Gartenberg Media - 2020 New Year's Greetings
/Charlie Chaplin and Marie Dressler in TILLIE’S PUNCTURED ROMANCE (1914) join the Gartenberg Media team in wishing you a SAFE, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR (2020)!
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Charlie Chaplin and Marie Dressler in TILLIE’S PUNCTURED ROMANCE (1914) join the Gartenberg Media team in wishing you a SAFE, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR (2020)!
Read MoreFilms by Georges Méliès and Marie Menken featured in GME’s distribution program are being screened as part of Anthology Film Archive’s Essential Cinema Repertory series to kick off their new year of programming.
Read MoreWith the fall academic semester nearing completion, Gartenberg Media Enterprises has offered a new slate of DVD and Blu-ray publications for distribution to the North American academic community. These digital editions are selected from film archives and boutique publishers worldwide, and represent the entire breadth and depth of moving image history. This current roster of releases encompass trick films by George Méliès from the 1890s through to contemporary experimental filmmakers working in both France and the United States.
Read MoreAward winning Austrian filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky’s OUTER SPACE (1999) re-edited by former Sonic Youth member Lee Ranaldo for the first official music video release from his forthcoming album with Raül Refree, “Names of North End Women” on Mute Records.
Read MoreThis long-overdue retrospective surveys the career of Holly Fisher, a filmmaker who since the late 1960s has been as prolific, as free in her exploration of different cinematic forms, and as adventurous in her embrace of new technological tools and ways of seeing as any of her peers, but without enjoying the degree of attention and acclaim that her work richly deserves.
Read MoreThe Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection has been reinstalled in radical fashion, opening up the narrative of modern art to incorporate film alongside the other fine arts, among them painting, drawing, and photography. GME distributes many of these canonical works in DVD exclusively to universities in North America, in order to further their appreciation and incorporation into teaching curricula.
Read MoreFilmmakers Nicolás Pereda and Pedro Neves Marques will attend the Q&A both nights with their short feature MY SKIN, LUMINOUS (2019, 39 minutes), a shape-shifting docufiction that weaves its real-life subject into a subtly unfolding drama, and which speaks to the wider ongoing reforms to Mexico’s public school system.
Read MoreGME is pleased to present for the fall academic semester an ever-expanding roster of DVD and Blu-ray editions of moving image works from the entire breadth and depth of moving image history. These works encompass trick films by George Méliès from the 1890s through to contemporary experimental filmmakers working in both France and the United States.
Read MoreEven before women had the right to vote, Blaché, in her actions and in her films, expressed female drives, desires and self-determination. In 1911, The Moving Picture News wrote that Alice Guy Blaché, the first female filmmaker in history, was a “fine example of what a woman can do if given a square chance in life.”
Read MoreThis rapturously beautiful 2005 feature by Hou Hsiao-hsien is a triumph about the melancholy play of time and memory. The action is broken into three different love stories, each set in a different era—a 1966 pool hall, a prosperous 1911 brothel, and contemporary Taipei—but starring the same leads, the impossibly glamorous Shu Qi and Chang Chen.
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