn Halford (U.K.)

Hannah Heer (Austria)

Isabel Herguera (Spain, b. 1961)

Narcisa Hirsch (Argentina, b. 1928)

NARCISA HIRSCH

María Ibarretxe (Spain)

Marie-Louise Iribe (France, 1873-1968)

Karø Goldt (Austria, b. 1967)

Edith Kiel (Germany, 1904-1993)

Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller (Austria, b. 1946)

Martina Kudláček (U.S., b. 1965)

FRIEDL KUBELKA VOM GRÖLLER

Tamara Kuselman (Spain, b. 1980)

Antonella La Sala (Spain)

Diana Larrea (Spain, b. 1972)

Maria Lassnig (Austria, 1919-2014)

Laida Lertxundi (Spain, b. 1981)

Helen Levitt (U.S., 1913-2009)

Janice Loeb (U.S., 1902-1996)

HELEN LEVITT

Marie Losier (France, b. 1972)

Rose Lowder (France, b. 1941)

Ida Lupino (U.K./U.S., 1918-1995)

Mara Mattuschka (Austria, b. 1959)

Dóra Maurer (Hungary, b. 1937)

Marisa Maza (Spain, b. 1965)

Marie Menken (U.S., 1909-1970)

Barbara Meter (Netherlands, b. 1939)

BARBARA METER

Julia Montilla (Spain, b. 1970)

Gertrude Moser-Wagner (Austria, b. 1953)

Ulrike Müller (Austria, b. 1971)

Barbara Musil (Austria, b. 1972)

Gunvor Nelson (U.S., b. 1931)

Annabel Nicolson (U.K., b. 1964)

Anaïs Nin (France, 1903-1977)

ANAÏS NIN

Maite Ninou (Spain, b. 1960)

Mabel Normand (U.S., 1892-1930)

Dore O. (Germany, b. 1946)

Itziar Okariz (Spain, b. 1965)

Jenny Okun (U.S., b. 1953)

Izibene Oñederra (Spain, b. 1979)

Yoko Ono (Japan, b. 1933)

Daniela Ortiz (Peru, b. 1985)

YOKO ONO WITH JOHN LENNON

Vivian Ostrosvsky (U.S., b. 1945)

Mabel Palacín (Spain, b. 1965)

Elena Pardo (Mexico)

Claire Parker (U.S., 1906-1981)

Suzan Pitt (U.S., 1943-2019)

Lisl Ponger (Austria, b. 1947)

Michaela Pöschl (Austria, b. 1970)

CLAIRE PARKER

 Olga Preobrazhenskaia (Russia, 1881-1971)

Ursula Pürrer (Austria, b. 1962)

Ania Rachmat (Netherlands)

Jackie Raynal (France, b. 1940)

Tere Recarens (Spain, b. 1967)

Lotte Reiniger (Germany, 1899-1981)

Lis Rhodes (U.K., b. 1942)

Leni Riefenstahl (Germany, 1902-2003)

LOTTE REINIGER

Billy Roisz (Austria, b. 1967)

Gaëlle Rouard (Netherlands)

Constanze Ruhm (Austria, b. 1965)

María Ruido (Spain, b. 1967)

Fiona Rukschcio (Austria, b. 1972)

Chieko Shiomi (Japan, b. 1938)

Esther Shub (Russia, 1894-1959)

ESTHER SHUB

Carmen Sigler (Spain, b. 1960)

Aina Šmid (Austria, b. 1957)

Anna Solanas (Spain, b. 1979)

Karo Szmit (Austria, b. 1978)

Anet van de Elzen (Netherlands, b. 1963)

Francien van Everdingen (Netherlands, b. 1969)

AINA ŠMID

Nuria Vila (Spain)

Virginia Villaplana (Spain, b. 1972)

Lois Weber (U.S., 1879-1939)

Dorothy Wiley (U.S.)

Grace Winter (Belgium)