Gartenberg Media Announces Henri Storck's SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE as Blu-ray / DVD Combo Set Now Available for Institutional Sales

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Gartenberg Media Announces

 

Henri Storck's SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE


Blu-ray/DVD Combo Now Available for Institutional Sales

 

Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of a new title, Henri Storck's SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE, in a 2-Disc Deluxe Combo Blu-ray/DVD Edition, exclusively available for institutional sales in North America. The third in a series of four volumes comprising the Henri Storck Collection, it is published by Cinematek, Belgium, in a joint initiative with the Cinémathèque de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Fonds Henri Storck.

 

Henri Storck (Ostend 1907 - Brussels 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to commercial films.  He is widely recognized as a pioneer of Belgian cinema and a key figure in documentary.  An eyewitness of his times, Storck made socially engaged films, but also poetic and experimental short films, films on art and a fiction feature. His body of work consists of 70 films, including his SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE, composed from 1942 to 1944, and in which he describes the day-to-day life and rituals of peasant farmers and the rhythm of the seasons.  The film is a poem to nature, a lyrical masterpiece on life and death, on plants and animals, on man and his labor, all the more remarkable since Storck made his film under the shadow of the Occupation.

 

SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE complements GME's previous releases in the Henri Storck Collection: IMAGES D'OSTENDE, a collection of Storck's films of his native city of Ostend, of which he was the chronicler and which remained, for him, the Queen of beaches; and MISÈRE AU BORINAGE, which brings together Storck's Social Films, including the 1933 title work co-directed with Joris Ivens, which has become a classic of the "cinema of reality", with which Storck was most closely associated.   Each volume in the series features the premiere of digitally-restored material in a 2-Disc Deluxe Combo Blu-ray/DVD Edition. 

 

 

Henri Storck - Belgium (1942-1944)


Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.

 

SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE  STORCK-IMAGES D'OSTENDE  STORCK-MISERE AU BORINAGE

Henri Storck - Belgium (1929-1938 / 2004)


Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.

Henri Storck & Joris Ivens - Belgium (1933-1938)


Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.

 

 

  

Each title is published as a 2-Disc Combo Blu-ray / DVD Edition

- The Blu-ray is Region Free (No Regional Code).

- The DVD is Region 0 (No Regional Code).


Languages: French, Dutch.    Subtitles: Dutch, English.

   

 

 

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For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact:  sales@gartenbergmedia.com

 

Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656

 

Please Note:

Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.

PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback.

 

These DVD and Blu-ray editions are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (U.S. and Canada), and include public performance rights.  Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

 



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GME Announces Films by Werner Schroeter on DVD Available for Institutional Sales

GME Announces Films by Werner Schroeter on DVD Available for Institutional Sales
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Gartenberg Media Announces

 

Films by Werner Schroeter


Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

 

 

Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of two publications featuring the films of Werner Schroeter, published by Edition Filmmuseum.  Each 2-disc set presents new, state-of-the-art restorations by the Munich Film Museum, along with bonus materials and trilingual booklets about Schroeter and his films.  Both PAL-DVD editions are available for institutional sales in North America.
 

 

Werner Schroeter's unique melodramas about love and death are fascinating amalgamations of avant-garde opera, theater and cinema elements. Art and kitsch, high- and low-brow, Maria Callas and Caterina Valente, myths and genre elements, all find expression in EIKA KATAPPA & DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN, two melodramas about love and death.  The 2-disc DVD set presents the first two feature-length films by Schroeter in beautifully restored versions. In addition, it offers a portrait of Maria Callas shot by Schroeter on 8mm film in 1968, a new reconstruction of Schroeter's legendary two-screen projection short film ARGILA (1969), and excerpts of a talk with Werner Schroeter, led by Dietrich Kuhlbrodt during the Schroeter Tribute at the Viennale 2008.

 

 

Werner Schroeter
 
Eika Katappa (1969) West Germany
Der Tod der Maria Malibran (1972) West Germany

  

DVD-PAL - Region 0 / 
No Regional Code.

