Heralding the movement for the ‘cinema of deconstruction’ in the UK and evolving from the New Wave works of Godard, Straub-Huillet, Bresson and Resnais, the Film Work Group emerged from the Royal College of Art Film School during the early radical moments of the 1970s at which time theories of Semiotics, Structuralism and Marxism were emerging from the lecture group headed by Noel Burch and encouraged by Stuart Hood. The initial FWG consisted of Phil Mulloy, Anna Ambrose, Ed Bennett, John Hardy, Stewart McKinnon, Clive Myer and Nigel Perkins. “JUSTINE…” was made by Stewart McKinnon, Clive Myer and Nigel Perkins and the Film Work Group continued to operate throughout the 1970s and 1980s under the direction of Clive Myer and Nigel Perkins who went on to make “The View From Industrial Britain” and operate FWG primarily as an independent and experimental film and video post production facility.
“JUSTINE..” was funded by the BFI Production Board and launched at the Edinburgh
International Film Festival in 1976. Other narrative deconstructive feature films coming out of that period include “Song of the Shirt” by Sue Clayton and Jonathan Curling and “At the Fountainhead” by Nick Burton and Anthea Kennedy.https://clivemyer.com/justine-by-the-marquis-de-sade/