10 Great British Experimental Films as Listed by the BFI
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- DirectorKenneth MacPhersonStarsPaul RobesonEslanda RobesonHilda DoolittleA negro woman having an adulterous affair with a white man causes his wife to go mad and re-enforces the towns-folk's prejudice against Negroes.
- DirectorDon LevyStarsMichael GothardGabriella LicudiPeter StephensWhen young poet Max (Michael Gothard) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity.
- DirectorJill BruceBruce LaceyFred LaceyStarsJill BruceBruce LaceyFred LaceyBruce Lacey is a legendary figure on the British counter-cultural art scene during the 1960s, he has enjoyed six decades of defining cultural moments, collaborating with all manner of filmmakers, musicians and artists.
- DirectorLaura MulveyPeter WollenStarsDinah StabbMerdelle JordineRhiannon TiseIn this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.
- DirectorMalcolm le Grice
- StarsJeanette BatemanLydia BlackmanJean BohtRapunzel's story from Grimm's fairytales is retold and reinterpreted several times to examine feminist issues. There's the male voyeur as film noir detective; a raunchy cartoon Venus who's a witch; a melodrama of menopausal angst and Rapunzel's own live-action tale.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsAdam AntRichard O'BrienIan CharlesonQueen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
- DirectorAnn GuedesStarsDiane ButtsRoy ButtsRoyston ButtsThe story of three generations in a small Welsh town, struggling to survive the closure of the local coal mine.
- DirectorPatrick KeillerStarsPaul ScofieldJohn MajorNorma MajorAn inspiring tale through London by pictures narrated by Paul Scofield.
- DirectorAndrew KottingStarsDavid AylwardFreddie JonesToby JonesFocuses on two figures, sometimes Andrew Kötting, sometimes Toby Jones as the middle-aged John Clare. As they channel, in their own fashion, the psychic wound exposed by Clare.