Arts Council of England Movie Trailers
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Simon Magus Trailer (1999)
17 February 1999
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops.
I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow Trailer (2017)
29 October 2017
“I don’t want to feel like it’s only me. I know it’s not only me, because there are others out there…” ‘I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow’ is a short visual essay film by artist animator, Jessica Ashman, about navigating the visual art and animation world as a black face in a white space.
Walden Trailer (2021)
08 September 2021
After returning from a year-long Moon mission, Cassie, a NASA botanist, finds herself in a remote cabin in the woods, where her estranged twin sister, Stella, a former NASA architect, has found a new life with climate activist Bryan.
Blight Trailer (1996)
31 December 1996
A short film featuring the voices of those affected when the M11 Link Road in East London was built, accompanied by scenes and sounds of demolition.
The Claim Trailer (2000)
29 December 2000
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come.
The House of Mirth Trailer (2000)
13 October 2000
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
The Dream Machine Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke of Brion Gysin using a dream machine.
The Rock Tours Around Great Britain, 2006-2007 Trailer (2007)
01 October 2007
The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that involved a walking circumambulation of Great Britain from September 23, 2006 to June 14, 2007.
Billy Elliot Trailer (2000)
28 September 2000
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering.
Diary of a Madman Trailer (1997)
16 October 1997
An update of Gogol's comic story about a man who thinks the way to his boss's heart is by sending letters to her dog.
Pandaemonium Trailer (2001)
29 June 2001
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy.
Captain Jack Trailer (1999)
28 May 1999
Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Whitby's unsung hero, Captain Scoresby, who set sail from the town bound for the Arctic in the 18th Century.
Divorcing Jack Trailer (1998)
01 October 1998
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column.
An Ideal Husband Trailer (1999)
14 January 1999
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed.
The Woodlanders Trailer (1998)
06 February 1998
The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school.
Tin Trailer (2015)
17 April 2015
Cornwall 1895: a blatant swindle by the local bank threatens the life of a remote mining village. The fate of its whole community hangs on the courage of one feisty young maid.
Trail of the Spider Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London.
The Revengers' Comedies Trailer (1998)
09 June 1998
After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide.
Plunkett & Macleane Trailer (1999)
22 January 1999
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings.
Relic 2 Trailer (2021)
03 March 2021
The third film in the series, ‘Relic 2’ forms part of Relic Traveller: Phase 2, a multi-disciplinary project by Larry Achiampong, which manifests in performance, audio, moving image and prose.
A Room for Romeo Brass Trailer (1999)
23 August 1999
Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them.
Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time Trailer (2022)
06 November 2022
A new film made from more than a hundred fragments of archive film, Echoes of the North transports you back to Northern England a century ago, taking its audiences down the highways and byways of northern life in the early 20th century - its industries and rural life, its wartimes and festivals, its transport, holidays, family excursions and huge, city-wide occasions.
Metroland Trailer (1997)
30 August 1997
In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence.
Hideous Kinky Trailer (1999)
05 February 1999
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
Ratcatcher Trailer (1999)
12 November 1999
James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family.
Relic 3 Trailer (2021)
03 March 2021
The fourth film in the series, ‘Relic 3’ forms part of Relic Traveller: Phase 2, a multi-disciplinary project by Larry Achiampong, which manifests in performance, audio, moving image and prose.
Gallivant Trailer (1996)
01 October 1996
Part home movie, part road movie, Kötting's riveting and eccentric film stars his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys - opinionated, bursting with anecdotes and contradictory reminiscences – and Eden, his eight-year-old daughter with Joubert syndrome, as they take a zig-zagging 6,000 mile trip in their campervan around Britain's coastline.
Home Suite Trailer (1994)
06 August 1994
Home Suite, Smith’s first video work, is a close-up journey through a domestic landscape and a journey through memory, containing only three cuts over the course of its ninety-six minutes duration.
Love's Labour's Lost Trailer (2000)
31 March 2000
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
Immortality Trailer (1998)
27 November 1998
A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.
