Search Results: Books from Chunking Books

Wien: Viennale; SchĂĽren Verlag, 2006. 8vo (26,5x20cm), printed wrappers. 184pp. Text in German. Slight edge-wear to wrappers; small light smudge on blank flyleaf. Near fine.

This book was published in conjunction with the Jacques Demy / Agnès Varda Retrospective of the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum, and was directed by Astrid Ofner. It features conversations with Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Catherine Deneuve, Michael Legrand and essays by André Bazin, Thierry Jousse, Jörg Becker and Agnès Varda, with extensive material on each film shown in the retrospective.

A wonderful copy of the socialist-feminist magazine Women & Film. Editors Siew-Hwa Beh and Saunie Salyer described themselves as part of the women's movement and cited as their concerns the sexism of the industry, the misrepresentation of women in film, the packaging of women as sex objects, and the masculinist bias of auteur filmmaking.

This 1974 issue includes interviews with Lina Wertmüller, Tra Giang, Agnès Varda, Gitta Nickel, and essays on Germaine Dulac, followed by an extensive three-part article on Third World Perspectives: Focus on Sarah Maldoror.
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Berkeley: Women & Film, 1974. 8vo (28x21cm), staple-bound illustrated wrappers. 110pp. Text in English. Mild rubbing to wrapper edges and spine; overall toning; one page with small tear (1,5cm) at marign, not affecting the text; internally clean. Very good.

Toulouse: Galerie Municipale Du Chateau d'Eau, 1987. 8vo (21x21cm), staple-bound with illustrated paper wrappers. 20pp. Text in French. Wrappers with mild handling wear; slight overall toning. Content clean and sound. Very good.

A rare exhibition catalog of Agnès Varda's 1987 exhibition in Toulouse at Galerie Municipale Du Chateau d'Eau. The catalog gives an overview of Varda's photographic work, with images from her beginnings at T.N.P., documentary work, and photographs made in conjunction with her films, such as La Pointe Courte and Salut les Cubains.

Tiger at the Gates is the first English edition, translated by the English poet and playwright Christopher Fry, with a stunning cover design by Loudon Sainthill, who also was the set and costume designer of the Play. The book also includes the original theater programme of the premiere in 1955 at the Apollo Theatre in London, which was directed by Harold Clurman.
Jean Giraudoux wrote the play La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu [The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, which was retitled to Tiger at the Gates by Christopher Fry] between autumn of 1934 and June 1935, at dawn of the Second World War. Giraudoux draws a parallel between the situation in Europe in the 1930s, where everyone saw a new war coming without really preventing it, with the Trojan War in Antiquity.
One war is over, another is imminent, in this dramatic situation places Giraudoux the action of his play. The play takes place in the days prior to the outbreak of the Trojan War and narrates the efforts of the military commander Hector, who… Read More

New York: Film Culture Non-Profit Corporation, 1966. 4to (26,5x21cm), printed card wrappers. 152pp. Text in English. Minimal edge wear with light toning to wrapper edges and spine. Light reading creases to the spine. Contents clean and unmarked.
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This special N.Y. Film Festival Issue, a gem for cinephiles, celebrates Greek director Gregory Markopoulos, features essays on Warhol and Godard, and offers transcripts from iconic symposia, including discussions with directors like Pier Paolo Pasolini and Agnès Varda. A standout is Elliott Landy's 16-page portfolio, capturing legends like Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, and Jean-Luc Godard.

Berkeley: Women & Film, 1974. 8vo (28x21cm), staple-bound illustrated wrappers. 110pp. Text in English. Mild rubbing to wrapper edges and spine; overall toning; one page with small tear (1,5cm) at marign, not affecting the text; internally clean. Very good.

A wonderful copy of the socialist-feminist magazine Women & Film. Editors Siew-Hwa Beh and Saunie Salyer described themselves as part of the women's movement and cited as their concerns the sexism of the industry, the misrepresentation of women in film, the packaging of women as sex objects, and the masculinist bias of auteur filmmaking.

This 1974 issue includes interviews with Lina Wertmüller, Tra Giang, Agnès Varda, Gitta Nickel, and essays on Germaine Dulac, followed by an extensive three-part article on Third World Perspectives: Focus on Sarah Maldoror.

L'An 2000 : une anti-histoire de la fin du monde by André Clément Decouflé was published twenty-five years before the year 2000. With the new millennial approaching the world was forced to think about it's future. At the time L'An 2000 was published in 1975, André Clément Decouflé was the director of the Laboratoire de Prospective Appliquée
in Paris, whose research focused on social foresight, which aims to prepare the future through a rational and holistic approach. L'An 2000 brings together a really astonishing collection of literature dealing with the prediction of the future.

