From Arts Council of Great Britain Studios


  • 1993
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    Blue

    Blue

    6.90 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
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    The Ballad of Reading Gaol

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol

    1.00 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
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    Giacometti

    Giacometti

    1 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
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    Milk and Glass

    Milk and Glass

    1 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
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    Gargantuan

    Gargantuan

    7.30 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
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    A Sign is a Fine Investment

    A Sign is a Fine Investment

    1 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
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    Artwar

    Artwar

    8.00 1994 HD

    This version of Artwar builds from performances with paper masks and implements and various sequences of gunfire.

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  • 2019
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    No Ordinary Protest

    No Ordinary Protest

    1 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
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    Wind Vane

    Wind Vane

    5.50 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
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    Vertical Features Remake

    Vertical Features Remake

    7.50 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
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    Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

    Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

    1 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
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    Steel 'n' Skin

    Steel 'n' Skin

    1 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
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    One Foot in Eden

    One Foot in Eden

    1 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
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    Landscape From A Dream

    Landscape From A Dream

    1 1978 HD

    Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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  • 1981
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    Grove Carnival

    Grove Carnival

    1 1981 HD

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

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  • 1992
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    Kanga

    Kanga

    1 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
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    Plutonium Blonde

    Plutonium Blonde

    4.50 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
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    Threshold

    Threshold

    6.50 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
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    Cage of Flame

    Cage of Flame

    1 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
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    Stream Line

    Stream Line

    1 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...

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