Arts Council Of Great Britain Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

An engaging and enlightening documentary about Jeff Keen shown on Channel 4 in 1983. Features Keen performing in front of his film projections as...

Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself. Starring Tilda...

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

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

It is night and, in the foyer of a small hotel, a receptionist performs her tasks, unhurried and impassive, her face ghost-white, an emotional mask....

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...

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...

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

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

Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

Stabat Mater opens and closes with two sung laments, then launches into a breathless torrent of words and phrases, a re-reading of the eternal...

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

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

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

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