GME News
This fall, Gartenberg Media is pleased to present new 2K digitizations of Warren Sonbert's Carriage Trade (1973), Rude Awakening (1976), and Divided Loyalties (1978) in the curated package Sonbert in the Seventies. These films are currently available for acquisition by academic and cultural institutions worldwide. For rental or purchase inquiries, please contact sales@gartenbergmedia.com.
Read MoreThis fall, Gartenberg Media is pleased to present new 2K digitizations of Warren Sonbert's polyvalent montage films. Spanning 1973's Carriage Trade through to 1995's Whiplash, these films are now available, across three curated packages, for acquisition by academic and cultural institutions worldwide. For rental or purchase inquiries, please contact sales@gartenbergmedia.com.
Read MoreGME 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.
Read MoreAfter 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.
Read MoreFrom 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.
Read MoreThis Thanksgiving, in recognition of the history and plight of Indigenous Peoples, Gartenberg Media is once again proud to distribute Steve Bilich's Native New Yorker to academic and cultural institutions worldwide.
Read MoreToday we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from October related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME announced a number of new titles for distribution, including: five silent short films from Undercrank Productions, three unsung classics of Cantonese cinema recently rediscovered by the Asian Film Archive, five early British films by Alfred Hitchcock, and two overlooked New Hollywood “bookends” restored and re-released by Vinegar Syndrome. GME also announced the distribution of Warren Sonbert’s early films — for rental on digital formats — through The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, where they were originally distributed on 16mm beginning in the 1960s.
Read MoreOn Thursday, October 30th, GME President Jon Gartenberg, GME Fine Arts Curator David Deitch, and GME Associate Matt McKinzie attended a live musical performance by celebrated singer Marilyn Maye at 54 Below. Maye is a Grammy-nominated performer who was discovered by Steve Allen in 1963. She went on to appear on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson a record 76 times, the most of any other musical guest. She also recorded a number of successful albums for RCA in the 1960s, and at the age of 97, continues to perform live. Throughout her show at 54 Below, Maye shared clips from her appearances on The Tonight Show as well as stills from the show itself. One of the stills is an on-set photo taken by Raimondo Borea. Borea, a freelance photographer, was afforded exclusive behind-the-scenes access to The Tonight Show, where he captured candid portraits of the show’s hosts and celebrity guests. The Borea photo featured in Maye’s show is from the mid-1960s and captures host Johnny Carson and guest Steve Allen sharing a laugh. GME represents Borea’s photographic oeuvre and is committed to resurrecting the career of this important yet overlooked artist. GME recently partnered with Getty Images to make Borea’s photographs of The Today Show and The Tonight Show available for licensing. Please contact info@gartenbergmedia.com for all inquiries related to the Borea photography collection.
Read MoreGartenberg Media Enterprises is pleased to distribute new 4K restorations by Cinématographe of two seminal New York City thrillers — Joseph Cates’ WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? and Paul Morrissey’s MIXED BLOOD — to North American cultural institutions as Digital Site Licenses.
Released in 1965 and 1984 respectively, WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? and MIXED BLOOD both bookend and typify the "New Hollywood" era of the late 1960s and 1970s. Their transgressive explorations of violence, sexuality, social taboos and urban dysfunction emulate such better-known films as MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969), THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (1971), and TAXI DRIVER (1975).
Gartenberg Media Enterprises is pleased to announce our distribution of the films of Pierre Clémenti as new 2K digital restorations to North American academic institutions.
Though best known as an actor, Clémenti's directorial work constitutes a fascinating and long overlooked chapter in 1960s avant-garde film history. To inquire about the institutional acquisition of Clémenti's films, click here.
