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Michael Holroyd talks to Derek Parker about Virginia Woolf’s life and work. Other contributors include her husband, Leonard Woolf, her sister Vanessa, and nephew Quentin Bell, who is also her biographer....
A film on water pollution, using the Ottawa River as an example of what happens when a river is used as a dumping place for municipal and industrial waste. Colour animation illustrates exactly what happens...
Concentrates on Philip King’s developing relationship with one piece, the large-scale work ‘Open Bound’ which was one of several being prepared at the time of filming for a major European touring...
A biographical documentary on the jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon. Using a wide range of material including performances and interviews, Gordon narrates his own life. The film includes performances from...
Made over a period of nine years, this film is a tribute to Charles Mingus. Includes a large variety of film and television clips of Mingus in performance, and combines these with contributions from his...
This collection of Jack Rosenthal’s work at the BBC contains his plays The EVACUEES(1975), BAR MITZVAH BOY (1976), SPEND SPEND SPEND (1977), ESKIMO DAY (1996) and COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW (1997). The first...
Kirby Dick’s star-studded investigation into the business of film censorship and the secretive work of the Motion Picture Association of America’s rating board. When the MPAA refuses to let Dick’s...
A series of John Betjeman’s poems read by himself with musical accompaniment by Jim Parker. The musical style varies from 1920’s pastiche on ‘Agricultural Caress’ to flute and strings on ‘Age and...
Part of a series documenting key artists, issues and debates within the black arts sector in Britain, commissioned between 1988 and 1995. Places the story of ‘Little Black Sambo’ in a contemporary urban...
Explores the wealth of images created by the British film industry in this century. Contains interviews with Alexander Mackendrick, Gavin Lambert, Michael Apted and Alan Parker. Discusses films from the...
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