Global ImageWorks Now Representing Les Blank Footage

Global ImageWorks is thrilled to represent and license footage from the outstanding catalog of over 40 films by Les Blank and his talented collaborators who worked with him over the years.

Les Blank (1935-2013) is an internationally renowned, independent filmmaker whose poetic work offers intimate, indiosyncratic glimpses into the lives, culture, and music of the passionate people at the periphery of American society.

Blank’s film topics have included Cajun, Mexican, Polish, Hawaiian and Serbian-American music and food traditions, Afro-Cuban drummers, Texas blues-men, Appalachian fiddlers, 1967 love-in “flower children”, gap-toothed women and the garlic plant.

Blank is probably best known for his feature-length “Burden of Dreams” (1982) documenting the chaotic production of Werner Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo” in the jungles of South America.

His music films capture not just the music itself but frame the music's cultural context, portraying the surroundings from which these American roots music come and offer an amazing opportunity for stock footage.

Click here to see clips from the Les Blank collection.