 

  Institutional Sale Price: $ 300.00 plus shipping & handling.


EIKA KATAPPADER BOMBERPILOT

  

DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI presents new, restored versions of two rare classics by Werner Schroeter that connect private stories with history: DER BOMBERPILOT tells the story of three eccentric women in Germany during the Nazi period who try to become show stars in America after the war; NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI is a chronicle of post-war Italy told from the perspective of a Neapolitan family. Additional features of the 2-disc DVD set include: a feature length, collage portrait of Werner Schroeter constructed by Gérard Courant,based on an audio interview with Schroeter at the Cannes Film Festival; a video of Werner Schroeter in a talk with the audience at the Austrian Filmmuseum from 1978; and stills from the shooting of NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI by Digne M. Markovicz.

 

 

Der Bomberpilot  (1970)  West Germany
Nel Regno di Napoli  (1978)  West Germany
 
DVD-PAL - Region 0 / 

No Regional Code.


Institutional Sale Price: $ 300.00 plus shipping & handling.

 

  

 

 

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For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit:  www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

 

For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact:  sales@gartenbergmedia.com

 

Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656

 

Please Note:

Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.

PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback.

 

These DVD and Blu-ray editions are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (U.S. and Canada), and include public performance rights.  Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

 



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GME Announces FRENCH MASTERWORKS & THE RED LANTERN on DVD Available for Institutional Sales

GME Announces FRENCH MASTERWORKS & THE RED LANTERN on DVD Available for Institutional Sales
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Gartenberg Media Announces

2 Major DVD Publications from the Silent Film Era

  

FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929  

&  

THE RED LANTERN(1919)

Both Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

 

Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929, a 5-Disc DVD Deluxe Edition from Flicker Alley, as well as THE RED LANTERN, published by Cinematek, as a PAL-DVD with an accompanying 208-page softcover book. Both DVD editions are available for institutional sales in North America.
 

 

The collection of Russian filmmakers who made up the core of what came to be known as Films Albatros arrived from Moscow after the October 1917 revolution by way of Yalta, Constantinople and Marseilles, establishing their base of operations in an old Pathé greenhouse-style studio in the Paris suburb of Montreuil.  From it flowed some of the finest French films of the 1920s - variously experimental, spectacular, charming, witty; and always beautifully executed.  FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929 presents five exciting silent cinema features, each restored to excellent condition by the Cinematheque Francaise, and accompanied by outstanding new music scores by Timothy Brock, Robert Israel, Neil Brand, Antonio Coppola and the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.  For each film, the original French titles are retained with optional English subtitles.

 

 

 FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929  

Five Iconic Films Albatros Productions

5 Disc DVD Collection

LE BRASIER ARGENT  Ivan Mosjoukine  (1923)   

KEAN  Alexandre Volkoff  (1924)   

FEU MATHIAS PASCAL  Marcel L'Herbier  (1926)   

GRIBICHE  Jacques Feyder  (1926)   

LES NOUVEAUX MESSIEUR  Jacques Feyder  (1929) 

 

DVD-NTSC - Region 0 / 
No Regional Code.

 

  Institutional Sale Price: $ 400.00 plus shipping & handling.

 


FRENCH MASTERWORKS      THE RED LANTERN


  

THE RED LANTERN tells the story of a Eurasian, Joan of Arc-like heroine, set against the background of China's 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The film was an instant success, thanks to the star qualities of diva Alla Nazimova and an unprecedented advertising campaign ("Presenting The Greatest Actress of the Day, NAZIMOVA, The Star of a Thousand Moods".) Both these aspects are extensively discussed in the accompanying publication, To Dazzle the Eye and Stir the Heart - The Red Lantern, Nazimova and the Boxer Rebellion. Additional essays examine the literary origin of the film (The Red Lantern by Edith Wherry) as well as the historical impact of the Boxer Rebellion, that inform the larger issues of biracial identity, feminism, nationalism, and the clash of cultures that are portrayed in Capellani's film. Bonus features on the DVD include early cinema actualities that evoke the way in which the Boxer Rebellion was portrayed in Western society around the turn of the century, reconstruction of a Chinese screening programme from the time of the film's premiere in the United States, as well as screen tests and odes to the film's star, Nazimova. 

