HEROSTRATUS (DUAL FORMAT EDITION) (FLIPSIDE) - BLU-RAY

BFI Flipside presents

HEROSTRATUS (DVD + Blu-ray)
A film by Don Levy

THE FLIPSIDE: rescuing weird and wonderful British films from obscurity and presenting them in new high-quality editions.

When a young Poet (Michael Gothard - The Devils, The Valley) hires a marketing company to turn his suicide-by-jumping into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.

Unseen since 1967, this audacious and prescient work left a profound mark on the landscape of late-1960s British cinema, with echoes of its visual style evident in the work of such celebrated directors as Stanley Kubrick, Nicholas Roeg and Michael Winner

Special Features

• Newly transferred to High Definition from the original negative
• Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition
• Rare audio interview with Don Levy (1973, 38 mins)
• Ten Thousand Talents (1960, 25 mins): Levy's student film, set in Cambridge, featuring the voice of Peter Cook
• Time Is (1964, 29 mins): Levy's remarkable documentary
• Five Films (1967, 8 mins): Levy's hypnotic experiments in film editing techniques
• Extensive illustrated booklet with newly commissioned contributions and original documentation

UK | 1967 | colour | English language, with optional English hard-of-hearing subtitles | 143 minutes | Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 (BD only) and specially composed 1.78:1 ratio (DVD only)

Disc 1: BD50 | 1080p | 24fps | PCM mono audio (48k/24-bit)
Disc 2: DVD9 | PAL | Dolby Digital mono audio (320kbps)