Arts Council of Great Britain Movie Trailers
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The World of Gilbert & George Trailer (1981)
20 November 1981
Gilbert & George are renowned for presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures,’ fusing their art and identity with the external world.
Margaret Tait: Film Maker Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.
Elizabeth Maconchy Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Documentary about the composer Elizabeth Maconchy, filmed during the rehearsal of a new composition
Being and Doing Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different performance artists from England and abroad collected from 1979 to 1983, amongst them: Tibor Hajas (Hungary), Rasa Todosijevic (Yugoslavia), Iain Robertson (Scotland), Zbigniew Warpechowski (Poland), Milan Knizak (Czechoslovakia), Natalia LL (Poland), Ewa Partum (Poland), Jan Mlcoch (Czechoslovakia), Sonia Knox (Northern Ireland), Jerzy Beres (Poland) and Stuart Brisley (England).
Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights into the way in which "film language" developed during the silent era, with emphasis on the process by which spectators came to be increasingly "contained" with the space time of narrative.
Magritte: The False Mirror Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his intentions and anecdotes from his friends Mesens and Scutenaire.
The Case of Marcel Duchamp Trailer (1984)
08 April 1984
A witty, feature-length drama-documentary in which Marcel Duchamp, who once compared his own mind to that of a master criminal, is investigated by Sherlock Holmes.
Gargantuan Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
“London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns - Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and acutely conscious of how imagery depends entirely on its framing.
Giacometti Trailer (1967)
01 January 1967
The Arts Council commissioned this film to coincide with their major retrospective of Giacometti's work at the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain) in the summer of 1965.
Trojans Trailer (1990)
10 February 1990
A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.
Blue Trailer (1993)
19 August 1993
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.
Ballet Black Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.
No Ordinary Protest Trailer (2019)
25 October 2019
Ted Hughes's 1993 novel The Iron Woman is the springboard for this multi-media project by Mikhail Karikis.
Vertical Features Remake Trailer (1978)
01 December 1978
Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt to assemble raw footage taken by ornithologist Tulse Luper into a short film, in accordance with his notes and structuralist film theory.
Dread Beat and Blood Trailer (1979)
01 September 1979
Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.
A Sign is a Fine Investment Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
Documentary on advertising. Investigates the way work has disappeared from advertising images, and traces the phenomenon through archive advertising films from 1897 to 1960.
Wind Vane Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Two cameras mounted on tripods with wind vane attachments were positioned about 50 feet apart along an axis of 45 degrees to the direction of the wind.
R.B. Kitaj Trailer (1967)
25 August 1967
Biographical short about the American Pop Artist by James Scott
Exit No Exit Trailer (1988)
19 June 1988
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 is followed, against the background rhythms of the train and tunnel sounds.
Odeon Cavalcade Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
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 cinema architecture.
Serpent River Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community living in the shadow of uranium mines in Ontario Canada.
Artwar Trailer (1994)
02 January 1994
This version of Artwar builds from performances with paper masks and implements and various sequences of gunfire.
Uranium Hex Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
A memory-using location film of a stay with a uranium mining community. Using a kaleidoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores uranium mining in Canada and its destructive effects on both the environment and the women working in the mines.
Jeff Keen Films Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
An engaging and enlightening documentary about Jeff Keen shown on Channel 4 in 1983. Features Keen performing in front of his film projections as well as talking about and showing his work in different media.
Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt Trailer (1984)
10 March 1984
A portrait of Salford-born poet, storyteller and comic, John Cooper-Clarke. His poems, a satirical blend of humour and social comment, are delivered at a fast pace, often with musical backing.
Vermeer Frames Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
Silent short film by Guy Sherwin as part of his Short Film series in which he captures everyday life, diary like subjects.
One Foot in Eden Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Portrait of the composer, Peter Maxwell Davies, set in the context of the islands of Orkney. George Mackay Brown is featured reading his own verse and there are quotations from the works of Edwin Muir, Robert Rendell and the ancient Orkneyinga Saga.
Landscape From A Dream Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.
Milk and Glass Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
In this film an interior landscape is scrutinised, and an apparent rational calm is revealed as suffocating.
Plutonium Blonde Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Plutonium Blonde is a beautifully textured collage of sound and images and a fractured narrative about woman’s self-definition and control.
Grove Carnival Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
A kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival. Arts Council of Great Britain.
