Arts Council of Great Britain Populär film

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

Kasta: Derek Jarman

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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Kasta: Jeff Rawle

Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his...

Genre: Documentary

Kasta: René Magritte

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

Genre: Documentary

Kasta: Ben Johnson

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

Genre: Documentary

Kasta: George Passmore

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

Kasta: Quentin Crisp

En slags låtsasdokumentär om den minutiösa rekonstruktionen av en film som försvunnit eller snarare en film som aldrig funnits.

Genre: Documentary

Kasta: Colin Cantlie

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

Kasta: Alberto Giacometti

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

Kasta: Nakinda Parker

“London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns - Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and...

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Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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Kasta: Jonathan Cecil

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

Genre: Animation

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Kasta: Mercy Ahadzi

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

Kasta: Tibor Hajas

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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Kasta: Ian Bourn

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

Genre: Documentary

Kasta: Fiona Trierr

A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.

Genre: Documentary

Kasta: Tamara Krikorian