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Still Life at the Penguin Cafe (2007)

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 90 minutes), £19.99

Issued to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Simon Jeffes, the founder of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, which had a unique brand of music drawing on classical, avant-garde, pop, folk and ethnic...

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Claude Levi-Strauss in His Own Words (2009)

aka: Claude Levi-Strauss Par Lui-Même

Director

Pierre-André Boutang; Annie Chevallay

Subject

Anthropology; French studies; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 93 minutes), $39.95

This French television documentary recounts the extraordinary career of the father of structural anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss, whose theories not only influenced that field, but also linguistics,...

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British Art in the Twentieth Century (1992 Video)

Director

Richard Smith

Producer

Richard Smith

Subject

Art

Distribution

Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 96 min.

Five programmes covering art from the start of the century to the present and are based on a 1988 Royal Academy exhibition and showing 150 paintings and sculptures in their historical and cultural contexts:...

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Visions of Warhol (2008)

Director

Jonas Mekas; Maas Willard; Marie Menkin

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), Lux: £23 (individual), £60 (institutional)

Scenes from the life of Andy Warhol, as seen by three pioneer avant-garde filmmakers and close friends. The DVD features four films. 'Award Presentation to Andy Warhol’ (Jonas Mekas), documents Mekas...

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You Lucky People (1949 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Retail outlets Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 68 min., 2004 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

A selection of nine official British government information films portraying Britain in the 1940s: 1) Village School (1940, 11 min): a picture of Ashley Green village school in Buckinghamshire, narrated by...

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English Eccentrics (1985 Video)

Producer

Gavin Nettleton

Subject

Crafts; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min.

A documentary of fashion designer Helen Littman and her company English Eccentrics. She tells her story from childhood through her education, her early days in fashion to the time the programme focuses on,...

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Gavin Turk (2003)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 26 minutes), £13.00

Gavin Turk is a leading figure in British contemporary art. His 1991 degree show work Cave, a blue ceramic plaque commemorating his occupancy of a studio, and Pop, the waxwork figure of himself as Sid...

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Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene, 1940-70 (1972)

Director

Emile de Antonio

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 116 minutes), £19.99

Emile de Antonio was a close friend of many New York painters long before abstract expressionism, action painting and pop art became well known and filmed the painters informally in their studios. Shows...

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Rip: A Remix Manifesto (2009)

Director

Brett Gaylor

Subject

Law; Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £14.99

Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The...

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Anatomy for Exercise (2009)

Subject

Biology; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-ROM), £141.00

Software designed for fitness professionals in training and practice. It makes complex anatomy easy to learn, and it makes functional anatomy easy to remember and apply to clients on the job. The software...

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