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Continuing our mission to offer significant historical avant-garde moving image works alongside contemporary experimental films, GME is pleased to offer two DVD editions in this vein: SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS, made in 1966 by Mike Kuchar (twin brother of filmmaker George), alongside a compilation of contemporary short films (HELLO HAPPINESS!) by one of their protégés Marie Losier.
Read MoreGME is participating in global Home Movie Day on October 20 by featuring stills and clips from films in our collection that celebrate these amateur films.
Read MoreWith the fall academic semester now underway, Gartenberg Media Enterprises is pleased to announce our new slate of DVD and Blu-ray publications for distribution to the North American academic community. These digital editions are selected from film archives and boutique publishers worldwide, and represent the entire breadth and depth of moving image history. This current roster of releases encompass 120 years of film history, from the turn of the 19th century actuality film, VIENNA TRAMWAY RIDE (1906) through to Marie Losier's colorful, avant-garde portrait of performance artist Deborah Krystal, BIRD OF THE NIGHT (L’OISEAU DE LA NUIT, (2015).
Read MoreJames Benning’s first feature-length film announced the arrival of a radical new voice in the evolution of moving image art, and remains a landmark of the American avant-garde.
Read MoreLooking to the past while investigating the present, the mathematician-turned-filmmaker condenses three distinct Californian landscapes into a total of 105 shots, each exactly 2½ minutes long.
Read MoreGME Gem #12: The Fall Art Scene, But Where Did Our Love Go?
It’s that time of year again when the film and art scenes get serious. In 1966 a young Warren Sonbert captured it in his second film, WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO?
Read MoreNow that the Fall semester has begun, GME is sending this reminder about our recent and extensive DVD offerings as well as an early announcement about some exciting new releases coming up this Fall that we distribute uniquely to the North American university market.
Read MoreWriter/artist Dennis Cooper & filmmaker Zac Farley: “We love James Benning’s films and thought about them when imagining our film’s possibilities. What makes his great 1987 documentary LANDSCAPE SUICIDE feel particularly like an elder kin to Permanent Green Light is how it eschews the psychological rhetoric that usually accompanies filmic accounts of crime, caring only about the mysterious vacancy of the film’s people and locations, and their relationships to each other.”
Read MoreGME Gem #11: HENRI STORCK - OSTENDE, REINE DES PLAGES
Henri Storck (Belgium 1907 - 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to lyrical documentary. He especially enjoyed chronicling the adventures at the “Queen of beaches” in his native city of Ostend.
Read MoreGME GEM #10 - COOLING DOWN WITH NANOOK OF THE NORTH
Beat the heat with our Canadian cousins digging some vinyl grooves in the cool northern climes.
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