Movies: John Maybury

Maledicta Electronica is a mesmerising journey into a video world of performance, S&M, politics and poetry. Maybury mixes exquisite image-making with an acutely urbane politic that never lets the viewer drift too long in pleasure fields....

The film's attempt to re-create an acid trip is showcased in this creature's dance: whenever she moves, a rainbow of colors and shapes appear, as if her appendages are the artist's brushes....

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A model poses in bright primary colours alongside a number of oblique words. Images of a woman rotating wearing long flowing dresses are overlain and played at different speeds....

Absurd is a collage of Maybury’s earlier work, with some new footage, which expresses and reflects his experience of the past decade. Like his earlier films, it weaves a rich tapestry of decadent, erotic and personal imagery....

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Another cutting-edge visual experiment from British artist John Maybury, Premonitions Of Absurd Perversion In Sexual Personae, Part 1 serves up a video tribute to the male body, a steamy Kenneth Anger for the video age. Pieced together from a ten yea...

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The mesmerizing and beautifully evil experimental short film by Cerith Wyn Evans & John Maybury made for Psychic TV’s “Unclean”....