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  • 1993
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    Blue

    Blue

    6.90 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
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    Milk and Glass

    Milk and Glass

    1 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
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    The Ballad of Reading Gaol

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol

    1.00 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
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    Vertical Features Remake

    Vertical Features Remake

    7.50 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
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    Slow Glass

    Slow Glass

    1 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
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    The World of Gilbert & George

    The World of Gilbert & George

    1.00 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
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    Serpent River

    Serpent River

    5.50 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
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    Wind Vane

    Wind Vane

    5.50 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
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    A Sign is a Fine Investment

    A Sign is a Fine Investment

    1 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
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    Uranium Hex

    Uranium Hex

    6.00 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
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    Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures

    Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures

    5.00 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
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    Gargantuan

    Gargantuan

    7.30 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
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    Plutonium Blonde

    Plutonium Blonde

    4.50 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
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    Giacometti

    Giacometti

    1 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
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    Grove Carnival

    Grove Carnival

    1 1981 HD

    A kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival. Arts Council of Great Britain.

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  • 1978
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    Landscape From A Dream

    Landscape From A Dream

    1 1978 HD

    Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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  • 1970
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    Magritte: The False Mirror

    Magritte: The False Mirror

    1 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
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    Steel 'n' Skin

    Steel 'n' Skin

    1 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
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    Ballet Black

    Ballet Black

    6.00 1986 HD

    Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.

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  • 1984
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    Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

    Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

    1 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...

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