Arts Council Of Great Britain Movies
- 1993
Blue
Blue6.91993HD
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...
- 1992
Kanga
Kanga01992HD
Early 90s London gets a vibrant dose of African culture in this mini odyssey fusing dance, music and fashion.
- 1974
Lautrec
Lautrec7.51974HD
Toulouse-Lautrec's sketchbooks are turned into an animated short.
- 1992
Gargantuan
Gargantuan7.31992HD
“London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns - Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and...
- 1986
Ballet Black
Ballet Black61986HD
Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.
- 1991
Slow Glass
Slow Glass01991HD
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...
- 1976
Stream Line
Stream Line01976HD
The film is a continuous, "real time" tracking shot of a stream bed. The length of the track was ten yards. The camera was suspended in a motorized...
- 1967
Giacometti
Giacometti01967HD
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...
- 1972
Threshold
Threshold6.51972HD
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...
- 1973
Odeon Cavalcade
Odeon Cavalcade01973HD
Leave behind the ugly modern multiplex and step back into the glamorous world of the 1930s picture palace, in this charming documentary about Art...
- 1989
Serpent River
Serpent River51989HD
Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community...
- 1972
Wind Vane
Wind Vane5.61972HD
Two cameras mounted on tripods with wind vane attachments were positioned about 50 feet apart along an axis of 45 degrees to the direction of the...
- 1978
Vertical Features Remake
Vertical Features Remake7.51978HD
Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt...
- 1981
Grove Carnival
Grove Carnival01981HD
A kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival. Arts Council of Great Britain.
- 1987
Uranium Hex
Uranium Hex61987HD
A memory-using location film of a stay with a uranium mining community. Using a kaleidoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores...
- 1988
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
The Ballad of Reading Gaol5.51988HD
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...
- 1993
Milk and Glass
Milk and Glass01993HD
In this film an interior landscape is scrutinised, and an apparent rational calm is revealed as suffocating. Milk and Glass is an evocative journey...
- 1976
Vermeer Frames
Vermeer Frames01976HD
Silent short film by Guy Sherwin as part of his Short Film series in which he captures everyday life, diary like subjects.
- 1987
Plutonium Blonde
Plutonium Blonde41987HD
Plutonium Blonde is a beautifully textured collage of sound and images and a fractured narrative about woman’s self-definition and control....
- 1981
The World of Gilbert & George
The World of Gilbert & George11981HD
Gilbert & George are renowned for presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures,’ fusing their art and identity with the external world....