Bruce Lacey Movies

  • 1962
    The Preservation Man

    The Preservation Man

    The Preservation Man

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    The Preservation Man is about useless objects but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's collection of random junk that is incorporated into...

    The Preservation Man
  • 1974
    Stella Chase

    Stella Chase

    Stella Chase

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    A moody, pastoral sci-fi tale about Stella Superstar and her travels across the universe. Vaseline around the camera lens and other early cinema...

    Stella Chase
  • 1960
    Battle of New Orleans

    Battle of New Orleans

    Battle of New Orleans

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    Sped up footage of musicians fighting on a stretch of mudflats.

    Battle of New Orleans
  • 1960
    Everybody's Nobody

    Everybody's Nobody

    Everybody's Nobody

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    Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. – a “synchronized, pressurized, energized, moisturized moron” –...

    Everybody's Nobody
  • 1984
    Breaking Away to Come Together

    Breaking Away to Come Together

    Breaking Away to Come Together

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    Using only one camera, remote controlled mirrors and an external tilting device, Lacey alternates the perspective of angular planes on his face into...

    Breaking Away to Come Together
  • 1971
    How to Have a Bath

    How to Have a Bath

    How to Have a Bath

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    An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.

    How to Have a Bath
  • 1987
    The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits

    The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits

    The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits

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    A ritual created and performed by Bruce Lacey.

    The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits
  • 1973
    Heads, Bodies and Legs

    Heads, Bodies and Legs

    Heads, Bodies and Legs

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    Experimental cutout piece

    Heads, Bodies and Legs
  • 1965
    The Humanoid Race

    The Humanoid Race

    The Humanoid Race

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    Mechanical statues and other pieces by Bruce Lacey.

    The Humanoid Race
  • 1964
    The Alberts’ Channel Too

    The Alberts’ Channel Too

    The Alberts’ Channel Too

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    The crazy almost-launch to BBC2, starring The Alberts alongside Ivor Cutler, commissioned in the wake of their rule-changing love comedy theatre...

    The Alberts’ Channel Too
  • 1982
    Awakening of the Earth Goddess, Rougham

    Awakening of the Earth Goddess, Rougham

    Awakening of the Earth Goddess, Rougham

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    Bruce Lacey doing a ritual performance

    Awakening of the Earth Goddess, Rougham
  • 1981
    Castlerigg

    Castlerigg

    Castlerigg

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    Bruce Lacey wandering around and interacting with stones

    Castlerigg
  • 1973
    British Landing on the Moon

    British Landing on the Moon

    British Landing on the Moon

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    The Lacey watch British astronauts landing on the moon

    British Landing on the Moon
  • 1981
    Wales Stone Circles

    Wales Stone Circles

    Wales Stone Circles

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    Part of a pair of Super 8 landscape studies with an ancient British style, the camera explores the countryside under striking cloudscapes.

    Wales Stone Circles
  • 2002
    If I Had a Talking Picture of You

    If I Had a Talking Picture of You

    If I Had a Talking Picture of You

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    Bruce Lacey performance

    If I Had a Talking Picture of You
  • 2012
    The Bruce Lacey Experience

    The Bruce Lacey Experience

    The Bruce Lacey Experience

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    A brief canter through the life and work of one of Britain's most unbelievable artists.

    The Bruce Lacey Experience