«It really involved a lot of them running about in single file, sometimes in silhouette, and the Floyd as good guys taking on some unseen monster/enemy, being chased or fighting back (...) This was one of the very first films to be tied to a record release. I suppose we thought it would be projected at clubs. The four wore black or at least very dark clothes, and we painted a whole street white. Most of it was filmed in an alley behind Tottenham Court Road where there was a long wall on one side, and I think a derelict site on the other. I wanted it painted white to exaggerate the contrast, so we all – including the Floyd members I think, anyway one or two of them, plus their agent Peter Jenner, Spike Hawkins and me - came along the day before with huge cans of white paint and we whitewashed the whole alley, pavement as well. When challenged by passersby we said it was part of the Keep Britain Clean campaign. Of course, with the subsequent tragedy of Syd Barrett, the film would have become a wonderful record of him in full flower and it terribly grieves me that that is gone." Get in touch if you have seen it »
«Art beat: From Bruiser to the Brontë sisters», The Guardian, 11 September 2009
