Ron Orders
Ron Orders
Archive type:
Interview
Archive ID:
lcva_03767
Date:
2017
Location:
Unknown
Chroma:
Colour
Duration:
00:25:26
Format:
Digital file
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Transcript:
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Ron Orders has been working as a producer/director/cameraman since the mid-70’s making films first with Liberation Films, then through his own production company Cinecontact which he founded in 1979.
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00:00 Growing up 01:08 Education 'Scholarship boy' 03:12 Parents professions 04:30 Briefly studying engineering, teaching photography 05:45 Beginning of UK Community politics Covent Garden 06:56 Liberation Films 10:18 UK Radical Film networks Distribution 13:15 Pioneers of portable cameras AKAI 14:13 Starting To Happen (1974) 18:09 Fly a Flag for Poplar (1974) 21:00 A coup at Liberation 22:40 Cinecontact 23:16 Channel 4 23:59 Reflection on later work & relevance of early work
Credits
Camera:
Siobhan Schwartzberg
Editor:
Zoe Kinross
Interviewer:
Zoe Kinross