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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexis Bistikas

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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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

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

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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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

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ben Johnson

Documentary on advertising. Investigates the way work has disappeared from advertising images, and traces the phenomenon through archive advertising...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fiona Trierr

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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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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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

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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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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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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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

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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A young woman in New York.

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Passmore