Jane Arden

Jane Arden

Birth : 1927-10-29, Pontypool, Wales, UK

Death : 1982-12-20

History

Jane Arden (29 October 1927 – 20 December 1982) was a Welsh film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright, songwriter, and poet. Arden was born Norah Patricia Morris at 47 Twmpath Road, Pontypool, Monmouthshire.[1] She studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, and began her career in the late 1940s on television and in the cinema. She appeared in a television production of Romeo and Juliet in the late 1940s, and then starred in two British crime films: Black Memory (1947) directed by Oswald Mitchell – which provided South African-born actor Sid James with his first screen credit (billed as Sydney James) – and Richard M. Grey's A Gunman Has Escaped (1948). There are copies of both films in the BFI National Archive, but the copy of A Gunman Has Escaped is incomplete.

Profile

Jane Arden

Movies

Anti-Clock
Anti-Clock
Original Music Composer
A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity. ‘Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Brilliantly mixing cinema and video techniques, Arden and Bond have created a movie that captures the anxiety and sense of danger that has infiltrated the consciousness of so many people in western society.
Anti-Clock
Anti-Clock
Writer
A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity. ‘Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Brilliantly mixing cinema and video techniques, Arden and Bond have created a movie that captures the anxiety and sense of danger that has infiltrated the consciousness of so many people in western society.
Anti-Clock
Anti-Clock
Director
A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity. ‘Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Brilliantly mixing cinema and video techniques, Arden and Bond have created a movie that captures the anxiety and sense of danger that has infiltrated the consciousness of so many people in western society.
Vibration
Vibration
Vibration
Vibration
Editor
Vibration
Vibration
Cinematography
Vibration
Vibration
Original Music Composer
Vibration
Vibration
Director
The Other Side of the Underneath
The Other Side of the Underneath
Therapist
A surreal look at the schizophrenia of a group of girls in a therapy session.
The Other Side of the Underneath
The Other Side of the Underneath
Writer
A surreal look at the schizophrenia of a group of girls in a therapy session.
The Other Side of the Underneath
The Other Side of the Underneath
Director
A surreal look at the schizophrenia of a group of girls in a therapy session.
Separation
Separation
Jane
Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a fragmented but brilliantly achieved and often humorous narrative, in which dreams and desires are as real as the ‘swinging’ London (complete with Procul Harum music and Mark Boyle light show) of the film’s setting.
Separation
Separation
Writer
Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a fragmented but brilliantly achieved and often humorous narrative, in which dreams and desires are as real as the ‘swinging’ London (complete with Procul Harum music and Mark Boyle light show) of the film’s setting.
Exit 19
Exit 19
Maserati Passenger
A frank dialogue on sexual likes and dislikes that place between a man and his mistress in bed together.
Dali In New York
Dali In New York
Herself
Filmmaker Jack Bond and Salvador Dali got together at Christmas 1965 to make Dali in New York, a highly entertaining film. Dali devoted two weeks of his life to creating extraordinary scenes for the film, performing "manifestations" with a plaster cast. A thousand ants and one million dollars in cash. When he confronts the feminist writer, Jane Arden, sparks fly. "You are my Slave! I am not your slave. Everybody is my slave." Dali recalls his meeting with Freud, "The last human relationship ever" About his wife, 'But for Gala I would be lying in a gutter somewhere covered with lice" Jim Desmond's dazzling cinematography captures the great artist painting as Flamenco virtuoso Manitas de Plata performs. Dali in New York is a rare treat for anyone who loves film and the living theatre of Dali's surreal universe.
The Logic Game
The Logic Game
Writer
The private entertainment of a married couple, springing from and interwoven with the pattern of their daily life.
In Camera
In Camera
Inez
A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."
A Gunman Has Escaped
A Gunman Has Escaped
Jane
In this crime drama, three gem thieves must get out of London after they kill a man. Friction between the men increases as they hide out on a farm and then get back on the road. Trouble ensues when one of the three begins suspecting the others of treachery.
Black Memory
Black Memory
Sally Davidson
Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld. To do this, he poses as a juvenile delinquent.