Poem (1971)

Review: Poem (1971)

Director: B. S. Johnson

Cast: William Hoyland,

William Hoyland
William Hoyland

Plot: A poignant short film set to the fourth part of Samuel Beckett's Quatre Poèmes, as narrated by frequent BS Johnson collaborator William Hoyland. The poem is read against a backdrop of associative shots: the head and sholders of a woman, a crumbling Victorian chimney stack, a forlorn row of houses, cobblestones, discarded rubbish, and a final tracking shot of a high wall.

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More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

More Recent Disks From England: The Return of Flipside

After three years of steady releases, for some reason the BFI suspended their Flipside series last May. Now, after an eleven month break, they’ve released two new titles, as unexpected as anything which has come before. In John Krish, […]

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