 

 

Albert Capellani
USA  (1919)

 To Dazzle the Eye and Stir the Heart -
The Red Lantern, Nazimova and the Boxer Rebellion
 

208-page Softcover book.


 DVD-PAL - Region 0 /
No Regional Code.


Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.

 

  

 

 

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Coming Soon!

 

 

For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit:  www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

 

For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact:  sales@gartenbergmedia.com

 

Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656

 

Please Note:

Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.

PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback.

 

These DVD and Blu-ray editions are currently being made available to

universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North

America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public

performance rights extend to use in classrooms and other non-commercial

settings where no admission is charged.

 

 



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THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION - Blu-ray/DVD Combo Set Available for Institutional Sales

GME Announces THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION - Blu-ray/DVD Combo Set Available for Institutional Sales
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Gartenberg Media Announces

  

THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION 

 

 

Deluxe Blu-ray/DVD Combo Available for Institutional Sales

 

 

Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION, a Deluxe Dual-Disc Combo Blu-ray/DVD Edition published by Flicker Alley, now available for institutional sales in North America. 

 

Curtis Harrington, widely regarded as one of the important avant-garde directors of the 1940's, as well as an early influential figure in what would come to be known as 'New Queer Cinema,' was born in Los Angeles in 1926. He began making films as a teenager, often deeply surreal, intuitive, and owing much to the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.  After graduating from UCLA with a degree in film studies, his unique career trajectory led him from the academic circles of cinematic criticism (he wrote a publication on the films of Josef von Sternberg); to the Hollywood assistant desk of writer/producer Jerry Wald; to the elite group of independent filmmakers associated with Kenneth Anger (the two remained life-long friends and colleagues); to the famed film factory of cult icon Roger Corman; then on to his own stint in the world of genre movie-making with NIGHT TIDE (1961) and GAMES (1967); and most unpredictable of all, to finding commercial success in television.  This publication, a joint effort between Flicker Alley and Drag City featuring restorations carried out by the Academy Film Archive on a dual-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo, comprised of six short films by the late experimental filmmaker, as well as bonus interview footage and rarely-seen early works. 

 

Curtis Harrington Short Film Collection


The films:

FRAGMENTS OF SEEKING (1946, 16 mins.)  Harrington plays a young man desperately seeking out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the surreal explorations of his own sexuality.  Made a year before Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS, the films contain some similarities in their treatment of homoerotic themes, though Fragment is more restrained and subtle.

 

PICNIC (1948, 22 mins.)  Beginning in the reality of American middle-class life, PICNIC portrays the idealistic dream-quest of the protagonist, from which he is finally cast off.  Harrington himself described the film thus: "a satirical comment on middle-class life frames a dream-like continuity in which the protagonist pursues an illusory object of desire."

 

ON THE EDGE (1949, 6 mins.)  In this fragile, yet frightening poetic fantasy, set against a dark industrial landscape, Harrington casts his own mother and father in the lead roles.

 

THE ASSIGNATION (1953, 8 mins.)  Long considered lost, this was Harrington's first color film. It was shot in Venice, Italy, and not unlike FRAGMENTS OF SEEKING, follows a masked figure through the labyrinthine canals of the city, building to a spectacular climax.

 

THE WORMWOOD STAR (1955, 10 mins.)  A film study of the artwork of famed painter, occultist and Alistair Crowley-enthusiast Majorie Cameron.  Cameron went on to star in Harrington's feature-length NIGHT TIDE.  It is by far one of his most visually arresting works.

 

USHER (2002, 38 mins.)  Harrington's final film before he died in 2007, Usher is a remake of a short he made in high school based on the classic Edgar Allan Poe story "The Fall of the House of Usher."  He once again expresses his interest in the occult by casting known members of the Church of Satan, Nikolas and Zeena Schreck.

