This is a film of a performance put on by the I.O.U Theatre Company at Brimham Rocks in the summer of 1977.  It was part of a documentary arts project funded by Yorkshire Arts Association and made by one of I.O.U founders, Brodnax Moore, and Annette Khun.  It is accompanied by a recording of rhythmic drumming music by Lol Coxhill. The film begins with performers dressed in strange costumes, looking like characters from a medieval mummers play, acting out some bizarre rituals involving...

This is a film of a performance put on by the I.O.U Theatre Company at Brimham Rocks in the summer of 1977.  It was part of a documentary arts project funded by Yorkshire Arts Association and made by one of I.O.U founders, Brodnax Moore, and Annette Khun.  It is accompanied by a recording of rhythmic drumming music by Lol Coxhill. The film begins with performers dressed in strange costumes, looking like characters from a medieval mummers play, acting out some bizarre rituals involving strange props.  One performer, wearing large block shoes on his or her feet, walks across some steps designed to fit the ‘shoes’, while others perform on percussion instruments and in front of an audience of children and adults, who presumable happen to be out walking there.  Two other performers pull a timber framed cage while playing saxophones.  A person dressed in black is carried in, and they erect a painting of a figure with a large head and elongated arms which become wheels at their end onto the frame. Title – Towers with I.O.U Performers George Born Diana Davies Lou Clandfield Steve Gumbley Phil Minton Louise Oliver David Wheeler Filmmakers Brodnax Mark Dobson Lesley Hilton Annette Khun With Assistance from Yorkshire Arts Association Copyright 1977 Brodnox Cartoonz Annette Khun Drumming starts and one of the performers beats a mat which is laid on the ground with a stick, raising a white cloud of dust as he does so.  The character in the box shoes walks across the boxes which have been placed on the mats, as they continue to be beaten.  As he or she walks, both the mats and the boxes get moved along for him to step on.  This goes on for several minutes, filmed form ground level, before the film ends showing the painting of the figure.