Arts Council Of Great Britain Filmes

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio shot footage in an attempt to provide insights...

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

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

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

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

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

This version of Artwar builds from performances with paper masks and implements and various sequences of gunfire.

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

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...

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...

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

Perhaps her name is Maria: A woman with blonde curls listens to a caller in her New York apartment, moving between the couch and the kitchen floor,...