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1990
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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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1976
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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...
Genre: Documentary
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1967
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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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1989
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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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1987
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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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1991
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Slow Glass
Slow Glass9.00 1991 HD
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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1986
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Ballet Black
Ballet Black6.00 1986 HD
Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Ben Johnson
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1983
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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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1973
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Odeon Cavalcade
Odeon Cavalcade1 1973 HD
Leave behind the ugly modern multiplex and step back into the glamorous world of the 1930s picture palace, in this charming documentary about Art...
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1987
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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
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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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1979
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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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1983
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Jeff Keen Films
Jeff Keen Films1 1983 HD
An engaging and enlightening documentary about Jeff Keen shown on Channel 4 in 1983. Features Keen performing in front of his film projections as...
Genre: Documentary
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1972
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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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1973
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Arbeit Macht Frei
Arbeit Macht Frei1 1973 HD
The film Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes Free) was conceived after the performance 'And For Today Nothing' which took place at Gallery House Goethe...
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1992
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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
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2019
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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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1978
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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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1982
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The Luncheon of the Hyena
The Luncheon of the Hyena1 1982 HD
A young woman in New York.
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1981
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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....
Genre: Documentary
Cast: George Passmore