Arts Council of England Movie Trailers
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Body Projections Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
Experimental art / moving image film by Tony Donoghue.
Hyperlinks or It Didn't Happen Trailer (2014)
15 October 2014
HYPERLINKS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN is narrated by the failed CGI rendering of a recently deceased actor, PHIL, and follows a group of digital beings—render ghosts, spam bots, holograms—as they search for meaning.
Eugene Atget: Photographer Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
Meet France’s mysterious master of photography, neglected in his own lifetime but since feted for helping position the medium as an art form, and as an inspiration to surrealists.
Cedar Wood & Silk Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Differing opinions about fashion spark a vibrant, insightful exploration of the tender relationship between a Jamaican mother and her British-born daughter.
The J. Street Project 2002-2005 Trailer (2006)
17 May 2006
The J. Street Project 2002–5 is a sixty-seven minute film that consists of a sequence of static camera shots of street signs in Germany that incorporate the word ‘Jude’ (German for ‘Jew’).
Dungeness Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
‘Dungeness’ was originally made for ‘Dungeness: The Desert in the Garden’, a multi-media theatre production directed by Graeme Miller.
Regression Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
A portrait of the artist as a not so young man. The film-maker attempts to enter the digital age by making a new video version of his 1978 film 7P.
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.
What Are You Looking At? Trailer (2022)
15 November 2022
Slyly integrating audio descriptions and captions, visual artist Angela Charles shares her story of ‘coming out’ as a blind artist after years of hiding it.
Esther Kahn Trailer (2000)
04 October 2000
A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
Ouvertures Trailer (2019)
05 October 2019
Reflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture, "Ouvertures" follows a collective’s process of translating Édouard Glissant’s play Monsieur Toussaint from French to Creole.
Heart of Darkness Trailer (2018)
01 January 2018
Written more than 100 years ago, Heart of Darkness is a tale of lies and brutal greed and of the dark heart which beats within us all.
Among Giants Trailer (1998)
24 June 1998
A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield.
Another Life Trailer (2001)
15 June 2001
A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson.
For Cultural Purposes Only Trailer (2009)
01 November 2009
The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian people.
Babymother Trailer (1998)
11 September 1998
A single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all-girl reggae group named Neeta, Sweeta, & Nastie with her friends.
It Was an Accident Trailer (2000)
27 October 2000
An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The Tale of the Rat That Wrote Trailer (1999)
05 September 1999
A Dickensian tale of rats, recompense and retribution.
Home Road Movies Trailer (2002)
07 June 2002
A sweet reminiscence about a family of four children and their RAF-veteran dad, who knows the timetable of every bus in London, but realizes his large family needs a car.
Merzschmerz: Lucky Hans Trailer (2014)
20 February 2014
Alluding to one of Schwitters' lesser-known faces, as the author of playfully absurdist children's tales, Andrea Luka Zimmerman's Merzschmerz is a series of short recordings of young children reciting these stories from memory.
Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity Trailer (1995)
07 September 1995
A father and son rescue the sole survivor of a train crash.
TEETH Trailer (2019)
24 October 2019
An eager couple, Charlotte and Myles, are interrogated by two Home Office agents about their spousal visa application.
Little Dark Poet Trailer (1999)
17 June 1999
A poet, inverting the cliche of the starved artist in the garret, and immediately begins to compose. He has nobly romantic intentions, and begins composing a love poem, which is visualized in the style of silent cinema.
The Silver Wave Trailer (2020)
27 October 2020
Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat woman, was the only surviving member of an expedition to Wrangel Island in the Arctic in 1921.
Dad's Dead Trailer (2002)
20 December 2002
Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno.
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask Trailer (1996)
09 October 1996
Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in Algeria.
Lighthouse Trailer (2000)
04 February 2000
A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only to discover to their horror that another survivor got there first - the murderous & psychotic Leo Rook.
Merzschmerz: The Flying Fish Trailer (2014)
20 February 2014
Fairy tales are handed down from mothers to daughters, and from fathers to sons. As they are passed on, the tales grow in the telling – or gradually depart from the original, as new elements get added, or others get cut.
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but complex in its analysis, it explores the divergent themes and styles of two contemporary and radical women artists working in the upheaval of the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.
Cobra Mist Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
Construed in the time of running clouds, a panoramic and another examination of vacant buildings on the British shore (Orford Ness), a deserted place on Earth, place of non-specificity as a base for an open course of events that shape the sense, consisting in interaction between the image and the viewer.
Merzschmerz: Once Upon a Time There Was a Tiny Mouse Trailer (2014)
20 February 2014
Fairy tales are handed down from mothers to daughters, and from fathers to sons. As they are passed on, the tales grow in the telling – or gradually depart from the original, as new elements get added, or others get cut.
