David E. Perry

David Perry is an Australian photographer and filmmaker, based in Sydney. During work on the production of The Theatre of Cruelty in Sydney, July 1965, he joined Albie Thoms, Aggy Read and others in establishing Ubu Films—named after Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi—the precursor of the Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative. This was Australia's first consciously avant garde filmmaking group. 16-mm experimental films include Walking, The Tribulations of Mr Dupont Nomore; Bolero; A Sketch of Abigayl's Belly; David Perry's Album; and Adam. Ubu Films 1965–70 is a retrospective video compilation, released in 1997. Refracting Glasses is a 109-minute feature film which "uses a range of techniques in an essay-like construction on the theme of the historical status of the artist invoking, amongst a diverse range of references, the Ern Malley hoax and the work of the Russian artist V. E. Tatlin".