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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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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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1978
Landscape From A Dream
Landscape From A Dream1 1978 HD
Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.
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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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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...
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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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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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1973
The Lacey Rituals
The Lacey Rituals1 1973 HD
Bruce Lacey: 'People used to come and make documentaries about me, but they weren't interested in the day-to-day family life that I found extremely...
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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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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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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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1974
Lautrec
Lautrec7.50 1974 HD
Toulouse-Lautrec's sketchbooks are turned into an animated short.
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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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1976
Vermeer Frames
Vermeer Frames1 1976 HD
Silent short film by Guy Sherwin as part of his Short Film series in which he captures everyday life, diary like subjects.
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1992
Cage of Flame
Cage of Flame1 1992 HD
A bewitching celebration of menstruation which uses a variety of animation techniques from pixilation to scratch on film. An antidote to the vacuous...
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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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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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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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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
Kanga
Kanga1 1992 HD
Early 90s London gets a vibrant dose of African culture in this mini odyssey fusing dance, music and fashion.