Big Jump Press

5 copies left. . .

Just a quick note today to plug Leap of Death, a project I worked on last year with Robert Stillman and Anna Fewster. There are only five copies left of this edition, a re-imagining of the lost silent film 4 Devils. I designed and produced the enclosure, which includes a vinyl LP, six letterpress/risograph printed booklets and three small posters. You can read more information about the project below, and if you are interested in a copy, you can get it for the (unbelievable) price of £34.50 (shipped to UK) £44 (shipped to the EU) or £49 (shipped to the US and elsewhere.) Ordering information here. (But act fast. . .)

four devils unfolding

Some more information: The film 4 Devils was released in 1928 by Fox Film Corporation. Directed by F.W. Murnau (Sunrise, Nosferatu), the circus-themed melodrama was a full-fledged Hollywood production of the late silent era. After its release, the film disappeared, and remains ‘lost’ to this day.

85 years later, composer Robert Stillman, writer/printmaker Anna Fewster, and bookbinder Sarah Bryant conjure 4 Devils back into existence with ‘Leap of Death’, a limited edition bookwork/LP that resurrects the lost film as ‘imaginary fragments’ of original music, image, and text.
     Leap of Death interior 4
Drawing inspiration from existing 4 Devils archive materials such as scripts, production stills, and promotional matter, as well as from Les Quatre Diables, the 1890 Herman Bang novella upon which the film script was based, Stillman, Fewster, and Bryant’s work reconstitutes the 4 Devils narrative as an impressionistic ‘atmosphere’ of black-and-white trace monotype images, letterpress text, and through composed music, inviting an interpretive, non-linear experience of Murnau’s story-world.
Leap of Death interior 3
The bookwork/LP is available in a limited edition of 50 numbered copies, each consisting of one vinyl LP, six booklets, and three posters, collected in a clothbound enclosure.
four devils folded

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

Information

This entry was posted on January 21, 2015 by in For Sale, Other People and Things and tagged , , , , .

Shortlink

https://wp.me/p2cZiT-1fm

Navigation

Blog at WordPress.com.

%d bloggers like this: