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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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1990
Trojans
Trojans2.00 1990 HD
A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.
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1986
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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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...
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1992
Kanga
Kanga1 1992 HD
Early 90s London gets a vibrant dose of African culture in this mini odyssey fusing dance, music and fashion.
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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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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...
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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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1987
Plutonium Blonde
Plutonium Blonde4.50 1987 HD
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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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...
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1976
Vermeer Frames
Vermeer Frames1 1976 HD
Silent short film by Guy Sherwin as part of his Short Film series in which he captures everyday life, diary like subjects.
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1981
Grove Carnival
Grove Carnival1 1981 HD
A kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival. Arts Council of Great Britain.
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1981
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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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...