Arts Council Of Great Britain Movies

As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.

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...

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

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

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

A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, "minimal" music. The program explores how Reich's music eventually became...

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

Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.

A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.

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

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...

Assesses the contribution made by British avant-garde composer, Cornelius Cardew, to contemporary music. Includes interviews with Stockhausen and...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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