Short Films by Charlie Chaplin at Anthology Film Archives

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Short Films by Charlie Chaplin at Anthology Film Archives

It is stupid to treat Charlie as a clown of genius. If there had never been a cinema he would undoubtedly have been a clown of genius, but the cinema has allowed him to raise the comedy of circus and music hall to the highest aesthetic level. Chaplin needed the medium of the cinema to free comedy completely from the limits of space and time imposed by the stage or the circus arena. The best Chaplin films can be seen over and over again with no loss of pleasure – indeed the very opposite is the case.

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GME GEM 16 - Jon Gartenberg Participates in Bradley Eros Personal Expanded Cinema Performance at Microscope Gallery

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GME GEM 16 - Jon Gartenberg Participates in Bradley Eros Personal Expanded Cinema Performance at Microscope Gallery

Bradley Eros’ MovieHeadBox is a quasi-readymade, DIY, democratized version of a VR headset for the personal, immersive and concentrated experience of cinema. GME president Jon Gartenberg was on hand at Microscope Gallery recently to try it out.

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Two GME titles included in Film at Lincoln Center series Another Country: Outsider Visions of America

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Two GME titles included in Film at Lincoln Center series Another Country: Outsider Visions of America

Werner Schroeter’s only U.S. production, WILLOW SPRINGS (1973) and Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet’s CLASS RELATIONS (KLASSENVERHÄLTNISSE) (West Germany, 1984) among the most incisive observations about the United States have been made by those born beyond its shores. In these films, and others in this series, one encounters many Americas, perspectives on a nation that reveal the peculiarities of its customs, the drama of its natural splendor, and the lacerating contradictions of its political mythologies.

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Beyond the Canon: 3 by Maya Deren + Mulholland Drive at BAM Sun, Jul 28, 2pm

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Beyond the Canon: 3 by Maya Deren + Mulholland Drive at BAM Sun, Jul 28, 2pm

Maya Deren, the godmother of the American avant-garde, created trance-state explorations of consciousness, movement, the body, and nature rooted in the dream logic of surrealism and awash in unforgettably uncanny images. From the time-and space-collapsing psychodrama of her forever influential debut MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON to the mesmerizing dance film RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME, these profoundly personal landmarks of experimental film showed that cinema could be a direct conduit to the unconscious mind. Plus David Lynch’s neo-noir freak-out MULHOLLAND DRIVE.

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul's debut feature, MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON, at Film at Lincoln Center 21st Century Debuts July 19th

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul's debut feature, MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON, at Film at Lincoln Center 21st Century Debuts July 19th

“Shot in fits and starts on a minuscule budget, MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON was modeled on the Exquisite Corpse add-an-element structure famous from French surrealism, in which drawings or texts are passed from person to person to elaborate upon, with the original materials hidden so that each addition does not adhere in any “logical” or predetermined way, resulting in a collective, randomly assembled piece (Hail Duchamp).”

– James Quant, "Mysterious Object at Noon"

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GME GEM 15 - JONAS MEKAS DISCUSSES JON GARTENBERG'S WORK ON WARREN SONBERT'S LEGACY

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GME GEM 15 - JONAS MEKAS DISCUSSES JON GARTENBERG'S WORK ON WARREN SONBERT'S LEGACY

In a moving video letter to curator John Hanhardt, LETTER TO JOHN FROM JONAS (1999), in which he stresses the need for Anthology Film Archives to resist the option of merging with the Guggenheim Museum, Jonas Mekas discusses the shift away from Anthology's role as the sole preservationist of experimental cinema, and, by example, the important work of Jon Gartenberg’s preservation of Warren Sonbert’s estate following Sonbert’s untimely death in 1995.

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Formerly Lost Animation Classic by Segundo de Chomón Found Again in Dominic Smith’s New Novel “The Electric Hotel”

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Formerly Lost Animation Classic by Segundo de Chomón Found Again in Dominic Smith’s New Novel “The Electric Hotel”

Author Dominic Smith (“The Last Painting of Sara de Vos”) at once rediscovers and reinvents the formerly lost single-frame animation classic The Electric Hotel by Segundo de Chomón, Spain’s answer to France’s renowned Lumiere brothers, the early kings of silent cinema.

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Cinema Ritrovato Festival just ended - GME Distributes award-winning DVDs to North American university market

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Cinema Ritrovato Festival just ended - GME Distributes award-winning DVDs to North American university market

Learn more about 2019 Il Cinema Ritrovato – DVD Awards recipients L'ENFANT SECRET (Philippe Garrel) and THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF (Felix E. Feist) currently offered by GME.

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