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Fearlessly innovative and playfully prophetic, Nam June Paik comes to life in Amanda Kim’s feature debut through a skillful assembly of interviews and archival footage that portrays the father of video art both in his time and through his far-reaching legacy.
Read MoreGME provided clips from Jonas Mekas’ ZEFIRO TORNA (1992), LOST LOST LOST (1976), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1992), and RE: MACIUNAS AND FLUXUS (2011), as well as from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), for this documentary feature by Amanda Kim on the father of video art, that is having its World Premiere January 22nd at the Sundance Film Festival.
Read MoreHugh Bell’s iconic photograph Hot Jazz (1952) was exhibited in Edward Steichen’s groundbreaking exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, The Family of Man, in 1955. Now, for the first time since then, this photograph is currently installed in MoMA”s Gallery 402, which is dedicated to the theme In and Around Harlem.
Read MoreGME is happy to announce Criterion's DVD and Blu-ray release of Todd Haynes celebrated documentary THE VELVET UNDERGOUND, for which we have provided both numerous clip licenses (for the documentary) and additional films included in the Blu-ray bonus features. These extras include the complete Jonas Mekas film AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964, 9 min) and a 7 minute excerpt from Mekas' landmark 1969 diary film collection WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES.
Read MoreDESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY will screen at the 2022 Hamptons Doc Fest on Saturday, December 3rd at 4pm ET followed by a Q&A with Director Nancy Buirski and Producer Susan Margolin.
Read MoreFRAGMENTS OF PARADISE is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss, a story of a man who was also the most significant force behind the evolution and promotion of the American Avant-Garde film movement, and who tried to make sense of it all…with a camera. GME licensed numerous clips of Mekas filming with his camera from Gideon Bachmann's UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), a rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixties, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever.
Read MoreNow in theaters, director Phyllis Nagy’s CALL JANE, stars Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, and Kate Mara, in a drama about a 1960s housewife (Banks) who joins the Jane Collective to fight for women's rights as she struggles to cope with her need for an abortion during a time of limited social or political support.
Read MoreThis brief, bouncy Gartenberg Media Clip Licensing Sampler, includes scenes from experimental and independent films that GME makes available for clip licensing purposes to film and television productions worldwide. The clips that we license comprise riveting and dynamic imagery of notable scenesters and their lifestyles, featuring Andy Warhol, Jackie Kennedy and extended family, John & Yoko, Miles Davis (shooting hoops with Lennon at a celebrity gathering in Riverdale), Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga (all performing with the Velvet Underground), Alan Ginsburg, Michelangelo Antonioni (visiting Shirley Clarke and Jonas Mekas at the Film-Makers' Cooperative) and a score of other key figures from the artistic and cultural worlds. GME’s library of clip licensing footage also features unique street scenes of New York City from the 1940’s onward (with a particular focus on the 1960’s), that have been utilized as B-roll footage by various production companies.
Read MoreThis photo for the cover of The Shangri-Las debut album from 1965 is one of many commercial photos by Hugh Bell, whose photographs appeared on dozens of album covers throughout the period. They primarily featured jazz artists, including Sarah Vaughn, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Cannonball Adderly, Houston Person, Bill Hardman, Larry Coryell, and the Nat Dixon Quartet. Director Nagy included this cover in her upcoming Roadside Attractions release CALL JANE, starring Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, and Kate Mara, about a 1960s housewife (Banks) who joins the Jane Collective to fight for women's rights as she struggles to cope with her need for an abortion during a time of limited social or political support.
Read MoreJean Genet ’s 1959 play, THE BLACKS, uses the framework of a play within a play, to expose racial prejudice and stereotypes while exploring black identity. It was the longest-running Off-Broadway non-musical of the 60s and was photographed by Hugh Bell.
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