British filmmaker Jack Bond, known for his avant-garde films in the 1960s and 70s with Jane Arden and later collaborations with 80s pop stars, has died at the age of 87.
Bond worked on avant-garde films with Jane Arden in the 1960s and 70s and went on to work with 80s pop stars from Neil Tennant to Adam Ant. Jack Bond, a British film-maker, died aged 87. Bond’s family told the Guardian that he died on 21 December at a nursing home in Twickenham. “He was a warm and funny man who we very much enjoyed working with and we send our love and condolences to his family and those close to him.
” Bond’s varied career gained its initial impetus from his partnership with Arden, whom he met in the early 1960s. Bond had served his apprenticeship as a trainee at the BBC, and made his mark with a documentary about Wilfred Owen, The Pity of War, in 1964. In 1965 he and Arden made Dalí in New York, a film about the artist which was broadcast the following year. Bond described Arden, already an established actor and writer, as “a most beautiful and wonderful woman”, and was happy to follow her lead as she delved into the radical ideas of the time. In 1968 Bond directed Separation, a cut-up, experimental story written by Arden about a woman in a failing marriage tormented by her lover, with a soundtrack by Procol Harum. The pair then worked on The Other Side of the Underneath, directed by Arden and produced by Bond, derived from Arden’s 1971 play A New Communion for Freaks, Prophets and Witches for her Holocaust theatre company, a chaotic, disturbing film influenced by the 70s anti-psychiatry movement; it examined a young woman’s schizophrenia and. The pair were then credited as co-directors for the dreamlike science-fiction parable Anti-Clock, which starred Sebastian Saville, Arden’s son from her marriage to TV director Philip Saville, and which opened the London film festival in 1979
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