José Val del Omar Exhibition at MoMI and Roundtable Discussion at NYU

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José Val del Omar Exhibition at MoMI and Roundtable Discussion at NYU

Since March of this year, the Museum of the Moving Image has shown the work of prolific multimedia artist José Val del Omar in an exciting, ongoing exhibition titled Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar. Gartenberg Media Enterprises is proud to distribute, to the North American university market, 14 stunning Val del Omar films in a 5-disc boxset titled VAL DEL OMAR: ELEMENTAL DE ESPAÑA.

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GME Associate Fred Riedel's Documentary On Ken and Flo Jacobs Screens in Venice

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GME Associate Fred Riedel's Documentary On Ken and Flo Jacobs Screens in Venice

Beginning tomorrow, September 6th, 2023, through the following day (September 7th), the feature-length documentary KEN JACOBS: FROM ORCHARD STREET TO THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART screens at the Venice International Film Festival in the Venice Classics section. GME associate Fred Riedel, a former student and longtime friend of Ken Jacobs, produced, directed, shot, and edited the film. GME is a longtime friend and collaborator of Jacobs and produced his 2012 film CYCLOPEAN #3D: LIFE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN through the Experimental Filmmakers Production Fund.

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The Brooklyn Rail and the Film-Makers' Cooperative Screen Five Maya Deren Films for Labor Day

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The Brooklyn Rail and the Film-Makers' Cooperative Screen Five Maya Deren Films for Labor Day

Today, Labor Day, The Brooklyn Rail and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative have made five essential films by the Mother of American Avant-Garde Cinema, the only and only Maya Deren, available to view online, for free, for 24 hours! GME is proud to distribute these five Deren titles — 1943’s MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, 1944’s AT LAND, 1945’s A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR THE CAMERA, 1946’s RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME, and 1948’s MEDITATION ON VIOLENCE — to universities in the United States and Canada as both DVDs and DVD/DSL bundles.

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Lav Diaz's BATANG WEST SIDE Screens at Spectacle Microcinema on September 2nd

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Lav Diaz's BATANG WEST SIDE Screens at Spectacle Microcinema on September 2nd

On Saturday, September 2nd, 2023, at 5pm, Spectacle Microcinema (124 S. 3rd Street) will screen Lav Diaz’s 2001 feature film BATANG WEST SIDE. This is the final program in Spectacle’s months-long retrospective of Diaz’s work, which began on March 25th, 2023. This fall, GME will distribute BATANG WEST SIDE, along with Diaz’s 2018 short THE BOY WHO CHOSE THE EARTH, in a forthcoming DVD/DSL combo pack made in collaboration with Edition-Filmmuseum.

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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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