A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity, Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Brilliantly mixing film and video techniques, Arden and Bond's paranoid, psychological surveillance study of a career gambler turned clairvoyant unstuck in time captures onscreen the anxieties that have infiltrated the consciousness of so many in Western society.
Direction
Arden and Bond's seamless film-video fusion was genuinely unprecedented.
Cinematography
Grimy 16mm and degraded video create tactile psychological decay.
Sound
Disorienting audio design that weaponizes silence and distortion.
Director
Jane Arden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jane Arden's final film before her death by suicide in 1982; the work's preoccupation with self-destruction now reads devastatingly autobiographical.
Shot during Britain's Winter of Discontent, the film's technological paranoia directly channels Thatcher-era anxieties about state control and emerging video culture.
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