My colleague Eric Liknaitzky, who has died aged 71, was the pioneering director of London’s long-running arthouse distributor Contemporary Films.
Eric first achieved underground fame as the programmer for the Labia cinema in Cape Town between 1975 and 1978. The Labia made history in the alternative culture scene in South Africa when Liknaitzky and his associates transformed an elderly and shambolic theatre into a thriving cinema.
