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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...
Blue
Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself. Starring Tilda...
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
Dada came out of the madness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize...
Europe After the Rain: Dada and Surrealism
Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights...
Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures
A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.
Margaret Tait: Film Maker
Documentary about the composer Elizabeth Maconchy, filmed during the rehearsal of a new composition
Elizabeth Maconchy
Assesses the contribution made by British avant-garde composer, Cornelius Cardew, to contemporary music. Includes interviews with Stockhausen and...
Cornelius Cardew: 1936-1981
A witty, feature-length drama-documentary in which Marcel Duchamp, who once compared his own mind to that of a master criminal, is investigated by...
The Case of Marcel Duchamp
A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, "minimal" music. The program explores how Reich's music eventually became...
Steve Reich: A New Musical Language
Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.
Landscape From A Dream
A survey of the painting of Henri Matisse, revealing the development of the idyllic quality in his work. Studies pictures from the beginning of his...
Matisse: A Sort of Paradise
Since 1983, Bow Gamelan Ensemble have inspired generations of artists with their radical practices and explosive performances. Charged with their...
Great Noises That Fill the Air
A portrait of Salford-born poet, storyteller and comic, John Cooper-Clarke. His poems, a satirical blend of humour and social comment, are delivered...
Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.
Ballet Black
Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.
Dread Beat and Blood
Documentary on advertising. Investigates the way work has disappeared from advertising images, and traces the phenomenon through archive advertising...
A Sign is a Fine Investment
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...
Slow Glass
An old, bedridden man plays games that have a hint of the sinister about them.
The Old Man of the Sea
Max Eastley uses various musical instruments to create mysterious and hypnotic music, exploring their most basic sound characteristics, as well as...
Clocks of the Midnight Hours
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...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol