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...

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

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

A survey of the painting of Henri Matisse, revealing the development of the idyllic quality in his work. Studies pictures from the beginning of his...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

A kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival. Arts Council of Great Britain.

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

Leave behind the ugly modern multiplex and step back into the glamorous world of the 1930s picture palace, in this charming documentary about Art...

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...

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

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

Portrait of the composer, Peter Maxwell Davies, set in the context of the islands of Orkney. George Mackay Brown is featured reading his own verse...