Movie Details
Original Language:English
The Preservation Man
DirectorKen Russell
16 min
Plot
Ken Russells third Monitor documentary from 1962 is both a development from and inversion of the first Lonely Shore In that an alien presence surveys a stretch of coastline strewn with assorted objects from early 1960s British lifestyles and tries and mostly fails to divine their meaning or purpose The Preservation Man is also set in a series of objectstrewn settings but here theyre part of the artist Bruce Laceys collection of random junk and their original function is irrelevant Sensibly Russell and commentator Huw Wheldon keep analysis to a minimum preferring to use the film as an excuse to spend quarter of an hour in Laceys amiable company
