Herostratus (Flipside 004) (Dual Format Edition)

When a young poet Michael Gothard  (The Devils, The Valley) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.

Unseen since 1967, this audacious and prescient work left a profound mark on the landscape of late-1960s British cinema, with echoes of its visual style evident in the work of such directors as Stanley Kubrick, Nicolas Roeg and Michael Winner.

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• Newly transferred to High Definition from the original negative.
• Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition.
• Rare audio interview with Don Levy (1973, 38 mins)
• Ten Thousand Talents (1960, 25 mins): Levy's student film, set in Cambridge, featuring the voice of Peter Cook
• Time Is (1964, 29 mins): Levy's remarkable experimental documentary
• Five Films (1967, 9 mins): Levy's hypnotic experiments in film editing techniques
• Extensive illustrated booklet with newly commissioned contributors and original documentation