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Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jarman

Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Colin Cantlie

A portrait of Salford-born poet, storyteller and comic, John Cooper-Clarke. His poems, a satirical blend of humour and social comment, are delivered...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Cooper Clarke

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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Cast: Jeff Rawle

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

Genre: Documentary

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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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About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tibor Hajas

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ben Johnson

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Quentin Crisp

Early 90s London gets a vibrant dose of African culture in this mini odyssey fusing dance, music and fashion.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andrea McKenley

Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mercy Ahadzi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexis Bistikas

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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Documentary on advertising. Investigates the way work has disappeared from advertising images, and traces the phenomenon through archive advertising...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fiona Trierr

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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Cast: Ian Bourn

“London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns - Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and...

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Toulouse-Lautrec's sketchbooks are turned into an animated short.

Genre: Animation

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Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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Cast: Jonathan Cecil

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jill Bruce

Le Grice no longer simply uses the printer as a reflexive mechanism, but utilises the possibilities of colour-shift and permutation of imagery as the...

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