NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE Un rêve plus long que la nuit.
Mimeograph booklet with collage of decorative color adhesive stickers, found objects (imitation feather, photocopied bank note), hand coloring in watercolor and color screenprint front cover, 1976. 300x210 mm; 12x8½ inches (sheets), full margins, staple bound at the left sheet edges.
The scarce press kit for Saint Phalle's (1930-2002) first solo feature. According to the New York Film Festival 61 program, at which the restored version of this film made its North American premier, September 29-October 15, 2023, "In her second feature (and her first solo feature), the multidisciplinary artist Niki de Saint Phalle pursues her own take on the fairy tale, and the result is a visionary exploration of female desire that unfurls according to the logic of dreams and poetry. The film follows a princess (played by Saint Phalle's daughter, Laura Duke Condominas) who, following a series of encounters with fantastical beings, is magically transformed into an adult, and finds herself navigating a frightening and surreal new world. A work suffused with ideas and strong ties to Saint Phalle's work in other media (sculpture, painting, assemblage, etc.), Un rêve plus long que la nuit is both an exemplary artist's film and an underseen gem of 1970s French avant-garde cinema."
