Pesaro Film Festival - Program of American Experimental Narratives Curated by Jon Gartenberg

A Retrospective Film Program Curated by Jon Gartenberg at the 50th Annual Pesaro Film Festival: "A Panorama of American Experimental Narratives in the New Millennium"   Pesaro Film Festival, Italy Monday, June 23 - Saturday, June 28 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Since the 1960s, the United States has been a vibrant center of avant-garde filmmaking. Curator Jon Gartenberg's program offers a lesser-known face of US cinema in the Third Millennium (2001-2014).  No longer restricted to the underground experimentation of the past, today's equally innovative films incorporate more narrative elements. The selected films - by James Benning, John Gianvito, Penny Lane, Marie Losier, Ian Olds and James Franco, Jennifer Reeves, and Chris Sullivan - to name only a few - were made outside the dominant realm of commercial production, granting the directors great freedom from formal expression. Ranging from found footage and animation to live action and the hybrid form of docu-fiction, these stylistically heterogeneous films offer a compelling view of the American cultural and socio-political landscape.  Collectively, the filmmakers and their films touch upon the themes of individual identity, family dynamics, community, and the larger political culture. This retrospective film series comprises 17 film programs; an additional midnight screening of short films by the 6 American filmmakers in attendance at the festival (John Canemaker, Abigail Child, Thomas Allen Harris, Bill Morrison, Matthew Porterfield, and Julie Talen); a roundtable discussion with curator Jon Gartenberg, Festival Director Giovanni Spagnoletti, and these 6 filmmakers; and a master class by animation historian and filmmaker John Canemaker. For a description of the films in the retrospective, together with curator Jon Gartenberg's essay on this exhibition, please see pages 38-95 of the Festival Catalog, viewable and downloadable as a PDF Document here: "A Panorama of American Experimental Narratives  in the New Millennium"

GME DVD Distribution Summer Announcement

GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES  DVD DISTRIBUTION SUMMER ANNOUNCEMENT As a combination of summer break and summer session approaches, GME is open for business.  All of our DVD and Blu-ray offerings are available for ordering over the entire summer season.  For a complete list of DVD and Blu-ray publications from our entire library of distribution titles, as a printable PDF, click here.   In order to realign the fee structure of our multi-disc, DVD boxed-set offerings, all 3, 4, and 5-disc publications will be repriced as follows: 3-Disc Set @ $400    /    4-DVD Set @ $500    /    5-DVD Set @ $600 This pricing change affects the following publications: STEPHEN DWOSKIN: 14 FILMS BOX 1/3 5-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $600.00       VAL DEL OMAR: ELEMENTAL DE ESPAÑA 5-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $600.00  CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE  4-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $500.00 DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS: A MODERN MUSKETEER  5-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $600.00 FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929 5-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $600.00   GEORGES MÉLIÈS: FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA & ENCORE 5-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $600.00 LANDMARKS OF EARLY SOVIET FILM 4-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $500.00     SAVED FROM THE FLAMES 3-Disc Set current price: $300.00 new price: $400.00 Written orders for any or all of the above releases that are received before July 15 will be honored at the old pricing structure; after July 15, the new pricing structure will be in effect for the multi-disc DVD sets noted above. We have an ambitious slate of fall releases planned, so please watch for our announcement  in late August/early September for new DVD publications made available for the fall semester.  In the meantime, have a great summer!   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 Recap - Summer 2014

