“A silent movie type villain casts a spell over a young diaphanously dressed adept and we see the trail of her somnambulistic walk. This is intercut with industrial type footage, including a certain bridge in our neighbourhood that adds an op-art dimension to the proceedings.”

“The title translates from Japanese as ‘The Tree’ [it does?]. This stars Lorette Velvette from the Hellcats dressed in a kimono. There’s a touching scene on a bridge overlooking a small brook with her lover, he gives her a kind of look that says farewell, then they drift apart. later she returns and he’s no longer there.”

“A freewheelin’ art-damage happening involving Panther Burns and various Panther Burns associates.”

“The Panther Burns Blue Movie starring Tav Falco in a previous incarnation as Eugene Baffle. It’s all shot in a junk yard in the Ozark Mountains and is based on one of my favourite poems, [James Dickey’s] ‘Cherry Log Road’”

“From ‘85 a cable TV show we made in our own op-art environment and featuring 30 minutes of performance by Panther Burns.”

“A travelogue and garage subjugation film. Made by Richard Pleuger, a Berlin film maker and the nephew of H.P.Mueller, the guy who set the land speed record on an NSU cycle in the ‘60s. Lorette and Benny, the Hellcats’ drummer, wake up in the Sugar Ditch Shack, hake themselves down and decide to go for a short burn in their Thunderbird. They take Highway 61 South and pick up this hitch-hiker who has visions and interprets their dreams for them. The car overheats and they pull up to a strange service station, an enchanted environment populated by angelic indians, mystic men and motorcycles. The film culminates in a Panther Burns performance of ‘Shade Tree Mechanic’ and the repair of the car.

“This last film is hopefully the first of five or six pieces I want to do with sync sound and on good quality stock, I’m trying to sort something out with New Rose at the moment.”