Original Baker, Fred Movie Posters

Fred Baker movie posters are anchored by Events (1970) — one of the defining New York independent films of its era — a cinema of direct engagement with contemporary social reality made possible by the availability of lightweight 16mm equipment and the distribution infrastructure of the emerging art cinema market.

Baker's most significant work, Events (1970), belongs to the documentary-influenced fiction filmmaking that characterised New York independent cinema of the period — using the city itself as location and backdrop for stories of contemporary urban experience. This kind of filmmaking sat between the avant-garde, the documentary, and the narrative fiction film, generating theatrical materials that reflect the hybrid nature of the work. Baker's career represents an important chapter in the history of American independent documentary-fiction filmmaking.

The promotional materials for New York independent cinema of this period are documents of a specific film culture: the underground newspapers that carried film advertising, the small-format promotional pieces produced for art house and campus screenings, the press kits and promotional photographs that sustained distribution through non-conventional channels. These materials complement the better-known studio productions of the period with evidence of an alternative film culture of considerable vitality. Original US independent one-sheets from Events are genuinely scarce; fine examples seldom appear.

Find original promotional prints from New York's independent film scene.

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