Most of the books in the collection were written in the middle of the 20th Century and offer at the same time a great insight of this era itself. The list of references is long and includes books, like the influential environmentalist text A Blueprint for Survival; Frank Herbert's Dune; The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years by the military strategist Herman Kahn, who was the… Read More

London: Freedom Press, 1967. 8vo (21x14cm), staple-bound with illustrated paper wrappers. 161-193pp. Text in English. Slight rubbing to spine. Near fine.
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Anarchy Magazine, an influential anarchist publication (1961-1970) by Freedom Press, featured avant-garde designs by Rufus Seger. Issue 76 stands out with an interview by Chris Marker with striking workers at Rhodiaceta factory, Besançon in 1967, marking a precursor to the May 1968 events. This issue also inspired Marker's film, 'A bientôt j'espère', leading to the formation of Groupe Medvedkine, a collaborative film group. This edition is a rare printed record of the '68 movement's onset, also covering topics by notable contributors like Paul Goodman, John O'Connor, and more.

This special issue of the NY Film Bulletin from 1962, was devoted entirely to Alain Resnais' film Last Year at Marienbad, written by Alain Robbe-Grillet. It features an extensive and rare interview with Resnais and Robbe-Grillet, translated by Rose Kaplin and originally published in the 123rd issue of Cahiers du Cinéma. Henri Colpi, one of the editors of Last Year at Marienbad, who had already worked with Resnais on Hiroshima, mon amour, gives a brief insight into the editing process of the film.

This very scarce issue offers a unique insight into possible interpretations of the film, a discussion on editing techniques, and new ways of storytelling.
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New York: NY Film Bulletin, Inc / R.M. Franchi Alfred, 1962. 6to (27,5Ă—21,5cm), staple bound in printed wrappers. 16pp. Text in English. Minor creasing and sunning to edges, slightly dog-eared on top corner. Crossed out price with red ink on front cover. Four discreet grammatical corrections with a ballpoint pen, overall a very good copy.

La Renfermée La Corse is a collaboration between Marie Susini and Chris Marker with a beautiful and bittersweet essay by Susini on her birthplace Corsica, accompanied by Chris Marker's photographs. Both the text and the photographs break with the usual clichés of Corsica as a vacation destination and show a more rugged environment of the island.

At the age of six, Marie Susini was raised by nuns on Corsica, a period in her life that she processed in her first novel Plein Soleil
(1953). She later left Corsica for Marseille and then Paris to escape insularity and the confines of traditional gender roles. Corsica permeates all of Marie Susini's work, which was praised early on by critics such as Albert BĂ©guin.
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Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1981. First and only edition. 6to (28,5x21cm), illustrated boards. 90pp. Front top corner slightly bumped and a tiny bump at back cover turn-in. Very small inscription with pen at front end paper "Corse Sept. 89". Overall, in near fine condition.

Paris: C. C. P. Marie France, 1957. 4to (31x24cm), staple-bound with illustrated paper wrappers. 138pp. Text in French. Wrappers with mild handling wear. Mild overall toning to pages. Internally clean and unmarked. Very good.

This issue of Marie France Magazine features a relatively unknown 16-page photo essay by Agnès Varda, on the legend of Don Quichotte and the places that belong to his story.

The photo essay was created two years after Varda's debut film, La Pointe Courte, in collaboration with Michel Random and Guy Bechtel. They embarked on a quest to uncover the truth behind Don Quichotte's tale and, as the article highlights, stumbled upon "one of the most extraordinary love stories". Their journey took them to Toboso, the tavern where Don Quijote and to the iconic windmills. A real treat.

Artsept was a little-known periodical published in 1963 by the writer and film critic Raymond Bellour. Due to financial problems only three issues were published. With an editorial board consisting in particular of Raymond Bellour, Jean Cayrol, Armand Gatti, Jean-Louis Leutrat, Jean Michaud and Bernard Pingaud, Artsept's mission was to manifest film as the seventh art, embracing all other arts in their discourse. Each issue was dedicated to a specific topic, the first one to "real cinema", the second to "cinema and truth", and the last one to "love".

On the cover of the first issue of Artsept appear the names of Cayrol, Colpi, Durand, Gatti, Marker, Resnais, and Varda. This reads like the "Who's Who" of the Left Bank Group and already indicates a different approach to film than André Bazin's famous Cahiers du Cinéma. Each issue contains a comprehensive filmography and bibliography of the filmmakers who appear as authors or subjects in Arstept.
The remarkable texts from contributors like… Read More

While working for Éditions du Seuil in 1955, Marker co-edited with Juliette Caputo, under the direction of Francis-Régis Bastide, a truly wonderful book on Fellini's masterpiece La Strada. Chris Marker and Juliette Caputo playfully combined film stills and illustrations with text, continuing the collaboration they had begun a year earlier with the Petite Planète series. In addition to the outstanding design, the book includes an essay by André Bazin and interviews with Giulietta Masina and Federico Fellini.---Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1955. First and only edition. 8vo (28x22cm), illustrated boards. 220pp. Text in French. A touch of soiling to front cover with mild creasing to spine. Contents clean and unmarked. Near fine.

A truly rare and beautiful produced promotional booklet of Chantal Akerman's structuralist essay film News From Home. Like the movie, which overlays images and the sound of New York City with Chantal Akerman's voice, so too does this small publication, overlay images and text through transparent and colored pages.
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Paris: Unite Trois, 1977. 8vo (30x21cm), staple-bound wrappers. Unpaginated 11pp [3 printed colour sheets, 9 printed transparent sheets]. Text in French. Slight creasing to wrappers with tiny loss on tail corner. Very good.

