Jane Arden Season: Vibration & Anti-Clock

Dir. Jane Arden & Jack Bond, 1975 & 1979

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Thu 16 December 2010 // 19:30 / Cinema

Vibration (1975, 36mins)
Directed by Jane Arden & Jack Bond


“Vibration uses two young western people, as the mediators between the new gestalt initiated by Jung and Reich and Frederick Perles, explorers of the unconscious, and the magnetic chain of a Sufic master, and finds that the East and the West, the scientific and the mystical, are beginning to hold together in a truly organic way.” -Michael Brooke


"an exercise in meditation utilising experimental film and video techniques"- Geoff Brown & Robert Murphy

 

Anti-Clock (1979, 92 mins)
Directed by Jane Arden & Jack Bond


'A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity. Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Filled with high tension and high intelligence, Anti-Clock is mysterious, disturbing, fascinating and exciting'. - Jack Kroll, Newsweek

Closer to science-fiction than any other genre, Anti-Clock was inspired by Arden’s increasing interest in the way natural instincts were usually sublimated by the dictatorship of the rational mind.  Through a blend of film and video, colour and black and white, the film follows a young man – played by Arden’s son Sebastian Saville - as he tries to de-programme himself from restricting thought-patterns and perceptions. ‘Anti-Clock’ was championed by Andy Warhol and described as 'A futuristic masterpiece' by Claude Chabrol.