During the past decade, Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) has been actively engaged in seeking out and representing high quality DVD & Blu-ray publications from film archives and boutique publishers around the world, representing films and videos that encompass important works from the breadth and depth of the history of the moving image. These premiere publications are made available by GME exclusively for institutional purchase by the university market in North America.

With the fall academic semester nearing completion, Gartenberg Media Enterprises has offered a 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). 

The DVD edition of MARQUIS DE WAVRIN is the winner of this year’s prestigious Il Cinema Rirtrovato DVD Award for “Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film”.

GME has focused attention on the rediscovery of lesser known movies in the Film Noir genre.  In addition to our prior release of TOO LATE FOR TEARS (1949) and WOMAN ON THE RUN (1950), we are now pleased to offer the newest DVD publication in conjunction with Flicker Alley, THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF (1950).  

One of the pleasures of curating a line of DVD releases is the ability to help reshape the canons of film history.  Very little is known in North America about Portuguese silent film history, and with several new DVD releases, our attempt is to alter this understanding.  We offer 3 DVD publications by key directors of the silent era In Portugal:  Rino Lupo (RINO LUPO: MULHERES DA BEIRA / OS LOBOS), Reinaldo Ferreira (O TÁXI Nº 9297), and Leitão de Barros (LISBOA, CRÓNICA ANEDÓTICA).

November 11, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.  To acknowledge this historical moment, GME presents a curated collection of DVDs related to this international conflict and its immediate aftermath. 

GME is pleased to present two publications centered on life in Vienna, VIENNA 1900. PICTURES OF A METROPOLIS and THE ANCIENT LAW (DAS ALTES GESETZ).