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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

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

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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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

Art historian Basil Taylor presents the film and interviews several of its subjects, in between leisurely sequences surveying paintings and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Reg Butler

Gilbert & George are renowned for presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures,’ fusing their art and identity with the external world....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Passmore

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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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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An engaging and enlightening documentary about Jeff Keen shown on Channel 4 in 1983. Features Keen performing in front of his film projections as...

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A portrait of Salford-born poet, storyteller and comic, John Cooper-Clarke. His poems, a satirical blend of humour and social comment, are delivered...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Cooper Clarke

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

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

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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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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Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Linton Kwesi Johnson

Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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Cast: Jonathan Cecil

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexis Bistikas

Since 1983, Bow Gamelan Ensemble have inspired generations of artists with their radical practices and explosive performances. Charged with their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ann Bean

Biographical short about the American Pop Artist by James Scott

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Cast: R.B. Kitaj

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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