Name: Preservation Man
Director: Ken Russell
Released: 1962-05-20
Duration: 16 min
Cast: Bruce Lacey, Huw Wheldon

Preservation Man (1962)

16m

About Preservation Man Movie

Released in 1962, Preservation Man is a Movie. Ken Russell's third Monitor documentary from 1962 is both a development from and inversion of the first, Lonely Shore. In that, an alien presence surveys a stretch of coastline strewn with assorted objects from early 1960s British lifestyles and tries (and mostly fails) to divine their meaning or purpose. The Preservation Man is also set in a series of object-strewn settings, but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's collection of random junk, and their original function is irrelevant. Sensibly, Russell and commentator Huw Wheldon keep analysis to a minimum, preferring to use the film as an excuse to spend quarter of an hour in Lacey's amiable company.

Movie Details

Release Date20 May 1962

Runtime16m

StatusReleased

DirectorKen Russell

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