Films and Filmmakers Distributed by GME Showing in New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema Series and Exhibition by Film at Lincoln Center, Film Forum and the Jewish Museum

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Films and Filmmakers Distributed by GME Showing in New York, 1962–1964: Underground and Experimental Cinema Series and Exhibition by Film at Lincoln Center, Film Forum and the Jewish Museum

1962 to 1964 was a pivotal moment in the evolution of American arts and culture, especially in New York City. These years, crucial to the development of Pop, Minimalism, and performance, saw the emergence of a new generation of radical artists, as well as venues that gave their iconoclastic work a home and a context. Movies, meanwhile, were undergoing a transformation of their own: the rise of a truly independent cinema, of works unencumbered by the medium’s aesthetic conventions and commercial imperatives.

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GME Celebrates Jewish Museum’s Reprise of Filmmakers’ Cinematheque Screenings

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GME Celebrates Jewish Museum’s Reprise of Filmmakers’ Cinematheque Screenings

In conjunction with the retrospective of artist - filmmaker Jonas Mekas at the Jewish Museum, films originally programmed at the Jewish Museum by Mekas in 1969 are being shown through the end of this month. Not shown in the current series, but screened back in 1969 was Warren Sonbert’s THE TUXEDO THEATRE.

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New American Cinema Tour, Which Included Warren Sonbert's 1966 Where Did Our Love Go?, Discussed at Turin Symposium

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New American Cinema Tour, Which Included Warren Sonbert's 1966 Where Did Our Love Go?, Discussed at Turin Symposium

Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media has co-sponsored the symposium, "Transatlantic Experimental Film Connections and Influences: New American Cinema and Europe in the 1960s and Afterwards," held May 26, 2022 in Turin Italy. The symposium brings together scholars, archivists and writers to discuss the occasion of the momentous introduction of the New American Cinema (NAC) at Spoleto in 1961 and the longevity of its impact.

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GME Shares Martin Scorsese's Reminiscences of the NYC Indie Film Scene in the 1960s

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GME Shares Martin Scorsese's Reminiscences of the NYC Indie Film Scene in the 1960s

Martin Scorsese reflects on his formative years as a film student and NYC, discovering “the excitement of a new kind of cinema” being made in New York and shown at the legendary Bleecker Street Cinema. Accompanied by scenes of the Bleecker Street Cinema filmed by Warren Sonbert.

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Gideon Bachmann's UNDERGROUND NEW YORK streaming from Cineteca di Bologna through 1/17

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Gideon Bachmann's UNDERGROUND NEW YORK streaming from Cineteca di Bologna through 1/17

Cineteca di Bologna presents Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968) in it’s program The Rediscovered Cinema | Outside the Hall. In this indecipherable period, where cinemas are closed for the first time since 1895, the Cineteca di Bologna is bringing its most precious experience into everyone's homes, that of The Cinema Ritrovato, the largest festival in the world dedicated to the history of cinema.

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