February 2026 Roundup
/Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from February related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. A number of artists and filmmakers that GME distributes were featured in screenings around New York City and internationally, at such venues as Anthology Film Archives, e-Flux Screening Room, and the Berlin International Film Festival. The GME team also attended The Film-Makers’ Cooperative’s 65th anniversary gala benefit at Judson Memorial Church. Additionally, we welcomed a new omnibus film, commissioned by the Asian Film Archive, into our library for digital distribution to academic and cultural institutions worldwide.
BLu-RAY/DVD COVER ART FOR MAURICE Lemaître’s LE FILM EST DÉJÀ COMMENCÉ? (1951).
February 1st — Anthology Film Archives
From January 29th through February 1st, Anthology Film Archives hosted a series dedicated to the Lettrist film movement, co-curated by Frédéric Acquaviva and Bill Kartalopoulos, on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of Isidore Isou’s birth and the centenary of Maurice Lemaître (who were two key figures of the movement). On January 29th, Anthology presented Isou’s TRAITÉ DE BAVE ET D'ETERNITÉ, and between the 31st and 1st screened Lemaître’s LE FILM EST DÉJÀ COMMENCÉ? (1951), LE SOULÈVEMENT DE LA JEUNESSE – MAI 68 (1969), and UN SOIR AU CINÉMA SUIVI DE POUR FAIRE UN FILM (1962—63). GME Distributes TRAITÉ DE BAVE ET D'ETERNITÉ as a DVD and DSL file, and LE FILM EST DÉJÀ COMMENCÉ? as a Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack and DSL file, published by Re:Voir Video. GME also distributes a selection of short films by Lemaître in the Re:Voir DVD and DSL collection FILMS IMAGINAIRES. To purchase these titles for academic use, please contact sales@gartenbergmedia.com.
February 2nd — The Museum of Modern Art
From January 8th to February 2nd, a number of films screened in To Save and Project: The 22nd MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation. Among the titles screened were THE GARDEN OF EDEN (1928) by Lewis Milestone and THE JOYLESS STREET (1925) by G.W. Pabst.
GME distributes THE GARDEN OF EDEN as a DVD published by Flicker Alley, and THE JOYLESS STREET as a DVD published by Edition-Filmmuseum.
To purchase these titles for academic use, please contact sales@gartenbergmedia.com.
February 8th — International Film Festival of Rotterdam
A number of films by artists that GME distributes were programmed at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR) between January and February. Among them were two premieres, VERONIQUE (2026) by Friedl vom Gröller (pictured on the left) and ADGIN PRRX (2026) by Norbert Pfaffenbichler, as well as a screening of Kurt Kren's 1968 film 20/68 SCHATZI. GME distributes 19 films by vom Gröller in the collection SILENCE ON SCREEN, available as a DVD published by Index Edition. In conjunction with this film collection, GME distributes the 470-page book FRIEDL KUBELKA VOM GRÖLLER - ONE IS NOT ENOUGH PHOTOGRAPHY & FILM, published in 2014. GME also distributes five films by Pfaffenbichler in the DVD collection NOTES ON NOTES ON FILM, published by Index Edition.
Furthermore, GME distributes numerous films by Kren across three Index Edition collections, all of which are available on DVD as well as DVD/DSL bundles: ACTION FILMS, STRUCTURAL FILMS (which includes 20/68 SCHATZI), and WHICH WAY TO CA?.
To purchase these titles for academic use, please contact sales@gartenbergmedia.com.
HAL HOLBROOK AND SHIRLEY BOOTH IN THE GLASS MENAGERIE.
February 12th — GME
In December, GME presented the little-seen 1955 television remake of THE MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room. Beginning on February 12th, GME presented another little-seen television remake of a classic story that has been reproduced numerous times for screens big and small: the 1966 CBS Playhouse broadcast of Tennessee Williams’ play THE GLASS MENAGERIE.
Jane Klain, research manager at the Paley Center for Media and a friend and colleague of GME’s, had for years received numerous requests from scholars, researchers, and historians to view this long-elusive version of THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Finally, in the fall of 2015, Klain managed to track down six hours of pristine, unedited takes of the 1966 Glass Menagerie telecast in the archives at the University of Southern California. Klain was subsequently instrumental in identifying and preserving a Kinescope of the broadcast, which is the version that GME showed in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room.
The rediscovery and reconstruction of 1966’s THE GLASS MENAGERIE is a feat of archival excavation and film preservation. Over the last 25 years, GME has scoured commercial storage facilitates and uncovered a number of rare or best-quality nitrate elements, which have been repatriated and preserved by archives around the world.