Vanished! A Video Seance Trailer (1999)
25 October 1999
Vanished! A Video Seance is a true story. In 1932 elderly parents and their young daughter came to live in isolation on a windswept hill on the west coast of the Isle of Man.
Cremaster 4 Trailer (1995)
06 October 1995
CREMASTER 4 adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward descension despite its resistance to division.
Magic Mirror Trailer (2013)
22 April 2013
Magic Mirror combines a re-staging of the French Surrealist artist Claude Cahun’s black and white photographs with selected extracts from her book Aveux Non Avenus (Confessions Denied).
Block Trailer (2005)
01 January 2005
Day through night Block is a portrait of a 1960s London tower block, its interior and exterior spaces explored and revealed, patterns of activity building a rhythm and viewing experience not dissimilar from the daily observations of the security guard sat watching the flickering screens with their fixed viewpoints and missing pieces of action.
The Old Fools Trailer (2002)
29 November 2002
A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our demise, based on Philip Larkin’s poem of the same name.
Merzschmerz: The Good Man Trailer (2014)
20 February 2014
Fairy tales are handed down from mothers to daughters, and from fathers to sons. As they are passed on, the tales grow in the telling – or gradually depart from the original, as new elements get added, or others get cut.
End of Restriction Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
End of Restriction enters into the claustrophobic world of a teenage boy growing up in an English village.
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.
Moving in Time Trailer (2023)
18 May 2023
A partnership between Matthew Bourne's New Adventures and Magic Me, the UK's leading intergenerational arts charity, Moving in Time is a heartwarming short dance film based on stories told by residents of St.
What She Wants Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
A woman travelling on the underground is bedeviled with images of desire. What She Wants – wholly created on an Amiga 1500 home computer – is a film about sex and shopping, the social deployment of sexuality, and capitalism in detumescence.
Aspect Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
Across the surface of the forest, light, colour, shadow shift; rhythmic, kaleidoscopic. Matter and the immaterial in constant counteraction.
Birdboy and the General Trailer (2014)
01 January 2014
Filmed in parks and markets within and beyond Tbilisi, and also in the ancient hermetic cave networks of Davit Gareja on the desert border with Azerbaijan, Birdboy and the General unfolds within a specifically Georgian reality to tell a larger story of place and purpose, control and change, aspiration and refusal.
Solitude Trailer (2023)
24 January 2023
Readings from the poets Byron, Keats, Brontë, Tennyson, Coleridge and songs from the dark repertoire of the singer Nico with portraits from the films of Philippe Garrel circa 1975 and Andy Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls and swirling electronic music from Ash Ra Tempel and new electric guitar sound track by James Creed and tracks to the songs by Graham Dowdall aka Gagarin and ex of The Faction with new images of the River Thames put together in an elegy on iconicity, vocality, finitude and solitude.
White Light Trailer (1996)
09 July 1996
White Light consists of extreme close-up shots of chrome bath taps and their reflections, including the camera lens, which becomes its own subject, as it closes in on its reflection.
Night Dances Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
"Night Dances is for my mother, who died whilst helping me to make this piano musical. The Dance of Death is bound to life - Lechaim - as we whirl together by Hebrew gravestones.
The Directors: Stephen Trailer (2022)
04 November 2022
The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis.
Where is the Fish that Never Swam? Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
The film revolves a supposedly pivotal moment in Brown's life – his decision to quit accountancy in 1950s Glasgow for comedy after the death of his uncle Harry, a regular character in his routines 'who began with socialism, drifted into Buddhism and ended up with rheumatism'.
Bristol Vibes Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Documentary covering 24 hours in the life of Bristol, particularly focusing on the range of musical variety driven by its Afro-Caribbean inhabitants.
Let Us Flow Trailer (2023)
03 March 2023
A long poem to the mountains, Let Us Flow explores the isolated mountainous region of Tusheti, in Northeast Georgia.
Chutney in Yuh Soca Trailer (1996)
05 December 1996
An arts documentary examining the phenomenon of "chutney soca", a musical hybrid from Trinidad & Tobago which blends the traditions of the islands' two biggest ethnic groups - Indian and African.
More Utopias Now! Trailer (2017)
11 September 2017
2016 marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia. His pioneering account of an ideal society (the original meaning of the word utopia being both no-lace and good-place) set the template for numerous literary, artistic and filmic speculations in the centuries since about the best way to imagine and order the perfect society.
Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and filmed him tracing with his feet, or constructing with desert stones, simple geometric figures (straight lines, circles, spirals).
The Directors: Anthony Trailer (2022)
04 November 2022
The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis.
Confessions to the Mirror Trailer (2016)
09 October 2016
A sumptuous and passionate reimagining of Claude Cahun's life.
Ffasiwn, The Film Trailer (2019)
24 September 2019
Documentary, performance, social commentary, and, of course, fashion. Ffasiwn, the film explores all of these forms but belongs to none.