1969: JOE TILSON - Humans in a Machine World | One Pair of Eyes | Classic BBC Doc | BBC Archive

One Pair of Eyes is a series of highly personal documentary films.

Joe Tilson is one of Britain's foremost contemporary artists and is obsessed with the problems of flesh and blood human beings living in a mechanical, scientific world.

Using the analogy of a computer, he explains what he calls the 'hardware/software scene.' Hardware, or technology, solves the physical problems of the world but not the human ones. These human, or software, problems remain largely unsolved. Can we find a balance between these seemingly disparate worlds?

The documentary features contributions from Dr Christopher Evans, John Sluter, Dr Thomas Weihs, Professor Hans Jurgen Eysenck, the Bishop of Southwark Mervyn Stockwood, and the young travelling artists and musicians, Robert Lewis and Vashti Bunyan.


Clip taken from One Pair Of Eyes: I See With My Eyes and Hear Through My Fingertips, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 18 January, 1969.





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