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Anthony Stern (director) was born in Cambridge, England in 1944 and first started making films while at Cambridge University, working as assistant to the avant-garde documentary film maker Peter Whitehead.
Anthony went on to develop the concept of the impressionistic documentary with the making of the BFI (British Film Institute)-financed film ’San Francisco’, which went on
to win awards at the Oberhausen International Kurzfilmtage and Melbourne International Film
Festival (1969).
In the early 1970‘s Anthony discovered glass and glass making and completed an MA at the Royal College of Art In Glass. He has since become one of the world’s premier artists In gloss. "Glass",he says, fulfills his fascination with materials through which light passes."
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Anthony has also made the seminal experimental films ‘Serendipity’ and ’Ain’t Misbehavin’’’, exploring the use of 16mm single frame cinematography in the late 1960’s.
“He uses a flash-and-freeze method, interrupting the movement, composing in a multiplicity of frozen image; the work is reminiscent of the American...underground school... The cinema, he says, is completely satisfying. It embraces music, theatre, painting, all the arts." - Dilys Powell, Sunday Times (London)
"San Francisco, as might be expected, divided the audience. Most probably detested it; but for local experimental film makers and others it was the best film in the Festival" - David Stratton, Director, Sydney Film Festival
Anthony returns to film making after 20 years with the completion of ’The Noon Gun’, a film-poem shot on a journey through Afghanistan, featuring a soundtrack by world fusion musicians "Equa".
Anthony completes a film about his work in glass in 2004.
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1969 – ‘San Francisco’
16 mm colour
2nd prize Oberhausen International Kurzfilmtage
Melbourne International Film Festival Special Award for the vitality of its design and editing techniques and its successful capture of the mood of the city’ original soundtrack by Pink Floyd
1970 – ‘Wheel’
16 mm colour
starring Billie Dixon, Anoushka Hempel, Sally James stream of consciousness based on diary footage original soundtrack by Rupert Hine & Simon Jeffes (Penguin Cafe Orchestra)
1973 – ‘Serendipity’
16 mm colour
commissioned by the International Building Exhibition (RIBA) to document architecture in Britain use of single-frame and step-printing original sountrack by Chris Spedding, Ray Warleigh & Barbara Moore
1976 – ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’
black & white 35 mm
an experimental film based on the rediscovery of a collection of old pornographic films from 1905-1950 – it explores with a light-hearted attitude the gaze of the camera in respect of women in the 20th C.
2004– ‘The Noon Gun’
completed July 2003
originally shot 16 mm colour
transfer to DVCAM for digital editinga film-poem based on recently rediscovered
footage of Afghanistan originally shot in 1971 original soundtrack by Equa.
Shown at Melbourne film festival 2004.
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