This still of the screaming nanny from Eisenstein’s silent film Battleship Potemkin is what Bacon described as a key catalyst for his work

After looking into both influences for Bacon’s Head VI, I gathered more of a background of the piece itself which gave me inspiration to a few ideas and themes we could use in our film.

  • Religion
  • Violence
  • Isolation
  • Pain
  • Hierarchy

I am going to do further research into the painting and more specifically the artist himself, so I can get a more detailed insight into who he was and why he painted the ‘Head Series’. I am also going to look more into the ideas and themes mentioned above and create a few flash fictions to see how different story lines would work.