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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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Derek Jarman
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2019
No Ordinary Protest
No Ordinary Protest1 2019 HD
Ted Hughes's 1993 novel The Iron Woman is the springboard for this multi-media project by Mikhail Karikis. The video section of the installation...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Ayaan Ahmed
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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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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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Colin Cantlie
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1988
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Ballad of Reading Gaol5.50 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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Quentin Crisp
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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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Fiona Trierr
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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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Mercy Ahadzi
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1972
Threshold
Threshold6.50 1972 HD
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...
Genre: Documentary
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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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1967
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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Alberto Giacometti
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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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Jill Bruce
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1967
R.B. Kitaj
R.B. Kitaj1 1967 HD
Biographical short about the American Pop Artist by James Scott
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Cast: R.B. Kitaj
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1953
Artists Must Live
Artists Must Live1 1953 HD
Art historian Basil Taylor presents the film and interviews several of its subjects, in between leisurely sequences surveying paintings and...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Reg Butler
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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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Cast: Jeff Rawle
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1978
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...
Genre: Documentary
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1989
Serpent River
Serpent River5.50 1989 HD
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
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1984
Being and Doing
Being and Doing1 1984 HD
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
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1990
Trojans
Trojans2.00 1990 HD
A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Alexis Bistikas
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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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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...
Genre: Animation
Cast: Nakinda Parker