Bruce Lacey: The Preservation Man

Filmed by Ken Russell in 1962, one of the 21 films he made for the BBC arts programme, ' Monitor ', 'The Preservation Man' is an affectionate short about the artist, performer and great British eccentric, Bruce Lacey. Lacey was a techno-pagan shaman; a painter; a film-maker; a creator of kinetic sculptures; a performance artist (before the phrase was even coined); a member of the surrealist comedy…