In Dancing Ledge, Britain's most controversial independent film-maker gives a kaleidoscopic account of his life theatre designer and film-maker held his first one-man show at the Lisson Gallery in 1969.
He designed sets and costumes for the theatre (Jazz Calendar with Frederick Ashton at Covent Garden and Don Giovanni at the Colisctini). I k was production designer for Ken Russell Hills The Devils and Satt,Nie Messiah, during which time he worked on his own films in Super 8 before making his features Sebastiane, jubilee and The Tempest.
Since 1980 he has returned to painting (a show at the ICA) and design (The Rake's Progress with Ken Russell in Florence) and made his film on the life of Caravaggio.
Concurrently he has been developing a new form of cinema in the films Angelic Conversation, Imagining October.
The Last of England, War Requiem, The Garden and Edward II. In 1986, he discovered that he was HIV positive. He lives in a cottage on the coast at Dungeness.
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