You’re Human Like the Rest of Them BS Johnson 1967, 18min
Gordon Bowker recalls encountering Johnson in the foyer of the NFT in 1967, immediately after the film version of “You’re Human Like The Rest of Them” had had its premiere. He found it ‘a very black (even pathologically morbid) comedy about a teacher experiencing intimations of mortality while being treated for a slipped disc in a London hospital […] The grim truth which the teacher then conveys to his bewildered class, is that from the very moment of birth we begin to decay and die. All we can hope to do is die awkwardly, like a locust being consumed by a lizard. “Is that how you really feel?” I asked him sceptically, expecting him to be laughed at for too closely identifying an author with his work. But he answered coldly and emphatically, “Yes, that’s exactly how I feel”.
Like a Fiery Elephant, The Story of BS Johnson by Jonathan Coe

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Room Film (Double Take) Peter Gidal 1967, 10min
"When you first showed Room at the Old Arts Lab in Summer 68 it was, for the English filmmakers present (Steve Dwoskin, Malcolm Le Grice, Simon Hartog, David Curtis, etc) a revelation."
Malcolm Le Grice1969

Film Samuel Beckett
Film is Samuel Beckett’s only venture into the medium of the cinema. Written in 1963, the film was made in the summer of 1964 in New York, directed by Alan Schneider and starring the late Buster Keaton. The film which has no dialogue and only one sound – a soft ‘sssh!’ takes as its basis Berkeley’s theory ‘Esse est percipi’, that ‘to be is to be perceived’: even after all outside perception – be it animal, human, or divine – has been suppressed, self-perception remains.
Film by Samuel Beckett, Complete Scenario, Grove Press 1969