Albie Thoms was born in 1941. In his early twenties he directed a number of plays for the Sydney University Drama Society (SUDS), notably a 1962 production of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi. Further exploration of Jarry’s absurdist oeuvre led Thoms to create a film, '... it droppeth as the gentle rain’ with Bruce Beresford and Mike Molloy, among others, as part of a SUDS production. Reaction by the laboratory which processed the film led to the first of many run ins with the official censors. In 1965 Thoms, David Perry, Aggy Read and John Clark formed Ubu Films to produce the James Bond satire 'Blunderball’. Ubu Films continued to produce experimental films and, by the time the group’s activities were wound up in 1970, had expanded into happenings, light shows and a monthly newspaper, Ubu News.
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- 2012
