David Perry (Australian filmmaker)

David Perry (1933 – 15 April 2015) was a pioneering Australian experimental and underground filmmaker, video artist, and a founding member of Ubu Films (1965).

[4] 16mm experimental films include Walking (1955),[5] The Tribulations of Mr Dupont Nomore (1967); Bolero (1967); A Sketch of Abigayl's Belly (1968); David Perry's Album (1970) and Adam (1975).

It was during this time that he made the abstract videographic film Mad Mesh,[6] and the controversial electoral poster featuring "a continuum of pigs (inspired by Orwell's Animal Farm)" with the slogan Whoever you vote for, a politician always gets in.

He re-established in Sydney in 1980, being employed as a photographer and film/video producer for the NSW health authority and the Royal North Shore Hospital at St Leonards.

[12] His short auto-biographical film Album 1970 was screened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2014, in conjunction with the exhibition Pop to Popism.