Arts Council of Great Britain

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...

Release : 1993.08.19
Popularity : 10.962

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

Release : 1970.01.01
Popularity : 1.021

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...

Release : 1988.11.08
Popularity : 1.788

Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt...

Release : 1978.12.01
Popularity : 1.009

Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the...

Release : 1979.01.01
Popularity : 1.749

A bewitching celebration of menstruation which uses a variety of animation techniques from pixilation to scratch on film. An antidote to the vacuous...

Release : 1992.01.01
Popularity : 1.691

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

Release : 1981.11.20
Popularity : 1.576

In this film an interior landscape is scrutinised, and an apparent rational calm is revealed as suffocating. Milk and Glass is an evocative journey...

Release : 1993.01.01
Popularity : 0.883

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

Release : 1992.01.01
Popularity : 1.214

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

Release : 1974.01.01
Popularity : 1.04

Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights...

Release : 1979.01.01
Popularity : 0.986

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

Release : 1981.01.01
Popularity : 0.337

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

Release : 1983.01.01
Popularity : 0.736

Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community...

Release : 1989.01.01
Popularity : 0.305

A portrait of Salford-born poet, storyteller and comic, John Cooper-Clarke. His poems, a satirical blend of humour and social comment, are delivered...

Release : 1984.03.10
Popularity : 0.322

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

Release : 1992.08.21
Popularity : 0.588