Mavis and the Mermaid Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
A small girl, who doesn't believe in fairytales, meets an old woman who claims she is a mermaid.
Remember Me Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Remember Me is a dark, obsessive and emotive treatise on death. Its aim is to explore the intimate, personal and often secret relationships that people have with mortality and loss.
Love and Death on Long Island Trailer (1998)
03 July 1998
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.
The Governess Trailer (1998)
31 July 1998
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland.
Photographing Fairies Trailer (1997)
19 September 1997
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer.
Janice Beard 45 WPM Trailer (1999)
29 October 1999
Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.
Solomon & Gaenor Trailer (1999)
30 April 1999
A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality.
Shooting Fish Trailer (1997)
22 August 1997
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.
Exodus Trailer (2007)
04 September 2007
The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with his adoptive parents, until he finds his mother in the shanty town, Dreamland, where she’s been ghettoised with other ‘undesirables’.
Beautiful Creatures Trailer (2000)
23 August 2000
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.
Pleasures of War Trailer (1998)
31 December 1998
A retelling of the Biblical story of Judith and Holofernes, exploring female aggression and the links between war and sexual desire.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Trailer (1996)
29 November 1996
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon Trailer (1998)
16 September 1998
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts.
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble Trailer (2000)
25 August 2000
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend.
Prometheus Trailer (1999)
16 April 1999
Tony Harrison's poetic essay on the working class - in particular the British miners -, its struggles, its dreams and its icononography - at the very end of the 20th century, as interpreted through the myth of Prometheus.
Surviving Sabu Trailer (1998)
05 June 1998
The difficult relationship between a young gay South Asian man and his father, refracted through images of the late film star Sabu of Jungle Book and Elephant Boy.
A Kind of Hush Trailer (1999)
10 September 1999
Six teens who were traumatized by child abuse early in their lives come together to form a gang that ultimately plots revenge against the ones who committed the crimes against them.
Crimetime Trailer (1996)
01 August 1996
The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? Trailer (2000)
10 March 2000
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
The Tango Lesson Trailer (1997)
28 November 1997
On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects".
Heliocentrum Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Political documentary meets baroque rave video in this computer animated portrayal of Louis XIV and his pleasure palace at Versailles.
This Camera is Broken Trailer (2019)
31 December 2019
An ageing director is making her final film: one delving into her past. Face to face with the embodiment of her younger self, the line between her present reality and the film's blur.
Beautiful People Trailer (1999)
16 September 1999
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving.
The Birth of the Telephone Trailer (2021)
12 December 2021
Originating from footage of Thomas Watson relating the conception of the telephone, Birth of the Telephone distorts and challenges the simplicity of this account.
Hermaphrodite Bikini Trailer (1995)
07 June 1995
Director Clio Barnard, using Harry and Paintbox techniques, intercut with a Hi-8 video diary, presents a non-narrative collage addressing sexual difference and artifice, both imagined and real.
Farm Film Trailer (2004)
25 November 2004
Part intimate portrait and part observational documentary, this film looks at how a Dartmoor farming family relate to the land and their animals.
Outside the Box Trailer (2018)
19 November 2018
Tody is a lonely bird slaving his life away in a packaging factory. He dreams of a better life in the sunshine with someone there who actually cares if he’s tired or overworked.
Divided We Scroll Trailer (2019)
06 June 2019
'Divided We Scroll' is an eerie depiction of our intimate relationships with technology.
Relic 1 Trailer (2017)
03 October 2017
The second film in the series, 'Relic 1' forms part of Larry Achiampong's Relic Traveller: Phase 1, a multi-disciplinary project manifesting in performance, audio, moving image and prose.
Not Yet Out of the Wood Trailer (2021)
15 October 2021
It's not the bats' fault. Holed up in lockdown, I made a bat-head mask, I made a skeleton. I made a miniature wood by collecting twigs and moss from the local cemetery, scraping it off the gravestones.