Arts Council Of Great Britain Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

Documentary profile of English artist, Paul Nash.

A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.

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...

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

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

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

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...

Documentary on the work of jazz musician Mike Westbrook.

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...

An engaging and enlightening documentary about Jeff Keen shown on Channel 4 in 1983. Features Keen performing in front of his film projections as...

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...

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

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

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