Herostratus (The Flipside) [Dual Format Edition]

When Max, a young poet (played by the iconic Michael Gothard) 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, and his motivations are revealed as a desperate attempt to seek attention through celebrity. Unseen since its limited release in 1967, this audacious and prescient - yet criminally overlooked - work by experimental filmmaker Don Levy left a profound mark on the landscape of late-1960s British cinema, with echoes of its visual style evident in the more celebrated work of such notable directors as Stanley Kubrick, Nicolas Roeg and Michael Winner.Special features: Dual Format Edition: includes both the Blu-ray and the DVD of the film and the extras Newly transferred to High Definition from the original negative under the supervision of Don Levy associate Amnon Buchbinder Rare audio interview with Don Levy (1973, 38 mins) Ten Thousand Talents (1960, 24 mins): Levy’s student film, set in Cambridge, featuring the voice of Peter Cook Time Is (1964, 28 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 Dolby Digital mono audio (320 kbps)