Bruce Lacey Movies

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

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...

Free-form and anarchic in a very English way, this elaborate, gothic, handmade production was based on a tale from the ARABIAN NIGHTS and looks...

A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.

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

Bruce Lacey wandering around and interacting with stones

An early cinema influenced tale of rags to riches by Bob Godfrey. Bruce Lacey stars as the hapless ‘little man’ who longs to stand in the...

Bruce Lacey doing a ritual performance

Bruce Lacey: 'People used to come and make documentaries about me, but they weren't interested in the day-to-day family life that I found extremely...

Experimental cutout piece

A highly impressionistic film in which a blind man (Lacey) drifts through the war-damaged streets of Camden and Islington.

An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.

The Alberts (Bruce Lacey, Tony Gray and his brother Dougie Gray) attempt to take off. There are two edits to this film, both with their distinct...

Bruce Lacey performance

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

Art for art's sake.

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

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

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