Grey Gardens

One of the strangest and subtlest films ever made, the Maysles Brothers' 1975 documentary Grey Gardens boasts as devoted a following today as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or Harold and Maude. Shot at Grey Gardens, the dilapidated East Hamptons mansion of "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Beale, aunt and cousin to Jackie Onassis, this classic of cinema vérité tracks the Beales' eccentric and sequestered lives--which consist mostly of doing nothing, but with a mesmerizing zest and volubility. Published by Free News Projects and distributed by DAP.

We worked with Albert Maysles and his daughters Rebekah and Sara to create this eclectic volume offering a myriad of collaged illustrations, photographs, film stills, production notes and other archival materials. This is accompanied by transcripts of the Beales' own stories and conversations edited from unreleased Grey Gardens sound recordings. Structured to mirror the Maysles' own approach to the world of the Beales, it closely resembles the enchanting clutter of the mansion, a self-contained world littered with mementos and telling ephemera.