Jonathan Bowden
Acting
Biography
Jonathan David Anthony Bowden was a painter, novelist, essayist, playwright, actor, and is best known as an orator. He died just short of his 50th birthday.
Known For
Doctor Mordred wants to replace humans with plants. A misanthrope, he lures Dr. Falicia Fairweather into Venus' trap. Represented by six incarnations, she wrestles with Mordred. Are they different versions of one another? We follow their battle via images of light, air, dance, horror, water, fire, tarot cards, masks and swords. Supervised by a Master of Ceremonies, each gender makes 'love'. Who will win? Can you wait till the end to find out? Starring: Jonathan Bowden, Lisa Garner, Nicola Henry, Jane Robinson, Katie Willow, Nicole Wiseman, and Claudia Minne Boyle. Directed by Andrea Lioy. Produced by Jonathan Bowden. Screenplay by Jonathan Bowden & Andrea Lioy. Based upon the short story by Jonathan Bowden.
Venus Flytrap
In Norse mythology, the great wolf, Fenris, devours the Father of the Gods at the end of the world. In this documentary, well over 100 paintings by Jonathan Bowden are depicted on-screen. An accompanying talk is provided by the painter throughout.
Fenris Devours Odin
Documentary by Jonathan Bowden on the Turner Prize, a prize for contemporary art given annually at Tate Britain.
Against the Turner Prize
A blistering monologue from British orator Jonathan Bowden, Credo is less a political speech than a philosophical inferno. Channeling Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and a firestorm of cultural critique, Bowden delivers a feverish testament to hierarchy, belief, and Western identity. Equal parts performance art, intellectual tirade, and spiritual invocation, this final address captures a mind ablaze with conviction, railing against modernity's flattening of thought, tradition, and greatness.
Credo: A Nietzschean Testament
Punch and Judy are alive! Returning from the puppets' graveyard, both Punch and Pretty Polly go in search of Judy. Once re-united, these former stars enact their tragi-comedy one last time. Becoming increasingly violent, the most primaeval of all English folk dramas reaches a gloved climax. All of the stock characters play their part - whether Punch, Judy, the Baby, Pretty Polly, the Devil, Scaramouch, Clown Joey, the Policeman, Beadle, Doctor, Dragon, Hobby-horse, Crocodile, Minister, Hangman, Toby Dog, the Bottler or an invisible Professor. How will it end? Shall our puppets come to grief? Who's going to give the Bottler sixpence at the close? Root-toot-toot.
Grand Guignol
Documentary by Jonathan Bowden on British sculpture.