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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

Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself. Starring Tilda...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rupert Everett

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ben Johnson

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

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It is night and, in the foyer of a small hotel, a receptionist performs her tasks, unhurried and impassive, her face ghost-white, an emotional mask....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pamela Rooke

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

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

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

Toulouse-Lautrec's sketchbooks are turned into an animated short.

Genre: Animation

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That Has Been is the last in a series of longer works made in the first half of the 1980s. The film was shot in two adjacent rooms. Outside views are...

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A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tamara Krikorian

From the idea that glass, even when cooled, is a liquid that changes in appearance over time, an offscreen narrator launches a recollection of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian Bourn

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A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexis Bistikas

Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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Cast: Jonathan Cecil

Repertory consists of one continuous tracking shot, during which the camera completely circles the outside of a locked and empty theatre, whilst a...

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Cast: Neil Hornick

A young woman in New York.

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

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