John Boorman's Production and Set Designs

Production Designs, Costumes, and Sets

Working closely with specialists in various fields, John Boorman also supervised every aspect of his productions, from studio sets and locations to production, costume, and set designs.
All images courtesy John Boorman and the Lilly Library of the University of Indiana.

John Boorman's Production and Set Designs

Costume design for Deliverance (1972)

Costume Designs

Boorman sketched and provided detailed instructions for costume designs in all of his films, as these images from Deliverance (1972) and Zardoz (1974) demonstrate.

Costume design for Zardoz (1974)

Costumes in action near Loch Tay lake in Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974)

The Memory Cinema in Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974)

The Memory Cinema in Zardoz

Boorman prepared both a detailed schematic map and production designs for the set of the "Brain" space in Zardoz, one of many proto-cinematic vision machines in his work.