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Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s ARCHIPELAGO offers a contemplative and poetic travelogue along the St. Lawrence River. It expands into a semi-fictional odyssey through the filmmaker’s native province: Quebec, captured in surprising, creative animation using a wide range of techniques. It is an imaginary documentary — linguistic, political, real and dreamt.
Read MoreGME is pleased to present the complete INDEX Edition Collection from Austria, now available to our North American university colleagues as DVD/DSL bundles. The label INDEX Edition was founded in 2004 by sixpackfilm and Medienwerkstatt Wien. Its aim is to make available previously hard to find moving image works in digital editions. Similar to a small publishing house for quality literature, INDEX Edition releases and distributes audiovisual publications relevant to the history of Austrian (as well as Eastern European) film, video, and media art.
Read MoreGME Streamline is pleased to announce the availability of a new selection of experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as high quality digital files for streaming on university intranet servers, as well as on DVD and Blu-ray. Our most recent releases from the Re:voir Collection include the first four fiction feature films by Robert Kramer, as well as stylistically diverse films centered around three locales—New York, Brussels and Lithuania: Jackie Raynal’s HOTEL NEW YORK and NEW YORK STORY; the travel diaries 3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA, by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas, and Pola Chapelle (Adolfas’s wife); and a City Symphony by Belgian filmmaker Boris Lehman, MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE (1978). In addition to offering these new releases as Digital Site Licenses, they are available as well in high quality DVD and Blu-ray editions with accompanying booklets in English and French about the filmmakers and their films.
Read MoreGME would like to remind you of the recently made availability of a premiere selection of experimental and independent films from the Re:voir Collection, now available as digital files for streaming on university intranet servers. For more than 20 years, Gartenberg Media Enterprises has partnered with Re:voir in making available a diverse and fragile body of experimental and independent films, both classic and contemporary, that merits exposure to a wider audience.
Read MoreThrough GME Streamline this past season we have presented limited, free streams of select titles, including Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Peter Tscherkassky's OUTER SPACE, and Leopold Lindtberg's SWISS TOUR. We are currently streaming TATITUDE (2009, 4 Minutes), by Vivian Ostrovsky from her collection PLUNGE. These films are representative samples of the recently added Re:voir and Index Edition collections and single title releases now available through GME Streamline and GME DVD and Blu-ray distribution. Collectively, they constitute a wealth of cinematic history that we now make available as DVD/DSL bundle releases and direct HD digital file downloads.
Read MoreThrough GME Streamline this past season we have presented limited, free streams of select titles, including Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Peter Tscherkassky's OUTER SPACE, and Leopold Lindtberg's SWISS TOUR. We are currently streaming TATITUDE (2009, 4 Minutes), by Vivian Ostrovsky from her collection PLUNGE. These films are representative samples of the recently added Re:voir and Index Edition collections and single title releases now available through GME Streamline and GME DVD and Blu-ray distribution. Collectively, they constitute a wealth of cinematic history that we now make available as DVD/DSL bundle releases and direct HD digital file downloads.
Read MoreIn his article “Body Awareness”, in the New York Review of Books, on Austrian artist Maria Lassning, James Quant explores the artist’s extreme, unsparing paintings together with her autobiographical, feminist, dance and experimental films. GME recently added MARIA LASSNIG FILMS IN PROGRESS (US, 1970-1979), together with the bound publication MARIA LASSNIG. FILM WORK (AUSTRIA, 2020) to our collection Lassnig film work, together with the earlier MARIA LASSNIG: ANIMATION FILMS (Austria, 1970-1992), for distribution on DVD/DSL bundle to the North American institutional market.
Read MoreThe original soundtracks by Dirk Schaefer for the films of Peter Tscherkassky. Newly mastered and available for the first time, this box set covers the partnership of Schaefer and Tscherkassky, from 2005’s INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE to 2021’s TRAIN AGAIN. Each 12" double vinyl album comes with a 7" flexi disc of Tscherkassky’s own soundtrack for 1999’s OUTER SPACE.
Read MoreThai visionary Apichatpong Weerasethakul drifts through dream states in this Palme d’Or-winning jungle ghost story in which a dying man reconnects with the spirit of his dead wife as he journeys through his previous lives. Suffused with references to Thai mythology and the country’s classic cinema, this lushly surreal, profoundly mysterious work unfolds with the otherworldly aura of a trance. It is being presented as part of the program Danny Glover and Louverture Films, a Series Embodying the Work of an Actor, Activist, and a Groundbreaking Production Company on Dec. 3 and 4.
Read MoreWinner of numerous awards upon its release in 2006, Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER reflects on the enormity of the 9/11 attack on New York as Shaman Trail Scout 'Coyote' takes a journey which transcends time, from Inwood Park (where the island was traded for beads and booze), down a native trail (now 'Broadway'), into lower Manhattan (sacred burial ground, now including the newest natives of this island empire).
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