Original Arnold, Steven Movie Posters

Steven Arnold movie posters document Luminous Procuress (1971) — his San Francisco underground film, creating films and performance pieces of extraordinary visual extravagance that drew on cabaret, surrealism, and the theatrical traditions of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the San Francisco counterculture.

Arnold studied with Jodorowsky in Paris before returning to San Francisco, where his work developed a visual vocabulary of baroque excess and genuine personal mythology. His films — including Luminous Procuress (1971), with its cast of Bay Area drag performers and underground figures — belong to the tradition of underground film that thrived in American counterculture cities in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a cinema of pure personal vision operating entirely outside commercial considerations.

The promotional materials for Arnold's films are themselves works of art — produced with the care and visual intelligence that characterised all aspects of his creative practice. As a collector's item, they offer rare primary documents of the San Francisco underground art scene at its most creatively vital, connecting cinema, performance, drag culture, and the broader counterculture of the period in ways that mainstream film advertising never approached.

Find original promotional prints from this underground art cinema pioneer and his extraordinary San Francisco counterculture work.

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