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...

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

A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.

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

Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A memory-using location film of a stay with a uranium mining community. Using a kaleidoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores...

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

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

Art historian Basil Taylor presents the film and interviews several of its subjects, in between leisurely sequences surveying paintings and...

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