Arts Council of England Movie Trailers
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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.
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.
Shooting Fish Trailer (1997)
22 August 1997
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.
An Anatomy of Melancholy Trailer (2000)
24 April 2000
"An Anatomy of Melancholy" is a cinematic meditation on mortality which takes the form of a special anatomy book - one in the process of being made.
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’.
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.
Go West Young Man Trailer (1996)
14 November 1996
A black father and son discuss the ways in which popular myths have shaped their everyday experiences.
How to Get Rid of Information Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
A man in a room fights off a world of information that swoops in at him from every side. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts Council of England.
Kingdom Protista Trailer (2000)
23 June 2000
‘A few drops of pond water rich in bottom sediments, seen under a microscope can quickly confirm the existence of another world.
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".
Hypnomart Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
In a synthetic shopping mall surveillance and unsuspecting body language combine to create their own theatre.
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.
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.
Ferment Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
A momentary lapse of motion as Macmillan cuts a cross-section through the city’s day. Mobile photography or freeze film? Small epiphanies and the human trace, whatever the terms.
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.
Blinded by Light Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
A blind man receives corneal transplants. He is fifty years old. For the first time since he was ten months old he has complete functional use of his eyes.
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.
Postcards of Belief Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
A body artist gives up on speech as the picture, and the body, break apart. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts Council of England.
Esther Kahn Trailer (2000)
04 October 2000
A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
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.
SKZCP Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
An abstract film of optically manipulated, hand-painted film stock that moves with the logic of a dream.
Diary of a Madman (After Gogol) Trailer (1997)
16 October 1997
A modern 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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm Not Here Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
In January 1970 the actor Sir Alec Guinness wrote a letter to The Times complaining about the lack of attention shop assistants gave to customers.
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.
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.
Fabula Trailer (2020)
27 July 2020
"Fabula" is an experimental film by Jordan Baseman that asks questions about our dreams and dream experiences during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020.
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.
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’).
Divided We Scroll Trailer (2019)
06 June 2019
'Divided We Scroll' is an eerie depiction of our intimate relationships with technology.
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.
Mile End Purgatorio Trailer (1991)
10 June 1991
Mile End Purgatorio is Guy Sherwin and Martin Doyle’s one minute hymn to the London road via its shop signs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Miles from Anywhere Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
Close, handheld studies of stone, sky and texture, an exploration of landscape in which the framing does the work.
Room Service Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
A maid and her mistress in an Edward Hopper hotel, in a jazz-inflected piece about women's solitude and swapped identities, mixing live action and painting.
Sunset Strip Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
A day-by-day animated diary of a year's sunsets, recorded directly onto a continuous strip of 35mm film using a variety of materials such as magnolia petals, net stocking, lacquer and ink, to create a dazzling expression of the visual music revealed by 365 setting suns.
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.
The Nuclear Train Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
Unsettled by the train carrying nuclear waste past his home, James runs from the house and a failing relationship into a surreal dreamscape.
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.
Tulips at Dawn Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
Chemistry diagrams and educational film react together in an interpretation of a poem by the Nobel chemist Roald Hoffmann.
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.
Save Me Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
A mixed media experimental animated film that generates a fragmented view of the world through the partial disclosure of a fantastic event.
Scrutiny Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Strangers on a train question the accepted nature of things in fast, talkative animation. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts Council of England.
Rotting Artist Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
People try it on in the Croxley bunkers, and when the head of the household shoves his bendy cane brush right up the chimney we would do well to run to the other side of the road and watch it appear out the top for the lucky sight of it.
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.