Michael Clark

Birth : 1962-05-29, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

Movies

Dance Rebels: A Story of Modern Dance
Himself
The mavericks whose radical ideas created modern dance in the 20th century.
Glitterbug
Himself
A collage of Derek Jarman's super 8 footage spanning over 20 years.
Prospero's Books
Choreographer
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Prospero's Books
Caliban
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Because We Must
The Michael Clark Dance Group perform to the music of T.Rex, Chopin, the Beatles and the Velvet Underground.
Degrees of Blindness
Inspired by a poem by William Blake: a short experimental film about the perception of vision.
Comrades
Sailor
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
Big Love - An Invitation to Disaster
A short film broadcast on the Network 21 pirate tv station in 1987. "a short film, devoid of soundtrack, of a youth on a cross spinning suspended in fire, over which was superimposed another youth languishing in an armchair... apparently John Maybury's 'Big Love'." - John Chairman
Hail the New Puritan
Himself
Hail the New Puritan is a fictionalised documentary about the Scottish dancer and choreographer Michael Clark. Set design by the inimitable Leigh Bowery.