''Anti-Clock'' is a 1979

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written and directed by Jane Arden and co-directed by Jack Bond. In the film, dreams are imaged in computerized video. The film, which stars Arden's son Sebastian Saville, was shot on film and video in colour with

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sequences. It opened the 1979

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, but was never picked up for British distribution: its only other public British screening was at the

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in 1983 as a tribute to Jane Arden, who committed suicide at the end of the previous year. However, it had a modest theatrical release in the US, where it received considerable critical acclaim. Famed scientist

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appears in the form of stock footage from his Messenger lectures on "The Character of Physical Law", and is credited as "The Physicist". ''Anti-Clock'', which relates closely in places to Jane Arden's book ''You Don't Know What You Want, Do You?'' was restored by the

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for

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and

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and released on 13 July 2009.

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* 1979 films 1970s science fiction films Films directed by Jane Arden Films directed by Jack Bond British science fiction films 1970s English-language films 1970s British films {{1970s-UK-film-stub