DVD Distribution - Upcoming Fall Releases

GME DVD Distribution - Upcoming Fall Releases Gartenberg Media is pleased to announce our current slate of DVD releases for the fall academic season, now available for order. Carefully selected from boutique publishers, these DVDs represent works extending from classic silent films of the 1910's and 1920's through to cutting edge narratives and avant-garde films of the 1960's and 1970's. Silent film director Albert Capellani has been a popular rediscovery of the Cinema Ritrovato festival over recent seasons. We are pleased to highlight a new publication of the Belgian Cinematek entitled To Dazzle the Eye and Stir the Heart - The Red Lantern, Nazimova and the Boxer Rebellion, featuring THE RED LANTERN (1919), starring Alla Nazimova, and accompanied by a comprehensive book of essays about the filmmaker, star, and period. Also from the silent era, we are proud to feature a multi-disc set (published by Flicker Alley) entitled FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929, comprising five iconic films made by Albatros Productions, including films directed by Jacques Feyder Marcel L'Herbier, and Ivan Mosjoukine. Mosjoukine was also the featured actor in many of these Albatros films. This comprehensive DVD publication compliments, for teaching purposes, our previous release of Flicker Alley's multi-disk volume, LANDMARKS OF EARLY SOVIET FILM. In recent years, GME has made a concerted effort to integrate key documentary films into our offerings for the academic market.  Also from the Cinematek, we offer the rarely-seen five-part SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE (PEASANT SYMPHONY), which Belgian filmmaker Henri Storck made between 1942 and 1944, at the height of the Second World War. GME's previous offerings of Storck's works comprise separate Blu-ray/DVD Combo Editions of his films entitled IMAGES D'OSTENDE and MISERE AU BORINAGE. From Edition Filmmuseum, Munich, GME offers, for the first time, two distinct publications of key film works by Werner Schroeter, the hugely influential German avant-garde film, theater, and opera director: EIKA KATAPPA & DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN, two melodramas about love and death, and DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI, two historic dramas set during WWII and in the immediately postwar era. Finally, also from Flicker Alley, GME features THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION, a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Edition comprising experimental shorts made by Los Angeles based filmmaker Curtis Harrington during the flowering of the American avant-garde in the immediately post WWII era, together with USHER (2002), his modern interpretation of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story.  For a complete list of DVD and Blu-ray publications from our entire library of distribution titles, as a printable PDF, click here. Please note that all of these titles are currently available for order processing.  DER BOMBERPILOT / NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI   Werner Schroeter  THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION   Curtis Harrington  EIKA KATAPPA / DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN   Werner Schroeter  FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929   Ivan Mosjoukine, Alexandre Volkoff, Marcel L'Herbier & Jacques Feyder  THE RED LANTERN   Albert Capellani  SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE   Henri Storck   These DVDs are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged. Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.   PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact: sales@gartenbergmedia.com For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit: www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

GME DVD Distribution - Academic Year Recap

GME DVD Distribution - Academic Recap As the summer holiday ends, and this new academic season gets underway, GME is pleased to provide a recap of the DVDs that we've offered over the past year for North American institutional sales. These DVDs represent works spanning the entire course of film history, from early cinema through to the contemporary avant-garde, from Asta Nielsen to James Benning. Collectively, these filmmakers' works are represented in high quality DVD and Blu-ray editions from international publishers that GME has carefully searched worldwide to represent. For a complete list of DVD and Blu-ray publications from our entire library of distribution titles, as a printable PDF, click here. Please note that all of these titles are currently available for order processing. Please watch for the forthcoming announcement of our new list of titles that will be available for pre-order this fall. In the meantime, use any of the links below to follow us using Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, as well as the GME website news blog and Constant Contact: Recap of Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 Academic Year Releases     These DVDs are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged. Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.   PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact: sales@gartenbergmedia.com For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit: www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

GME Announces PETER TSCHERKASSKY - ATTRACTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS & OTHER ROMANCES - Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

