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This BBC2-screened film is a look at the European art world of the late 1960s, and a meditation on the nature of art and the pricing of art, shot by Tony Williams. The origins of this film are suitably cosmopolitan. It was initiated by an Iranian student – and underwritten by Jeremy Fry from Cadbury Fry Hudson. Its focus is Takis, a Greek artist who creates kinetic sculptures out of discarded electronic objects (at times reminiscent of Len Lye’s work), and plans to mass produce cheaper versions of his work to make his art accessible. But will it still be art?
I was approached by an Iranian film student Mahmoud Khosrowshahi to help him make a film on Takis. I was to shoot and edit he would pay the bills. He borrowed some money from his wealthy parents in Iran, and we began to make the film in black and ...
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Pacific Films
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Television, 2007 (Excerpts)
A New Zealand modern artist working in London in the 60s
Television, 1983 (Full Length Episode)
Another doco about making art out of the everyday
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