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Title: CONTRASTS: Sounds on Chair, Simple Simon, Devil Dance

Reference number: 6607

Date: 1983 - 1984

Director: [d. Enrico Cocozza]

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 63.00 minsc

Description: An experimental videogram by Enrico Cocozza, featuring three performance pieces: Sounds on a Chain, Simple Simon, Devil Dance.

Credits: This videogram is dedicated to IAIN CAMPBELL LESLIE, a brave young man who tried always to be himself, but his friends would not let him, and he disappeared in the month of December 1984.

Shotlist: [Shotlisted from VHS copy]

(68.47) [CONTRAST] [introductory dedication] (69.30) Sounds on a Chair (71.00) c/u seated Ian Leslie eating apple. Progressively he looks more confused as strange sounds are heard in background, for example rain and wind to which he puts up a brolly and dons a blanket (109.12) Simple Simon Ian Leslie talking to Enrico Cocozza in silly accent in Enrico Cocozza's flat, traffic visible in background going up Main Street (118.20) Devil Dance Ian Leslie wearing vest and dancing around in Enrico Cocozza's flat. Set looks same as for 'Angel of Death' [see ref. 6588] (130.25) ecs (131.46)