Persistence of Vision illuminates a unique figure in British and indeed international cinema, Jack Cardiff. A man who’s life and career have been inextricably interwoven with the history of cinema spanning eight of moving picture’s ten decades.

On March 25, 2001 at the 73rd Academy Awards Jack was presented with an Honorary Oscar for his “exceptional contribution to the state of motion picture arts & sciences” - fifty-four years since he won his first Oscar for his stunning Technicolor cinematography on Black Narcissus. An extract from "Persistence of Vision” was screened by the Academy to illustrate Jack’s creative achievements to its members and a world-wide audience.

It is time to find out why Jack Cardiff, child actor, cinematographer and director has had such a gracious influence on cinema and some of its current leading practitioners.