GME Announces FRENCH MASTERWORKS & THE RED LANTERN on DVD Available for Institutional Sales

Gartenberg Media Announces 2 Major DVD Publications from the Silent Film Era FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929   &   THE RED LANTERN(1919) Both Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929, a 5-Disc DVD Deluxe Edition from Flicker Alley, as well as THE RED LANTERN, published by Cinematek, as a PAL-DVD with an accompanying 208-page softcover book. Both DVD editions are available for institutional sales in North America.   The collection of Russian filmmakers who made up the core of what came to be known as Films Albatros arrived from Moscow after the October 1917 revolution by way of Yalta, Constantinople and Marseilles, establishing their base of operations in an old Pathé greenhouse-style studio in the Paris suburb of Montreuil.  From it flowed some of the finest French films of the 1920s - variously experimental, spectacular, charming, witty; and always beautifully executed.  FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929 presents five exciting silent cinema features, each restored to excellent condition by the Cinematheque Francaise, and accompanied by outstanding new music scores by Timothy Brock, Robert Israel, Neil Brand, Antonio Coppola and the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.  For each film, the original French titles are retained with optional English subtitles.  FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929   Five Iconic Films Albatros Productions 5 Disc DVD Collection LE BRASIER ARGENT  Ivan Mosjoukine  (1923)    KEAN  Alexandre Volkoff  (1924)    FEU MATHIAS PASCAL  Marcel L'Herbier  (1926)    GRIBICHE  Jacques Feyder  (1926)    LES NOUVEAUX MESSIEUR  Jacques Feyder  (1929)  DVD-NTSC - Region 0 /  No Regional Code.   Institutional Sale Price: $ 400.00 plus shipping & handling. THE RED LANTERN tells the story of a Eurasian, Joan of Arc-like heroine, set against the background of China's 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The film was an instant success, thanks to the star qualities of diva Alla Nazimova and an unprecedented advertising campaign ("Presenting The Greatest Actress of the Day, NAZIMOVA, The Star of a Thousand Moods".) Both these aspects are extensively discussed in the accompanying publication, To Dazzle the Eye and Stir the Heart - The Red Lantern, Nazimova and the Boxer Rebellion. Additional essays examine the literary origin of the film (The Red Lantern by Edith Wherry) as well as the historical impact of the Boxer Rebellion, that inform the larger issues of biracial identity, feminism, nationalism, and the clash of cultures that are portrayed in Capellani's film. Bonus features on the DVD include early cinema actualities that evoke the way in which the Boxer Rebellion was portrayed in Western society around the turn of the century, reconstruction of a Chinese screening programme from the time of the film's premiere in the United States, as well as screen tests and odes to the film's star, Nazimova.   THE RED LANTERN Albert Capellani USA  (1919)  To Dazzle the Eye and Stir the Heart - The Red Lantern, Nazimova and the Boxer Rebellion  208-page Softcover book.  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.

THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION - Blu-ray/DVD Combo Set Available for Institutional Sales

Gartenberg Media Announces THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION  Deluxe Blu-ray/DVD Combo Available for Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION, a Deluxe Dual-Disc Combo Blu-ray/DVD Edition published by Flicker Alley, now available for institutional sales in North America.  Curtis Harrington, widely regarded as one of the important avant-garde directors of the 1940's, as well as an early influential figure in what would come to be known as 'New Queer Cinema,' was born in Los Angeles in 1926. He began making films as a teenager, often deeply surreal, intuitive, and owing much to the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.  After graduating from UCLA with a degree in film studies, his unique career trajectory led him from the academic circles of cinematic criticism (he wrote a publication on the films of Josef von Sternberg); to the Hollywood assistant desk of writer/producer Jerry Wald; to the elite group of independent filmmakers associated with Kenneth Anger (the two remained life-long friends and colleagues); to the famed film factory of cult icon Roger Corman; then on to his own stint in the world of genre movie-making with NIGHT TIDE (1961) and GAMES (1967); and most unpredictable of all, to finding commercial success in television.  This publication, a joint effort between Flicker Alley and Drag City featuring restorations carried out by the Academy Film Archive on a dual-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo, comprised of six short films by the late experimental filmmaker, as well as bonus interview footage and rarely-seen early works.  The films: FRAGMENTS OF SEEKING (1946, 16 mins.)  Harrington plays a young man desperately seeking out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the surreal explorations of his own sexuality.  Made a year before Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS, the films contain some similarities in their treatment of homoerotic themes, though Fragment is more restrained and subtle. PICNIC (1948, 22 mins.)  Beginning in the reality of American middle-class life, PICNIC portrays the idealistic dream-quest of the protagonist, from which he is finally cast off.  Harrington himself described the film thus: "a satirical comment on middle-class life frames a dream-like continuity in which the protagonist pursues an illusory object of desire." ON THE EDGE (1949, 6 mins.)  In this fragile, yet frightening poetic fantasy, set against a dark industrial landscape, Harrington casts his own mother and father in the lead roles. THE ASSIGNATION (1953, 8 mins.)  Long considered lost, this was Harrington's first color film. It was shot in Venice, Italy, and not unlike FRAGMENTS OF SEEKING, follows a masked figure through the labyrinthine canals of the city, building to a spectacular climax. THE WORMWOOD STAR (1955, 10 mins.)  A film study of the artwork of famed painter, occultist and Alistair Crowley-enthusiast Majorie Cameron.  Cameron went on to star in Harrington's feature-length NIGHT TIDE.  It is by far one of his most visually arresting works. USHER (2002, 38 mins.)  Harrington's final film before he died in 2007, Usher is a remake of a short he made in high school based on the classic Edgar Allan Poe story "The Fall of the House of Usher."  He once again expresses his interest in the occult by casting known members of the Church of Satan, Nikolas and Zeena Schreck. Also included are four rare bonus features:  THE FOUR ELEMENTS (1966) is a poetic and avant-garde documentary Harrington made for the United States Information Agency;   THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1942) is the original film-made by Harrington when was in high school-from which Usher is based;   A short interview shot by filmmakers Tyler Hubby and Jeffrey Schwarz, who are responsible for the documentary HOUSE OF HARRINGTON (2009);  And a 2003 interview with Harrington made courtesy of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.    An enclosed booklet contains notes on the films' restorations by Academy Film Archive preservationist Mark Toscano and an essay by Lisa Janssen.   Running Time: 124 minutes.   THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION Deluxe Combo Blu-ray/DVD Edition Blu-ray Disc - Region A.   DVD-NTSC - 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.

