Films produced by Arts Council Of Great Britain

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...

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...

Documentary on the work of jazz musician Mike Westbrook.

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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 profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

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

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

A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.

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...

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

Video art by George Barber.