GME Presents Urban America, Rural America: The Films of Dominic Angerame and J.L. Anderson

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GME Presents Urban America, Rural America: The Films of Dominic Angerame and J.L. Anderson

Adding to our roster of city symphony films and filmmakers (MANHATTA; BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY; LISBOA, CRÓNICA ANEDÓTICA; and THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA), we are pleased to present Dominic Angerame’s CITYSCAPES, an amalgam of his short films dating from 1982 to 2010. Mostly shot in San Francisco, these experimental works show urban deconstruction and cinematic construction as two sides of the same coin, as deconstruction even -- in which individual films are often replete with layered, multiple exposures and dynamic editing. In contrast, independent filmmaker Joseph Anderson’s little-known SPRING NIGHT SUMMER NIGHT (1967), is slow paced and spare, a rural family-centered drama shot in black-and-white.

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GME Presents 2 Austrian Avant-Garde Filmmakers: Alfred Kaiser and Virgil Widrich

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GME Presents 2 Austrian Avant-Garde Filmmakers: Alfred Kaiser and Virgil Widrich

The found footage works of Austrian filmmakers Alfred Kaiser (1940 – 1994) from the 1970s (DECOMPOSING NAZI PHRASEOLOGY) and the later films of Virgil Widrich (VIRGIL WIDRICH – SHORT FILMS [1998-2019]) are lesser known than those of Gustav Deutsch and Peter Tscherkassky, but are equally significant in their own right. Kaiser’s films illustrate and demolish the world of Nazi thought and imagery, while Widrich’s films explore time and space, especially the illusion of 3-dimensionality in cinema.

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GME Presents Films by Philippe Garrel

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GME Presents Films by Philippe Garrel

GME is pleased to add two new DVD editions of films by Philippe Garrel –- LA CICATRICE INTÉRIEURE (1972) and L’ENFANT SECRET (1979) -- to four other digital publications of this auteurist’s films that we previously have presented for academic study and research. Garrel began making movies at age sixteen, fired by a mythopoetic vision and a political fervor that crested and crashed in May ’68, whose turmoil he filmed in the long-lost, newly discovered ACTUA 1 (1968) and decades later re-created from memory in LES AMANTS REGULIERS (2005).

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GME Presents the Films of Marcel Hanoun

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GME Presents the Films of Marcel Hanoun

Marcel Hanoun is one of the underappreciated directors of World Cinema stature. Since his death in 2012, his body of work remains generally unknown. His unique and varied cinematic career lives at the margins of modernist film, of the French New Wave, and even of experimental cinema.

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GME Presents the Films of Maurice Lemaître

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GME Presents the Films of Maurice Lemaître

“A major figure in the lettrist movement, Maurice Lemaître revolutionized cinema in 1951 with LE FILM EST DÉJÀ COMMENCÉ? (HAS THE FEATURE STARTED YET?) and invented a new form of performance: “Syncinema.” His many cinematic works, made between the 1960s and the present day, confirm his position as one of the most important avant-garde filmmakers of his generation." - Christian Lebrat

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GME Presents DVD and Blu-ray Releases for the Fall Academic Semester

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GME Presents DVD and Blu-ray Releases for the Fall Academic Semester

GME is pleased to present a robust selection (for the fall academic semester) of DVD and Blu-ray publications from the breadth and depth of a century of film history (the 1920’s to 2020).

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Filmmakers Represented by GME Screening at 58th New York Film Festival

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Filmmakers Represented by GME Screening at 58th New York Film Festival

This year’s NYFF is presenting work by Mexican-Canadian director Nicolás Pereda, German filmmaker Heinz Emigholz, Spanish filmmaker Laida Lertxundi, and Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Running in a concurrent program at Films at Lincoln Center is a revival of the German filmmaking team Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s 1999 tragicomedy Sicilia!

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GME GEM 17 - Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera

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GME GEM 17 - Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera

Gartenberg Media celebrates the excitement of cinema with “The greatest documentary ever made” (Sight & Sound), one of many thrilling HD disk offerings in our extensive distribution catalog of seminal cinematic experiences across the span of film history and aesthetics.

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