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,".....

1967. Archive of five vintage borderless photographs, and three typescript essays, all by photographer Jerry Bauer, circa 1967, with the photographs in the archive corresponding to the topics of the essays. Bauer was an American photographer best known for his photographic portraits of writers, with his portraits of Samuel Beckett being held in particularly high regard. Much of his work.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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: 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.....

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 annotations 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.....

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 annotations 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.....

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.....

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.....

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 annotations, and each generally between three to four inches in.....

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.....

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.....

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. 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.....

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.....

Soviet Union: Mosfilm, 1983. Vintage photograph of director Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of the 1983 film. Typescript snipe and holograph annotations 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.....

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.....