Arts Council Of Great Britain Movies

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

Bruce Lacey: 'People used to come and make documentaries about me, but they weren't interested in the day-to-day family life that I found extremely in...

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...

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...

Cezanne's Eye is an experiential journey through the body of a unique landscape - that of Cezanne's Provence. Using intuitive and expressionist visual...

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

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

Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community l...

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

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

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...

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

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.

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