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

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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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Reflecting on "Love and Joy, Warren Sonbert"

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Reflecting on "Love and Joy, Warren Sonbert"

On Sunday, June 8th, Gartenberg Media Enterprises publicly presented the World Premiere digital restorations of a selection of the early films of Warren Sonbert (1947-1995) at Metrograph in New York City: Where Did Our Love Go?, Amphetamine, Hall of Mirrors (all 1966) and Carriage Trade (1973), as well as Jeff Scher’s Postcards from Warren (1998) and Warren (1991). We were delighted to welcome colleagues, friends, and family of Sonbert, GME, and the Film-Makers' Cooperative to this special event, which also launched the return of Sonbert's films to distribution at the Coop in digital format. All of these digital restorations were created with the intent of making Sonbert's films more accessible to a wide audience.

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

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

Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from May related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, four films by Warren Sonbert screened at Shotgun Cinema in Missouri, and stills from Sonbert’s debut film AMPHETAMINE were featured in Maurice Nagington’s book The Moral Lessons of Chemsex: A Critical Approach, now available in print. In terms of GME’s photography collections, we publicly announced our co-exclusive partnership with Getty Images to license Raimondo Borea’s photographs of The Today Show and The Tonight Show. GME also continued programming in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room last month with a double bill of films by King Vidor and Henry King.

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

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

Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from March related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME celebrated Women’s History Month by spotlighting works by women filmmakers that we distribute on DSL, DVD, and Blu-Ray. In the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room, GME streamed Hiroshi Teshigahara's WOMAN IN THE DUNES (which Mancia wrote about at length in Film Comment) and featured a number of rare archival treasures from Mancia's papers. Additionally, MIX NYC publicly shared the filmed Q&A session from their festival's closing night program in November 2024, which featured remarks from GME President Jon Gartenberg, commenting on GME associate Matt McKinzie's film and the other films in the program. At the end of the month, Gartenberg contributed program notes for Abigail Child's screening of her film THE SUBURBAN TRILOGY at the Film-Makers' Cooperative.

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This Women's History Month, GME Highlights Works By Women Filmmakers We Distribute on DSL, DVD, and Blu-Ray!

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This Women's History Month, GME Highlights Works By Women Filmmakers We Distribute on DSL, DVD, and Blu-Ray!

This Women's History Month, GME pays tribute to Women Filmmakers from our catalogue of digital moving image publications in DSL, DVD, and/or Blu-Ray format, which we make available exclusively to academic institutions in North America in collaboration with an array of archives and boutique publishers worldwide, including Cameo Media, Flicker Alley, Index Edition, Kino Lorber, Light Cone, and Re:Voir, among others. The role of women filmmakers has been generally overlooked in the writing of film histories. GME has carefully curated a selection of works from these organizations so as to more fully represent the significant contributions that women filmmakers have made from the birth of moving pictures. The role of women filmmakers has been generally overlooked in the writing of film histories. GME has carefully curated a selection of works from these organizations so as to more fully represent the significant contributions that women filmmakers have made from the birth of moving pictures.

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Early British Films by Alfred Hitchcock

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Early British Films by Alfred Hitchcock

GME is proud to distribute five lesser-known, early films by Alfred Hitchcock, made in his native England prior to his relocation to Hollywood in the early 1940s. These features find the director working in various genres outside of the thriller territory that eventually made him a household name and earned him the moniker “The Master of Suspense.”

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Gunvor Nelson (1931—2025)

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Gunvor Nelson (1931—2025)

GME remembers Gunvor Nelson, who passed away on Monday, January 6th, 2025, at the age of 94. A pioneering experimental filmmaker active since the early 1960s, Nelson was born and raised in Kristinehamn, Sweden, before relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and made films for over 50 years.

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GME Presents Austrian Films and Filmmakers, On the Occasion of "YES & NO: Austrian Artist Film @ ICA London"

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GME Presents Austrian Films and Filmmakers, On the Occasion of "YES & NO: Austrian Artist Film @ ICA London"

On November 5th and 12th, YES & NO Magazine celebrated their 13th edition YES & NO Kino+Film Austria, which sheds light on more than 100 years of Austrian cinema by presenting a two-part program with the ICA and sixpackfilm. GME distributes several of these films as DVDs and DSL/DVD bundles, in collaboration with Index Edition/sixpackfilm, to the North American institutional market.

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GME Presents Four Films by Robert Kramer, On the Occasion of the Austrian Film Museum's Kramer Retrospective This Month

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GME Presents Four Films by Robert Kramer, On the Occasion of the Austrian Film Museum's Kramer Retrospective This Month

From October 18th to November 28th, the Austrian Film Museum mounted a retrospective of the films of Robert Kramer. GME distributes eight films by Kramer, four of which — THE EDGE, ICE, GUNS, IN THE COUNTRY, and VIDEOLETTERS — were featured in the retrospective.

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World AIDS Day: Erasure in Elegy in the Streets

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World AIDS Day: Erasure in Elegy in the Streets

December 1st is World AIDS Day, an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic and honoring those who we have lost to HIV/AIDS. On this day of consciousness-raising, mourning, and remembrance, GME is honored to welcome Jim Hubbard’s ELEGY IN THE STREETS (1989) on DSL into our library of films currently available for international institutional acquisition.

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