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  • 1993
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    Blue

    Blue

    7.00 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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  • 1994
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    Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies

    Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies

    1.00 1994 HD

    Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself. Starring Tilda...

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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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  • 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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  • 1978
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    Vertical Features Remake

    Vertical Features Remake

    7.25 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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  • 1992
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    Gargantuan

    Gargantuan

    7.25 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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  • 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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  • 1983
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    Margaret Tait: Film Maker

    Margaret Tait: Film Maker

    1 1983 HD

    A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.

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  • 1994
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    Artwar

    Artwar

    8.00 1994 HD

    This version of Artwar builds from performances with paper masks and implements and various sequences of gunfire.

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  • 1990
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    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater

    3.00 1990 HD

    Stabat Mater opens and closes with two sung laments, then launches into a breathless torrent of words and phrases, a re-reading of the eternal...

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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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  • 1981
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    Nightshift

    Nightshift

    10.00 1981 HD

    It is night and, in the foyer of a small hotel, a receptionist performs her tasks, unhurried and impassive, her face ghost-white, an emotional mask....

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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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  • 1978
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    One Foot in Eden

    One Foot in Eden

    1 1978 HD

    Portrait of the composer, Peter Maxwell Davies, set in the context of the islands of Orkney. George Mackay Brown is featured reading his own verse...

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  • 1990
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    Trojans

    Trojans

    2.00 1990 HD

    A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.

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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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  • 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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  • 1992
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    Cage of Flame

    Cage of Flame

    1 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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