George Barber Movies

Short film.

Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of...

Scratch Free State has great energy and straddles an interesting line between a popular culture and fine art sensibility. This piece was made at the...

Short film.

This revolves around Tim West, an advertising executive who is developing a Channel 4 programme on cooking for terrorists. Disillusioned by the...

Short film.

Short film.

Made using footage from USA Olympics in Los Angeles 1984 and snippets of Alistair Cooke's America: A Personal History of the United States. The...

Video art by George Barber.

What’s it like being a Renaissance man when your host is a jerk-of-all-trades? What’s it like being obsessed with memory when you host...

An unmanned drone deviates from its destined flight path, as it wanders through time and space its camera surveys its surroundings and the robot...

Short film.

A meditation on product history. A lo-fi dramatisation of Vidal’s Sassoon’s momentous, groundbreaking invention of the shampoo Wash & Go.

A humorous rooftop monologue: George Barber explains how he sees the year developing, while waiting for the ever unreliable Dave.

"Walking Off Court concerns a story I saw in the Times about a tennis coach called James Goodman who had a nervous breakdown around about the time...

Actor Brian Hickey performs a parody of a TV weatherman in a film which reminds us just how mannered most weather presentations are.

The inside story of the long-running Hovis TV advertisement as Barber’s voice-over highlights the psychological emptiness of the narratives...

A remixing of Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe prints.

Film by George Barber.

Thirsty? The longing created by advertising is satirised in this remix of Schweppes advertising.