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John Boorman

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)
Costume design for Zardoz (1974)
Costume design for Zardoz (1974)
Costume design for Zardoz (1974)
John Boorman's Production and Set Designs
Costumes in action near Loch Tay lake in Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974)
John Boorman's Production and Set Designs
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.

Production design for Zardoz (1974)
Production design for Zardoz (1974)
Set plan for the "Brain" in Zardoz (1974)
Set plan for the "Brain" in Zardoz (1974)
John Boorman's Production and Set Designs
The Museum in Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974)

Hollybrook House, the Library, and the Museum

Boorman located another projection device in the Zardoz museum (Hollybrook House, Bray, Ireland).

Set plan for the museum created at Hollybrook House for Zardoz (1974)
Set plan for the museum created at Hollybrook House for Zardoz (1974)
Production design for the museum in Zardoz (1974)
Production design for the museum in Zardoz (1974)
Production design for the museum in Zardoz (1974)
Production design for the museum in Zardoz (1974)
Production design for the library in Zardoz (1974)
Production design for the library in Zardoz (1974)
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