BELFAST MUSIC WEEK 2012: Performance

Nicolas Roeg's directing career began with this explicit and experimental thriller about a hunted gangster taking refuge with a reclusive rock star.

Influenced by Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966) and the films of Alain Resnais, Performance introduced the fractured storytelling and editing style of cinematographer-turned-director Nicolas Roeg. Co-director and screenwriter Donald Cammell can be credited for the mind-bending, debauched tone, which so outraged Warner Bros that the studio shelved the film for two years. The use of colour is extraordinarily vivid, while the soundtrack incorporates Jack Nitzsche's unnerving score alongside songs that include Jagger's Memo from Turner.