Separation, The Other Side of the Underneath and Anti-Clock on DVD
Three ‘lost’ British films by Jane Arden and Jack Bond
Jane Arden and Jack Bond produced three of Britain’s most challenging and provocative films – Separation (Jack Bond, 1968), The Other Side of the Underneath (Jane Arden, 1972) and Anti-Clock (Arden and Bond, 1979). Unseen since just after Arden's suicide in 1982, the films genuinely represent completely ‘lost’ works of recent British cinema history.
On 13 July each newly restored film, along with a range of extra features, will be released on BFI DVD and Blu-ray. On 14 July Separation will be screened at BFI Southbank, introduced by Jack Bond who will take part in a Q&A afterwards. The Other Side of the Underneath and Anti-Clock will be shown in the Studio at BFI Southbank on 5 & 18 July and 16 & 17 July respectively. An Arden/Bond season will take place at The Cube Microplex cinema, Bristol, when the three films will be screened in consecutive order from Mon 20 – Weds 22 July.
Born in Wales in 1927, Jane Arden was an actress, author and filmmaker whose screenwriting and directorial work of the late 60s and 70s explored themes of sexual politics, radical feminism, social alienation and ‘madness’. Made at a time when there were very few distinctive female voices in British cinema, the films she wrote and directed with director-producer Jack Bond (Dali in New York, It Couldn’t Happen Here) constitute a unique and unclassifiable body of work, ranging from Separation’s counter-cultural flamboyance of swinging 60s London to Anti-Clock’s boundary-pushing psycho-exploration.
