Fat Man On A Beach

Michael Bakewell

1973

In this very personal piece of psychogeography experimental writer, B.S Johnson talks jovially to the camera about his relationship to Porth Ceiriad Bay in Wales. It’s a gentle, ponderous film with dashes of Tati-like silliness but the theme of death is never far away. Three weeks later Johnson committed suicide.

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