Solarflares Burn For You (1973)
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Uploaded by BFIfilms on Jan 14, 2009
Road movie or acid trip? Throbbing to a hypnotic soundtrack by Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt, our journey starts in London - complete with a mime who looks like a refugee from 'Godspell'. The '70s then swing into an industry-scarred countryside made magical with day-glo pink skies, tangerine fields and acid-yellow roads. The British landscape has rarely looked more extraordinary. (Robin Baker)
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Glad someone made the film. I wouldn't. but I'm glad it was done. If it messes with viewers' monds, that's good too. The hippy mime was wise to stay in his safe neighbourhood ---
The travel shots look like the clay quarries around St Austell / St Day --- some good stock car racing in thos places~!
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Glad someone made the film. I wouldn't. but I'm glad it was done. If it messes with viewers' monds, that's good too. The hippy mime was wise to stay in his safe neighbourhood ---
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saucy
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mesmorisingly mouthwateringly beautiul
2 years ago 2
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by Robert Wyatt folks.
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Beautiful.
3 years ago 4
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yes kenn, you're right. I did some quick research into this vid, and the music actualy waws recorded at the home studio of pink floyds Nick Mason in the spring of 1973.
3 years ago 2
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art baby!
3 years ago 2
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skippyrandom 3 years ago 22
A great illustration to Lindsay Anderson's belief that you can't make a film, in the Hollywood sense, with just a 16mm camera and your own instincts, but you CAN make poetry.
The BFI should release this on DVD. I'm sure there are more avant garde films from this period that would make a nice collection.
RebelVoDKa 3 years ago 9