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. Ten pages, saddle stapled in self wrappers. Near Fine.

Chicago: The Goodlion, 1972. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Brakhage on the front endpaper to his friend and colleague Annette Michelson: "June 17, 1972 / To Annette / Some small echoing answer to your life's work...and in friendship - * / Stan / [at bottom of page] * and..." Michelson is today a Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., 1964. Collection of three vintage reference photographs from the 1964 short film. Director Stephen Dwoskin's third film, following "Asleep" (1961) and "American Dream" (1961). Dwoskin was best known for his experimental filmmaking, beginning in both the New York and London underground film scenes of the 1960s.Shot on location in New York.Two photographs 8 x 6 inches, one photograph.....

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. Near Fine.

France: Le Film d'Art, 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film, struck 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 mirrors to create special.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1984. Vintage reference photograph from the 1984 film, showing actors John Lurie and the mystical Eszter Balint. With a printed xerographically duplicated label affixed to the bottom right corner of the verso. Director Jim Jarmusch's first effort, "Permanent Vacation" (1980), was his final thesis at New York University's film school. As with the earliest films.....

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 are scarce, and putting together a collection of this size piecemeal would be prohibitively difficult. Founded in 1967 by experimental filmmaker Carl Linder as "New York.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Chicago: 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 time.....