From Arts Council of Great Britain Studios
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1993
Blue
Blue6.90 1993 HD
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...
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1993
Milk and Glass
Milk and Glass1 1993 HD
In this film an interior landscape is scrutinised, and an apparent rational calm is revealed as suffocating. Milk and Glass is an evocative journey...
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1988
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Ballad of Reading Gaol1.00 1988 HD
Oscar Wilde’s famous and eloquent defence of love – made while he was being cross-examined at the trial that led to his incarceration and...
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1978
Vertical Features Remake
Vertical Features Remake7.50 1978 HD
Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt...
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1991
Slow Glass
Slow Glass1 1991 HD
From the idea that glass, even when cooled, is a liquid that changes in appearance over time, an offscreen narrator launches a recollection of the...
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1981
The World of Gilbert & George
The World of Gilbert & George1.00 1981 HD
Gilbert & George are renowned for presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures,’ fusing their art and identity with the external world....
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1989
Serpent River
Serpent River5.50 1989 HD
Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community...
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1972
Wind Vane
Wind Vane5.50 1972 HD
Two cameras mounted on tripods with wind vane attachments were positioned about 50 feet apart along an axis of 45 degrees to the direction of the...
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1983
A Sign is a Fine Investment
A Sign is a Fine Investment1 1983 HD
Documentary on advertising. Investigates the way work has disappeared from advertising images, and traces the phenomenon through archive advertising...
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1987
Uranium Hex
Uranium Hex6.00 1987 HD
A memory-using location film of a stay with a uranium mining community. Using a kaleidoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores...
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1979
Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures
Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures5.00 1979 HD
Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights...
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1992
Gargantuan
Gargantuan7.30 1992 HD
“London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns - Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and...
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1987
Plutonium Blonde
Plutonium Blonde4.50 1987 HD
Plutonium Blonde is a beautifully textured collage of sound and images and a fractured narrative about woman’s self-definition and control....
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1967
Giacometti
Giacometti1 1967 HD
The Arts Council commissioned this film to coincide with their major retrospective of Giacometti's work at the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain) in the...
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1981
Grove Carnival
Grove Carnival1 1981 HD
A kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival. Arts Council of Great Britain.
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1978
Landscape From A Dream
Landscape From A Dream1 1978 HD
Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.
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1970
Magritte: The False Mirror
Magritte: The False Mirror1 1970 HD
Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his intentions...
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1979
Steel 'n' Skin
Steel 'n' Skin1 1979 HD
Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the...
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1986
Ballet Black
Ballet Black6.00 1986 HD
Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.
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1984
Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt1 1984 HD
A portrait of Salford-born poet, storyteller and comic, John Cooper-Clarke. His poems, a satirical blend of humour and social comment, are delivered...