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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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Herostratus Herostratus

Drama 1967 143 mins Director: Don Levy

Helen Mirren makes her film debut in the tale of a young poet (Michael Gothard) intent on turning his suicide into a mass-media spectacle.

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Bad Timing Bad Timing

Drama 1980 122 mins Director: Nicolas Roeg

Nic Roeg's complex, elusive cult classic is a Vienna-set tale of all consuming passion, starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell and Harvey Keitel.

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You're Human Like the Rest of Them You're Human Like the Rest of Them

Animation & Artists Moving Image 1967 17 mins Director: B.S. Johnson

William Hoyland stars in this legendary, multi award-winning short film directed by the modernist writer and film-maker BS Johnson.

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Summer Discord Summer Discord

Amateur film 1955 17 mins Silent Director: David Gladwell

A Summer Discord is silent, amateur short film directed by David Gladwell which is set in the countryside and tells the story of a little girl who is reprimanded by her mother.

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Nightbirds Nightbirds

Drama 1970 78 mins Director: Andy Milligan

Dark drama about the doomed relationship of two down-and-outers living in the squalid East End of London in the early 1970s.

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Requiem for a Village Requiem for a Village

Documentary 1975 68 mins Director: David Gladwell

The idyllic, pastoral past of a Suffolk village is reborn through memory in this extraordinary, little-known film from director David Gladwell.

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Duffer Duffer

Drama 1971 75 mins Director: Joseph Despins and William Dumaresq

A bizarre study of obsession focusing on a teenage boy who is torn between the charms of a fleshly female prostitute and the sadism of an older man.

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Miss Thompson Goes Shopping Miss Thompson Goes Shopping

Animation & Artists Moving Image 1958 23 mins Director: David Gladwell

From the visionary British director David Gladwell, this 1958 short contrasting rural and urban life is based on the poem by Martin Armstrong.

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Repeater Repeater

Comedy 1979 75 mins Director: Chris Monger

Comic thriller which, with its unorthodox narrative about a woman's confession of a murder, deconstructs the conventions of the genre.