Directing
Anthony Stern
Born — Died
1944-10-26 — 2022-02-10
Place of birth
Cambridge, England
Known for
Directing
Credits
7 titles
Anthony Stern (26 October 1944 – 10 February 2022) was a British experimental filmmaker and glass maker. He first started making films while at Cambridge University, then worked as assistant to the avant-garde documentary film maker Peter Whitehead. Stern was born in Cambridge, England, on 26 October 1944. At the age of 18, Stern and Syd Barrett held a joint painting exhibition in Cambridge. He later moved to London and became involved in the film and music scene. Stern made films, took photographs, and amassed a body of work which eventually grew into an archive. Stern developed the concept of the impressionistic documentary with his BFI financed work San Francisco: Film, which was produc…
Known for
5.3One of the earliest music videos, the film shows various pictures of San Francisco in the psychedelic era, with rapid cuts and freeze-frames, and Pink Floyd's music.
San Francisco
1968
While I was at Cambridge University my girlfriend became pregnant. The lack of sex education in the 1960’s meant that I failed to make the connection between sex and babies. Taking cues 'nouvelle vague' cinema this film juxtaposes adolescent sexual fantasies with the reality of procreation.
Baby Baby
1965
7.0Compilation of extracts from 'blue' movies from 1900 to the 1940s intercut with clips of popular music and dancing, and excerpts from newsreels and shorts, mostly 'topical' features involving women. Includes glimpses of Fats Waller, George Formby, Nat 'King' Cole and other performers.
Ain't Misbehavin'
1974
Stills and archive footage taken during the 1960s and filmed in Cambridge, London and San Francisco.
Get All That, Ant?
2015
A film portrait of Peter Whitehead that takes the form of an interview without questions - an experiment with Being and Time.
Nothing to Do with Me
1968
Iggy was a model and the girlfriend of Syd Barrett, and appeared on the cover of his album The Madcap Laughs (1970). She was terrific fun to be with and to photograph. I made a short film of her dancing in Russell Square, which portrays her as the ultimate flower child of the 1960s. Recorded 1966, edited 2008.
Iggy the Eskimo Girl
2008
Film credits
Behind the camera
5.3One of the earliest music videos, the film shows various pictures of San Francisco in the psychedelic era, with rapid cuts and freeze-frames, and Pink Floyd's music.
San Francisco
1968
While I was at Cambridge University my girlfriend became pregnant. The lack of sex education in the 1960’s meant that I failed to make the connection between sex and babies. Taking cues 'nouvelle vague' cinema this film juxtaposes adolescent sexual fantasies with the reality of procreation.
Baby Baby
1965
7.0Compilation of extracts from 'blue' movies from 1900 to the 1940s intercut with clips of popular music and dancing, and excerpts from newsreels and shorts, mostly 'topical' features involving women. Includes glimpses of Fats Waller, George Formby, Nat 'King' Cole and other performers.
Ain't Misbehavin'
1974
Stills and archive footage taken during the 1960s and filmed in Cambridge, London and San Francisco.
Get All That, Ant?
2015
A film portrait of Peter Whitehead that takes the form of an interview without questions - an experiment with Being and Time.
Nothing to Do with Me
1968
Iggy was a model and the girlfriend of Syd Barrett, and appeared on the cover of his album The Madcap Laughs (1970). She was terrific fun to be with and to photograph. I made a short film of her dancing in Russell Square, which portrays her as the ultimate flower child of the 1960s. Recorded 1966, edited 2008.
Iggy the Eskimo Girl
2008
