GME News
Hugh Bell (1927-2012) was born in New York to parents who emigrated from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. He spent a lot of time doing the thing he liked best, photographing jazz musicians, through which he gained notoriety while in his twenties. Hugh Bell also focused on documenting Gay Pride, Wigstock, and the Greenwich Village Halloween parade during the 1980s and 1990s.
Read MoreThe Il Cinema Ritrovato – DVD Awards aims to encourage and give visibility to DVD and Blu-ray editions of important films from around the world that were originally produced more than thirty years ago.
Read MoreWith the release of these DVD editions (published by Re:Voir), GME pays tribute to Jonas Mekas (1922-2019), who led a remarkable life both as the Godfather of avant-garde cinema as well as the signature artist who propelled the film diary into new dimensions of time, space, and memory.
Read MoreThe role of women filmmakers has been generally overlooked in the writing of film histories. In order to rectify these omissions in the field of academic film studies, GME is proud to distribute significant moving image works created by female artists in DVD format.
Read MoreFriedl Kubelka is an Austrian photographer, filmmaker and visual artist born in London, England in 1946. Her photographic practice has been attributed to a 20th-century movement known as Feminist Actionism or Viennese Actionism.
Read MoreGME is pleased to announce the release of BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST, a DVD edition (published by Re:Voir) of selected moving image works by visual artist Holly Fisher. This DVD features her most widely-known film, BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST (1992), together with 4 of her short films (GLASS SHADOWS [1976], FROM THE LADIES [1977], THIS IS MONTAGE [1978], and SOFTSHOE [1987]).
Read MoreTHE MOST DANGEROUS GAME is a superb, pre-Code action-adventure film. Based upon a famous short story by Richard Connell, it follows big game hunter, Bob Rainsford, (Joel McCrea), as he becomes quarry for another, the opulently deranged Count Zaroff, (floridly played by Leslie Banks).
Read MoreJeff Preiss was inspired by the diary films of Jonas Mekas and Warren Sonbert (who was his teacher at Bard College). He began in the early 1980s making silent, semi-narrative works born out of his practice of shooting with his Regular 8mm Bolex on a daily basis.
Read More"I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only the machine can see it. I am now free of human immobility. I am in perpetual motion.”
Read More
