GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Filmmaker and Friend Nancy Buirski

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GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Filmmaker and Friend Nancy Buirski

Gartenberg Media Enterprises notes with sadness the sudden passing of filmmaker and friend Nancy Buirski, on August 30th, 2023, at the age of 78. GME was thrilled to collaborate with Buirski on her final film, the documentary DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY, AND THE LEGEND OF ‘MIDNIGHT COWBOY’, which premiered at the Telluride and Venice Film Festivals last year, and opened theatrically in the United States this summer. For the documentary, GME provided scenes from Jonas Mekas’ film REPORT FROM MILLBROOK (1965-1966) and SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1990, from THE SIXTIES QUARTET, 1990-1999).

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May Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

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May Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

This past month saw the work of several filmmakers distributed by GME programmed in venues in the U.S. and abroad. It is a reminder of both the durability of these artists and their works and the ongoing interest in the kinds of notable independent and experimental moving image work that GME strives to provide to our buyers.

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GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Legendary Underground Filmmaker Kenneth Anger

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GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Legendary Underground Filmmaker Kenneth Anger

Kenneth Anger (1927-2023) embodied the love-hate relationship between underground art and mass culture. Few other avant-garde filmmakers borrowed so liberally or so subversively from popular iconography. And with his sensuous, mystical imagery and pioneering use of pop soundtracks, perhaps none saw their work so readily absorbed back into the mainstream.

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April Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

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April Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

This past month saw the work of several filmmakers distributed by GME programmed in venues in the U.S. and abroad. It is a reminder of both the durability of these artists and their works and the ongoing interest in the kinds of notable independent and experimental moving image work that GME strives to provide to our buyers.

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Films and Filmmakers Distributed by GME Showing in The City: Real and Imagined Series at Film Forum

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Films and Filmmakers Distributed by GME Showing in The City: Real and Imagined Series at Film Forum

Films by Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Alfred Hitchcock, Ken Jacobs, and GME consultant Fred Riedel are screening in this extensive series presented in association with the Museum of the City of New York’s centennial exhibition This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture.

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Notes after Long Silence - On Austrian and American Structural Film at Millennium Film Workshop

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Notes after Long Silence - On Austrian and American Structural Film at Millennium Film Workshop

In the early 1960s, a number of filmmakers emerged in the United States and Europe to produce remarkable films that challenged any previous formal tendency in avant-garde filmmaking. The Structuralist filmmakers—including Peter Kubelka, Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, and Kurt Kren––arranged their shots according to mathematical principles, attempting to produce non-narrative and non-illusionist films to oppose the cinematicapparatus. Similar to the advent of Minimalism in painting and sculpture, structural films insisted on shape, and their content was minimal and subsidiary to the outline.

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LIGHT CONE PRESENTS A TRIBUTE TO DORE O. (1946-2022)

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LIGHT CONE PRESENTS A TRIBUTE TO DORE O. (1946-2022)

The screening at Luminor City Hall in Paris pays tribute to the work and legacy of one of the great pioneers of German experimental cinema, yet relatively unknown to this day. In the 1960s, within the post-war German artistic landscape, the painter Dore O. was one of the first women to make experimental films independently and consistently.

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Amy Taubin Guest Curates Carte Blanche Series at MoMA

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Amy Taubin Guest Curates Carte Blanche Series at MoMA

Noted film critic Amy Taubin has accepted an invitation by The Museum of Modern Art to delve into their archives to conjure a thrilling, thrumming vision of New York City, the place she has called home her entire life.

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Museum of the Moving Image Presents Seminal Films by Maya Deren and F.W. Murnau

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Museum of the Moving Image Presents Seminal Films by Maya Deren and F.W. Murnau

Major works by masters of their respective genres, Maya Deren and F.W. Murnau, are being screened April 22nd (Deren) and 23rd (Murnau) at MoMI.

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Up The Illusion, Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Ken Jacobs, Goes Up at 80 Washington Square East

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Up The Illusion, Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Ken Jacobs, Goes Up at 80 Washington Square East

Curated by artist and writer Andrew Lampert, this street level exhibition features a panoramic selection of Jacobs’ nearly 70 years of pioneering films and digital videos in the Broadway Windows gallery located on the corner of Broadway and E. 10th Street.

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