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Bryan Stanley Johnson was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic, producer of television programmes and filmmaker.
Total trailers found: 13
15 November 1971
A poignant short film set to the fourth part of Samuel Beckett's Quatre Poèmes, as narrated by frequent BS Johnson collaborator William Hoyland.
15 November 1970
This incredibly strange short film was commissioned by the union ACTT (Association of Cinematograph, Television and allied Technicians, of which the filmmaker and novelist B.
07 December 2000
A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society.
15 November 1968
Made in 1968 at the invitation of the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), B.S. Johnson's animated take on Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes' (1918) - precursors of 'concrete' or 'visual' poetry - is both a cheeky two-fingered salute to French Modernism, and an irreverent homage to surrealism.
10 July 1970
Are tower blocks obsolete? Alison and Peter Smithson are British architects with an international reputation.
15 November 1971
Narrated by celebrated modernist author and filmmaker BS Johnson, March! documents the TUC-instigated protest, on 21 February 1971, against the Industrial Relations Bill, which was subsequently passed by parliament in August of that same year.
15 November 1969
William Hoyland stars as a nameless protagonist who speaks to the camera in a fabricated language and, though the course of the film, transforms from young and verbose, to old and inarticulate.
31 August 1969
In a programme first broadcast in 1969, some of the four million people evacuated as children from British cities during the Second World War look back on their experiences.
29 May 1967
After treatment for a slipped disc in a London hospital, a teacher struggles to convey his thoughts on mortality to his class and fellow staff.
02 January 1972
Directed by B.S. Johnson.
02 January 1973
A poet of forty wanders about the beach, changes his clothes when he feels like it, reads his poetry, reminisces engagingly, and reflects on life.
