3rd Los Angeles Film-Makers Festival. [Poster]
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Film-Makers Festival, 1964. Original black-and-white offset-printed poster (measures 22.5" x 22.5").
Off-set printed poster designed by highly influential experimental filmmaker and collage artist Wallace Berman promoting the 3rd annual Los Angeles Film-Makers Festival. A pivotal figure in the post-war California art scene, Berman began his career making sculptures from wooden scraps he found in the furniture factory where he worked. He went on to become an influential member of the Beat movement, gathering poems from the likes of Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jean Cocteau, among others, to accompany collage works he produced for a mail art folio publication he founded called Semina (1955-1964). This poster features one of Berman’s experimental collages incorporating an appropriated image of a handheld Sony transistor radio. His final and best known body of work, the series was created from the mid-to-late-1960s using a Verifax machine (a precursor to the Kodak photocopier) to generate assemblages of repeated images that he distinguished using watercolor, frottage, Letraset, among other techniques. That year's festival was held at the Cinema Theatre at 1122 N. Western Avenue, which opened in 1939 and operated until sometime in the 1980s. Fold lines (originally issued folded in fours), minor creasing and edgewear. Near fine. Rare. Item #11957
$700.00