From Arts Council of Great Britain Studios
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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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1988
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
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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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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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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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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1994
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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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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1972
Wind Vane
Wind Vane5.50 1972 HD
Two cameras mounted on tripods with wind vane attachments were positioned about 50 feet apart along an axis of 45 degrees to the direction of the...
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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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1984
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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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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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...
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1978
Landscape From A Dream
Landscape From A Dream1 1978 HD
Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.
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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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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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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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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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1976
Stream Line
Stream Line1 1976 HD
The film is a continuous, "real time" tracking shot of a stream bed. The length of the track was ten yards. The camera was suspended in a motorized...