Amber, 1974, 30 mins '

What is dirt? Dirt is matter in the wrong place.’ Mai Finglass’ own house was filled with treasures permanently jamming the doors. She herself lived in a rented house, where Amber’s Murray Martin and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen lodged as film students at London’s Regents Street Polytechnic. Born in India around 1890 to Irish-Persian parents, Mai was an Anarchist and a lover of dolls, an obsessive collector and an irrepressible eccentric. This impressionistic film started as a student project and became one of the collective’s early works, a labour of love on so many levels.