GME PRESIDENT JON GARTENBERG IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID SCHWARTZ (BOARD PRESIDENT OF THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE) AND HIS WIFE, NANCY, AT THE COOP’s 65th ANNIVERSARY GALA.
February 13th — Judson Memorial Church
On Friday, February 13th, GME President Jon Gartenberg and GME Fine Arts Curator David Deitch attended the 65th anniversary gala benefit for The Film-Makers’ Cooperative at Judson Memorial Church. GME associate Matt McKinzie, who also works as the Artistic Director of the Coop, spoke at the gala and helped hand out the awards.
Gala honorees included longtime GME friends and colleagues Lynne Sachs and MM Serra, in addition to Nan Goldin, Joan Jonas, John Waters, and the Jack Smith Archive at Gladstone Gallery. J. Hoberman paid tribute to the late Ken and Flo Jacobs at the gala as well. GME distributes and helped finance Jacobs’ film CYCLOPEAN 3D: LIFE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. (Pictured: GME President Jon Gartenberg in conversation with David Schwartz, Board President of the Film-Makers' Coop, and his wife Nancy, at the 65th anniversary gala).
FILMMAKER SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF.
February 18th — Berlinale
On Wednesday, February 18th, Siegfried A. Fruhauf’s new film FLIM FLAM (2026) had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival as part of the “Berlinale Shorts” program. Fruhauf’s film is described as “a visual and acoustic reflection about perception, deception, truth and the medium of film itself.” GME distributes four of Fruhauf’s short films in the collection SIEGFRIED FRUHAUF: EXPOSED, published by Index Edition.
To inquire about purchasing Fruhauf’s films for academic use, please contact sales@gartenbergmedia.com.
OFFICIAL KEY ART FOR FRAGMENT.
February 19th — GME
Beginning on February 19th, GME was pleased to distribute the omnibus film FRAGMENT, commissioned by the Asian Film Archive. This release is an important expansion of GME's deeper reach into Asian cinema and contemporary short and experimental films, including works from Singapore, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines, among other countries.
While the Asian Film Archive is known predominantly for preserving and restoring older, little-seen films by Asian filmmakers (see THE NANYANG TRILOGY, also distributed by GME), FRAGMENT denotes a departure for the Archive as it foregrounds new work by both emerging and established cineastes working across Southeast Asian independent cinema. FRAGMENT is a collage of ten stories, and each film distinctively embraces collective sentiments of vulnerability and fortitude. The omnibus features the work of 10 filmmakers: Kan Lumé (Singapore), Kavich Neang (Cambodia), Lav Diaz (Philippines), Lucky Kuswandi (Indonesia), Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (Thailand), Phan Dang Di (Vietnam), Sherman Ong (Singapore/Malaysia), Tan Chui Mui (Malaysia), U-Wei Haji Saari (Malaysia), and Wesley Leon Aroozoo (Singapore).
GME also distributes Lav Diaz's BATANG WEST SIDE as a Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack and DSL file, published by Edition-Filmmuseum. BATANG WEST SIDE screened on January 14th at the Asia Society as part of their ongoing series Films to See Before You Die.
ESFIR SHUB’S THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY (1927).
February 19th — e-flux Screening Room
On February 19th, e-flux Screening Room presented ESFIR SHUB: FROM INSPIRATION TO ABJECTION, a screening and book presentation with Keith Sanborn. The evening explored the trajectory of Shub from “Leninist true believer to Stalinist conformist, from innovator in the 'non-acted' film to self-effacing hagiographer.” GME distributes Shub’s THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY in the DVD collection LANDMARKS OF EARLY SOVIET FILM, published by Flicker Alley. To acquire these titles for institutional use, please contact sales@gartenbergmedia.com.
February 21st — Marina Theatre
On Saturday, February 21st, at 3pm and 7pm at San Francisco’s Marina Theatre, Jean-François Alcoléa performed his live-movie concert RIGHT IN THE EYE, feauturing the works of cinematic pioneer George Méliès and presented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. GME distributes films by Méliès on Blu-Ray and DVD in the collections MÉLIÈS: FAIRY TALES IN COLOR, GEORGES MÉLIÈS: FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA (1896-1913) & GEORGES MÉLIÈS: ENCORE - NEW DISCOVERIES (1896-1911), and GEORGES MÉLIÈS: A TRIP TO THE MOON & THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE.
To acquire these titles for institutional use, please contact sales@gartenbergmedia.com.