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 Jarm...

About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different per...

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

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

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

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

Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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

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

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

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 death – is s...

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...

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

A portrait of Salford-born poet, storyteller and comic, John Cooper-Clarke. His poems, a satirical blend of humour and social comment, are delivered a...

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

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

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...

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

Two cameras mounted on tripods with wind vane attachments were positioned about 50 feet apart along an axis of 45 degrees to the direction of the wind...

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