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In memorializing Worlds AIDS Day, this screening of 16mm film prints from the Reserve Film and Video Collection pays tribute to Warren Sonbert, one of the seminal figures of American experimental film.
Read MoreAward winning Austrian filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky’s OUTER SPACE (1999) re-edited by former Sonic Youth member Lee Ranaldo for the first official music video release from his forthcoming album with Raül Refree, “Names of North End Women” on Mute Records.
Read MoreThis long-overdue retrospective surveys the career of Holly Fisher, a filmmaker who since the late 1960s has been as prolific, as free in her exploration of different cinematic forms, and as adventurous in her embrace of new technological tools and ways of seeing as any of her peers, but without enjoying the degree of attention and acclaim that her work richly deserves.
Read MoreJon Gartenberg is interviewed by Antonia Carey for a forthcoming documentary about film archivists, collectors, and enthusiasts.
Read MoreIn commemoration this October of LGBT History Month, GME pays homage to pioneering gay activist Vito Russo.
Read MoreGartenberg Media Enterprises presents a rare audio clip from a field recording during John F. Kennedy’s 1960 Presidential Campaign. In his remarks, JFK encapsulates William Faulkner’s famous observation that "The past is never dead. It's not even past" as he speaks to the enduring social values of the Democratic party, versus those of the Republican party in the United States. Sixty years later this divide between the two political parties is even more profoundly evident.
Read MoreThe Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection has been reinstalled in radical fashion, opening up the narrative of modern art to incorporate film alongside the other fine arts, among them painting, drawing, and photography. GME distributes many of these canonical works in DVD exclusively to universities in North America, in order to further their appreciation and incorporation into teaching curricula.
Read MoreFilmmakers Nicolás Pereda and Pedro Neves Marques will attend the Q&A both nights with their short feature MY SKIN, LUMINOUS (2019, 39 minutes), a shape-shifting docufiction that weaves its real-life subject into a subtly unfolding drama, and which speaks to the wider ongoing reforms to Mexico’s public school system.
Read MoreGME is pleased to present for the fall academic semester an ever-expanding roster of DVD and Blu-ray editions of moving image works from the entire breadth and depth of moving image history. These works encompass trick films by George Méliès from the 1890s through to contemporary experimental filmmakers working in both France and the United States.
Read MoreRecently, Raimondo Borea’s iconic photograph of educator Kenneth B. Clark has been placed on permanent display as part of a wall text at the entry to the Kenneth B. Clark Auditorium at the New York State Museum in Albany.
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