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  • 1993
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    Blue

    Blue

    6.90 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...

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  • 1988
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    The Ballad of Reading Gaol

    The Ballad of Reading Gaol

    1.00 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...

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  • 1993
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    Milk and Glass

    Milk and Glass

    1 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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  • 1978
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    Vertical Features Remake

    Vertical Features Remake

    7.50 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...

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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

    5.00 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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  • 2019
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    No Ordinary Protest

    No Ordinary Protest

    1 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...

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  • 1972
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    Wind Vane

    Wind Vane

    5.50 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...

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  • 1990
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    Trojans

    Trojans

    2.00 1990 HD

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

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  • 1978
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    Landscape From A Dream

    Landscape From A Dream

    1 1978 HD

    Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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  • 1973
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    The Lacey Rituals

    The Lacey Rituals

    1 1973 HD

    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...

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  • 1992
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    Gargantuan

    Gargantuan

    7.30 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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  • 1984
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    Being and Doing

    Being and Doing

    1 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...

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  • 1983
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    A Sign is a Fine Investment

    A Sign is a Fine Investment

    1 1983 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Threshold

    Threshold

    6.50 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...

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  • 1986
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    Ballet Black

    Ballet Black

    6.00 1986 HD

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

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  • 1981
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    The World of Gilbert & George

    The World of Gilbert & George

    1.00 1981 HD

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

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  • 1979
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    Steel 'n' Skin

    Steel 'n' Skin

    1 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...

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  • 1967
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    Giacometti

    Giacometti

    1 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...

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  • 1984
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    Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

    Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

    1 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...

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  • 1992
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    Cage of Flame

    Cage of Flame

    1 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...

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