New York: Film-makers' Cinematheque, 1966. Original film program for the 1966 screening of six Kenneth Anger films, being shown on the Spring Equinox (March 21, 1966). Screened at Jonas Mekas' Film-maker's Cinematheque coopperative theater, then located at 125 West 41st Street in New York. Films at the screening included "Kustom Kar Kommandos," "Fireworks," "Scorpio Rising," "Eaux d'artifice," and a prelude...
N.p. N.p., 1956, 1963. Small archive consisting of two notes from film director and author Kenneth Anger to his friend, British film critic Roy Edwards. Two items are dated 1956 and 1963, pretty much the epicenter of Anger's coming into prominence as a film director of importance, with the releases of "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome" (1953) and "Scorpio Rising,"...
California: Canyon Cinema, 1966-1980. Archive of 66 issues of "Canyon Cinemanews," the newsletter printed by film collective and distributor Canyon Cinema, with issues variously published between 1966 and 1980. Most of the issues bear the address labels (both New York and Ohio) of experimental filmmaker and video artist Jud Yalkut. Issues of "Cinemanews" appear to be scarce or more so...
1967. Collection of 5 vintage borderless photographs, clearly shot in Washington Square, and 3 typescript essays from photographer Jerry Bauer, from 1967. Jerry Bauer was an American photographer best known for his portraits of writers (his portraits of Samuel Beckett are held in particular high regard.) His work is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. The photographs correspond to the...
N.p. N.p., 1959. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1959 experimental short film. From the estate of director Robert Board, who also snapped the photograph of actor Neyle Morrow on the set. In addition to creating numerous short films beginning in the 1940s, Board was an actor, puppeteer, and man about town in classic Hollywood, whose recollections are featured in a....
Rollinsville, CO: Self published, 1971. Original mail order catalog for Stan Brakhage films issued in 1971. To our knowledge, the first catalog to be issued by the filmmaker. Featuring 35 8mm and 35 16mm titles, with brief descriptions for the 8mm films. 7 x 8.5 inches (18 x 22 cm). Ten pages, saddle stitched in self wrappers. Near Fine.
N.p. Stan Brakhage, 1967. Original two color hand printed poster advertising the two first public screenings of the 1967 film, as well as selections from Brakhage's "Songs" and a live lecture by Brakhage. The only poster for a Brakhage screening we have ever encountered, as none of Brakhage's films ever received wide distribution and the kind of poster advertisement that...
Rollinsville, CO: Self published, 1976. Original mail order catalog for Stan Brakhage films issued in 1976. Featuring 47 8mm and 72 16mm titles, with brief descriptions for each film. 9 x 6 inches (23 x 15 cm). 12 pages. About Near Fine in saddle stitched, photo illustrated wrappers.
West Newbury, MA: Frontier Press, 1971. First Edition. A brief philosophical companion to the experimental films of Stan Brakhage, written by the filmmaker. Brakhage's work has recently been the subject of much revival and renewed consideration, due to a two-disc compilation of his work released by the Criterion Collection. Fine in perfect-bound, flexible leatherette covers with gilt titles to the...
London: Self published, 1936. First Edition. Published in the wake of the highly influential "Close Up" magazine, "Film Art" kept the flame lit as an important UK literary and film periodical, a few of the editors contributing most of the material, and a handful of others filling the gaps. The magazine was not opposed to completely ignoring the general public's...
New York: Galeria Bonino, 1967. Complete set of four matching exhibition catalogs for a staggered series of installations by avant-garde film director Robert Breer, held at the Galeria Bonino in New York between 1965 and 1970. The first catalog is for an exhibition at the gallery titled "Constructions and Films," and was held in early 1965, noted as Exhibition No...
Madrid: Alenda Distribucion / Jose Esteban, 1978. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1978 Spanish release (and first release in Spain) of the 1930 film. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine.
Hollywood: California Department of Employment, 1945. Identification Card for Luis Bunuel, issued on November 26, 1945 by United States Employment Service, California Department of Employment. Signed and annotated with Social Security number by Bunuel in holograph ink on recto, continuing on the verso with Name, Address, Year of Birth, Sex, Height, Work for which you qualify and Code Number, also...
