Arts Council of England Movie Trailers
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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.
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.
Summer with Monika Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
Roger McGough's poem of young love, Summer with Monika, set to pastel animation. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts Council of England.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’ll Be Back! Trailer (2022)
21 October 2022
Existing at the convergence of history and myth, the Haitian maroon leader François Mackandal returns to disrupt the colonial logic of the archive.
Celebrashan Trailer (1995)
05 January 1995
Short documentary film about the influence of African oral tradition, poetry, dance and drumming on popular musical forms such as rap, hip-hop and jungle.
The Jumper Curse Trailer (2026)
22 July 2026
The Jumper Curse is a short film created as part of HOME cinema’s Young Film Collective. When a young woman finally decides to confess her feelings to her best friend, she knits her the perfect jumper as a symbol of everything she’s been too afraid to say.
The Directors: Marcus Trailer (2002)
04 November 2002
The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis.
The Directors: Lucy 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.
Perestroika: Reconstructed Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
Re-mixes and extends Perestroika (2009) into two sequences. Sequence one constritutes the 2009 version, while the second sequence constructs a new framing narrative that reinterprets and reconfigures both the imagery and the experience of the first.
Civil Rites Trailer (2017)
10 September 2017
A cine-poem, taking as a starting point Martin Luther King's 1967 speech, given on receipt of his honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle, and visiting key locations in the city's history of civil resistance.
We the Ragamuffin Trailer (1992)
11 July 1992
Julian Henriques' urban musical showcases the style, vernacular and vibrancy of British Caribbean Dancehall culture.
Boudica: A Norfolk Story Trailer (2013)
01 January 2013
Despite a gap of nearly two thousand years, Boudica remains at the forefront of the public imagination.