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Weird Worlds

A selection of off-kilter, oddball and experimental films that transcend the conventions of traditional cinema.
This means titles like Don Levy's radically innovative art film, Herostratus, in which a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass media spectacle, and David Gladwell's lyrical tribute to Britain's past, Requiem for a Village.
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How to Get Ahead in AdvertisingHow to Get Ahead in Advertising

Fantasy198994 minsDirector: Bruce Robinson

Richard E. Grant and director Bruce Robinson’s companion piece to Withnail and I is a dark satire about an ad-man who grows a second head.

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Fat Man on a BeachFat Man on a Beach

Documentary197441 minsDirector: Michael Bakewell

A simple brief - for the influential writer and filmmaker BS Johnson to talk direct to camera - yielded one of the most extraordinary works of 1970s British television.

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FragmentFragment

Drama196611 minsDirector: Norman J. Warren

Norman J. Warren's short film tells the story of a young woman's desperation after a brief love affair ends in bitter disappointment.

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PoemPoem

Animation & Artists Moving Image19711 minsDirector: B.S. Johnson

A poignant short film set to the fourth part of Samuel Beckett's Quatre Poèmes, as narrated by frequent BS Johnson collaborator William Hoyland.

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Untitled FilmUntitled Film

Animation & Artists Moving Image19649 minsDirector: David Gladwell

Slow motion black and white experimental short film in which a series of concurrent actions and movements are drawn together.

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Unfair!Unfair!

Campaigning film19708 minsDirector: B.S. Johnson

Directed by B.S. Johnson, this trade union short depicts an argument between a worker and his employer.

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Up Yours Too Guillaume Apollinaire!Up Yours Too Guillaume Apollinaire!

Animation & Artists Moving Image19682 minsSilentDirector: B.S. Johnson

Invited to imagine how Apollinaire would have worked with modern technology, writer/director B.S. Johnson turned John Furse's drawings into an animation that is equally elegant, explicit, surreal and hilarious.