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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 man finds himself haunted by a mysterious black tower that appears to follow him wherever he goes.
- 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?
- Toulouse-Lautrec's sketchbooks are turned into an animated short.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- LONDON UNDERGROUND was a documentary feature film produced to promote a series of albums for the German market also called London Underground. Producer David Wilkinson, director Matt Lipsey and Associate Producer Richard Gooderick came up with a formula of taking a varied group of bands, party promoters and participants all involved in the underground music scene across London. The film starts with them at 6:00pm on a Friday and follows their progression through Friday night to Saturday morning, afternoon and night into the very early hours of Sunday morning. It had a high profile launch in Germany with the film, filmmakers and various bands and DJ's including Jerry Dammers visiting Munich, Frankfurt, Ulm, Koln, Hamburg etc. The film had a small release in the UK and was sold internationally by the Arts Council of Great Britain.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ubu kills the king to take the thrown but doesn't realize the prince will fight back for revenge.
- 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.
- The composition of classical music has been almost entirely a male preserve. In the late 1920's, when Elizabeth Maconchy was turned down for the Mendelssohn Scholarship, she was told it didn't matter because "you will only get married and never write another note." She did get married, to William Le Fanu in 1930, the same year that her piece The Land was performed at the Proms. Neither severe illness nor bringing up two children has stopped her writing many notes since then.
- 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.
- A man uses different words to describe an amphibian as the film evolves.
- 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.
- A documentary series from Channel 4 that looked at five neglected female artists: Winifred Nicholson, Dora Carrington, Laura Knight, Nina Hamnett and Eileen Agar.
- Profile of the composer and conductor Alan Dudley Bush who was born on 22nd December 1900 in London, England
- Portrait of minimalist composer Steve Reich.
- Documentary that covers John Cooper-Clarke's tour with reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson.
- This kaleidoscopic record of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival invites you into the busy streets, following floats and popping into community centers where performers prepare. The diversity of the crowd really makes Carnival, and here we see the original punks, the dancing coppers, the nostalgic Caribbean ex-pats. With no narrator, the film echoes the event's relaxed yet ecstatic rhythm.
- Documentary portrait of the artist R.B. Kitaj.
- 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.
- Scottish filmmaker Margaret Tait in conversation with video artist Tamara Krikorian.
- A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.
- 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.
- What's At the Top of a Sunbeam?
- A satirical exploration of the origins of humor that moves between the absurd and the deadly serious.
- Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the group during a ten day workshop in Liverpool.
- An experiential journey through the body of a unique landscape - that of Cezanne's Provence. Using intuitive and expressionist visual language and a striking specially composed soundtrack.
- An arts documentary examining the phenomenon of "chutney soca", a musical hybrid from Trinidad & Tobago which blends the traditions of the islands' two biggest ethnic groups - Indian and African. As much political as musical, "chutney soca" seems to offer a way for the two cultures, often perceived as being mutually antagonistic, to come together in a new exciting fusion of sounds.
- What is so enduringly funny about a Pantomime Dame and why? The enduring popularity of the Pantomime Dame is explored through the ages and examined as a parody of female behavior. Contemporary Dames explain their views and thoughts on the the Pantomime Dame as well as performing and preparing for their role.