Jane Arden and Jack Bond produced three of Britain's most challenging and provocative films – Separation (Jack Bond, 1968), The Other Side of the Underneath (Jane Arden, 1972) and Anti-Clock (Arden and Bond, 1979). Unseen since just after Arden's suicide in 1982, the films genuinely represent completely 'lost' works of recent British cinema history.

On 13th July each newly restored film, along with a range of extra features, will be released on BFI DVD and Blu-ray. On 14th July Separation will be screened at BFI Southbank, introduced by Jack Bond, who will take part in a Q&A afterwards. The Other Side of the Underneath and Anti-Clock will be shown in the Studio at BFI Southbank on 5th & 18th July and 16th & 17th July respectively. An Arden/Bond season will take place at The Cube Microplex cinema, Bristol, when the three films will be screened in consecutive order from Mon 20th to Weds 22nd July.

Born in Wales in 1927, Jane Arden was an actress, author and filmmaker whose screenwriting and directorial work of the late 60s and 70s explored themes of sexual politics, radical feminism, social alienation and 'madness'. Made at a time when there were very few distinctive female voices in British cinema, the films she wrote and directed with director-producer Jack Bond (Dali in New York, It Couldn't Happen Here) constitute a unique and unclassifiable body of work, ranging from Separation's counter-cultural flamboyance of swinging 60s London to Anti-Clock's boundary-pushing psycho-exploration.

Separation

Scripted by and starring Jane Arden, Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are revealed through a fragmented but brilliantly achieved and often humorous narrative, in which dreams and desires are as real as the 'swinging' London of the film's setting, complete with Procul Harum music and Mark Boyle projections.

Special features:

• New full-feature audio commentary with Jack Bond;
• Beyond Image (Mark Boyle & Joan Hills, 1969, 14 minutes) – a rare liquid light film co-created by leading British artist Mark Boyle, whose visual effects are used throughout Separation. With music by The Soft Machine;
• Trailer for Anti-Clock (Jane Arden/Jack Bond, 1979);
• Illustrated booklet with essays by William Fowler, Claire Monk, Amy Simmons, Maria Walsh; biographies and credits.

The Other Side of the Underneath

Starring Sheila Allen, with Penny Slinger, Liz Danciger, Ann Lynn, and Natasha Morgan, Arden's violent and powerful adaptation of her work with The Holocaust women's theatre troupe looks into the mind of a woman labelled schizophrenic – and finds not madness, but tortured sexual guilt created by the taboos of society.

Special features:

• 'Workprint' version of feature (Blu-ray only);
• Extended sequences;
• Filmed interviews with Sheila Allen (2008) and Natasha Morgan (2007);
• Trailer for Anti-Clock  (Jane Arden/Jack Bond, 1979);
• Illustrated booklet with essays by Susan Croft, Sophie Mayer, Amy Simmons, Penny Slinger; reviews, biographies and credits.

Anti-Clock  

A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity.

'Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Brilliantly mixing cinema and video techniques, Arden and Bond have created a movie that captures the anxiety and sense of danger that has infiltrated the consciousness of so many people in western society. Filled with high tension and high intelligence, Anti-Clock is mysterious, disturbing, fascinating and exciting.' – Jack Kroll, Newsweek.

'Anti-Clock...is great!' – Andy Warhol.

'A futuristic masterpiece' – Claude Chabrol.

Special features:

• Jack Bond's 2005 re-edit of feature;
• Vibration (1974, 36 minutes): Arden and Bond's experimental Super-8 visual 'tone poem';
• Original trailer;
• Illustrated booklet with contributions by Jack Bond, Chris Darke, and Penny Slinger; reviews, biographies and credits.

Separation, The Other Side of Underneath and Anti-Clock will be released individually on DVD and Blu-ray at the RRP of £19.99 each for the DVDs and £24.99 for the Blu-ray. The Anti-Clock DVD will be a 2-disc set.