George Barber Trailers
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Most Popular George Barber Trailers
Total trailers found: 30
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art Trailer (2019)
24 November 2019
Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art that can be beautiful, bewildering and wildly experimental.
Scratch Free State Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Scratch Free State has great energy and straddles an interesting line between a popular culture and fine art sensibility.
The Freestone Drone Trailer (2017)
14 July 2017
An unmanned drone deviates from its destined flight path, as it wanders through time and space its camera surveys its surroundings and the robot narrates its findings.
1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Takes the scratch genre to a postmodern extreme by processing and colouring Andy Warhol's Marilyn prints.
The Venetian Ghost Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
What’s it like being a Renaissance man when your host is a jerk-of-all-trades? What’s it like being obsessed with memory when you host lives in the perpetual present? George Barber’s The Venetian Ghost has as its hero a former ruler of Venice who, as a result of a semantic boo-boo, finds himself catapulted from the High Culture of Venice, Italia, to the High camp of Venice, LA.
Hovis Ad Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
The inside story of the long-running Hovis TV advertisement as Barber’s voice-over highlights the psychological emptiness of the narratives delivered daily by consumer culture.
Taxi Driver Two Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
This revolves around Tim West, an advertising executive who is developing a Channel 4 programme on cooking for terrorists.
Schweppes Ad Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
Thirsty? The longing created by advertising is satirised in this remix of Schweppes advertising.
Automotive Action Painting Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
Observed from an overhead camera, a man stops by the roadside one morning and empties the contents of a number of large cans of paint over the tarmac.
2001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
A remixing of Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe prints.
The Weather Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Actor Brian Hickey performs a parody of a TV weatherman in a film which reminds us just how mannered most weather presentations are.
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.
The Story of Wash & Go Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
A meditation on product history. A lo-fi dramatisation of Vidal’s Sassoon’s momentous, groundbreaking invention of the shampoo Wash & Go.
Tilt Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Made using footage from USA Olympics in Los Angeles 1984 and snippets of Alistair Cooke's America: A Personal History of the United States.
Yes Frank No Smoke Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
George Barber deconstructs two feature films, The Blue Lagoon and The Deep, pillaging ‘moments’ which when re-edited constitute a new totality.
Walking Off Court Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
"Walking Off Court concerns a story I saw in the Times about a tennis coach called James Goodman who had a nervous breakdown around about the time that a motorway was built right outside his house.
Say Hello to Lottery Park Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
A film about the discrepancy between the random and the intended. Chance meetings, chance adventures, holiday anecdotes and the slowed down inevitability of an eagle catching a fish.
I Was Once in a Shit Show Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
A comic monologue, I Was Once In A Shit Show is a recollection of an imaginary art event that tallies with what most artists experience when they are involved in putting on an unfunded group show.
Passing Ship Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
On the left side of this video diptych sequences of a typical Hollywood movie of the genre "airplane catastrophy" are showing, while on the right side a man liying in a bath tub talks about how he gradually came to terms with the actual trauma of such a catastrophy and his fear of water.
Waiting for Dave Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
A humorous rooftop monologue: George Barber explains how he sees the year developing, while waiting for the ever unreliable Dave.
Following Your Heart Can Lead to Wonderful Things Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
Following Your Heart uses off-air adverts and minor films. The central conceit is to take found footage and manipulate it into a new artistic experience.
Absence of Satan Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
A beautiful woman screams at something unseen off camera. Paul Newman appears eating salad and soon the famous sequence of Paul Newman closing a car door cut with a helicopter takes place.
