John Sewell

Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. – a “synchronized, pressurized, energized, moisturized moron” – this angry, Goon-like film rips apart the factory-produced, ‘ideal home’-type lifestyle aggressively marketed in the post-war era with playful, witty panache.

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

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

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

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 forward to FLAMING CREATURES and other underground movies from the 60s that merge lush fantasy with grimy reality. Art director Bruce Lacey stars as the ghoulish witch doctor who brings a dead body back to life.

Mechanical statues and other pieces by Bruce Lacey.

Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. – a “synchronized, pressurized, energized, moisturized moron” – this angry, Goon-like film rips apart the factory-produced, ‘ideal home’-type lifestyle aggressively marketed in the post-war era with playful, witty panache.