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Gilbert & George are renowned for presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures,’ fusing their art and identity with the external world....

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt...

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

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

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

A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.

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

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...

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

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

In this film an interior landscape is scrutinised, and an apparent rational calm is revealed as suffocating. Milk and Glass is an evocative journey...

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...

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

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