New York: Impact Films, 1966. Original poster for the 1966 double feature of Robert Downey Sr.s' "Chafed Elbows" (1966) and Kenneth Anger's "Scorpio Rising" (1964) which ran together for over a month at the Gate Theater in New York for the premiere of Downey Sr.'s film.A unique pairing of two classic-underground filmmakers. Downey Sr.'s "Chafed Elbows," a manic film determined.....

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, 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. 12 pages. About Near Fine in saddle stapled, photo illustrated wrappers.

Chicago: The Goodlion, 1972. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Brakhage on the front endpaper to to publisher Barney Rosset: "Dear Barney / In thanks for all you've given, made possible / Thanks / Stan Brakhage."Barney Rosset was the founder of the Grove Press, which, in addition to its obvious importance, helped usher Brakhage's work into institutions in the 1970s by "publishing".....

N.p. N.p., 1973. Lengthy typed letter signed from Stan Brakhage to Will Petersen, roughly 500 words, dated May 28, 1973. Petersen was the director of the Creative Arts Center at West Virginia University, and Brakhage's letter confirms an upcoming talk at the university and answers in some detail a number of Petersen's questions. With Brakhage's holograph signature in black ink.....

San Francisco: Pasteurize Press / Zephyrus Image, 1975. First Edition. An offprint of Brakhage's remarks following a screening of his film, "The Text of Light," at the San Francisco Art Institute, Nov 18, 1974. A variant of the first edition described in the Zephyrus Image bibliography by Alastair Johnston, this copy without the inner printed Mylar wrapper and printed envelope.....

San Francisco: Pasteurize Press / Zephyrus Image, 1975. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS, preceding the First Edition. An offprint of Brakhage's remarks following a screening of his film, "The Text of Light," at the San Francisco Art Institute, Nov 18, 1974. One of what could only possibly be a handful of proofs made for Zephyrus Image prior to the publication of the.....

New York: Film-Makers' Cinematheque, 1966. First Edition. The second issue of a monograph series published by Jonas Mekas' Film-makers' Cinematheque. With a brief typed note signed by Stan Brakhage's wife, Jane Brakhage, to a Jim Adams in San Francisco, letting Mr. Adams know where a copy of the journal "Metaphors" can be ordered. Also included in a tall side-stapled two-color.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., 1966-1981. Collection of four vintage photographs, one showing a gallery screening of experimental filmmaker Robert Breer's work, with Breer and artist Andy Warhol in attendance, and three showing stills from Breer's animated films "A Man and His Dog out for Air" (1957), "T2" (1979), and "Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons" (1981). With printed label snipes on.....

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.....

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".....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1970 experimental film, showing director Dick Fontaine and his wife, filmmaker and actress Pat Hartley. A fictionalized autobiography of the young filmmaker, featuring cameos by Norman Mailer and Jean Shrimpton. Fontaine is best known for his work as an independent documentary filmmaker, most notably "Will the Real Norman Mailer Please.....

France: Le Film d'Art, 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film, struck from the original negative circa 1936. With holograph annotations 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.....

Paris: Anne-age-Bela, 1975. Vintage French moyenne 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. 24 x 32 inches, folded. Two holograph pencil annotations to the verso.....

Paris: Gaumont, 1987. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard from the 1987 film. With holograph annotations 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.....

Sydney: Balmain Bijou, 1979. Vintage offset lithograph poster for a series of screening of the 1978 UK film at the Balmain Bijou theatre in Sydney, Australia, circa 1979. Queen Elizabeth I travels to a dystopian 1970s London, witnessing a lawless city overrun by a gang of punk girls. A cult classic, featuring a soundtrack by Brian Eno, performances by Adam.....

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. Near Fine.

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.....

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 stapled wrappers.

New York: B Movies, 1978. Vintage flyer for the 1978 experimental short film. Beth and Scott B were two of the key figures in the avant garde No Wave scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s New York, making six films together between 1978 and 1981. Beth B would go on to be a key player in the Cinema.....

London: The Other Cinema, 1983. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1983 French documentary film. With printed label snipes on the verso specific to the film's UK release.A loose, experimental meditation on memory, told through the stream of consciousness of a world traveler. Shot in Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Iceland, Paris, and San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.....

Los Angeles: 1963. Promotional broadside, designed to resemble an oversized postcard, for the Los Angeles premiere of Adolfas Mekas' feature film debut, "Hallelujah the Hills," along with the debut of Kenneth Anger's short film, "Scorpio Rising." Mekas was the brother of Jonas Mekas, a film critic, filmmaker, and essentially father figure of the avant-garde New American Cinema of the 1960s.....

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. Raybert Productions Inc., 1967. Collection of eleven vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1968 film. All with Columbia Pictures legal disclaimer stamp on verso, one with annotations in holograph pencil on verso. Bob Rafelson, co-creator and executive producer of the 1967/1968 television series "The Monkees," took the concept in a decidedly different direction for his first film; a......

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.....

New York: Grove Press, 1969. Collection of six vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 US release of the 1967 Swedish film. Vilgot Sjoman's controversial erotic drama, utilizing both dramatic and documentary filmmaking techniques, stars Sjoman's then lover, actress Lena Nyman, as a young theater student examining the social and political mores of 1960s Sweden, and her own sexuality. Parallel.....

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.....

New York: The Living Theatre, 1959. Original poster for a night of avant-garde films hosted by the Gryphon Film Group at the Living Theatre on April 27, 1959. Filmmakers were present to introduce their works, including Stan Brakhage with his landmark short "Desistfilm" (1954). The Gryphon Film Group was founded by Marie Menken and her husband Willard Maas in the.....

New York: Andy Warhol Film, 1965. Vintage mimeograph poster advertising the world premiere of Andy Warhol’s seminal films, "Vinyl" and "Poor Little Rich Girl" on June 19-20, 1965 at the Filmmaker’s Cinematheque in New York. Photo-illustrated with a repeating image of Edie Sedgwick and Gerard Malanga from the film. Technically, this was only the premiere of "Poor Little Rich Girl,".....

New York: Andy Warhol Film, 1967. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. The film originally screened at the Hudson Theater in a 95 minute version, although this cut is considered lost. A 109 minute version would screen in 1968 as the first film shown at the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theater, renamed as such after Warhol recovered from being shot.....

Berlin: Road Movies Filmproduktion, 1980. Vintage oversize borderless reference color photograph from the 1980 film. With holograph ink annotations to the verso noting the film's title. An image and a film that was "meta" before the term was coined, let alone culturally over-saturated. Wim Wenders joins his friend and hero, director Nicholas Ray, in New York City to discuss Ray's.....

London: Contemporary Films, 1967. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs from the UK release of the 1967 French anthology film. With printed mimeo snipes in English affixed to the verso. Also included with the set is a two-page mimeographically duplicated press pamphlet in English.An anti-war anthology documentary film by seven prominent French directors expressing support for the North Vietnamese army.....