Arts Council Of Great Britain Movies
- 1993
Blue
Blue6.91993HD
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...
- 1992
Cage of Flame
Cage of Flame01992HD
A bewitching celebration of menstruation which uses a variety of animation techniques from pixilation to scratch on film. An antidote to the vacuous...
- 1978
Vertical Features Remake
Vertical Features Remake7.51978HD
Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt...
- 1983
A Sign is a Fine Investment
A Sign is a Fine Investment01983HD
Documentary on advertising. Investigates the way work has disappeared from advertising images, and traces the phenomenon through archive advertising...
- 1979
Steel 'n' Skin
Steel 'n' Skin01979HD
Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the...
- 1993
Milk and Glass
Milk and Glass01993HD
In this film an interior landscape is scrutinised, and an apparent rational calm is revealed as suffocating. Milk and Glass is an evocative journey...
- 1988
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Ballad of Reading Gaol5.51988HD
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...
- 1972
Threshold
Threshold6.51972HD
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...
- 1986
Ballet Black
Ballet Black61986HD
Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.
- 1992
Gargantuan
Gargantuan7.31992HD
“London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns - Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and...
- 1973
The Lacey Rituals
The Lacey Rituals01973HD
Bruce Lacey: 'People used to come and make documentaries about me, but they weren't interested in the day-to-day family life that I found extremely...
- 1987
Plutonium Blonde
Plutonium Blonde4.51987HD
Plutonium Blonde is a beautifully textured collage of sound and images and a fractured narrative about woman’s self-definition and control....
- 1992
Kanga
Kanga01992HD
Early 90s London gets a vibrant dose of African culture in this mini odyssey fusing dance, music and fashion.
- 1973
Odeon Cavalcade
Odeon Cavalcade01973HD
Leave behind the ugly modern multiplex and step back into the glamorous world of the 1930s picture palace, in this charming documentary about Art...
- 2019
No Ordinary Protest
No Ordinary Protest02019HD
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...
- 1989
Serpent River
Serpent River5.51989HD
Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community...
- 1976
Vermeer Frames
Vermeer Frames01976HD
Silent short film by Guy Sherwin as part of his Short Film series in which he captures everyday life, diary like subjects.
- 1984
Being and Doing
Being and Doing01984HD
About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different...
- 1990
Trojans
Trojans21990HD
A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.
- 1978
Landscape From A Dream
Landscape From A Dream01978HD
Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.