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Mar 31

Bruce Lacey: The Preservation Man

ian holloway

Filmed by Ken Russell in 1962, one of the 21 films he made for the BBC arts programme, 'Monitor', 'The Preservation Man' is an affectionate short about the artist, performer and great British eccentric, Bruce Lacey.Lacey was a techno-pagan shaman; a painter; a film-maker; a creator of kinetic...

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Oct 27 2025

What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse?

SIMON REYNOLDS

Just about the most hauntological thing I have ever seen, and it was made in 1962! This BBC short film, titled "The Lonely Shore" and produced under the aegis of the program Monitor, imagines a team of researchers visiting the deserted wasteland of the British Isles centuries after an...

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