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For many years Rose Lowder has been developing an exceptional technique of weaving together images gathered frame- by-frame to form scintillating patterns of light. By oscillating the focal plane of photographs shot in the same place over time, her layered tapestries produce a new relationship between filmed reality and filmic image.
Read MoreAdvertised as “the first million-dollar movie” when it was released in 1922, Erich von Stroheim’s FOOLISH WIVES offered American audiences a sweeping vision of European decadence, unforgettably embodied by the director himself in his starring performance as Count Sergius Karamzin, a phony Russian aristocrat who bilks the naïve tourists of Monte Carlo with the help of his two dubious “cousins” (Mae Busch and Maude George). Marking the film’s centennial, this will be the New York premiere of a major new restoration of this silent classic, produced by MoMA and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Read MorePaul Clipson’s cinema is one of eternal recurrence. Subjects continually repeat themselves: bridges, buildings, fences, gratings, trains, airplanes, trees, suns, leaves, grass, eyes, power lines, and especially bodies of water. Clipson creates layered superimpositions of these objects through rewinding the camera and re-exposing the film stock from another iteration of the subject.
Read MoreGME is pleased to announce a special free stream for the month of August of this musical with music, musicians, muses and fish… On a giant ferry, two mermaids (Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge) play violin to attract the fish from the sea, when suddenly a giant fish with 30 dancers in its stomach lands on board.
Read MoreThe Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s explores the origins, high points, and eventual demise of this golden age of Soviet graphic design, a revolutionary, though doomed visual language that for a short time represented the explosion of dynamic, innovative filmmaking in the new Socialist society. Gartenberg Media distributes several of the milestone Soviet films which are well represented in this exhibition, including KINO-EYE (1924), BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926), A SIXTH PART OF THE WORLD (1926), and TURKSIB (1929).
Read MoreHenri Storck (Ostend 1907 - Brussels 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to lyrical documentary. He is recognised as a pioneer of Belgian cinema and a key figure in documentary. An eyewitness of his times, he made socially engaged films, but also poetic and experimental short films, films on art and a fiction feature. His body of work consists of 70 films, including a series of accounts, presented on this Blue-ray/DVD edition, on his native city of Ostend of which he was the chronicler and which remained, for him, the Queen of beaches.
Read More1962 to 1964 was a pivotal moment in the evolution of American arts and culture, especially in New York City. These years, crucial to the development of Pop, Minimalism, and performance, saw the emergence of a new generation of radical artists, as well as venues that gave their iconoclastic work a home and a context. Movies, meanwhile, were undergoing a transformation of their own: the rise of a truly independent cinema, of works unencumbered by the medium’s aesthetic conventions and commercial imperatives.
Read MoreTwo bold-face named New Yorkers passed this week, individuals who personified their respective areas of interest, one in the arts and the other in the art of public perception. Both were among the iconic subjects of photographer Jack Mitchell’s camera. Jack Mitchell (1925 – 2013) photographed artists, dancers, film and theatre performers, musicians and writers in more than 6,000 individual sessions. His work frequently appeared on the cover of major magazines as well as in newspapers.
Read MoreGartenberg Media confronts the heat with this “missing link of American independent cinema” that Richard Brody of The New Yorker calls a “tense, myth-drenched drama of liberation and retribution.”
Read MoreGME is pleased to announce the a special free stream for the month of July of this humorous glimpse at what happens every morning on the wavy sidewalks of Copacabana beach, as conceived by Vivian Ostrovsky, a citizen of the world who has made films in Brazil, France, Israel, Japan, the Soviet Union and the United States.
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