Gartenberg Media Announces PETER TSCHERKASSKY - ATTRACTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS AND OTHER ROMANCES  Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of the latest publication from INDEX DVD, PETER TSCHERKASSKY - ATTRACTIONS, INSTRUCTIONS AND OTHER ROMANCE, now available on PAL DVD for institutional sales in North America.  This new DVD compiles eight short films by Peter Tscherkassky, including the breathtaking, found-footage masterwork PARALLEL SPACE: INTER-VIEW (1992), as well as INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE (2005), and COMING ATTRACTIONS (2010).  Film critic Christoph Huber, whose essay accompanies this DVD publication, writes that "the persuasive power of the work stems from its conceptual clarity.  Tscherkassky fathoms cinema's potential as an intellectual machinery of associations and as a palpable experiential space in a manner that is exhilarating and expansive."  Together with the INDEX DVD publication PETER TSCHERKASSKY - FILMS FROM A DARK ROOM, this new release offers an exhilarating excursion into the radical cinema of Peter Tscherkassky. Peter Tscherkassky (b. 1958) is internationally renowned as one of the most significant artists working in the field of avant-garde cinema.  His first encounter with avant-garde film was in 1978, when he attended a lecture series by P. Adams Sitney at the Vienna Filmmuseum. He began making films in 1979, and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1986 with his dissertation, "Film As Art".  His films and installations have been exhibited at major museums and festivals worldwide, including Cannes, the Louvre, Oberhausen, and Venice. Tscherkassky is also widely respected as a curator, professor, and author of critical essays and books on the art of cinema.  In 1990, he co-founded sixpackfilms, the Vienna-based organization that publishes the INDEX DVD line. Film scholar Tom Gunning has written of Peter Tscherkassky, that "while engaged in a process of deconstruction, [he] also recognizes the power of cinema, utilizing its control over space and time, in order to uncover the energies of motion and story, of the violence inherent in both revolt and containment. As the materials of the moving image now undergo transformation, as the very term film perhaps become anachro-nistic, his films make clear that a radical cinema does not simply fetishize the material that filmmakers work with, but rather interrogates those materials and forms for the energies they contain and the meanings they can liberate, through the labor and processes which the maker and the viewer participate in. The future is still arriving, even as the past is constantly being restaged and reinvented within the dark rooms of motion pictures."    PETER TSCHERKASSKY Attractions, Instructions and Other Romances Parallel Space: Inter-View (1992) Erotique (1982) Happy-End (1996) Shot - Countershot (1987) Nachtstück (Mozart Minute 09) (2006) Coming Attractions (2010) Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005) Bonustrack: Ballett 16 (1984)  DVD-PAL - Region 0 /  No Regional Code. Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.        also available from GME PETER TSCHERKASSKY Films From A Dark Room L'Arrivée (1997/98) Outer Space (1999) Dream Work (2002) Manufraktur (1985) Motion Picture (La Sortie des Ouvriers de l´Usine Lumière à Lyon) (1984) Get Ready (1999) Bonustrack: Miniaturen - Viele Berliner Künstler in Hoisdorf (1983)  DVD-PAL - Region 0 /  No Regional Code. Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.   Watch for our Next DVD Release Newsletter  Coming Soon! For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit:  www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/ For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact:  sales@gartenbergmedia.com   Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656     Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.   PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. These DVD and Blu-ray editions are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights.   Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

Recent NYC Screenings of Interest - Valie Export's INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES at the New Museum & Anthology Celebrates Sixpack Films with BREAKING GROUND: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema

Sixpack Films Are Available on INDEX 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.

To order by phone please call: 212.280.8654

Ernst Lubitsch's Silent Epic THE LOVES OF PHARAOH Digitally Restored and Available Now on DVD & Blu-ray For Institutional Sales Exclusively From GME

THE LOVES OF PHARAOH / DAS WEIB DES PHARAO

Ernst Lubitsch (1922) 

Available Formats:

2-Disc DVD NTSC / Region 0 (No Region Code.)

Playback requires an NTSC or Multi-format DVD player

   Institutional Sale Price: $300.00 plus shipping & handling.

or

Blu-ray Disc / Region Free (No Region Code.)

Playback requires any Blu-ray player.  

Institutional Sale Price: $300.00 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

Jon Gartenberg Appears in VITO - The New HBO Documentary on the Life of Vito Russo

"Directed by award-winner Jeffrey Schwarz, VITO paints a touching portrait of this outspoken

activist in the LGBT community’s struggle for equal rights, using period footage and film 

clips to capture a vibrant era of gay culture. “If you’re going to talk about the gay-rights 

movement, you’re going to talk about Vito,” says journalist David Ehrenstein.

The documentary features rich archival interviews with Vito, as well as insights from gay

rights activists, including: Larry Kramer and Arthur Evans; film scholars, among them

former MoMA film curator Jon Gartenberg; and journalists/writers such as Michael

Schiavi and Gabriel Rotello.  VITO also offers personal accounts from his many friends,

including Lily Tomlin and Bruce Vilanch, and his family members, including brother

Charles Russo and cousin Phyllis Antonellis.

Vito’s love of movies guided him to a job in the film department at the Museum of Modern

Art, where he began taking note of gay characters in early films. The result of his research

was “The Celluloid Closet,” an entertaining and informative lecture and clip show that

combined his love of show business and radical gay politics, which he took on the road to

gay film festivals and college campuses. His seminal 1981 book of the same name 

explored the ways gays and lesbians were portrayed on film, what lessons those characters

taught gay and straight audiences, and how those negative images were at the root of

society’s homophobia. The book was later adapted into the 1995 HBO Peabody Award-

winning documentary “The Celluloid Closet,” directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman..."

Tribeca Film Festival Experimental Film Selections Receive Theatrical Distribution

In his capacity as Experimental-Film Programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival,

Jon Gartenberg selected two films for TFF 2011 that, we are proud to announce,

have received U.S. distribution and are currently playing around the country - 

Bill Morrison's THE MINERS' HYMN from Icarus Films &

Marie Losier's THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE from Adopt Films. 

Bill Morrison's THE MINERS' HYMNS (2011)

The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison. Their story is told entirely without words, yet the film is far from silent: it features a remarkable original score by the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Using rarely-seen footage from the British Film Institute, the BBC, and other archives, THE MINERS' HYMNS celebrates social, cultural, and political aspects of the extinct industry. Focusing on the Durham coalfield located in northeastern England, it depicts the hardship of pit work, the role of Trade Unions in organizing and fighting for workers' rights, the years of increased mechanization and the annual Miners' Gala in Durham.

• In U.S. Distribution through ICARUS FILMS.

• Theatrical Run begins on February 8th, 2012 at New York's FILM FORUM.

• US Release / DATE AND THEATRES.

Marie Losier's THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE (2011)

An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his other half and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their “Pandrogyne” project.

• In U.S. Distribution through ADOPT FILMS.

• Theatrical Run begins on March 8th, 2012 in NYC at the CHELSEA CINEMAS.

• US Release / DATE AND THEATRES.

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.

To order by phone please call: 212.280.8654

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.