Pasadena, CA: Spiral Group, 1986. First Edition. Issue number six of "SPIRAL" magazine. Edited by Los Angeles Filmforum founder Terry Cannon, the magazine ran for nine issues between 1984 and 1986, and according to David James' "The Most Typical Avant-Garde" represented "the only sustained attempt in Los Angeles to create a periodical about avant-garde film." James goes on the say...
![Un Chien Andalou [An Andulusian Dog] (Original 1968 poster for the 1929 film). Salvador Dali,...](/pictures/thumb/143507.jpg?v=1567452680)
Paris: Les Grands Films Classiques, 1968. Vintage 1968 French half grande poster for the 1929 French film. Luis Bunuel's debut as a filmmaker, a legendary short film co-created by Salvador Dali, was originally screened at a cine-club, with no posters or advertisement created. This poster, a montage of archival images from the film (including the legendary image of the woman's...
New York: The Living Theatre, 1961. Original flyer for an exhibition of six films by Maya Deren held on February 20 and 27, 1961 at the Bleecker Street Cinema, and March 6 and 13, 1961 at The Living Theater. The flyer notes that music for two of the films, "Meshes in the Afternoon" and "The Very Eye of the Night"...
Hong Kong: N.p., 1999. Vintage Hong Kong poster, printed in both Chinese and English, for the 1999 film. An experimental film by director Eric Kot, with cameos from numerous notable actors. Kot is notorious in the Chinese hip hop industry and has made a number of short films and television episodes. 40 x 25 inches (102 x 64 cm), folded. Near Fine.
![Invisible Adversaries [Unsichtbare Gegner] (Original poster for the 1977 film). Valie Export,...](/pictures/thumb/132234.jpg?v=1434404463)
Austria: Valie Export FIlmproduktion, 1977. Original German A1 poster for the 1977 Austrian film. Designed by Spiros Tsiligiridis. Susanne Widl portrays Ann, an artist obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction of the human race. A highly symbolic and experimental work, where the filmmaking itself mirrors the character's mental state, utilizing juxtaposition, montage, odd camera angles...
![Meetings In The Forest [Les Rendez-Vous en Foret] (Original photograph from the 1972 film). Alain...](/pictures/thumb/144851.jpg?v=1560892649)
Paris: Argos Films, 1971. Vintage photograph of Catherine Jourdan and Heinz Bennent from the 1972 film. An experimental fantasy film full of erotic themes set in a fairytale-like forest. 8.5 x 10.5 inches (22 x 26.6 cm). Near Fine.
New York: Two Faces / New Yorker Films, 1969. Vintage poster for the 1969 film, an experimental mix of documentary and fiction. Poster designed by Robert Frank. Director Robert Frank's first feature film, in which he follows poet Peter Orlvosky and his mentally ill brother Julius as they move through the late 1960s Beat scene, while Peter tries to care...
![The Madness of Dr. Tube [La Folie du Docteur Tube] (Two original photographs from the 1915 film)....](/pictures/thumb/144596.jpg?v=1544116790)
France: Le Film d'Art, 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film, struck circa 1936. With holograph notations and agency stamps on the verso. Dr. Tube develops a powder that distorts reality after ingestion. He tests it out on himself, a dog, and a two couples. An early experimental film that uses distorted lenses and mirrors to create special...
![One Plus [+] One [Sympathy for the Devil] (Original photograph of Mick Jagger from the set of the...](/pictures/thumb/135547.jpg?v=1492979133)
N.p. N.p., 1968. Vintage borderless press photograph of Mick Jagger in the studio, from the set of the 1968 French experimental film mixing documentary with surreal imagery and fictitious characters. With a few penciled notations on the verso indicating placement. An image of Mick Jagger in the studio, from one of the many sequences relating to the band's creation of...
Paris: Anne-age-Bela, 1975. Vintage French petite poster for the 1975 French film. Godard's experimental film examines the intricate social relations of a young French family, while simultaneously analyzing and commenting on the act of film making. The film is unique for presenting two images on the screen simultaneously. 22 x 30 inches (56 x 76 cm), folded. Two holograph pencil...
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N.p. N.p., 1968. Two vintage borderless photographs from the set of the 1968 French experimental film mixing documentary with surreal imagery and fictitious characters. With mimeo snipe on one and holograph notations on the other. From the last scene of the film featuring "Eve Democracy," a graffiti artist played by Anne Wiazemsky who is followed by a film crew on...
