8 April 2014
A film made by Grayson Perry 30 years ago when he lived in a Camden squat will get its first public showing at the BFI. Green Witch and Merry Diana will be screened on Friday and again next week.
The film, which was shot on a Super 8 camera for about £100, tells the story of a woman who finds a box of spells in a field. “At art school I thought I was going to be a film-maker,” Perry said recently. “I lived in a house full of them — John Maybury, Derek Jarman, Cerith Evans. It inspired me but Cerith said at the time that he was inspired by perfume adverts.”
Perry has no regrets about his career choice. “I wouldn’t have known who Coppola was,” he said. “I was a dirty New Romantic, probably still recovering from acid.”
