GME Reflects On Raimondo Borea's Boys' Town Of Italy Photo Essay In Honor of Italian-American Heritage Month
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In honor of Italian-American heritage month, GME reflects on Raimondo Borea's Boys' Town Of Italy photo essay.
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GME Remembers Senator Dianne Feinstein This LGBTQ+ History Month
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GME remembers Senator Dianne Feinstein, who passed away on September 29th at the age of 90. Feinstein was celebrated for her advocacy, in general, of the queer community and LGBTQ+ rights. She was also captured on film by Warren Sonbert, an experimental filmmaker whose work included depictions of gay life on screen, as well as encoded in the subtext of a number of his films, and whose films are exclusively represented by Gartenberg Media Enterprises. Feinstein appears briefly in Sonbert’s 1981 film NOBLESSE OBLIGE, described by GME President Jon Gartenberg as “a masterfully edited work that features imagery Sonbert photographed of protests in San Francisco following the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Councilman Harvey Milk at the hands of White.”
Read MoreJerome Hiler Retrospective at Berkeley Art Museum This Month
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Since September, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive has hosted a retrospective of the work of experimental filmmaker, painter, and stained glass artist Jerome Hiler. Hiler appears with his partner Nathaniel Dorsky in the work of Warren Sonbert, whose catalogue of experimental films, dating back to the 1960s, is exclusively represented by Gartenberg Media Enterprises. Notably, Hiler and Dorsky show up in the final sequences of Sonbert’s THE TENTH LEGION (1967) and NOBLESSE OBLIGE (1981).
Read MoreSeptember 2023 Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings
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Happy Autumn from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! As we enter October, we’re looking back at a myriad of screenings from last month, in New York City and beyond, featuring films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. GME-associated artists were well-represented in September — from pioneering filmmakers like Ida Lupino, Jean-Luc Godard, Jose Val Del Omar, Maya Deren, and Man Ray, to contemporary artists like Karel Doing, Rose Lowder, and Lav Diaz. The work of Warren Sonbert, which is exclusively represented by GME, was also screened in various venues in September.
Read MoreA Look at GME's Hugh Bell Photo Collection In Honor of LGBTQ+ History Month
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On the occasion of October being LGBTQ+ History Month, GME reflects on gems from our photo collections that were taken by queer photographers and/or spotlight the beauty and diversity of queer communities over the past several decades. First up is Hugh Bell, a highly-prolific visual artist whose candid images of LGBTQ+ community members in the 1980s and ‘90s remain potent historical artifacts.
Read MoreNew James Benning Documentary Playing at NYFF
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On Sunday, October 8th, and Monday, October 9th, 2023, James Benning’s new film ALLENSWORTH will screen at the New York Film Festival in the Currents section. Benning remains one of our most significant, formalist avant-garde filmmakers, and GME is proud to be the sole distributor of his films to the North American university market. Currently available from GME as both DVDs and DVD/DSL bundles are Benning’s films 11 X 14, ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE, 27 YEARS LATER (1977-2012), GRAND OPERA (1979), AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST & FOUND) (1984), O PANAMA (1985), LANDSCAPE SUICIDE (1986), DESERET (1995), FOUR CORNERS (1997), his CALIFORNIA TRILOGY (1999-2001), CASTING A GLANCE (2007), RR (2007), NATURAL HISTORY (2009), and RUHR (2014).
Read MoreDominic Angerame Program at SF's Roxie This Saturday
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This Saturday, October 7th, 2023, nine short works by filmmaker, theorist, and avant-garde activist Dominic Angerame will screen at San Francisco’s Roxie in a program titled The Soul of Cinema. GME is proud to distribute nine of Angerame’s “city symphonies” in the collection CITYSCAPES, which is available to the North American university market as both a DSL file and physical DVD.
Read MoreToday is International Silent Movie Day!
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Today, September 29th, has been established by an international group of film archivists as Silent Movie Day! Head to the DVD Distribution section of our website and learn about the myriad International Silent Classics in our catalogue, currently available for institutional rental or acquisition in North America.
Read MoreAn Evening with Bill Brand at Maysles Documentary Center
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This past Saturday, September 22nd, 2023, experimental film and video artist, educator, activist, and film preservationist Bill Brand screened four of his films and gave a presentation connecting his moving image works to his paintings and drawings at the Maysles Documentary Center. Brand is a longtime friend and colleague of Gartenberg Media Enterprises. In the late 1990s, GME President Jon Gartenberg worked as the program director for the Film Preservation Program of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS. As part of that role, Gartenberg enlisted BB Optics — Brand’s preservation laboratory — to work on the Project’s preservation of work by multimedia artists David Wojnarowicz, Curt McDowell, and Jack Waters.
Read MoreEduardo Darino Retrospective Playing at the Film-Makers' Cooperative
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Eight films by legendary filmmaker and animator Eduardo Darino will play at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative on Friday, September 29th, at 7pm, to celebrate Darino’s six-decade career. GME associate Matt McKinzie curated and will present this program. GME highlights the work of Darino’s contemporaries, similarly groundbreaking Latin American moving image artists, in the must-have collection CINE A CONTRACORRIENTE: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE OTHER LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA.
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