Death May Be Your Santa Claus

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Death May Be Your Santa Claus (1969)

Directed by Frankie Dymon

Drama · 37m

Frankie Dymon's Death May be Your Santa Claus (1969), arguably Britain's first and only example of a 'black power' movie, in which themes of sexual and political identity encircle one another in the context of a hip and hippy London of the late 1960s, suspended between the cinematic radicalisms of films such as Roeg's Performance, Godard's Sympathy for the Devil in which Dymon played a leading role, or Boorman's Leo the Last. Thought lost until quite recently, this inscrutably-titled film is described as a 'pop fantasy' and offers an intriguing look at 60s sex and politics from a black British perspective.

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Cast

K
Ken Gajadhar
D
Donnah Dolce
M
Merdelle Jordine
K
Ken Elliott Self (as The Second Hand)
K
Kieran O'Connor Self (as The Second Hand)
B
Bob Gibbons Self (as The Second Hand)
R
Rob Elliott Self (as The Second Hand)
G
George Hart Self (as The Second Hand)

Crew

Director
Frankie Dymon
Writer
Frankie Dymon
Director of Photography
Clive Tickner
Editor
Bob Ferguson, Christopher Wade

Details

Release date
1969-08-06
Runtime
37m
Genres
Drama
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United Kingdom
Production
Stria Films, Space Films