Scripted by and starring Jane Arden, 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 of the film’s setting, complete with Procol Harum music and Mark Boyle projections.

Separation.1968.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 33 min
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#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 640 kb/s (Commentary with Jack Bond and Sam Dunn)

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Pet Shop Boys Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant embark upon a journey across England – but which England? Is it the half-remembered England of their childhoods, or the brutal reality of Mrs Thatcher’s late-eighties England? Along the way they come across many familiar (and sinister) faces. The movie also features some of the Pet Shop Boys’ most popular records.

+Commentary with Writer/Director Jack Bond, Art Director James Dillon & Cameraman Simon Archer

2.51GB | 1h 25m | 1024×552 | mkv

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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.

Filled with high tension and high intelligence, Anti-Clock is mysterious, disturbing, fascinating and exciting’. (Jack Kroll, Newsweek)

2.19GB | 1h 35m | 768×576 | mkv

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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 the 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.

623MB | 54:09.400 | 576×432 | avi

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Jane Arden’s The Other Side of the Underneath is a seriously disturbing film. It is also an uncharacteristically bold one. I think that in a lot of ways it is quite similar to Bernardo Bertollucci’s Partner (1968), a film about a young revolutionary, played by Pierre Clementi, whose life changes dramatically when a double appears and foils his plan to commit suicide. In the opening scene of The Other Side, a schizophrenic woman (Sheila Allen, The Legend of Spider Forest) is pulled out of a lake and placed in an asylum.

The film is based on director Arden’s “A New Communion for Freaks, Prophets and Witches”, a play she staged with the Holocaust women’s theatre troupe. It is comprised of a number of different episodes, each exploring a specific theme – female exploitation, voyeurism, sexual deprivation, etc. The Other Side is also a reflection of its creator’s brush with madness.

The key concept behind The Other Side is intriguing. The film argues that madness is part of a cycle that leads to sanity. It also stresses that this complex process is often misunderstood by those who have never experienced madness. Cultural and societal taboos are cited amongst the main reasons for its existence.

The Other Side is also a radical feminist film, one that does not shy away from promoting chaos as a form of liberation. Purely political statements, however, are not part of the film’s narrative.

Viewers unfamiliar with director Arden’s legacy will undoubtedly be shocked with The Other Side. This is an extreme piece of cinema, which I suspect even the most liberal of viewers may find difficult to tolerate. There is a sense of anger in it that borders nihilism in its most pure form.

Shot on locations in Wales, The Other Side does not impress with smooth and elegant visuals. On the contrary, cinematographers Jack Bond and Aubrey Dewar’s lensing is notably raw. Even the large panoramic vistas from the second half of the film look rough.

I believe it is fair to say that David Mingay’s editing compliments the film’s lack of traditional rhythmic form. Sally Minford’s music is also fitting, though at times it comes dangerously close to being unnerving (the protracted cello solos in particular).

Finally, upon learning about the film’s controversial history – many of the actors apparently took large amounts of drugs during the shooting of the film; as revealed by Natasha Morgan in an interview offered in the supplemental features section of this disc, a couple even died – some prospective viewers might rush to dismiss it without even seeing it. I think that this would be very unfortunate. While certainly controversial and difficult to endure, The Other Side is, without a shadow of a doubt, a very impressive achievement.

The Other Side is a film Dusan Makavejev would have loved to direct. It is controversial, provocative and very, very disturbing. Bravo BFI for giving us the opportunity to see these forgotten films! Highly Recommended.

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