Arts Council Of Great Britain Movies

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...

Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the gr...

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 ca...

Plutonium Blonde is a beautifully textured collage of sound and images and a fractured narrative about woman’s self-definition and control. Taking the...

A film on Saint Teresa that leads us through an unnervingly authentic extreme state of religious and sexual ecstasy. With the central image of the sta...

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

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

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 and...

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

This version of Artwar builds from performances with paper masks and implements and various sequences of gunfire.

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

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 byg...

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

This film is the beginning of an examination of the perceptual and conceptual structures which can be dealt with using pure colour sequences in loop f...

The London Contemporary Dance Theatre perform a fantasy set in the city’s underground system. A boy meets the girl of his dreams, and their journey i...

Silent short film by Guy Sherwin as part of his Short Film series in which he captures everyday life, diary like subjects.

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

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

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

A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.