GME Announces Shift to Digital Distribution Beginning in Fall 2025
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Beginning in Fall 2025, Gartenberg Media Enterprises is pleased to offer a number of new titles as Digital Site Licenses (DSLs) for institutional acquisition.
Click here for a list of moving image works now available as Digital Site Licenses.
Over the past several decades, GME has embarked on a distribution project to release DVDs and Blu-Rays of moving image works that are destined exclusively for purchase by 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 have been tasked with rethinking the physical moving image format for their acquisition programs.
To meet this changing technological need, we launched GME Streamline in 2020. Streamline is a section on GME's website for the distribution of moving image works that we have made available as Digital Site Licenses (DSLs). We offer 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.
By offering 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 teaching, research, 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.
L-R: STILL FROM THE NANYANG TRILOGY, FILMMAKER WARREN SONBERT, AND FILMMAKER PIERRE Clémenti.
We are pleased to announce new titles of moving image works that are only available as digital files from GME, including the early films of Warren Sonbert (1966-73) and the films of Pierre Clémenti (1967-1988), as well as the Kong Ngee Company's Nanyang Trilogy (1957).
Stay tuned for a full slate of DSL releases for the fall semester.
Please feel free to contact us about acquiring DSL versions of any of the existing titles in our DVD/Blu-ray catalog.