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

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

Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from June related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME publicly presented the World Premiere digital restorations of a selection of the early films of Warren Sonbert at Metrograph on June 8th. GME also attended the 2025 Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards, which honored two of our longtime friends and colleaugues: Jim Hubbard and James Wentzy. Furthermore, GME screened Allan King’s groundbreaking documentary WARRENDALE this month in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room.

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An Evening with Bill Brand at Maysles Documentary Center

An Evening with Bill Brand at Maysles Documentary Center

This past Saturday, September 22nd, 2023, experimental film and video artist, educator, activist, and film preservationist Bill Brand screened four of his films and gave a presentation connecting his moving image works to his paintings and drawings at the Maysles Documentary Center. Brand is a longtime friend and colleague of Gartenberg Media Enterprises. In the late 1990s, GME President Jon Gartenberg worked as the program director for the Film Preservation Program of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS. As part of that role, Gartenberg enlisted BB Optics — Brand’s preservation laboratory — to work on the Project’s preservation of work by multimedia artists David Wojnarowicz, Curt McDowell, and Jack Waters.

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