Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE and Other Works Featured in Recent Exhibitions in NYC & London

AMPHETAMINE, along with other films by Warren Sonbert, was recently featured in two presentations - one in New York and one in London - each focusing on the works of queer and underground filmmakers. 

04/25/2012  •NEW YORK•DIRTY LOOKS

Dirty Looks is a Monthly Platform for

    Queer Experimental Film and Video

    Bradford Nordeen's April program featured works by

    "two key figures in queer and underground film" 

    Warren Sonbert and Tom Chomont.

    The program included Warren Sonbert's 

AMPHETAMINE (1966, with Wendy Appel),

DIVIDED LOYALTIES (1975-78) and 

HONOR AND OBEY (1987).

04/14/2012  •LONDON•  THE LITTLE JOE CLUBHOUSE

    The Little Joe Clubhouse is a unique  

temporary film space from the creators of 

    a magazine about queers and cinema, mostly.

    In a special program, as part of this year's

    AMPHETAMINE (1966), was presented by Stuart Comer,

    Film Curator at London's Tate Modern.

Erich von Stroheim's BLIND HUSBANDS at Film Forum and Other Recent Screenings of Interest Around NYC

The Color of Nothingness,

      a presentation by Tom Gunning &

THE PEARL (LE PERLE)  •  Henri d'Ursel

May 5 - 2:00 PM

MISS MEND  •  Feodor Ozep, Boris Barnet       

    April 28 - 2:30 PM

MISS MEND  •  Feodor Ozep, Boris Barnet

    April 26 - 4:00 PM

    George Méliès  •  A TRIP TO THE MOON 

    & Other Travels Presented by Serge Bromberg

    April 9 -  7:00 PM

        Michael Pilz  •  HEAVEN AND EARTH

        March 18 - 2:30 PM 

        Michael Pilz  •  HEAVEN AND EARTH

        March 17 - 6:00 PM 

        Michael Pilz  •  FACTS FOR FICTION

        March 17 - 2:15 PM 

Each Film is Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

in North America Exclusively from Gartenberg Media

These DVDs are available on an exclusive basis for sale to educational organizations in North America (universities, libraries, & other cultural institutions), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

For more information on the these titles visit here.

For information on ordering by fax, email or post visit here.

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Tribeca Film Festival Experimental-Film-Programmer Jon Gartenberg Presents 4 New Programs at TFF 2012

Jon Gartenberg, Experimental Film Programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented four new programs at TFF 2012, attracting high-profile filmmakers from Hollywood and the avant-garde alike.

Avant-Garde Masters: A Decade of Film Preservation

Consuming Spirits

Francophenia (or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is)

Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Landscapes

For his introduction to the Avant-Garde Masters program,

Jon Gartenberg read a special note from Martin Scorsese:

Throughout film history, artists have used film to expand the boundaries of cinema to create deeply personal works that evoke the full range of human experience and emotion. Unbound by narrative conventions, the Avant-Garde has inspired audiences and influenced mainstream filmmakers. For the past 10 years, the National Film Preservation Foundation and The Film Foundation have preserved more than 100 films through the Avant-Garde Masters Grants.  There's no other program of its kind, and I'm thrilled that the Tribeca Film Festival is recognizing the program and highlighting the work of such artists as George Kuchar, Carolee Schneeman, Larry Gottheim, Abigail Child, and Kenneth Anger that have been preserved and—equally important—made available so audiences can actually see these extraordinary works. - Martin Scorcese

Photo Credit: http://www.planetlucre.blogspot.com/

(l-r) Programmer of Experimental Films Jon Gartenberg, Artist Abigail Child, Filmmaker Larry Gottheim, Artist Carolee Schneemann and Assistant Director of the National Film Preservation Foundation Jeff Lambert speak at Tribeca Talks After The Movie: AVANT-GARDE MASTERS: A DECADE OF FILM PRESERVATION at the School of Visual Arts on April 21.

