ORIGINAL 60'S - 70'S VINTAGE DOCUMENTARY FILM & STILLS
GET ALL THAT ANT? 2016
Get All That Ant? 2016
Get All That Ant is a journey down the rabbit hole of Anthony’s Stern’s 1960s. This
archive film combines thousands of stills, moving image, music and soundbites from
the man who saw it all.
FLOWER CHILDREN OF THE BLINDING LIGHT
Flower Children In the Blinding Light
A retrospective selection of Anthony Stern’s archive that was rediscovered in his
basement 50 years on. Featuring classics and never-before-seen footage.
Baby Baby
Iggy the Eskimo Girl
Nothing to do With Me
San Fransisco
The American Strory
BABY BABY 1965
Directors: Johnny Jones
Screenwriter: David Smith
Genre: Documentry
BABY BABY 1965
Baby Baby (1965)
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.
11m30s/black and white
IGGY THE ESKIMO GIRL 1966
Iggy the Eskimo Girl (1966/2008)
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.
4m/colour
Produced in collaboration with Chimera Arts.
SAN FRANSISCO REDUX NO.1 1968
San Francisco Redux: No. 1 (1968/2008)
A 'psychedelically enhanced' excerpt from the award-winning film San Francisco. The carefree spirit of the original 1968 film is juxtaposed with audio recordings from seminal events of that momentous year.
8m/colour
Produced in collaboration with Chimera Arts.
SAN FRANSISCO 1968
San Francisco (1968)
San Francisco was a response to hearing “Interstellar Overdrive” by Pink Floyd. It was my desire to make permanent the Pink Floyd lightshows created at the UFO club by Peter Wynne Wilson. The LSD-triggered psychedelic experience found its ultimate expression in this fusion of sight and sound, which achieved a visceral effect on the audience. San Francisco is 'painting with light' as well as a saturated archive of day to day life in the 1960's. New rhythms were created in the language of film, in using single-frame exposures and freeze-frame techniques.
NOTHING TO DO WITH ME - PETER WHITEHEAD- 1968
Nothing To Do With Me (1968)
A film portrait of Peter Whitehead that takes the form of an interview without questions - an experiment with Being and Time.
35m/black and white
END OF THE PARTY 1969
The End of the Party: Hyde Park 1969 (1969/2008)
This film is a condensed record of footage I shot of Blind Faith’s famous first performance at a free concert in Hyde Park in 1969. This film marks the end of the 1960s era of peace and love. Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Stevie Winwood’s performance is brilliant yet, with hindsight, melancholic. Ken Kesey and Mick Jagger are also glimpsed in the audience.
5m30s/black and white
Produced in collaboration with Chimera Arts.
TED BERRIGAN 1970
Ted Berrigan (1970)
Ted Berrigan was a leading light in the New York School of Poetry in the 1960s. His peers included Anselm Hollo, Anne Waldman, Ron Padgett, Jim Carroll, Jack Kerouac, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Robert Creeley. The poets and painters mingled and gave frequent readings at St Mark’s-Church-In-The-Bowery.
The film was made in my flat in London, and took place over the course of an evening.
23m/black and white
THE NOONGUN 1971
The Noon Gun (1971/2004)
Filmed in 1971, on my hippie travels, I took with me a 16mm Bolex camera and 40 rolls of film. I made this film as homage to the country and its people. The Noon Gun itself stood on a hill outside Herat, and was fired every day at midday, as a call to prayer. The irony of the gun’s function as an instrument of peaceful prayer and weapon of war is not lost on those who have followed the tragic history of Afghanistan over the last four decades.
27m/colour
Produced in collaboration with Chimera Arts, with an original soundtrack by Equa.
WHEEL 1971
Wheel (1969-1971)
Wheel is an experiment in non-linear storytelling. Experiences filmed become memories. Memories become fictions. It is a meditational tool for letting go of the 'desire world' – the muses included – and aiming at Oneness.
“Inherently regenerative energy association events” (Buckminster Fuller).
16m30s/colour
SERENDIPITY 1971
Serendipity (1971)
“The faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident”
Experimental collage of British architecture, with original jazz funk music by Barbara Moore.
18m/colour
AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' 1974
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1974)
Two mystery men knocked on my front door in 1974 and said “are you Anthony Stern? If so, we’ve got some films for you”. The box contained a marvellous treasure trove of early pornography. The only information they gave me about the footage was that the films had been found in a chemist’s in Holborn, whilst it was being converted into a betting shop. They were given my name by an unknown source, and I never heard from them again. The edited film was co-directed with Peter Neal and examines the objectification of women since the inception of cinema.
83m/black & white
HAVANA 2006
Havana Jazz (2006)
A film poem shot during the Havana Jazz Festival in 2006, on a digital video camera. Edited by Marek Pytel, it captures the complex mix of poverty and the vitality of music and dance.
18m/colour
OTHER
Worked as Assistant Director with Peter Whitehead
Charlie is my Darling (1966)
The Benefit of the Doubt (1967)
Tonite Let’s All Make Love In London (1967)
The Fall (1969)
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