Bridgeman Now Representing Villon Film Archive

Founded by Peter Davis, Villon has been independently producing and distributing award-winning films since 1970. With a strong focus on socio-political documentary, the collection spans issues such as government, history, ecology, culture, health and science, biography, and the apartheid period of South African history, among others.

The South African material spans the period of the most intensive struggle for human rights in that country, and also includes historical footage dating from the beginning of the century. Among the documentaries held are Remember Mandela!, In Darkest Hollywood, White Laager and Generations of Resistance. While the UK footage features the seminal documentary Anatomy of Violence – Dialectics of Liberation and the Demystification of Violence (1967), a congress with RD Laing, Stokely Carmichael, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, John Gerassi and many others.

Bridgeman will be adding content from this globally and historically diverse collection over the coming months, and as it continues to grow they will be acquiring Peter Davis' photographic stills archive, which Bridgeman will also be representing.