GME DVD Distribution Academic Recap - Summer 2014 As this summer approaches, GME is pleased to once again provide a recap of the DVD and Blu-ray publications that we've offered over the past academic year for North American institutional sales.  These publications represent moving-image works spanning the course of film history, from early cinema through to the contemporary avant-garde, from Lon Chaney to Heinz Emigholz. This past year we've expanded our catalog of silent films titles with the Hardcover Book & PAL-DVD publication To Dazzle the Eye and Stir the Heart - The Red Lantern, Nazimova and the Boxer Rebellion, featuring THE RED LANTERN (1919), starring Alla Nazimova; also the Blu-ray edition of  THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923) starring Lon Chaney (the original 'Man of a Thousand Faces').  Also from the silent era we present the 5-DVD collection  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.  Our latest documentary offering is the rarely-seen, five-part SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE (PEASANT SYMPHONY), presenting the films of the great Belgian documentarian Henri Storck' in a  Blu-ray/PAL-DVD Combo Edition.  Storck's classic films IMAGES D'OSTENDE and MISERE AU BORINAGE, are also available from GME. We've also continued to expand our representation of cutting-edge, historic and contemporary avant-garde filmmakers, with DVD editions encompassing the full range of experimental film practices,.  These publications include THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION, a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Edition of experimental shorts made by the late, Los Angeles-based filmmaker; Werner Schroeter's EIKA KATAPPA & DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN, and DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI, two volumes on PAL-DVD of key film works by the hugely influential German avant-garde film, theater, and opera director; and two PAL-DVD volumes of HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] & [II], featuring the early films of the internationally-acclaimed German experimental filmmaker whose collected body of work explores urban and rural landscapes in unique, architectonic fashion.  Lastly, we are proud to offer  JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS, a 7-Disc DVD Box Set of key films created by the most significant force behind the evolution and promotion of the American Avant-Garde film movement as well as one of its most prolific independent filmmakers and pre-eminent cinema poets. Collectively, the work of these filmmakers are represented in high quality DVD and Blu-ray editions from international publishers that GME has carefully searched worldwide to represent. For this past year's releases, they comprise Arsenal Experimental and Filmgalerie 451 (Germany), Cinematek (Belgium), Edition Filmmuseum, Munich (Germany), Flicker Alley (United States), and Re:Voir, Potemkine & Agnès B. (France). 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 available for order processing over the academic year's summer break. Watch for our announcement of new publication titles in the Fall, and in the meantime, have a great Summer! 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, featuring Alla Nazimova SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE Henri Storck HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] & [II] Heinz Emigholz THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney   JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS Jonas Mekas   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 JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS on DVD for Institutional Sales in North America

Gartenberg Media Announces JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS  on DVD Available for North American Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises is very proud to announce the addition of JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS to our catalog of DVD titles available for institutional sales in North America.  This 7-Disc DVD Box Set, co-published by Re:Voir Video, Agnès B DVD and Potemkine, brings together, for the very first time, the key films created by Jonas Mekas.  These collected works, that span a filming career of more than 60 years, re-affirm his stature as one of the most prolific avant-garde filmmakers and pre-eminent cinema poets. Jonas Mekas was born in Lithuania in 1922.  In 1944, Jonas and his brother Adolfas (HALLELUJAH THE HILLS - also available from GME) were taken by the Nazis to a forced labor camp in Germany. After WWII he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz.  At the end of 1949, the UN Refugee Organization brought both brothers to New York, where they settled in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  Immediately acquiring a 16mm Bolex camera, Jonas began filming his surrounding environment and friends, that he later assembled into films primarily centered on the dual themes of exile and assimilation. Jonas developed his diary style of filmmaking while simultaneously becoming immersed as a magazine editor and publisher (Film Culture), film critic (The Village Voice), distributor (the New York Film-Makers Cooperative), programmer (the Film-Makers' Cinematheque), and archivist (Anthology Film Archives).  In short, Mekas soon became, in singular fashion, the most significant force behind the evolution and promotion of the American Avant-Garde film movement.   "Mekas's enthusiasm for his contemporaries and his modesty and reticence about his own achievements as a film-maker contributed to an underestimation of his stature in the sixties and seventies...Congruent with the magnitude of his recording of the pulse of the New York art world for forty years is his slow revelation of the reflective self. By the nineties it was apparent that Mekas was one of the central filmmakers of the American avant-garde." - P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film    "Since 1950, I have been keeping a film diary.  I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality:  situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year.   On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes.  Or I shoot nothing.  When one writes diaries, its' a retrospective process:  you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down.  To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant:  either you get it now or you don't get it at all.  To go back and shoot it later, it would mean restating, be it events or feelings.  To get it now, as it happens, demands the total mastery of one's tools (in this case, Bolex): it has to register my state of feeling (and the memories) as I react.  Which also means that I had to do all the structuring (editing) right there, during the shooting, in the camera." - Jonas Mekas     JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS This DVD boxed set comprises the following 16 films: THE BRIG (1964)  65 minutes. WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES AND SKETCHES (1969)  180 minutes. REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (1972)  82 minutes. LOST LOST LOST (1976)  65 minutes. AS I WAS MOVING AHEAD I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY (2000)  285 minutes / 2-Disc Set SHORT FILM WORKS Cassis (1966)  4 minutes. Notes on the Circus (1966)  12 minutes. Hare Krishna (1966)  4 minutes. Report from Millbrook (1965-66)  12 minutes. Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1968)  4 minutes. Travel Songs (1967-81)  25 minutes. Quartet Number One (1991)  8 minutes. Imperfect Three-Image Films (1995)  6 minutes. Song of Avignon (1998)  5 minutes. Mozart, Wien & Elvis (2000)  3 minutes. Williamsburg (1949-2002)  15 minutes.   7-Disc DVD Collection DVD-PAL Region 0 / No Regional Code.  With English, French & Lithuanian subtitles.   Institutional Sale Price: $ 800.00 plus shipping & handling.     Watch for our Next DVD Release Newsletter Coming Soon!     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 THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME on Blu-ray for Institutional Sales in North America

