David Perry (Australian filmmaker)
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David Perry is an Australian photographer and filmmaker, based in Sydney. During work on the production of The Theatre of Cruelty in Sydney, July 1965, he joined Albie Thoms, Aggy Read and John Clarke in establishing Ubu Films—named after Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi. This was Australia’s first consciously avant garde filmmaking group. [1]
16-mm experimental films include The Tribulations of Mr Dupont Nomore (1967); Bolero (1967); A Sketch of Abigayl's Belly (1968); David Perry's Album (1970); and Adam (1975). Ubu Films 1965-70 is a retrospective video compilation, released in 1997 [2]. Refracting Glasses (1992) is a 109-minute feature film which "uses a range of techniques (actuality and staged footage, optical effects, animation) in an essay-like construction on the theme of the historical status of the artist invoking, amongst a diverse range of references, the Ern Malley hoax and the work of the Russian artist V.E. Tatlin" [3].
[edit] References
- ^ National Film and Sound Archive Catalog, page 28
- ^ [1] Australian Film Commission abstract
- ^ [2] ibid.
[edit] External links
- Introduction to Ubu Films
- National Film and Sound Archive Keyword Search[3]