For the opening night of FRANCOPHRENIA, Jon Gartenberg conducted a Q&A with filmmaker Ian Olds, co-filmmaker and actor James Franco, and Paul Felton, the film's co-writer. Gartenberg pursued a line of questioning with James Franco about his interest in an array of experimental filmmakers (including Kurt Kren), and about Franco's commitment to experimenting with film form in his own work.

Photo Credit: Christine @ www.onlocationvacations.com/

(l-r) Programmer of Experimental Films Jon Gartenberg leads filmmaker Ian Olds, filmmaker & actor James Franco and writer Paul Felton in an on-stage Q&A following FRANCOPHENIA at the School of Visual Arts on April 22.  Below, Ian Olds & James Franco.

Photo Credit: Christine @ www.onlocationvacations.com/

    FRED Radio's Natasha Senjanovic talks with

    Jon Gartenberg about programming TFF 2012 

    and other projects on which he works.  

    The podcast is available here. 

IN THE STREET by James Agee, Helen Levitt and Janice Loeb Premieres on ARTE TV France

IN THE STREET (1952)

Photographed by James Agee, Helen Levitt & Janice Loeb.

Edited by Helen Levitt.

ARTE Televison France broadcast a rare presentation of IN THE STREET on May 28, 2012 as part of a series entitled “Black & White”, illuminating the diversity and aesthetics of classic films photographed in black-and-white. 

GME was pleased to successfully negotiate this deal with Arte on behalf of the estate of the photographer Helen Levitt.   GME was credited at the end of the film’s broadcast as follows: 

"Film provided courtesy of the Estate of Helen Levitt, Cecile Starr, and Gartenberg Media Enterprises."

Photo © The Estate of Helen Levitt.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

In 2006, IN THE STREET was selected by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and added to the United States National Film Registry preservation program:

"This lyrical, slice-of-life documentary (by Helen Levitt, James Agee and Janice Loeb) about East Harlem is one of several outstanding children’s documentaries (“The Quiet One” and “Louisiana Story,” among others) produced immediately after World War II. The filmmakers captured the energy-filled streets as part theater, part battleground and part playground. In their everyday lives and actions, people project an image of human existence against the turmoil of the street." - www.loc.gov

Jon Gartenberg and Jeff Capp Present Tassilo Adam Moving Image Adventures at Orphan Film Symposium 8

Tassilo Adam photograph © Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

Daniel Eagan on Smithsonian.com blogged:

"Jon Gartenberg showed excerpts from films shot by Tassilo Adam in the Dutch East Indies in the 1920s. Although preserved digitally, the material had the lustrous sheen of the nitrate on which it was originally filmed. Adam filmed with the cooperation of authorities, who staged processions and gatherings for his camera. Nevertheless, his footage shows a considerably more sophisticated vision of Bali than other films of the period."

For the full Reel Culture blog posting, read here. 

GME Attends SCMS Conference in Boston, March 21-25 & Announces Pre-Orders on Upcoming Spring Releases For Institutional Sales on DVD and Blu-ray

Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to be attending SCMS 2012, as an exhibitor. This year's Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference will take place at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, from March 21-25. We will be displaying an array of our premiere DVD & Blu-ray publications, including films by George Méliès (brought back to international attention by the recent release of Martin Scorsese's HUGO), Dziga Vertov, Carl Th. Dreyer, Germaine Dulac, James Benning, and many others.

In a series of forthcoming releases for the spring, GME is proud to add new DVD publications (all now available for pre-orders) of classic, silent, experimental and avant-garde film & video, including: George Méliès' famous A TRIP TO THE MOON, in its original, hand-painted color version of 1902 (2011 Winner of the National Society of Film Critics "Best Film Restoration" Award), together with THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE, a seminal documentary about Méliès and the rescue of his films from oblivion; a spectacular restoration of Ernst Lubitsch's last German feature, THE LOVES OF PHARAOH (1922); the second volume of James Benning films, pairing CASTING A GLANCE and RR; the latest volume of Collection Zanzibar, Serge Bard's FUN AND GAMES FOR EVERYONE; and DEPARTURES, works by West Coast experimental filmmaker Gunvor Nelson.