Gartenberg Media Announces Lon Chaney in THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME  on Blu-ray Available for North American Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises is proud to announce the classic silent motion picture THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, starring the legendary Lon Chaney and published on Blu-ray disc by Flicker Alley, as the latest addition to our catalog of titles available for institutional sales in North America. Adapted from the classic novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) by Victor Hugo (Les Misérables, 1862) THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME is a massive production; the sets depicting 15th-century Paris covered nineteen acres of the Universal Pictures back-lot and included the façade of Notre-Dame Cathedral.  Filming took six months. and the climactic sequence employed two thousand extras.  But, it is the performance of Lon Chaney as Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer, that makes the film so unforgettable.  THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME premiered at New York's Astor Theatre on September 2, 1923.  The success of the film was immediate: it made a fortune for Carl Laemmle and the then fledgling Universal Pictures; and it turned Lon Chaney into one of the most popular stars of the silent era and the screen legend known as The Man of A Thousand Faces! This edition is mastered from a multi-tinted 16mm print struck in 1926 from the original camera negative.  The film is not known to have survived in 35mm.  Visible wear in the source material has been diminished with a moderate amount of digital restoration.  It is pictorially much better than earlier video editions and represents the best condition in which this landmark film survives today.  A new symphonic score arranged by Donald Hunsberger was recorded in the Czech Republic by full orchestra conducted by Robert Israel.   Running Time: 110 minutes.   THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Wallace Worsley  -  USA (1923) Blu-ray Edition Region Free / No Regional Code. Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.     Watch for our Next DVD Release Newsletter Coming Soon!     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 HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] & [II] Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

Gartenberg Media Announces   HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] & [II] Gartenberg Media Enterprises is proud to announce the release of a pair of DVD publications presenting the early works of experimental filmmaker Heinz Emigholz, entitled HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] and HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [II], published jointly by Edition Arsenal Experimental and Filmgalerie 451.  These two volumes publish, in DVD form, the seven Emigholz films presented in installation versions as part of the FORUM EXPANDED at the Berlin Film Festival in 2010.  More recently, the films of Heinz Emigholz have been the subject of a career retrospective at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2014. Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, of Arsenal Experimental and curator for the Berlinale Forum, writes that Heinz Emigholz's "early films provided a crucial impetus for the international experimental film movement of the 1970s and 80s.  They are counted among the few experimental works from Germany which have attained enduring international acclaim. The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible a segment of film history, which, in light of upheavals in the analog world and departures toward a digital one, enables discussion of highly contemporary developments."   In addition to the seven early films contained in THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] & [II], the two DVDs also provide numerous bonus extras, including two extensive interviews with Emigholz, both filmed in 2009: one by Viennese film publicist Stefan Grissemann; the other by filmmaker Klaus Wyborny specifically about the films in the project THE FORMATIVE YEARS and the context of their production in the 1970's.           "From the beginning to the middle of the seventies, I produced a series of films containing a complicated interplay between abstract temporal compositions - that is, film movements - and selected urban and rural landscapes.  The films ... consist of thousands of photographs, taken frame-by-frame with a Bolex camera on 16mm film according to a previously established score."   - Heinz Emigholz   HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I]   Schenec-tady I (1972/73) Schenec-tady II (1973) Arrowplane (1973/74) Tide (1974) Schenec-tady III (1972/75) DVD-PAL Region 0/No Regional Code. Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling. HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [II]   Hotel (1975/76) Demon (1976/77) DVD-PAL Region 0/No Regional Code. Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.   Watch for our Next DVD Release Newsletter Coming Soon!     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 Upcoming Releases for 2014