![Keep Your Right Up [Une Place Sur La Terre Comme Au Ciel] (Original photograph from the 1987...](/pictures/thumb/144497.jpg?v=1547500031)
Paris: Gaumont, 1987. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard from the 1987 film. With holograph notations on the verso. An experimental film that irreverently mixes genres, twisting together a broad range of references to literature, film comedy, and the history of cinema. Starring Godard himself as a filmmaker, thus blurring the fictional category from the outset. Made the same...
![Numero deux [Number Two] (Collection of 10 original photographs from the 1975 film). Jean-Luc...](/pictures/thumb/138832.jpg?v=1492980104)
Paris: Anne-age-Bela, 1975. Collection of ten vintage borderless photographs (five black-and-white and five in color) from the 1975 film. Generally considered the peak of the collaborative work on video done by Godard and Mieville, presenting scenes from the everyday interactions of a working class family, with a special focus on children. The film was shot on video, then played back...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Vintage borderless press photograph of Alejandro Jodorowsky directing his third film, "The Holy Mountain." Mimeo snipe on the verso credited to the director's Mexican production company, Procinemex, describing the details of the photo in Spanish. 9.5 x 7.5 inches (24 x 19.5 cm). Near Fine.
![Who Are You, Polly Magoo [Qui etes-vous, Polly Maggoo] (Collection of 8 oversize double weight...](/pictures/thumb/135616.jpg?v=1492979151)
Paris: Club des Producteteurs, Circa 1965-1966. Eight vintage oversize press photographs from the set of the 1965 film, shot for the French magazine Cinema 66, and with their stamp and stamped reference number on the verso of each. All the shots are striking and quite candid, several showing director William Klein working with actors Dorothy MacGowan and Sami Frey or...
![Grands soirs et petits matins [Mayday] (Original photograph from the set of the 1977 film)....](/pictures/thumb/135608.jpg?v=1492979150)
N.p. William Klein, 1968. Vintage photograph, shot by director-photographer William Klein, during the making of his landmark documentary. With Klein's stamp on the back, noting his address in Paris. In making his cinema verite documentary about the occupation of the Sorbonne begun during the May, 1968 protests in Paris, Klein received unprecedented access to student leaders, activists, various committee meetings...
N.p. N.p., 1959-82. Notebook belonging to legendary amateur filmmaker Sid Laverents containing 73 pages of holograph notes on various film and camera tests, lighting, settings, and other technical aspects of filmmaking made between circa 1959 and 1982. Included are 21 film strips laid or tipped into the notebook, with accompanying notations, and each generally between three to four inches in...
New York: The Collective for Living Cinema, 1977. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Yvonne Rainer on the table on contents: "Greetings / to Schuldt / from Yvonne / almost Spring 1977." Rainer contributes printed annotated selections from the script from her landmark feminist film "Katrina Talking Pictures" (1966) to the issue. Near Fine in saddle stitched wrappers.
New York: Filmmakers Newsletter / Filmmakers' Cinematheque, 1967-1971. Archive of 41 issues of "Filmmakers Newsletter," dating from the first four years of the magazine, including Vol. I, issue 1. Early issues of the magazine appear to be scarce, and putting together a collection of this size would be prohibitively difficult. Founded in 1967 by experimental filmmaker Carl Linder as "New...
Los Angeles: American Film Institute [AFI], Circa 1973-1974. Two vintage press photographs from the set of the 1977 film. Lynch's film was shot piecemeal on an AFI backlot in Los Angeles over a period of five years, and two years into the project, cinematographer Herbert Cardwell died in his sleep at the age of 35. He was replaced after four...
Belgrade: Avala Film, 1967. Original program for the international release of the 1967 Yugoslav black wave film. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film and reproductions of line illustrations. Wrappers text in French, with French, German, Russian, Spanish, and English text inside. Taking on the trappings of American crime and film noir, about a woman who is murdered by her lover...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Original poster for the Tenth Annual New York Avant Garde Festival held on December 9, 1973 at Grand Central Station in New York. Poster by artist, designer, and musician Jim McWilliams, who would design 12 of the 15 festival posters, making his work synonymous with the Festival. Founded by cellist and performance artist Charlotte Moorman, the Annual...
