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- In his final - and most daring - cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen, laying bare his physical and spiritual state.
- A gay poet heads west from New York City in his convertible. He picks up a muscular sailor who's bisexual; then Jackie, a waitress at a diner, joins them. Jackie is attracted to the poet who rebuffs her romantic gestures; rejection fuels her continued interest in him. The sailor and the poet are bonded by sex, but the sailor's frank advances to Jackie make him uninteresting to her. The sailor can get violent, the poet is passive, Jackie is glamorous and detached. The landscape changes, they stop in cities and in the desert. They reach a lake. Who will be left out of a final pairing?
- A man finds himself haunted by a mysterious black tower that appears to follow him wherever he goes.
- Looks at our quest for someone to love and something, or someone, to believe in. The tyranny of couples and groups, the pain of not belonging and the fear of being alone are all laid bare in a series of powerful images.
- Ilias, a young man of Athens, meets Panagiotis, a new-comer from Albania and falls in love with him. He pays dearly for the relationship.
- Ubu kills the king to take the thrown but doesn't realize the prince will fight back for revenge.
- Tongue-in-cheek, early Greenaway short reflects the incredibly meticulous encyclopedic nature of his early films. An attempt is made to "reconstruct" a proposed, but never made, film according to some reasonably vague directions. The attempt is made over and over because of conflicting interpretations of the instructions.
- Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize Dada's anarchy into an artistic blend of Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxist provocation. In the interests of conquering the irrational, Salvador Dali opened exhibitions dressed in a diving suit, Marcel Duchamp turned himself into woman, Benjamin Peret assaulted priests, and Yves Tanguy ate spiders. Andre Breton, nicknamed "the Pope of Surrealism", led an inspired gang of artists, lunatics and writers. By the 1950s they were denouncing each other for betraying the movement, but their ideas had infected Hollywood, advertising agencies and were turning up as TV humor and album covers.
- An extraordinary journey into the work of a lively and controversial duo.
- While Wordsworth found his language of bliss and tranquillity in the sublime landscape of the Lake District, Roy Fisher, poet and jazz pianist, finds his in the foundries, industrial canals and back streets of Birmingham.
- This documentary is related to an art show directors Wollen and Mulvey organized for London's Whitechapel Gallery, attempting to pair the rather different work of two female creators, painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti.
- Based on a true story by the director's father, Chicken Soup is set late at night in an anonymous airport bar. It is the heart-warming story of Khal, a young Arab, whose need for independence and to belong in western society has alienated him from his father. A chance encounter with a mysterious blind old Arab whose revelation of a childhood accident reminds Khal, what his father really means to him and that parents can make mistakes.
- What happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini's La boh?me? In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera's comic heroine Musetta to investigate her own death.
- What's At the Top of a Sunbeam?
- A narrative about a young man who is sent to deliver a letter to a Countess is edited into footage and analyses of early, silent cinema.
- Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson come out of retirement to solve a final case concerning the artist Marcel Duchamp.
- An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.
- Bruce Lacey is a legendary figure on the British counter-cultural art scene during the 1960s, he has enjoyed six decades of defining cultural moments, collaborating with all manner of filmmakers, musicians and artists.
- Documentary that covers John Cooper-Clarke's tour with reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson.
- Profile of the composer and conductor Alan Dudley Bush who was born on 22nd December 1900 in London, England
- A study of the medieval stained glass (1497) in the church of St Mary the Virgin, Fairford, Gloucestershire, explaining its design and use as an aid for Bible instruction.
- A satirical exploration of the origins of humor that moves between the absurd and the deadly serious.
- How do we relate to and make use of our physical senses? This film examines the mechanics of perception and the still mysterious way in which the brain makes meaning of it all. Includes comments by artists on how they use their senses in creative work.
- Experimental two-screen documentary on artists Claes Oldenburg and Hannah Wilke, filmed in London at the time of Oldenburg's retrospective at the Tate Gallery.
- The initial use of red and green filters gives way to a broad variety of colors and the introduction of abstract strips of light which are drawn through the printer begins to build an image which becomes graphically and spatially complex.
- A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.
- A beautifully constructed dramatization of the life of Irish painter and decorator Robert Noonan.
- A man uses different words to describe an amphibian as the film evolves.
- A documentary series from Channel 4 that looked at five neglected female artists: Winifred Nicholson, Dora Carrington, Laura Knight, Nina Hamnett and Eileen Agar.
- This movie is an experimental documentary following the flow of the Thames out of London to the sea. It has a narration from John Hurt that takes the form of reading old manuscripts, books and news articles, and also a posthumous narration from poet TS Eliot reading from his own work, The Dry Salvages from the Four Quartets. Engravings, paintings, and archival film are juxtaposed against the contemporary footage, including Pieter Breughel the Elder's "The Triumph of Death" (c.1562) from the Prado Museum.
- Animation. A series of metamorphosing images criticise a society in which dulled minds feed on tabloid scandal. Focuses on the 'shapeless workers fuelling the fires with the bodies of their own kind'. As the workers seek sexual release, the muddy pictures give way to line drawings of the erotic landscape: curves, valleys and mounds becoming the sexual act itself, are whipped up into a charcoal frenzy of chaotic abstract images of frustration. The end brings release and a return to calm.
- Documentary portrait of the artist R.B. Kitaj.
- A musical collective play improvised music from instruments made from scrap.
- A look at the life and work of Mike Westbrook a British Jazz Composer.
- The film dramatises the imprisonment of Schiele in Neulengbach in 1911, and looks at the authenticity of Schile's prison diary, which was published after his death.
- Portrait of minimalist composer Steve Reich.
- An exploration of the homophobia expressed by reggae and rap artists againts gays and lesbians. Inludes interviews with rappers Shabba Ranks and Buju Banton, who cite religious reasons for their particular brand of homophobia.