 

Also included are four rare bonus features

THE FOUR ELEMENTS (1966) is a poetic and avant-garde documentary Harrington made for the United States Information Agency;  
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1942) is the original film-made by Harrington when was in high school-from which Usher is based;  
A short interview shot by filmmakers Tyler Hubby and Jeffrey Schwarz, who are responsible for the documentary HOUSE OF HARRINGTON (2009); 
And a 2003 interview with Harrington made courtesy of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. 
 
An enclosed booklet contains notes on the films' restorations by Academy Film Archive preservationist Mark Toscano and an essay by Lisa Janssen.
 
Running Time: 124 minutes.
 

Deluxe Combo Blu-ray/DVD Edition

            

Blu-ray Disc - Region A. 


 DVD-NTSC - Region 0 /
No Regional Code.


Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.

 

  

 

 

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For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit:  www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

 

For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact:  sales@gartenbergmedia.com

 

Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656

 

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PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback.

 

These DVD and Blu-ray editions are currently being made available to

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America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public

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DVD Distribution - Upcoming Fall Releases

DVD Distribution - Upcoming Fall Releases
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GME DVD Distribution - Upcoming Fall Releases

 

 

Gartenberg Media is pleased to announce our current slate of DVD releases for the fall academic season, now available for order. Carefully selected from boutique publishers, these DVDs represent works extending from classic silent films of the 1910's and 1920's through to cutting edge narratives and avant-garde films of the 1960's and 1970's.

 

Silent film director Albert Capellani has been a popular rediscovery of the Cinema Ritrovato festival over recent seasons. We are pleased to highlight a new publication of the Belgian Cinematek entitled To Dazzle the Eye and Stir the Heart - The Red Lantern, Nazimova and the Boxer Rebellion, featuring THE RED LANTERN (1919), starring Alla Nazimova, and accompanied by a comprehensive book of essays about the filmmaker, star, and period.

 

Also from the silent era, we are proud to feature a multi-disc set (published by Flicker Alley) entitled FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929, comprising five iconic films made by Albatros Productions, including films directed by Jacques Feyder Marcel L'Herbier, and Ivan Mosjoukine. Mosjoukine was also the featured actor in many of these Albatros films. This comprehensive DVD publication compliments, for teaching purposes, our previous release of Flicker Alley's multi-disk volume, LANDMARKS OF EARLY SOVIET FILM.

 

In recent years, GME has made a concerted effort to integrate key documentary films into our offerings for the academic market.  Also from the Cinematek, we offer the rarely-seen five-part SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE (PEASANT SYMPHONY), which Belgian filmmaker Henri Storck made between 1942 and 1944, at the height of the Second World War. GME's previous offerings of Storck's works comprise separate Blu-ray/DVD Combo Editions of his films entitled IMAGES D'OSTENDE and MISERE AU BORINAGE.

 

From Edition Filmmuseum, Munich, GME offers, for the first time, two distinct publications of key film works by Werner Schroeter, the hugely influential German avant-garde film, theater, and opera director: EIKA KATAPPA & DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN, two melodramas about love and death, and DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI, two historic dramas set during WWII and in the immediately postwar era.

 

Finally, also from Flicker Alley, GME features THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION, a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Edition comprising experimental shorts made by Los Angeles based filmmaker Curtis Harrington during the flowering of the American avant-garde in the immediately post WWII era, together with USHER (2002), his modern interpretation of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story. 

 

For a complete list of DVD and Blu-ray publications from our entire library of distribution titles, as a printable PDF, click here. Please note that all of these titles are currently available for order processing.

 

BOMBERPILOTCURTIS HARRINGTON COLLECTIONEIKA KATAPPAFRENCH MASTERWORKSTHE RED LANTERNSYMPHONIE PAYSANNE


 Werner Schroeter

 Curtis Harrington

 

 Werner Schroeter

 

 Ivan Mosjoukine, Alexandre Volkoff, Marcel L'Herbier & Jacques Feyder

 

 Albert Capellani

 

 Henri Storck

 
These DVDs are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

 

Please Note:

Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.  

PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback.

 

Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656

 

For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact: sales@gartenbergmedia.com

 

For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit: www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

 


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GME DVD Distribution - Academic Year Recap

DVD Distribution - Academic Recap
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GME DVD Distribution - Academic Recap

 

As the summer holiday ends, and this new academic season gets underway, GME is pleased to provide a recap of the DVDs that we've offered over the past year for North American institutional sales. These DVDs represent works spanning the entire course of film history, from early cinema through to the contemporary avant-garde, from Asta Nielsen to James Benning. Collectively, these filmmakers' works are represented in high quality DVD and Blu-ray editions from international publishers that GME has carefully searched worldwide to represent.

 

For a complete list of DVD and Blu-ray publications from our entire library of distribution titles, as a printable PDF, click here. Please note that all of these titles are currently available for order processing.

 

Please watch for the forthcoming announcement of our new list of titles that will be available for pre-order this fall. In the meantime, use any of the links below to follow us using Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, as well as the GME website news blog and Constant Contact:

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Recap of Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 Academic Year Releases
 

 

LOVES OF PHARAOHCASTING A GLANCE / RRTHIS IS CINERAMA Blu-ray/DVD Combo WINDJAMMER Blu-ray/DVD Combo FOUR FILMS WITH ASTA NIELSENTHE LATE MATHIAS PASCALIS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR?CALIFORNIA TRILOGYIMAGES D'OSTENDESTORCK-MISERE AU BORINAGEMANDALA FILMSBOUQUET D'IMAGESNANOOK OF THE NORTHMOST DANGEROUS GAMEATTRACTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS & OTHER ROMANCES
 
These DVDs are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

 

Please Note:

Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.  

PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback.

 

Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656

 

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GME Announces PETER TSCHERKASSKY - ATTRACTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS & OTHER ROMANCES - Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

GME Announces PETER TSCHERKASSKY - ATTRACTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS & OTHER ROMANCES - Available on DVD for Institutional Sales
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Gartenberg Media Announces

  

PETER TSCHERKASSKY -
ATTRACTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS AND OTHER ROMANCES 

 

Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

 

Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of the latest publication from INDEX DVD, PETER TSCHERKASSKY - ATTRACTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS AND OTHER ROMANCE, now available on PAL DVD for institutional sales in North America.  This new DVD compiles eight short films by Peter Tscherkassky, including the breathtaking, found-footage masterwork PARALLEL SPACE: INTER-VIEW (1992), as well as INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE (2005), and COMING ATTRACTIONS (2010).  Film critic Christoph Huber, whose essay accompanies this DVD publication, writes that "the persuasive power of the work stems from its conceptual clarity.  Tscherkassky fathoms cinema's potential as an intellectual machinery of associations and as a palpable experiential space in a manner that is exhilarating and expansive."  Together with the INDEX DVD publication PETER TSCHERKASSKY - FILMS FROM A DARK ROOM, this new release offers an exhilarating excursion into the radical cinema of Peter Tscherkassky.

 

ATTRACTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS & OTHER ROMANCES  FILMS FROM A DARK ROOM

  

Peter Tscherkassky (b. 1958) is internationally renowned as one of the most significant artists working in the field of avant-garde cinema.  His first encounter with avant-garde film was in 1978, when he attended a lecture series by P. Adams Sitney at the Vienna Filmmuseum. He began making films in 1979, and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1986 with his dissertation, "Film As Art".  His films and installations have been exhibited at major museums and festivals worldwide, including Cannes, the Louvre, Oberhausen, and Venice. Tscherkassky is also widely respected as a curator, professor, and author of critical essays and books on the art of cinema.  In 1990, he co-founded sixpackfilms, the Vienna-based organization that publishes the INDEX DVD line.

