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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

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

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

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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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

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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Cast: Diane Guillemette

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

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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fiona Trierr

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ben Johnson

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

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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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Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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Cast: Jonathan Cecil

Gilbert & George are renowned for presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures,’ fusing their art and identity with the external world....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Passmore

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

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alberto Giacometti

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andrea McKenley

Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his intentions...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: René Magritte