Bruce Lacey Movies

The crazy almost-launch to BBC2, starring The Alberts alongside Ivor Cutler, commissioned in the wake of their rule-changing love comedy theatre...

Bruce Lacey doing a ritual performance

An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.

Bruce Lacey: 'People used to come and make documentaries about me, but they weren't interested in the day-to-day family life that I found extremely...

Mechanical statues and other pieces by Bruce Lacey.

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

The Lacey watch British astronauts landing on the moon

The Preservation Man is about useless objects but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's collection of random junk that is incorporated into...

Art for art's sake.

The Alberts (Bruce Lacey, Tony Gray and his brother Dougie Gray) attempt to take off. There are two edits to this film, both with their distinct...

Bruce Lacey performance

Experimental cutout piece

A performance of the band The Alberts. One of several films made especially for deaf children by adult film maker George Harrison Marks.

An early cinema influenced tale of rags to riches by Bob Godfrey. Bruce Lacey stars as the hapless ‘little man’ who longs to stand in the...

Part of a pair of Super 8 landscape studies with an ancient British style, the camera explores the countryside under striking cloudscapes.

Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. – a “synchronized, pressurized, energized, moisturized moron” –...

Sped up footage of musicians fighting on a stretch of mudflats.

A 1974 documentary in which comedian Dave Allen meets a variety of eccentrics including Alexander Stuart Wortley who lives in a box on wheels, a...

A brief canter through the life and work of one of Britain's most unbelievable artists.