Impersonation, The: Apropos the Disappearance of Reginald Pepper

Synopsis: A tongue-in-cheek film about the abortive making of a documentary by film students on the life and work of Swindon’s primitive painter, Reginald Pepper, who has disappeared. The approaches made by the various film units (named after Jean Luc Godard, Grierson, Fellini, D A Pennybaker) include interviews with critics and other ‘experts’ as well as the ordinary person in the street; bizarre drama-documentary about the possible circumstances in which the paintings were made (featuring Pepper’s mother, his aunt and Longbody, the enigmatic cat); reportage on an art gallery opening, and a detective trail to the suspected perpetrator of forgery. Pepper is a fictitious character created by artist Joanna Carrington and it is through his story that the broader issues of primitive, popular, folk or naive paintings are considered.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film; Video; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 56 min. Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 56 min.
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of production: 1984
Availability: Hire
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Uses: Students of the visual arts.*
Subjects: Art
Keywords: film and video production techniques; paintings

Name: Arts on Film Archive, University of Westminster
Notes: Arts on Film Archive offers on-line access to a large range of films on art produced in the United Kingdom since the 1950s, and is a unique record of British and international post-war art, as well as of documentary film-making in the UK. In its first phase, the archive offers a complete database and an on-line video streaming of all 450 films made by the film department of Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced till 2003 by the dance Department of ACE. The collection is only available streamed to ac.uk domain addresses.

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