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On Monday, January 29th, at 7pm, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative will show four films about “Happenings” in a program aptly titled WHAT’S HAPPENING?. A perfect companion to this program is the 17-film boxset FLUXFILM ANTHOLOGY, which GME distributes to the North American university market as both a DSL file and DVD.
Read MoreOn December 2nd, 2023, GME President Jon Gartenberg provided background and context regarding the recovery of Andy Warhol’s film oeuvre at the 60th anniversary benefit screening of Warhol’s SLEEP, hosted by the Film-Makers’ Cooperative at The Bunker at 222 Bowery. Gartenberg was instrumental in the excavation and preservation of Warhol’s films in the 1980s.
Read MoreTonight, December 1st, and tomorrow, December 2nd, 2023, at 7pm, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative is hosting a benefit screening of Andy Warhol’s first major film, SLEEP (1963), at The Bunker at 222 Bowery. In the mid-1980s, while working in the Museum of Modern Art’s Film Department, GME President Jon Gartenberg was instrumental in the resuscitation of Warhol’s films, like SLEEP, which were thought to be lost or destroyed after Warhol pulled them out of circulation.
Read MoreFrom September 8th to September 10th, 2023, films by Karel Doing and Sigfried Fruhauf played at the Crossroads Film Festival at the San Francisco Cinematheque! GME distributes two of Doing’s early works, 1993’s LICHTAJAREN and 1999’s ENERGY ENERGY, in the collection STUDIO EEN: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS FROM THE LOWLANDS. GME also distributes Fruhauf’s NIGHT SWEAT in the collection VISIONARY: CONTEMPORARY SHORT DOCUMENTARIES AND EXPERIMENTAL FILMS FROM AUSTRIA, as well as the artist’s 9-minute short film from 2001, EXPOSED.
Read MoreKenneth Anger (1927-2023) embodied the love-hate relationship between underground art and mass culture. Few other avant-garde filmmakers borrowed so liberally or so subversively from popular iconography. And with his sensuous, mystical imagery and pioneering use of pop soundtracks, perhaps none saw their work so readily absorbed back into the mainstream.
Read MoreMajor works by masters of their respective genres, Maya Deren and F.W. Murnau, are being screened April 22nd (Deren) and 23rd (Murnau) at MoMI.
Read MoreAs part the series examining the films that influenced director Chantal Ackerman on her way to creating her masterpiece JEAN DIELMAN, Michael Snow’s LA RÉGION CENTRAL and WAVELENGTH, are being presented, along with Straub and Huillet’s MOSES AND AARON, Carl Th. Dreyer’s GERTRUD, and Jean Luc Godard’s TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER, among other films that impacted the development of JEAN DIELMAN.
Read MoreThis spring, Anthology hosts a long-overdue retrospective of the work of the moving-image artist, writer, and poet Abigail Child. A leading figure of the generation of experimental filmmakers that emerged in the late 1970s-early 1980s, Child has continued to make innovative and challenging work – in a dizzying variety of forms and on a wide range of topics – ever since.
Read More“Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar,” a major exhibition devoted to the work of José Val del Omar (1904–1982), a visionary Spanish artist, filmmaker, and inventor who approached cinema as a multi-sensory experience, is on view at the Museum of the Moving Image through October 1, 2023.
Read MoreIt’s no exaggeration to say that Michael Snow’s body of moving-image work represents one of the great achievements in the history of the art form – films such as WAVELENGTH, <---> (BACK AND FORTH), and LA RÉGION CENTRALE, each being shown during this short retrospective, are among the seminal works of experimental cinema.
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