Himself
A brief canter through the life and work of one of Britain's most unbelievable artists.
A ritual created and performed by Bruce Lacey.
Music
A ritual created and performed by Bruce Lacey.
Editor
A ritual created and performed by Bruce Lacey.
Director
Using only one camera, remote controlled mirrors and an external tilting device, Lacey alternates the perspective of angular planes on his face into that of a woman. Like archetypal statues, the images disintegrate, solidify and slowly re-assemble.
Bruce
'.....invites us to experience a level of connection and intimacy between two people.' - Sam Dunn (Head of BFI Video Publishing)
Director
'.....invites us to experience a level of connection and intimacy between two people.' - Sam Dunn (Head of BFI Video Publishing)
Himself
A 1974 documentary in which Dave Allen meets a variety of eccentrics, including a man who lives in a box on wheels, a cowboy vicar and a man who pretends to fly a Lancaster bomber in his garage.
Director
A moody, pastoral sci-fi tale about Stella Superstar and her travels across the universe. Vaseline around the camera lens and other early cinema techniques turn it into something truly beautiful.
Bruce
Bruce Lacey: 'People used to come and make documentaries about me, but they weren't interested in the day-to-day family life that I found extremely interesting and funny. So I decided to make that film myself. All the members of the family wrote down all the different day-to-day things that they wanted to be seen doing.'
Director
Bruce Lacey: 'People used to come and make documentaries about me, but they weren't interested in the day-to-day family life that I found extremely interesting and funny. So I decided to make that film myself. All the members of the family wrote down all the different day-to-day things that they wanted to be seen doing.'
Subject 2
An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.
Director
An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.
Musketeer
Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose.
Clive Sword
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
Male
An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.
Director
An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.
Dotty
Art for art's sake.
Lawnmower
"Help" fue la segunda película que Richard Lester hizo con los Beatles, una comedia que simboliza el cine más libre, enloquecido y pop de los años 60.
The Alberts (Bruce Lacey, Tony Gray and his brother Dougie Gray) attempt to take off. There are two edits of this film, both with their own distinct ending.
An early cinema influenced tale of rags to riches by Bob Godfrey. Bruce Lacey stars as the hapless ‘little man’ who longs to stand in the shoes of his hero: conductor Lance Corporal.
A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.
Ken Russell's third Monitor documentary from 1962 is both a development from and inversion of the first, Lonely Shore. In that, an alien presence surveys a stretch of coastline strewn with assorted objects from early 1960s British lifestyles and tries (and mostly fails) to divine their meaning or purpose. The Preservation Man is also set in a series of object-strewn settings, but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's collection of random junk, and their original function is irrelevant. Sensibly, Russell and commentator Huw Wheldon keep analysis to a minimum, preferring to use the film as an excuse to spend quarter of an hour in Lacey's amiable company.
Gardener
The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to London television studio to ask trad jazz musician to support their trial.
The Butler
A performance of the band The Alberts. One of several films made especially for deaf children by adult film maker George Harrison Marks.
Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. – a “synchronized, pressurized, energized, moisturized moron” – this angry, Goon-like film rips apart the factory-produced, ‘ideal home’-type lifestyle aggressively marketed in the post-war era with playful, witty panache.
Sped up footage of musicians fighting on a stretch of mudflats.
A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.
Free-form and anarchic in a very English way, this elaborate, gothic, handmade production was based on a tale from the ARABIAN NIGHTS and looks forward to FLAMING CREATURES and other underground movies from the 60s that merge lush fantasy with grimy reality. Art director Bruce Lacey stars as the ghoulish witch doctor who brings a dead body back to life.
A highly impressionistic film in which a blind man (Lacey) drifts through the war-damaged streets of Camden and Islington.