New York: Jonas Mekas, 1969. Vintage large format poster for the 1969 experimental film by shot and edited by Jonas Mekas from his "film diary" footage shot between 1965 and 1969. Either unique or very nearly so, with no examples found in OCLC or institutions worldwide. The poster also doubles as liner notes for the film, briefly describing the scenes...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1932. Original photo album archive consisting exclusively of exquisitely shot vernacular photographs from George Pal's studio in Germany, shot shortly after he left his native Hungary, where he developed his famous Puppetoons technique of stop-motion animation. With Pal's bookplate to front free end-paper and his ownership stamp to inside front and back covers. 68 vintage photographs, all...
![The Nun [La Religieuse] (Original French poster for the 1966 film). Jacques Rivette, Denis...](/pictures/thumb/139960.jpg?v=1492980408)
N.p. Rome Paris Films, 1966. Vintage French Moyenne poster for the 1966 film. Nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. A flurry of controversy surrounded the production and release of Rivette's film. Upon facing pressure from the French Catholic Church regarding its critical religious and sexual content, the new Minister of Information, Yvon Bourges, banned its...
New York: N.p., 1973. Archive of photographs and negatives, shot by and belonging to photographer Andy Romanoff, of director Nicholas Ray at work on his collaborative, experimental film "We Can't Go Home Again" at the Chateau Marmont in 1973. In addition to the material, sale of the archive includes complete ownership of republication and reproduction rights. In 1971, after nearly...
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1967. Draft script for the 1967 film. Text in Japanese. An experimental, absurdist, pop art satire of yakuza films and film noir, Suzuki’s film was a failure on release, leading him to be fired and then blackballed by the studio for making films that made neither sense nor profit. The film rightly became a cult classic with its...
![Nostalgia [Nostalghia] (Original photograph from the set of the 1975 film). Andrei Tarkovsky,...](/pictures/thumb/140938.jpg?v=1492980641)
Soviet Union: Mosfilm, 1983. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1983 film, showing director Andrei Tarkovsky striking a contemplative pose while behind the camera. With a holograph ink notation on the verso identifying the film. The only vintage photograph of the great director at work on location we have handled. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and Best Director...
![Nostalgia [Nostalghia] (Original photograph from the set of the 1983 film). Andrei Tarkovsky,...](/pictures/thumb/144461.jpg?v=1544116771)
Soviet Union: Mosfilm, 1983. Vintage photograph of director Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of the 1983 film. Typescript snipe and holograph notations on the verso. The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Jankovsky) and his interpreter Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano) journey to Italy to research a forgotten 18th-century composer. Winner of three prizes at The Cannes Film Festival, including Best Director, and...
Philadelphia: Max L. Raab Productions, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of actors Viva, James Rado, and Gerome Ragni from the 1969 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Taking cues from her female counterpart in the United States, Shirley Clarke, Varda created a drama with traditional narrative that incorporated improvisational cinema verite. Bending and blurring the lines further, she included Clarke...
![La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques [Can Dialectics Break Bricks] (Original Poster for...](/pictures/thumb/137888.jpg?v=1492979791)
Paris: Telemondial, 1973. Original French Grande poster and double sided French flyer for the 1973 Situationist film by Rene Vienet, which repurposes the 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film "Crush," directed by Kuang-Chi Tu, overdubbing the dialogue to create "a critique of class conflicts, bureaucratic socialism, the failures of the French Communist Party, Maoism, cultural hegemony, sexual equality and the...
New York: Andy Warhol, 1965. Vintage mimeograph poster advertising the world premiere of Andy Warhol's seminal films, "Vinyl" and "Poor Little Rich Girl." Photo illustrated with a repeating image of Sedgwick and Malanga from the film. Both films were shot by Warhol at the Factory. Technically, this was the first screening of "Poor Little Rich Girl" and the second screening...
Chicago, IL: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1968. Original mailer with exhibition information and 33 1/3 rpm record "Sounds for 4 Cinema Pieces" soundtracks by Robert Whitman for his films from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, April and May, 1968. Whitman's 4 Cinema Pieces, "Window" (1963), "Shower" (1964), "Dressing Table" (1964), and "Sink" (1964), were shown together for the first...