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The crazy almost-launch to BBC2, starring The Alberts alongside Ivor Cutler, commissioned in the wake of their rule-changing love comedy theatre...
The Alberts’ Channel Too
A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's...
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show...
Just Like a Woman
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...
The Preservation Man
A brief canter through the life and work of one of Britain's most unbelievable artists.
The Bruce Lacey Experience
A highly impressionistic film in which a blind man (Lacey) drifts through the war-damaged streets of Camden and Islington.
Head in Shadow
Free-form and anarchic in a very English way, this elaborate, gothic, handmade production was based on a tale from the ARABIAN NIGHTS and looks...
Agib and Agab
Sped up footage of musicians fighting on a stretch of mudflats.
Battle of New Orleans
Starring Lacey as the Mobile Absurd Non-entity, aka M.A.N. – a “synchronized, pressurized, energized, moisturized moron” –...
Everybody's Nobody
A performance of the band The Alberts. One of several films made especially for deaf children by adult film maker George Harrison Marks.
Uncle's Tea Party
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...
One Man Band
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...
Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric
An instructional film by Bruce Lacey.
Kissing Film
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...
The Lacey Rituals
How to Have a Bath
'.....invites us to experience a level of connection and intimacy between two people.' - Sam Dunn (Head of BFI Video Publishing)
Double Exposure
The Alberts (Bruce Lacey, Tony Gray and his brother Dougie Gray) attempt to take off. There are two edits of this film, both with their own distinct...
The Flying Alberts (Brucey Lacey edit)
Mechanical statues and other pieces by Bruce Lacey.
The Humanoid Race
Using only one camera, remote controlled mirrors and an external tilting device, Lacey alternates the perspective of angular planes on his face into...
Breaking Away to Come Together
The Lacey watch British astronauts landing on the moon
British Landing on the Moon
Bruce Lacey wandering around and interacting with stones
Castlerigg
Experimental cutout piece
Heads, Bodies and Legs
Bruce Lacey performance
If I Had a Talking Picture of You
A moody, pastoral sci-fi tale about Stella Superstar and her travels across the universe. Vaseline around the camera lens and other early cinema...
Stella Chase
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...
The Flying Alberts
Spike stars with Bob Todd, Bill Kerr, Graham Stark, Valentine Dyall, and Sheree Winton & a final TV outing for moustachioed 'token Italian' comedy...
Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value
A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.
The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising
The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The...
It's Trad, Dad!
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come...
Help!
A ritual created and performed by Bruce Lacey.
The Re-Awakening of My Ancestral Spirits
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
Smashing Time
Art for art's sake.
L'art pour l'art