GME DVD Distribution - 2014 New Releases Now that spring is just around the corner, GME is pleased to announce a forthcoming slate of DVD releases for the current academic semester.  Carefully selected from boutique publishers, these DVDs represent works extending from classic silent films through to cutting edge contemporary narratives and avant-garde films.  In the winter 2013 issue of Film Quarterly, editor Ruby Rich wrote that "the superb dedication of such entities as the Criterion Collection, Milestone Films, and Gartenberg Media Enterprises, to name key players, are making possible access to a wealth of cinematic history, ephemera, and value-added materials." A full list of our DVD offerings to date is noted here. UPCOMING RELEASES Watch for our upcoming releases of works by avant-garde masters James Benning, Jonas Mekas, Heinz Emigholz, and Hans Richter, classic Soviet films by Sergei Eistenstein and Dziga Vertov & boxed sets of silent cinema featuring Charlie Chaplin's Mutual Comedies and Mack Sennett's Keystone Comedies! 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, featuring Alla Nazimova SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE Henri Storck HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] & [II] Heinz Emigholz THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney   JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS Jonas Mekas RECENT FILM RETROSPECTIVES DVD EDITIONS AVAILABLE FROM GME Selected films represented in the DVD boxed set FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN EMIGRES IN PARIS 1923-1929 (published by Flicker Alley) were featured in a "Films Albatros" retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York this past December.   Additionally, in May-June 2012, MOMA also held a retrospective of the films of Werner Schroeter, that are featured on the DVD releases from Edition Filmmuseum, EIKA KATAPPA & DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN and DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI. In MOMA's current film exhibition, "Vienna Unveiled: A City in Cinema",  screenings including moving image works by Kurt Kren, VALIE EXPORT, Maria Lassnig, John Cook, and Hans Scheugl, all filmmakers whose work is available from GME via DVD publications from INDEX and Edition Filmmuseum.  These DVD editions include films by Kurt Kren (ACTION FILMS, STRUCTURAL FILMS, and  WHICH WAY TO CA?), VALIE EXPORT (3 EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS and INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES), John Cook, (SLOW SUMMER/CLINCH), Maria Lassnig (ANIMATION FILMS), and Hans Scheugl (THE SECONDS STRIKE REALITY). Furthermore, in March 2013, Anthology Film Archives featured a retrospective of moving image works made by the late Steve Dwoskin, entitled "Kissing the Moon: Films and Videos by Stephen Dwoskin".  GME is proud to offer 2 DVD publications of works by Steve Dwoskin, 14 FILMS BOX 1/3, from DVD publisher Les Films du renard, and DYN AMO, from Re:Voir.     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/

Gartenberg Media Announces Henri Storck's SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE as Blu-ray / DVD Combo Set Now Available for Institutional Sales

Gartenberg Media Announces Henri Storck's SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE Blu-ray/DVD Combo Now Available for Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of a new title, Henri Storck's SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE, in a 2-Disc Deluxe Combo Blu-ray/DVD Edition, exclusively available for institutional sales in North America. The third in a series of four volumes comprising the Henri Storck Collection, it is published by Cinematek, Belgium, in a joint initiative with the Cinémathèque de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Fonds Henri Storck. Henri Storck (Ostend 1907 - Brussels 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to commercial films.  He is widely recognized as a pioneer of Belgian cinema and a key figure in documentary.  An eyewitness of his times, Storck made socially engaged films, but also poetic and experimental short films, films on art and a fiction feature. His body of work consists of 70 films, including his SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE, composed from 1942 to 1944, and in which he describes the day-to-day life and rituals of peasant farmers and the rhythm of the seasons.  The film is a poem to nature, a lyrical masterpiece on life and death, on plants and animals, on man and his labor, all the more remarkable since Storck made his film under the shadow of the Occupation. SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE complements GME's previous releases in the Henri Storck Collection: IMAGES D'OSTENDE, a collection of Storck's films of his native city of Ostend, of which he was the chronicler and which remained, for him, the Queen of beaches; and MISÈRE AU BORINAGE, which brings together Storck's Social Films, including the 1933 title work co-directed with Joris Ivens, which has become a classic of the "cinema of reality", with which Storck was most closely associated.   Each volume in the series features the premiere of digitally-restored material in a 2-Disc Deluxe Combo Blu-ray/DVD Edition.  SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE / PEASANT SYMPHONY Henri Storck - Belgium (1942-1944) Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling. IMAGES D'OSTENDE / THE OSTEND FILMS Henri Storck - Belgium (1929-1938 / 2004) Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling. MISÈRE AU BORINAGE / THE SOCIAL FILMS Henri Storck & Joris Ivens - Belgium (1933-1938) Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling. Each title is published as a 2-Disc Combo Blu-ray / DVD Edition - The Blu-ray is Region Free (No Regional Code). - The DVD is Region 0 (No Regional Code). Languages: French, Dutch.    Subtitles: Dutch, English. Watch for our Next DVD Release Newsletter Coming Soon in 2014! 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 (U.S. 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.