These DVDs are available on an exclusive basis for sale to educational organizations in North America (universities, libraries, & other cultural institutions), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

For more information on the these titles visit here.

For information on ordering by fax, email or post visit here.

To order by phone please call: 212.280.8654

GME Representatives Jon Gartenberg and David Deitch at Exhibitors Booth.

From Edition Filmmuseum - 3 Silent German Classics Restored by the Munich Filmmuseum Now on DVD & Available for North American Institutional Sales

VON MORGENS BIS MITTERNACHTS

  (FROM MORN TO MIDNIGHT)

   Karlheinz Martin  (1921)

   Format: DVD PAL / Region 0, No Regional Code.   

   Institutional Sale Price: $200.00 plus shipping & handling.

   NATHAN DER WEISE

    Manfred Noa  (1922)

    Format: DVD PAL / Region 0, No Regional Code.   

    Institutional Sale Price: $200.00 plus shipping & handling.

  NERVEN

   Robert Reinert  (1919)

   Format: DVD PAL / Region 0, No Regional Code.   

   Institutional Sale Price: $200.00 plus shipping & handling.

These DVDs are available on an exclusive basis for sale to educational organizations in North America (universities, libraries, & other cultural institutions), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

For more information on the these titles visit here.

For information on ordering by fax, email or post visit here.

To order by phone please call: 212.280.8654

CYCLOPEAN 3D: LIFE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN GME Presents Ken Jacobs' Latest Stereoscopic Feature - Opening Sequence Screened in Rotterdam @ IFFR 2012

Download CYCLOPEAN 3D IFFR 2012 PDF

VAL DEL OMAR. ELEMENTAL DE ESPAÑA 5-DVD Set Now Available For North American Institutional Sales

VAL DEL OMAR. ELEMENTAL DE ESPAÑA

Limited Edition  -  5-Disc Set

   Format: DVD PAL / Region 0, No Regional Code.

    Institutional Sale Price: $400.00 plus shipping & handling.

The 5-Disc set presents 14 works by José Val del Omar

ESTAMPAS [SCENES] (1932),

FIESTAS CRISTIANAS/FIESTA PROFANES [CHRISTIAN FEASTS/SECULAR FEASTS] (1934-35),

VIBRACIÓN DE GRANADA[VIBRATION OF GRANADA] (1935),

PELICULA FAMILIAR [HOME MOVIE] (1935-38),

TRIPTICO ELEMENTAL DE ESPAÑA [ELEMENTARY TRIPTYCH OF SPAIN]:

ACARIÑO GALAICO (DE BARRO) [GALICIAN CARESS (OF CLAY)] (1961, 1981-82, 1995);

FUEGO EN CASTILLA [FIRE IN CASTILE] (1958-60);

AGUAESPEJO GRANADINO [WATER-MIRROR OF GRANADA] (1953-55),

and inspired by him

VAL DEL OMAR SUR - NORTE (1974) Mario Sáenz de Buruaga,

OJALA VAL DEL OMAR (1994) Cristina Esteban,

VÉRTICE VÓRTICE (2002) Antonella La Sala,

LABORATORIO VAL DEL OMAR(2009-10) Javier Viver,

VAL DEL OMAR FUERA DE SUS CASILLAS (2010) Velasco Broca,

TIRA TU RELOJ AL AGUA (THROW YOUR WATCH TO THE WATER) (2003-04) Eugeni Bonet.

For more information about José Val del Omar please visit:

http://www.valdelomar.com/

These DVDs are available on an exclusive basis for sale to educational organizations in North America (universities, libraries, & other cultural institutions), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

For more information on the these titles visit here.

For information on ordering by fax, email or post visit here.

To order by phone please call: 212.280.8654

GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES ANNOUNCES EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATION OF THE RAIMONDO BOREA PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION

Photograph © Esmond Edwards.  Used by permission.

Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce exclusive representation of the work of photographer Raimondo Borea (b. 1926 - d. 1982).  Over a 40-year career of active photography, Borea amassed an impressive body of photographs that are virtually unknown today.  And yet, his creative output permeated all areas of fine art photography, television, music, book publishing, and advertising.  