Nightshift Trailer (1981)
14 August 1981
As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.
Stream Line Trailer (1976)
02 January 1976
The film is a continuous, "real time" tracking shot of a stream bed. The length of the track was ten yards.
Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies Trailer (1994)
01 May 1994
Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself.
Cornelius Cardew: 1936-1981 Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
Assesses the contribution made by British avant-garde composer, Cornelius Cardew, to contemporary music.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol Trailer (1988)
08 November 1988
Oscar Wilde’s famous and eloquent defence of love – made while he was being cross-examined at the trial that led to his incarceration and death – is strikingly illustrated, word by word, with Mapplethorpe-like imagery.
A Place in the Sun Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
Ilias, a young man of Athens, meets Panagiotis, a new-comer from Albania and falls in love with him. He pays dearly for the relationship.
Threshold Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Le Grice no longer simply uses the printer as a reflexive mechanism, but utilises the possibilities of colour-shift and permutation of imagery as the film progresses from simplicity to complexity… With the film’s culmination in representational, photographic imagery, one would anticipate a culminating “richness” of image; yet the insistent evidence of splice bars and the loop and repetition of the short piece of found footage and the conflicting superimposition of filtered loops all reiterate the work which is necessary to decipher that cinematic image.
Valtos Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
Valtos is a story told from thirty years hence, in the last moments of its narrator, who awoke one day in 1987 'with the knowledge that I had been duplicated during the night, and that I was an inferior replica of myself'.
Steve Reich: A New Musical Language Trailer (1987)
09 June 1987
A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, "minimal" music. The program explores how Reich's music eventually became accessible to the musical audience at large.
The Hyena's Breakfast Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
Perhaps her name is Maria: A woman with blonde curls listens to a caller in her New York apartment, moving between the couch and the kitchen floor, getting deeper and deeper into her surreal fantasies, in which she lustfully tries out different roles.
Europe After the Rain Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust.
Artists Must Live Trailer (1953)
30 June 1953
Art historian Basil Taylor presents the film and interviews several of its subjects, in between leisurely sequences surveying paintings and sculptures to the strains of the BBC Radio Orchestra.
Lautrec Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Toulouse-Lautrec's sketchbooks are turned into an animated short.
Music in Progress: Mike Westbrook - Jazz Composer Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Documentary on the work of jazz musician Mike Westbrook.
Cage of Flame Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
A bewitching celebration of menstruation which uses a variety of animation techniques from pixilation to scratch on film.
The Lacey Rituals Trailer (1973)
05 January 1973
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 interesting and funny.
Stabat Mater Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
Stabat Mater opens and closes with two sung laments, then launches into a breathless torrent of wore
Clocks of the Midnight Hours Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Max Eastley uses various musical instruments to create mysterious and hypnotic music, exploring their most basic sound characteristics, as well as incorporating the poetry of Jorge Luis Borges.
"Now I Am Yours" Trailer (1993)
04 November 1993
A film on Saint Teresa that leads us through an unnervingly authentic extreme state of religious and sexual ecstasy.
Steel 'n' Skin Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools.
Kanga Trailer (1992)
21 August 1992
Early 90s London gets a vibrant dose of African culture in this mini odyssey fusing dance, music and fashion.
Repertory Trailer (1973)
02 January 1973
Repertory consists of one continuous tracking shot, during which the camera completely circles the outside of a locked and empty theatre, whilst a voice describes a three week programme of daily ‘imagined presentations’ inside the theatre.
That Has Been Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
That Has Been is the last in a series of longer works made in the first half of the 1980s. The film was shot in two adjacent rooms.
Arbeit Macht Frei Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
The film Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes Free) was conceived after the performance 'And For Today Nothing' which took place at Gallery House Goethe Institute in London in 1972.
Withdrawal Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
A home movie on permanent loop. Live action up for grabs. A family walk the walk across a field, disappearing into memory as they do.
Cezanne's Eye Trailer (1988)
10 April 1988
Cezanne's Eye is an experiential journey through the body of a unique landscape - that of Cezanne's Provence.
Slow Glass Trailer (1991)
02 January 1991
From the idea that glass, even when cooled, is a liquid that changes in appearance over time, an offscreen narrator launches a recollection of the bygone days of manual glassmaking and an observation of the impact of the mass-produced glass on the changing appearance of England over time.