GME Announces Films by Werner Schroeter on DVD Available for Institutional Sales

Gartenberg Media Announces Films by Werner Schroeter Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of two publications featuring the films of Werner Schroeter, published by Edition Filmmuseum.  Each 2-disc set presents new, state-of-the-art restorations by the Munich Film Museum, along with bonus materials and trilingual booklets about Schroeter and his films.  Both PAL-DVD editions are available for institutional sales in North America.   Werner Schroeter's unique melodramas about love and death are fascinating amalgamations of avant-garde opera, theater and cinema elements. Art and kitsch, high- and low-brow, Maria Callas and Caterina Valente, myths and genre elements, all find expression in EIKA KATAPPA & DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN, two melodramas about love and death.  The 2-disc DVD set presents the first two feature-length films by Schroeter in beautifully restored versions. In addition, it offers a portrait of Maria Callas shot by Schroeter on 8mm film in 1968, a new reconstruction of Schroeter's legendary two-screen projection short film ARGILA (1969), and excerpts of a talk with Werner Schroeter, led by Dietrich Kuhlbrodt during the Schroeter Tribute at the Viennale 2008. Werner Schroeter EIKA KATAPPA & DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN   Eika Katappa (1969) West Germany Der Tod der Maria Malibran (1972) West Germany DVD-PAL - Region 0 /  No Regional Code.   Institutional Sale Price: $ 300.00 plus shipping & handling. DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI presents new, restored versions of two rare classics by Werner Schroeter that connect private stories with history: DER BOMBERPILOT tells the story of three eccentric women in Germany during the Nazi period who try to become show stars in America after the war; NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI is a chronicle of post-war Italy told from the perspective of a Neapolitan family. Additional features of the 2-disc DVD set include: a feature length, collage portrait of Werner Schroeter constructed by Gérard Courant,based on an audio interview with Schroeter at the Cannes Film Festival; a video of Werner Schroeter in a talk with the audience at the Austrian Filmmuseum from 1978; and stills from the shooting of NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI by Digne M. Markovicz. Werner Schroeter DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI Der Bomberpilot  (1970)  West Germany Nel Regno di Napoli  (1978)  West Germany   DVD-PAL - Region 0 /  No Regional Code. Institutional Sale Price: $ 300.00 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 (U.S. 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 Films Screening in Paris Tribute to the "New York Underground"

Warren Sonbert Films Screening in  Paris Tribute to the New York Underground     Warren Sonbert with his film camera Two of Warren Sonbert's films, Amphetamine and Where Did Our Love Go? will be shown in the retrospective "New York Underground" organized by Documentaire sur grand écran, as part of a tribute to Bleecker Street Cinema.  Both films are screening in Paris at the Filmothèque du Quartier Latin on Saturday evening, November 23.       Beginning at age 15, Warren Sonbert, a Brooklyn native, regularly attended screenings at the Bleecker Street cinema.  He became friendly with the management, and, in 1965, at age 16 (!) he served as Editor-in-Chief of a special edition of New York Film Bulletin  on Jean-Luc Godard.  This magazine was regularly edited in the basement of the Bleecker Street Cinema, and this issue (number forty-six) already reveals Sonbert's precocious genius and deep appreciation of the voice of the cinematic auteur, as revealed in his one-on-one interview with Godard: "WS:  In Truffaut's La Peau Douce various banal objects (telephones, lights, shoes) play a significant role.  Is there any similarity in the continual presence of spherical objects and motions in Bande a Part? J-LG:  No, all that was accidental.  But you know, now that I think of it, what you said about round objects often seen in Bande a Part: the last shot is of the world which is round, you know - so maybe you're right."  AMPHETAMINE (1966) In February 1966, as a filmmaking student at New York University, Sonbert shot his first film (with Wendy Appel), entitled Amphetamine, about which he wrote, "First film, heavily influenced by Godard and Warhol - designed to shock".  His next movie, Where Did Our Love Go?, is, according to film critic James Stoller, "both a valentine and a farewell to a generation".  WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? (1966) Warren Sonbert subsequently showed his films at Bleecker Street cinema.  Where Did Our Love Go? contains the only known footage of the interior of this movie theater during the period that it was founded and owned by Lionel Rogosin. Before he turned 21, Sonbert also secured a complete retrospective showing of his films at The Film-Makers' Cinematheque; the film critic for Variety wrote:  "Probably not since Andy Warhol's 'The Chelsea Girls' had its first showing at the Cinematheque...almost a year and a half ago has an 'underground' film event caused as much curiosity and interest in N.Y's non-underground world as did four days of showings of the complete films of Warren Sonbert at the Cinematheque's new location on Wooster St. last weekend (Thurs. - Sun. Jan 25-28).  And as before, the crowds (many turned away each night) were attributed to press reports." For a trailer of the "New York Underground" retrospective, featuring filmmaker Warren Sonbert, click here. For full program information, click here. For more information about Warren Sonbert & an international touring retrospective of his films, click here, or contact:  info@gartenbergmedia.com.