Opus

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1969

Creator: British Govt. Central Office of Info.

Complete Record: Produced for world-wide distribution for the British Government (Central Office of Information) and for continuous showing in the British Pavilion of Expo ’67, Montreal was directed by famed experimental filmmaker Don Levy. This film is a fascinating tour-de-force montage of British art, architecture, theater and fashions-all that was shocking in 1969. Opus is a whirlwind of music and montage of modern British machine sculptors, excerpts from Royal Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the Homecoming by Harold Pinter, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton under the direction of the marquis de Sade, directed by Peter Brook, extracts from Sir Frederick Ashton’s Ballet Monotones performed by the members of the Royal Ballet Company and swingin’ British fashions, cars and lifestyles!