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  • 1993
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    Blue
    Blue

    6.9 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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  • 1993
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    Milk and Glass
    Milk and Glass

    0 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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  • 1992
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    Gargantuan
    Gargantuan

    7.3 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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  • 1978
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    Vertical Features Remake
    Vertical Features Remake

    7.5 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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  • 1988
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    The Ballad of Reading Gaol
    The Ballad of Reading Gaol

    1 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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  • 2019
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    No Ordinary Protest
    No Ordinary Protest

    0 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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  • 1979
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    Steel 'n' Skin
    Steel 'n' Skin

    0 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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  • 1972
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    Wind Vane
    Wind Vane

    5.5 1972 HD

    Two cameras mounted on tripods with wind vane attachments were positioned about 50 feet apart along an axis of 45 degrees to the direction of the...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 1978
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    Landscape From A Dream
    Landscape From A Dream

    0 1978 HD

    Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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    Cast: Jonathan Cecil

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  • 1967
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    Giacometti
    Giacometti

    0 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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  • 1981
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    The World of Gilbert & George
    The World of Gilbert & George

    1 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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  • 1984
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    Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
    Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

    0 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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  • 1987
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    Plutonium Blonde
    Plutonium Blonde

    4.5 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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  • 1986
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    Ballet Black
    Ballet Black

    6 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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  • 1974
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    Lautrec
    Lautrec

    7.5 1974 HD

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

    Genre: Animation

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  • 1994
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    Artwar
    Artwar

    8 1994 HD

    This version of Artwar builds from performances with paper masks and implements and various sequences of gunfire.

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  • 1992
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    Kanga
    Kanga

    0 1992 HD

    Early 90s London gets a vibrant dose of African culture in this mini odyssey fusing dance, music and fashion.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Andrea McKenley

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  • 1979
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    Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures
    Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures

    5 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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  • 1972
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    Threshold
    Threshold

    6.5 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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  • 1981
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    Grove Carnival
    Grove Carnival

    0 1981 HD

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

    Genre: Documentary

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