Raimondo Borea was born in Rome in 1926.   By the early 1950’s, he was already photographing candid portraits of orphaned and homeless war children housed in the  Boys’ Towns of Italy.  Borea emigrated to the United States in 1953.  He settled in New York City, where he joined the Village Camera Club and The Circle of Confusion.   Frequent meetings held by both these informal groups, attended by fellow photographers with a passion for the Leica camera, led Borea to develop his own highly personal form of creative expression.

About his photographic method, Borea wrote:

Photography enables me to discover, observe [and] understand things about people and their relationships, and it allows me to captureand hold them forever… It is by photographs, rather than by talkingabout experiences, that I communicate.

Photography is an expression of your individuality.  You start withcolor or black and white.  Then having chosen your film, the camera,the lens, the developer, the paper for the final print, you can create analmost infinite number of ways to make a photograph.

I enjoy being in my darkroom.  There is something in the still darknessthat brings out your best creative thinking.  You relive your past photography and plan your future… You experience a very specialsensation holding the end product…the picture you have printed yourself.

Building on his career as a young photographer in Italy, Borea began working full time in 1957 as a freelance photographer, travelling around New York City on his three-speed Dunelt bicycle.  He shot photographic essays of now-demolished New York City landmarks, including the Washington Market and the Third Avenue El.  He also photographed many other cityscapes, including Central Park, Riverside Park, and the New York City subway system.  In his picture-making, he often transformed these locales into studies of abstraction.  Borea also produced photographic essays from his travels around the US and abroad.

Borea was afforded exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Firing Line, The Today Show, and The Tonight Show, where he captured candid portraits of the show’s hosts, including William F. Buckley, Jr., Johnny Carson, Hugh Downs, Dave Garroway, David Letterman, and Jack Paar.  Among the guests that Borea photographed were Fred Astaire, James Baldwin, Salvador Dali, Bette Davis, Farrah Fawcett, Betty Friedan, Benny Goodman, Steve Martin, Ethel Merman, Robert Mitchum, Ayn Rand, Eleanor Roosevelt, Twiggy, Gore Vidal, and Tom Wolfe.   Several telecasts of Borea’s photographs were also presented on The Today Show, narrated by Hugh Downs.

Over the course of his career, Borea was an active member in numerous photographic associations.  In addition to the Village Camera Club and The Circle of Confusion, he was also a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP) and the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP), where he served as President  from 1974 to 1975.  He developed both close personal and professional relationships with well-known photographers, including André Kertész, Ruth Orkin, Esmond Edwards, Barbara Morgan, and John Albok.  A number of vintage, signed photographs by and/or of these artists are also part of the Raimondo Borea Photography Collection.

Borea’s photographs were published in numerous magazines (Boys’ Life, Ladies’ Home Journal,National Review, Pageant, and Popular Photography), in books (Bunnies in School [Scholastic]), First thing in the Morning [Cowles], Seymour, A Gibbon [Atheneum], and Who needs parks? [Rapoport Printing Corp.]), and on album covers (Hang on Ramsey ! The Ramsey Lewis Trio (Cadet) and Johnny Carson’s Introduction to New York and The World’s Fair [Columbia.]).  Borea also used his expertise in the darkroom to print photographs from the original glass negatives by Alice Austen, one of the first female photographers in America to work outside of the confines of a studio setting.  This eventually led to the publication of a book of her photographs, entitled Alice’s World.

Borea’s photographs have been exhibited in New York City at the Gallery of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, and the Art Directors Club.  Selected photographs are held in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Libraries’ Collection, the ASPP archives, Associated Press, the University of Maryland, and SUNY/Albany.

GME is committed to resurrecting the career of this overlooked photographer, through licensing of his photographs, republishing his out-of-print books, mounting curated exhibitions, and in identifying a long-term repository for this significant collection of photographic works.

For further inquires or information, please contact

David Deitch, Fine Arts Curator at: 

david@gartenbergmedia.com

All photographs © The Estate of Raimondo Borea, except where noted.