Arts Council Of Great Britain Movies

Dada came out of the madness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize...

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...

‘Stressed’ is a BAFTA nominated and International award winning animated film directed, animated and art worked by Karen Kelly. The film...

Video art by George Barber.

Sylvia Plath's poetry and the feminine, fertility and renewal, in a mixed-media landscape. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts Council...

Stabat Mater opens and closes with two sung laments, then launches into a breathless torrent of words and phrases, a re-reading of the eternal...

This version of Artwar builds from performances with paper masks and implements and various sequences of gunfire.

A kaleidoscopic celebration of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival. Arts Council of Great Britain.

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...

Documentary about the composer Elizabeth Maconchy, filmed during the rehearsal of a new composition

Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.

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...

Leave behind the ugly modern multiplex and step back into the glamorous world of the 1930s picture palace, in this charming documentary about Art...

Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community...

Early 90s London gets a vibrant dose of African culture in this mini odyssey fusing dance, music and fashion.

A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.

Max Eastley uses various musical instruments to create mysterious and hypnotic music, exploring their most basic sound characteristics, as well as...

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.

An old, bedridden man plays games that have a hint of the sinister about them.

Since 1983, Bow Gamelan Ensemble have inspired generations of artists with their radical practices and explosive performances. Charged with their...