January 2025 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

January 2025 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from January, in New York City and beyond, related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. In the first half of the month, a number of films that GME distributes to universities in North America were programmed at Anthology Film Archives. In the latter half of the month, GME highlighted the work of photographers Raimondo Borea, Hugh Bell, and Jack Mitchell. Specifically, Borea and Bell’s oeuvres were highlighted with the release of GME's New Photo Licensing Reel, and Mitchell’s 1963 portraits of dancer Maria Tallchief were revisited ahead of the New York City Ballet’s celebration of Tallchief’s centennial. Additionally, Mitchell’s 1994 images of Paul Taylor dancing with Mikhail Baryshnikov were presented in a new video, in recognition of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division’s 2025 Dance Symposium celebrating Baryshnikov and his legacy.

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December 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

December 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Today we recap news, events and celebrations from December, in New York City and beyond, related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. On World AIDS Day, GME welcomed Jim Hubbard’s documentary ELEGY IN THE STREETS (1989) into our library of films currently available for international institutional acquisition. On December 11th, GME launched the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room, where you can now stream films, clips, and other audiovisual ephemera related to the professional career of legendary film programmer and curator Adrienne Mancia.

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November 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

November 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Today we recap events and celebrations from November — in New York City and beyond — related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME remembered Judith Jameson, and celebrated the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s season at Lincoln Center, with photographs by Jack Mitchell. GME also licensed footage from Martina Kudláček’s NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN (2006) for the launch of Artifacts, an online platform “connecting viewers with the cultural architects of the avant-garde, LGBTQ+, and underground arts.

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October 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

October 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Today we recap events and celebrations from October — in New York City and beyond — related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME dove deep into our film and photography collections in honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, highlighting a number of films by LGBTQ+ filmmakers that we distribute on DSL, Blu-Ray, and DVD, as well as photographs of pioneering dancers Louis Falco, Bill T. Jones, and Arnie Zane taken by Jack Mitchell.

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Revisiting Ken Jacobs' CYCLOPEAN 3D for Home Movie Day

Revisiting Ken Jacobs' CYCLOPEAN 3D for Home Movie Day

For last year’s Home Movie Day, GME highlighted Hollywood icon Rock Hudson, who appears in Mark Rappaport’s found footage video essay ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES. This year, we turn our attention to an avant-garde icon, Ken Jacobs, whose experimental “home movie” CYCLOPEAN 3D: LIFE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN was produced by GME through the Experimental Filmmakers Production Fund. GME President Jon Gartenberg presented CYCLOPEAN 3D the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in 2012, where he dubbed the film Jacobs’ “most directly autobiographical work to date.”

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