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1993
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Blue
Blue7.00 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 Lies1.00 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 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
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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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1967
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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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1978
Movies
Vertical Features Remake
Vertical Features Remake7.25 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
Gargantuan7.25 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 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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1983
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Margaret Tait: Film Maker
Margaret Tait: Film Maker1 1983 HD
A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.
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1994
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Artwar
Artwar8.00 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 Mater3.00 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 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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1981
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Nightshift
Nightshift10.00 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 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
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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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1978
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One Foot in Eden
One Foot in Eden1 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
Trojans2.00 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 Black6.00 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 Dream1 1978 HD
Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.
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1992
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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...