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1993
Blue
Blue6.90 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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Derek Jarman
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1970
Magritte: The False Mirror
Magritte: The False Mirror1 1970 HD
Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his intentions...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: René Magritte
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1988
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Ballad of Reading Gaol5.50 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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Quentin Crisp
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1979
Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures
Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures5.00 1979 HD
Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights...
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Cast: Jeff Rawle
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1978
Vertical Features Remake
Vertical Features Remake7.50 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...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Colin Cantlie
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1967
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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1992
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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1992
Gargantuan
Gargantuan7.30 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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1986
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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1981
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
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1978
Landscape From A Dream
Landscape From A Dream1 1978 HD
Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.
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Cast: Jonathan Cecil
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1984
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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1993
Milk and Glass
Milk and Glass1 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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1991
Slow Glass
Slow Glass1 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...
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Cast: Ian Bourn
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1983
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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1983
Margaret Tait: Film Maker
Margaret Tait: Film Maker1 1983 HD
A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Tamara Krikorian
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1984
Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt1 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...
Genre: Music
Cast: John Cooper Clarke
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1972
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...
Genre: Documentary
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1987
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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1979
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