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Meredith Monk (1984)

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Revel Guest

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses Meredith Monk’s achievements as singer, dancer, performance artist, composer and filmmaker. Includes a postcript by Peter Greenaway in which he discusses some of the issues raised.

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Headhunting (1999)

Director

André Singer; Tom Sheahan

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

This film covers the history of human decapitation, featuring the story of two British engineers beheaded by rebels in modern Russia and the psychological and religious implications of contemporary...

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Good Wife of Tokyo, The (1992 Film, Video)

Director

Kim Longinotto

Producer

Claire Hunt; Kim Longinotto

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

After living in England for 15 years, when on a return trip to Tokyo with her Tottenham-based band the Frank Chickens, cabaret artiste and singer Kazuko Hohki decided to get married to please her mother. In...

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Made in China (2007)

Director

Yves Scagiola; Roman Weber

Subject

Social Studies

MADE IN CHINA is an expedition through the urban Chinese underground and the slowly budding youth culture in Beijing and Shanghai. Ten young intellectuals in film, art, literature and music describe and...

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Youssou N’Dour - Live (2003)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 65 minutes), £19.99

A recording of the 1994 tour of West Africa by Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour, with additional footage of N’Dour’s headlining performance at Fiesta des Suds. His band, Super Etoile, founded in 1979,...

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Road: A Story of Life and Death

Director

Marc Isaacs

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £15.99

Documentary filmmaker Marc Isaacs follows the lives of a number of people who have been led, through force of circumstance, to call London their home. Isaacs’ subjects include a retired German air hostess...

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Robert Mapplethorpe (1988 Video)

Director

Nigel Finch

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Profiles photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, with contributions from body-builder Lisa Lyons, singer Patti Smith, novelists Kathy Acker and Edmund White. Mapplethorpe’s studies of nude black men were a...

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Goddess and the Computer, The (1989 Video)

aka: Water Goddess and the Computer, The

Director

Steve Lansing; André Singer

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (INCA, RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) (INCA) 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

Demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by religious authorities. A biologist and an anthropologist look at the...

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Lamia (2011)

Subject

Drama; Literature

A BBC Radio 4 dramatic adaptation of Keats’ narrative poem ‘Lamia’, about the ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia, and the innocent mortal Lycius. [1 hour] Featuring original music by John...

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Witchcraft Among the Azande (1982 Video)

aka: Azande, The

Director

André Singer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 52 minutes), £8.00 (hire), £50.00 (sale)

A study of the Azande of the Sudan who today live a life of obscurity, dominated by magic, oracles and spells. Discusses how their beliefs influence their reactions to such events as an illness, a spoiled...

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