Arts Council Of Great Britain Movies

Sylvia Plath's poetry and the feminine, fertility and renewal, in a mixed-media landscape. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts Council...

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

Dada came out of the madness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize...

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...

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...

Documentary about the composer Elizabeth Maconchy, filmed during the rehearsal of a new composition

An old, bedridden man plays games that have a hint of the sinister about them.

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...

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

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

Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

Documentary on the work of jazz musician Mike Westbrook.

A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.

Since 1983, Bow Gamelan Ensemble have inspired generations of artists with their radical practices and explosive performances. Charged with their...

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

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...

Video art by George Barber.

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...

An engaging and enlightening documentary about Jeff Keen shown on Channel 4 in 1983. Features Keen performing in front of his film projections as...

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