The Early Films of Peter Tscherkassky are Screening at Light Industry

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The Early Films of Peter Tscherkassky are Screening at Light Industry

After a decade in Greenpoint, Light Industry has moved to East Williamsburg and begin their fall season with a selection of early films by Peter Tscherkassky. The works assembled here stand as some of the most vital cinematic experiments of the late 20th century, appealing, at once, to the eye through the virtuosity of their formal construction, and to the theoretical imagination through their rigorous conceptual strategies.

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Stephen Dwoskin's "Erotic Masterpiece," TIMES FOR, Showing in The Carnal Screen series at the Roxy Cinema

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Stephen Dwoskin's "Erotic Masterpiece," TIMES FOR, Showing in The Carnal Screen series at the Roxy Cinema

Co-presented with the Museum of Sex, and introduced by Sean Price Williams, TIMES FOR (1970, featuring performance artist and filmmaker Carolee Schneemann) depicts an unfulfilled man who renders himself to the unrealized sensuality of four women. In his drifting search he fails and fades in the same loneliness as the women. The film is the reality and a metaphor for the intensities of sexual experience. “… His camera is a never-static instrument of his intrusion into the fantasy/reality of the relationships he is dealing with and forming …. TIMES FOR is one of the few erotic masterpieces.” –Program note, National Film Theatre, London

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Introducing GME's Featured Filmmakers Collection

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Introducing GME's Featured Filmmakers Collection

Gartenberg Media is proud to present multiple DVD, Blu-ray and DSL editions of several featured filmmakers in our catalog, including extensive representation of the work of James Benning, Philippe Garrel, Marie Losier, Jonas Mekas, Warren Sonbert, Henri Storck, Dziga Vertov and others.

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GME Notes the Recent Passing of Actress, Model and Activist Marsha Hunt at 94

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GME Notes the Recent Passing of Actress, Model and Activist Marsha Hunt at 94

American actress, model, and activist, with a career spanning nearly 80 years, Marsha Hunt appeared in many films, including BORN TO THE WEST (1937) with John Wayne, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940) with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, KID GLOVE KILLER (1942) with Van Heflin, CRY 'HAVOC' (1943) with Margaret Sullavan and Joan Blondell, THE HUMAN COMEDY (1943) with Mickey Rooney, RAW DEAL (1948) with Claire Trevor, THE HAPPY TIME (1952) with Charles Boyer, and Dalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN (1971). She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during McCarthyism.

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GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Filmmaking Legend Jean-Luc Godard

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GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Filmmaking Legend Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard upended cinematic conventions and expectations with his La Nouvelle Vague debut and international hit, BREATHLESS, and continued to astound, confront, and reinvent cinema, and sometimes confound audiences for the next 60 years. Though in the company of many great auteur talents of the period, Godard stood out in his strident social and aesthetic development, working in narrative, documentary and television formats simultaneously, while remaking each in the mold of his own, highly personal vision.

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John & Yoko, Jackie O, Warhol and others Star in Clip Licensing Sampler Added to GME's Website

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John & Yoko, Jackie O, Warhol and others Star in Clip Licensing Sampler Added to GME's Website

This brief, bouncy Gartenberg Media Clip Licensing Sampler, includes scenes from experimental and independent films that GME makes available for clip licensing purposes to film and television productions worldwide. The clips that we license comprise riveting and dynamic imagery of notable scenesters and their lifestyles, featuring Andy Warhol, Jackie Kennedy and extended family, John & Yoko, Miles Davis (shooting hoops with Lennon at a celebrity gathering in Riverdale), Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga (all performing with the Velvet Underground), Alan Ginsburg, Michelangelo Antonioni (visiting Shirley Clarke and Jonas Mekas at the Film-Makers' Cooperative) and a score of other key figures from the artistic and cultural worlds. GME’s library of clip licensing footage also features unique street scenes of New York City from the 1940’s onward (with a particular focus on the 1960’s), that have been utilized as B-roll footage by various production companies.

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Hugh Bell Photos Chosen for A Picture Gallery of the Soul Exhibition at The Katherine E. Nash Gallery

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Hugh Bell Photos Chosen for A Picture Gallery of the Soul Exhibition at The Katherine E. Nash Gallery

The University of Minnesota gallery will present two photos by Hugh Bell in their upcoming fall exhibition, a group exhibition of over 100 Black American artists whose work incorporates the photographic medium.

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THEMATIC COURSE SUGGESTIONS FROM GME AND MORE AS WE HEAD INTO FALL

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THEMATIC COURSE SUGGESTIONS FROM GME AND MORE AS WE HEAD INTO FALL

Looking ahead to the fall semester, GME would like to remind you of some of our popular titles that can be utilized for thematic teaching purposes, while also preparing you for a selection of new titles from Kino Lorber, Re:voir, Index Edition, Edition Filmmuseum, and others, soon to be released as downloadable DSL files and Disk/DSL bundles through GME Streamline.

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GME Gem 23: Raimondo Borea Photos of People at Work

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GME Gem 23: Raimondo Borea Photos of People at Work

Photographer Raimondo Borea covered a wide range of subjects, from iconic celebrity and historic figures captured during his tenure as the set photographer on Firing Line, The Today Show, and The Tonight Show, to candid portraits of orphaned and homeless war children housed in the Boys’ Towns of Italy, and to his work with the photographic group the Circle of Confusion, with its focus on social documentary.

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LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Showing in ALAIN RESNAIS 100 Series at Film Forum

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LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Showing in ALAIN RESNAIS 100 Series at Film Forum

“Masterpiece of masterpieces!” (Jonathan Rosenbaum), LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (France, 1961), directed by Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, “is a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside time, and a shocking intimation of perfection.” (J. Hoberman). A hypnotically beautiful puzzle box of a film, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD is one of the most influential in the history of cinema.

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