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Toying with Their Future (1990 Video)

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 31 min., 1998 hire: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1998 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at aspects of the toy industry and the impact that war toys and Barbie doll-type toys have on children. Toy designers and other industry representatives assert that toys have nothing to do with...

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First Law (1993 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores the first law of thermodynamics in terms of the energy inputs and outputs of a particular device, the hydraulic ram. The idea of perpetual motion machines is a fantasy, but it is used here to cue...

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O’Casey and Expressionism (1988 Multimedia)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

out of distribution, 50 slides. b&w/col.

Discusses Sean O’Casey’s work from the heightened realism of the Dublin trilogy through a highly individual form of expressionism in the middle period, to the celebratory theatre of the later fantasy plays.

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Unrequited Love: On Stalking and Being Stalked (2006)

Director

Chris Petit

Subject

Film Studies; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

Based on the autobiographical book by English academic Gregory Dart. Stalking operates in the borders between normal love and pathological fantasy. This filmed version is a digital film essay on cinema and...

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Shooting for Fantasy with Sacha Vierny and Denis Lenoir (1994 Video)

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £33.00 (inclusive)

Explores the techniques that create magic on the screen and look at the cinematographers’ creative thought processes behind the techniques. Sacha Vierney shows how to create a magical beam of light without...

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Matthew Barney: No Restraint (2007)

Subject

Art; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £15.99

Described by The Village Voice as ‘an astonishingly voluptuous skeleton key to Matthew Barney’, this documentary follows artist Matthew Barney (best known for The Cremaster Cycle) and his collaborator,...

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Angela Carter with Adam Mars Jones (1985)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £89.00 or free online

Adam Mars Jones discusses with Angela Carter her novel ‘Nights at the Circus’ and her views on fiction and fantasy. Angela Carter reads an extract from the novel.

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Max Ernst (1991)

aka: Max Ernst: ‘My Vagabondage, My Restlessness’

Director

Peter Schamoni

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 102 minutes), £14.95

The German-born artist Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a leading member of the surrealist movement, and his later work continued to combine technical experimentation with vivid fantasy. This film celebrates...

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Top Girls (1996 Video)

Producer

Mags Noble

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £44.99

An introduction to Caryl Churchill’s play ‘Top Girls’, its production history. The full television production of the play, broadcast on BBC2 on 2 Nov 1991 and directed by Max Stafford-Clark, is shown....

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Romance (2015)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 mins), £17.99

What role do intuition, emotion, fantasy and escapism play in contemporary art? ROMANCE explores these questions in the work of the artists Pierre Huyghy, Judy Pfaff, Lari Pittmann and Laurie Simmons. Art...

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