So Forkbeard started to use quite a bit of Super 8mm and 16mm cine over the next few years although their first real ‘Crossing The Celluloid Divide’ moment took place in “GHOSTS” in 1985 when the Ghost-Hunter Holcombe Rogus is seen to walk out of the film and onto the stage. (For fuller information on this and other shows see later)

By now they had also started making stand-alone films which they either showed in film theatres, festivals or after their live performances: films like “Night of The Gnat” and “The Bonehunter”.  

To present these films they invented The Brittonioni Brothers  but, unable to keep up the Italian accents, Chrissy & Timmy soon became the fabulous pompous brylcremed jet-setting avant-gardistes, more concerned with the cut of their trousers than the cut of their films, who have taken Forkbeard to festivals across the UK & all over the world since they first donned their mirror-lense shades back in 1985.

The ideas and possibilities for using film that Chris and Tim and Penny Saunders (who had joined Forkbeard in 1980) then began to come up with ….along, of course, with their collaborators –  father Jim (who also edited the FFfilms) and Robin Thorburn (camera)…and later Ed Jobling ….have been endless as well as hugely enjoyable to invent and realize.

As have been the projection materials, mirrors systems and surfaces that Forkbeard have used over the years: anything from great billowing sails to weather balloons, huge sheets of paper (which they’d cut through), pocket handkerchieves, the interiors of bird-cages and bottles, Tee-shirts, performer’s faces, windows, jamjars and tiny peep-show boxes for exhibitions.