Warren Sonbert Retrospective at Tate Modern

Warren Sonbert Retrospective at Tate Modern     Warren Sonbert with his film camera © The Estate of Warren Sonbert   Tate Modern, London Thursday 24 October - Sunday 27 October Warren Sonbert is one of the seminal figures in American experimental film. A precocious talent, he had his first career retrospective before he turned 21 years old, establishing his reputation early as a key innovator in New York's counter-culture during the 1960s. Encouraged to take up filmmaking by Gregory Markopolous, his early works were populated by denizens of Warhol's scene such as superstar René Ricard and Gerard Malanga, as well as art critic Henry Geldzhaler. Often characterised as diaristic, his films pay close attention to intimate details of his surroundings and relationships that evolved from his living in New York and San Francisco, but also developed a unique lyrical form that transcends their quotidian detail to explore our individual human position in the world at large. Defined by many contrasting influences from rock-and-roll to opera, from Douglas Sirk's classic Hollywood melodramas to the montage theories of Dziga Vertov, his films constantly question the world around him and positions the minutiae of day-to-day experience in an epic, international framework. His complex editing style - cutting rapidly between time periods, cultures and continents - creates a polyphonic cinema embraced equally by film and by literary circles leading to his close association with the New York School and Language Poets from the San Francisco Bay Area (including Michael Brownstein, Larry Fagin and Anne Waldman as well as Carla Harryman and Charles Bernstein). The first complete retrospective of his work in the UK, this series will position newly restored works alongside films by his peers such as Stan Brakhage, Abigail Child, Nathaniel Dorsky, Gerard Malanga, Gregory Markopoulos, Jeff Scher, and Andy Warhol, as well as Douglas Sirk's feature film Tarnished Angels (1957). A special panel discussion with archivist Jon Gartenberg, writer Lynne Tillman and historian James Boaden, follows the Warren Sonbert: Where Did Our Love Go? programme on Saturday 26 October. Co-curated by Jon Gartenberg with Tate Film. Individual screenings introduced by Jon Gartenberg The films of Warren Sonbert were preserved through the efforts of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in cooperation with the Academy Film Archive. Archivist Jon Gartenberg developed this film preservation initiative with the support of Ascension Serrano (The Estate of Warren Sonbert) and John Hanhardt (former senior curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). The prints of Warren Sonbert's films in this retrospective exhibition are made available through Light Cone (Paris), the European distributor of his films. Program notes for this series by Jon Gartenberg, with additional contributions by George Clark. Tate Film is supported by Maja Hoffmann / LUMA Foundation   Events in this series Warren Sonbert: Amphetamine Thursday 24 October 2013, 19.00 - 21.00 Warren Sonbert: The Bad and the Beautiful Friday 25 October 2013, 19.00 - 20.30 Warren Sonbert: Postcards from Warren Friday 25 October 2013, 21.00 - 22.30 Warren Sonbert: Douglas Sirk's Tarnished Angels Saturday 26 October 2013, 15.00 - 17.00 Warren Sonbert: Honor and Obey Saturday 26 October 2013, 17.00 - 18.30 Warren Sonbert: Where Did Our Love Go? Saturday 26 October 2013, 19.00 - 21.00 Warren Sonbert: Truth Serum Sunday 27 October 2013, 15.00 - 17.00 Warren Sonbert: Rude Awakening Sunday 27 October 2013, 17.00 - 19.00 Warren Sonbert: Short Fuse Sunday 27 October 2013, 19.00 - 21.00

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.

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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.