Well, you don't NEED anyone's permission to use stills to promote a non-commercial screening of Zorns anymore than Frampton needed permission to photograph the signage he shot on the streets of New York for inclusion in the film.
For that matter, you have no obligation to use stills from the film in a way that represents anyone's interpretation of the film (as Fred suggested fell to any use of the particular Brakhage edit he had analyzed) - be that a well respected scholar, a spouse, or recorded wishes of the filmmaker - any more than Hollis had an obligation to somehow illuminate the intent behind the creative choices of the designers of that signage. If you want them to just vaguely evoke an 'experimental film' vibe, whatever you might take that to be, you get to do that. Because screening Frampton... or Brakhage, or scores of other oddballs is to inject a grain of sand into the machine of the prevaling horrorshow, and ANYTHING you can do get more people to show up, that they might have a chance to see something that changes their world for even the tiniest bit better, is only to the good.
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