A Day of Silents: CHICAGO and CHILDREN OF DIVORCE at San Francisco Silent Film Festival

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A Day of Silents: CHICAGO and CHILDREN OF DIVORCE at San Francisco Silent Film Festival

On Sunday, February 2nd, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival screened Frank Urson and Cecil B. DeMille’s CHICAGO (1927) and Frank Lloyd and Josef von Sternberg’s CHILDREN OF DIVORCE (1927) at the San Francisco Jazz Center, as part of their celebration A Day of Silents. GME distributes CHICAGO on DVD and CHILDREN OF DIVORCE as a Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack to North American universities, in conjunction with Flicker Alley.

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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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Hou Hsiao-Hsien's THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI Screens at New York's Asia Society and Museum on January 8th

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Hou Hsiao-Hsien's THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI Screens at New York's Asia Society and Museum on January 8th

Tonight, January 8th, at 6:30pm, an imported 35mm print of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI (1983) will screen at New York’s Asia Society and Museum as part of Films To See Before You Die, an ongoing monthly series featuring “classic films and underseen gems from across Asia and the Asian diaspora with extended introductions by Asia Society's Curator of Film.” GME distributes THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI in the collection HOU HSIAO-HSIEN: EARLY WORKS, which also features the filmmaker’s earlier features CUTE GIRL (1980) and THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME (1982). The collection is available to North American academic institutions as a DVD published by Cinematek, which includes three audiovisual essays by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López as bonus features, and is accompanied by a multi-lingual booklet by Tom Paulus.

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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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LGBTQ+ Films and Filmmakers

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LGBTQ+ Films and Filmmakers

Beginning in the 1980s, Queer Studies became popular in academic curricula and has resulted, over the ensuing decades, in a body of literature about films and filmmakers viewed through this lens. In honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, GME highlights an array of moving image works that we distribute (both classic and contemporary) by LGBTQ+ artists and/or about topics and themes relevant to the LGBTQ+ community. These works are available to academic institutions in North America, and are distributed in collaboration withIndex Edition, Re:Voir Video, Flicker Alley, MētisPresses, Kino Lorber, and Edition Filmmuseum.

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Revisiting Ken Jacobs' CYCLOPEAN 3D for Home Movie Day

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Revisiting Ken Jacobs' CYCLOPEAN 3D for Home Movie Day

For last year’s Home Movie Day, GME highlighted Hollywood icon Rock Hudson, who appears in Mark Rappaport’s found footage video essay ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES. This year, we turn our attention to an avant-garde icon, Ken Jacobs, whose experimental “home movie” CYCLOPEAN 3D: LIFE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN was produced by GME through the Experimental Filmmakers Production Fund. GME President Jon Gartenberg presented CYCLOPEAN 3D the International Film Festival of Rotterdam in 2012, where he dubbed the film Jacobs’ “most directly autobiographical work to date.”

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ZANZIBAR Film Collective

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ZANZIBAR Film Collective

During the volatile late 1960s in Paris, the filmmaking collective known as Zanzibar began creating outsider movies, many of which are now lost or neglected. Though all members were cinephiles, they had only modest filmmaking experience. Still, the Zanzibar films are infused with the countercultural energy and restlessness of the times, thanks to the group’s refreshing lack of experience and regard for cinematic convention. GME distributes a number of films that emerged from the Zanzibar collective on DSL and DVD to the North American institutional market. These films have continued relevance among cinephiles today; notably, Metrograph mounted the series One More Time: The Cinema of Daniel Pommereulle last month, which featured a number of Zanzibar titles that we also distribute.

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