Scenes Seen with Allen Jones

1970 / 30 min. / color
Directed by Michael Blackwood and Christian Blackwood

Scenes Seen with Allen Jones explores the motive of the artist’s famed graphic works, paintings and sculptures. The erotic overtones of Jones’s work are both controversial and exciting, drawing the public’s attention towards a new sector of the avant-garde. Jones is introduced in his London studio, where he is developing an idea for a new painting as he meticulously studies his model. During his days as a top member of the Pop Art movement in Britain, Jones evolved a singular genre of imagery: totemic forms of torso-less legs, sheathed in vinyl, which have become his artistic “signature.”