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

A portrait of Salford-born poet, storyteller and comic, John Cooper-Clarke. His poems, a satirical blend of humour and social comment, are delivered...

A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.

Assesses the contribution made by British avant-garde composer, Cornelius Cardew, to contemporary music. Includes interviews with Stockhausen and...

Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.

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

A survey of the painting of Henri Matisse, revealing the development of the idyllic quality in his work. Studies pictures from the beginning of his...

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

Documentary on advertising. Investigates the way work has disappeared from advertising images, and traces the phenomenon through archive advertising...

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

About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different...

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

A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, "minimal" music. The program explores how Reich's music eventually became...

A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.

Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his intentions...

Art historian Basil Taylor presents the film and interviews several of its subjects, in between leisurely sequences surveying paintings and...

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...

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...

Ted Hughes's 1993 novel The Iron Woman is the springboard for this multi-media project by Mikhail Karikis. The video section of the installation...

Toulouse-Lautrec's sketchbooks are turned into an animated short.