After the experience of working as sole director on The Other Side of The Underneath, Arden returned to collaborating with Bond, this time sharing the director’s chair for what would be her final films. Vibration is infused with Arden’s developing interest in Sufism as she strives to depict the states of mind achieved through its devotional elements, something that gained greater familiarity with Western audiences years later with the Qawwali singing of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Anti-Clock builds on the techniques of the short’s sound and image manipulation as it appropriates the framework of science-fiction to explore the nature of memory and systems of control. Its fascination with the emerging video technology presages the evolution of the surveillance state and the work of auteurs such as Atom Egoyan, and brings a remarkable body of work to a suitably daring close.

Notes by Kevin Coyne.

Screening as part of Jane Arden: A New Communion.