Movies: Arts Council Of Great Britain
- 1993
Blue (1993)
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Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the me...
- 1988
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1988)
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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 death – is strikingly illustrated, word by word, with Mapplethorpe-like imagery....
- 1979
Steel 'n' Skin (1979)
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Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the group during a ten day workshop in Liverpool....
- 1992
Cage of Flame (1992)
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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 sanitised view of menstruation promoted by advertising. A dream life of angels. What wings really mea...
- 1981
The World of Gilbert & George (1981)
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Gilbert & George are renowned for presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures,’ fusing their art and identity with the external world. Their exploration of the bleak urban surrounds of 1980’s London, powerfully evoke the desires and tensions of its d...
- 1992
Gargantuan (1992)
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“London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns - Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and acutely conscious of how imagery depends entirely on its framing. A voice-over intones the words ‘huge’ and ‘...
- 1970
Magritte: The False Mirror (1970)
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Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his intentions and anecdotes from his friends Mesens and Scutenaire....
- 1979
Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures (1979)
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Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights into the way in which "film language" developed during the silent era, with emphasis on the process by ...
- 1993
Milk and Glass (1993)
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In this film an interior landscape is scrutinised, and an apparent rational calm is revealed as suffocating. Milk and Glass is an evocative journey from surface to interior – a black-coated mirror, the hollow of a bowl, a cavernous throat; a brush de...
- 1978
Vertical Features Remake (1978)
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Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his n...
- 1983
Jeff Keen Films (1983)
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An engaging and enlightening documentary about Jeff Keen shown on Channel 4 in 1983. Features Keen performing in front of his film projections as well as talking about and showing his work in different media....
- 1974
Lautrec (1974)
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Toulouse-Lautrec's sketchbooks are turned into an animated short....
- 1986
Ballet Black (1986)
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Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946....
- 1983
A Sign is a Fine Investment (1983)
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Documentary on advertising. Investigates the way work has disappeared from advertising images, and traces the phenomenon through archive advertising films from 1897 to 1960. Places advertising in the context of historical events and everyday life, ar...
- 1991
Slow Glass (1991)
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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 bygone days of manual glassmaking and an observation of the impact of the mass-produced glass on the ch...
- 1967
Giacometti (1967)
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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 summer of 1965. A similar exhibition was held concurrently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, ...
- 1981
Grove Carnival (1981)
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A kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival. Arts Council of Great Britain....
- 1984
Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt (1984)
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A portrait of Salford-born poet, storyteller and comic, John Cooper-Clarke. His poems, a satirical blend of humour and social comment, are delivered at a fast pace, often with musical backing. His style, and that of his contemporary Linton Kwesi John...
- 1978
Landscape From A Dream (1978)
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Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash....
- 1989
Serpent River (1989)
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Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community living in the shadow of uranium mines in Ontario Canada....