 

Film scholar Tom Gunning has written of Peter Tscherkassky, that "while

engaged in a process of deconstruction, [he] also recognizes the power of cinema, utilizing its control over space and time, in order to uncover the energies of motion and story, of the violence inherent in both revolt and containment. As the materials of the moving image now undergo transformation, as the very term film perhaps become anachro-nistic, his films make clear that a radical cinema does not simply fetishize the material that filmmakers work with, but rather interrogates those materials and forms for the energies they contain and the meanings they can liberate, through the labor and processes which the maker and the viewer participate in. The future is still arriving, even as the past is constantly being restaged and reinvented within the dark rooms of motion pictures." 

 

  

  

Parallel Space: Inter-View (1992)
Erotique (1982)

Happy-End (1996)
Shot - Countershot (1987)
Nachtstück (Mozart Minute 09) (2006)
Coming Attractions (2010)
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005)
Bonustrack: Ballett 16 (1984) 

            

DVD-PAL - Region 0 / 
No Regional Code.


Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.

  
 
 

also available from GME

  

Films From A Dark Room

 

L'Arrivée (1997/98)
Outer Space (1999)

Dream Work (2002)
Manufraktur (1985)
Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de l´Usine Lumière à Lyon) (1984)
Get Ready (1999)
BonustrackMiniaturen - Viele Berliner Künstler in Hoisdorf (1983) 

            

DVD-PAL - Region 0 / 
No Regional Code.


Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.

 

  

 

 

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For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit:  www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

 

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PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback.

 

These DVD and Blu-ray editions are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights.   Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.
 

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Recent NYC Screenings of Interest - Valie Export's INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES at the New Museum & Anthology Celebrates Sixpack Films with BREAKING GROUND: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema

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BREAKING GROUND

Sixpack Films Are Available on INDEX DVD

For Institutional Sales in North America

Exclusively from Gartenberg Media

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These DVDs are available on an exclusive basis for sale to educational organizations in North America (universities, libraries, & other cultural institutions), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

For more information on the these titles visit here.

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Ernst Lubitsch's Silent Epic THE LOVES OF PHARAOH Digitally Restored and Available Now on DVD & Blu-ray For Institutional Sales Exclusively From GME

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THE LOVES OF PHARAOH / DAS WEIB DES PHARAO

Ernst Lubitsch (1922) 

Available Formats:

2-Disc DVD NTSC / Region 0 (No Region Code.)

Playback requires an NTSC or Multi-format DVD player

   Institutional Sale Price: $300.00 plus shipping & handling.

or

Blu-ray Disc / Region Free (No Region Code.)

Playback requires any Blu-ray player.  

Institutional Sale Price: $300.00 plus shipping & handling.

These DVDs are available on an exclusive basis for sale to educational organizations in North America (universities, libraries, & other cultural institutions), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

For more information on the these titles visit here.

For information on ordering by fax, email or post visit here.

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Erich von Stroheim's BLIND HUSBANDS at Film Forum and Other Recent Screenings of Interest Around NYC

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The Color of Nothingness,

      a presentation by Tom Gunning &

THE PEARL (LE PERLE)  •  Henri d'Ursel

May 5 - 2:00 PM

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MISS MEND  •  Feodor Ozep, Boris Barnet       

    April 28 - 2:30 PM

MISS MEND  •  Feodor Ozep, Boris Barnet

    April 26 - 4:00 PM

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    George Méliès  •  A TRIP TO THE MOON 

    & Other Travels Presented by Serge Bromberg

    April 9 -  7:00 PM

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        Michael Pilz  •  HEAVEN AND EARTH

        March 18 - 2:30 PM 

        Michael Pilz  •  HEAVEN AND EARTH

        March 17 - 6:00 PM 

        Michael Pilz  •  FACTS FOR FICTION

        March 17 - 2:15 PM 

Each Film is Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

in North America Exclusively from Gartenberg Media

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These DVDs are available on an exclusive basis for sale to educational organizations in North America (universities, libraries, & other cultural institutions), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

For more information on the these titles visit here.

For information on ordering by fax, email or post visit here.

To order by phone please call: 212.280.8654