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  • 2019
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    No Ordinary Protest

    No Ordinary Protest

    1 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Milk and Glass

    Milk and Glass

    1 1993 HD

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

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  • 1992
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    Gargantuan

    Gargantuan

    7.25 1992 HD

    “London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns - Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and...

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  • 2005
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    Beyond Language

    Beyond Language

    1 2005 HD

    Video art by George Barber.

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  • 1972
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    Threshold

    Threshold

    6.50 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1973
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    Repertory

    Repertory

    1 1973 HD

    Repertory consists of one continuous tracking shot, during which the camera completely circles the outside of a locked and empty theatre, whilst a...

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  • 1992
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    Kanga

    Kanga

    10.00 1992 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies

    Remembrance of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies

    1.00 1994 HD

    Remembrance of Things Fast represents the culmination of Maybury's work in video, which has developed alongside the technology itself. Starring Tilda...

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  • 1992
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    Cage of Flame

    Cage of Flame

    5.00 1992 HD

    A bewitching celebration of menstruation which uses a variety of animation techniques from pixilation to scratch on film. An antidote to the vacuous...

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  • 1953
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    Artists Must Live

    Artists Must Live

    1 1953 HD

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

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  • 1982
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    The Luncheon of the Hyena

    The Luncheon of the Hyena

    1 1982 HD

    A young woman in New York.

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  • 1989
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    Serpent River

    Serpent River

    5.50 1989 HD

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

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  • 1967
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    R.B. Kitaj

    R.B. Kitaj

    1 1967 HD

    Biographical short about the American Pop Artist by James Scott

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  • 1978
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    Landscape From A Dream

    Landscape From A Dream

    1 1978 HD

    Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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  • 1989
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    Clocks of the Midnight Hours

    Clocks of the Midnight Hours

    1 1989 HD

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

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  • 1981
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    Grove Carnival

    Grove Carnival

    1 1981 HD

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

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  • 1976
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    Vermeer Frames

    Vermeer Frames

    1 1976 HD

    Silent short film by Guy Sherwin as part of his Short Film series in which he captures everyday life, diary like subjects.

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  • 1973
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    The Lacey Rituals

    The Lacey Rituals

    1 1973 HD

    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...

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  • 1979
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    Steel 'n' Skin

    Steel 'n' Skin

    1 1979 HD

    Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the...

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  • 1991
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    Slow Glass

    Slow Glass

    9.00 1991 HD

    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...

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