Paris: Editions Cahiers du Cinéma et Ciné-Tamaris, 1994. First and only edition. 8vo large (25x19cm), printed card wrappers with french flaps. 285pp. Text in French. Slight rubbing to bottom edge of wrappers. Inscribed by Agnès Varda. Near Fine. Varda par Agnès was published in 1994 on the occasion of Agnès Varda's retrospective at the French Cinémathèque and is not to be confused with her last film of the same title, which was released in 2019.

"We embarked – Pierre, Gatti, Vierny and me – at the end of August 1957 on an adventure …" – Chris Marker
In 1957, the group of Chris Marker, Armand Gatti, André Pierrard and Sacha Vierny was one of the first to travel and work in Siberia during the Cold War. Two independent works emerged from this trip – Chris Marker's Letter from Siberia (1957) and Armand Gatti's Sibérie – zero + l'infini (1958), which was one of the first Western reports on Siberia since 1917.
Armand Gatti, one of the most acclaimed theater playwrights of the 20th century, had already written eight plays and had received the Albert Londres Prize for his earlier work before pursuing a career as a journalist. Gatti came back from Siberia with eleven articles about the region, which were published in Libération, the underground newspaper of the Résistance movement.
The following year Armand Gatti continued to work on these articles, which then became the book SibĂ©rie – zero + l'infini, accompanied by Chris Marker's… Read More

The french journalist Julien Besançon had been commenting on major live events, like John F. Kennedy's funeral and the first steps on the moon for the French television station Europe 1.

While covering the events of May 1968, Julien Besancon felt the need to preserve the graffitis, that the protestors had written on the walls. These writings, many of them fragments of literature, quoting poets and political thinkers, were as spontaneous as they were ephemeral.
The Japanese edition of Les Murs ont la Parole was published in 1969, one year after the first French edition, and offers a completely different experience through the powerful combination of text and images. Beautifully designed by Kiyoshi Awazu, one of the leading designers in postwar Japan.
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Tokyo: Takeuchi-shoten, 1969. First Japanese edition. Oblong 8vo (13x19cm), French Flaps with printed obi. Unpaginated 144pp. Translated by Masayoshi Hirota. Designed by Kiyoshi Awazu. Text in Japanese. Small damp stain on obi. Slight… Read More

Unfortunately, not much is known about the photographer Diby Yao Christophe, but his photo book, Du twist Ă  cocody, ou l'art de la natte, is an amazing document of hairstyles from the Ivory Coast of the 1970s.

This very scarce book was made between April 1970 and June 1972, in collaboration with the Institut d'Ethno-Sociologie
in Abidjan, which was at the time of publication the capital of the Ivory Coast. Interestingly, the book was published in French and English, by the French publisher Éditions Dalfoz, in 1972, translated by Timothy and Kathryn Weiskel.
Christophe ends his book with this very powerful statement:
"Why do some of our stylish women prefere [sic] bleached hair or wigs to genuine African creations? One's real hair, in my opinion, is worth more than faked hair, and an art evolved over time is always better than imported styles of others. I meet many of you who pretend to be European, trying to dress and act like white women.
Oh, my Black Sisters, why are you trying to forget… Read More

Leipzig: Verlag Ernst Wunderlich, 1948. First edition. 4to (29,5x21cm), illustrated card wrappers. Unpaginated 20pp. Text in German. Wrappers show some discoloration and minor soiling. Three small dents on cover. Spine-ends slightly brittle. Pages are toned, but content is clean and unmarked. Overall, in very good condition.
Die Geschichten von Jan und Jon und von ihrem Lotsen-Fisch is a significant postwar children's book by Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp, one of the first women to study at the Bauhaus. Under the guidance of renowned figures like Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky, she defied boundaries by concentrating on decorative and mural painting, despite women typically being limited to "female arts" such as weaving and interior design. Scheper-Berkenkamp also contributed to Oskar Schlemmer's famed Triadisches Ballet, designing sets and costumes for groundbreaking Bauhaus performances.
Originally created for her children in the 1930s, the book was published in post-war Berlin, overcoming… Read More

Commentaires and Commentaires 2 assemble Chris Marker's early film commentaries in written form. Together they comprise nine commentaries from Les statues meurent aussi (1953), to Si j'avais quatre dromadaires (1966). When the first Commentaires was published in 1961, two of Marker's films included in the book had been censored and were not allowed to be shown in French cinemas: Les statues meurent aussi, because of its critical stance towards the damaging cultural impact of colonialism, and Cuba Si! (1961) because of its sympathy for Castro and the revolution.
A real pleasure are the commentaries L'Amérique rêve (1959) in Commentaires and Soy Mexico (1965) in Commentaires 2, which Chris Marker called his imaginary films. Both exist only in these books and are accompanied by fantastic images.
The dynamic layout, set by Chris Marker and Juliette Caputo, treats images and text as equally important. According to Rick Poynor, Commentaires are not only of interest in terms of film history, but also… Read More