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Hand Puppets (Film)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows Yang Sheng, a master of the traditional Fukein hand puppet theatre, with a variety of his puppets. Shows the manual dexterity required of the puppet operator. The film contains a complete hand puppet...

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Kama Wosi: Music in the Trobriand Islands (1980 Film, Video)

Director

Led McLaren

Producer

Led McLaren

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Set in three inland villages on the largest of the Trobriand Islands. The poetry of songs and the art of singing are a major part of the Trobriand aesthetic traditions. Through the translation of song...

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Cabinet des Dr Caligari, Das (1919 Video)

Director

Robert Wiene

Producer

Erich Pommer

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

A recently restored and tinted full-length version of the silent film set in the Middle Ages, telling the story of a murderous sleepwalker who prowls the streets late at night in search of victims and is...

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £7.99

Adapted from the Grimm fairytale, this ‘Disney’s groundbraking gem (The Guardian, 2019), is chillingly dark in places, reflecting its roots in European folklore, but the deft Disney touch ensures that...

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Tropicalia (2013)

Director

Marcel Machado

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £12.99

Marcel Machado’s documentary charts the history of the 1960s Brazilian counter-cultural movement known as Tropicália, which expressed itself in theatre, film, art and poetry, but is perhaps best known...

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Battle of the Ancre and Advance of the Tanks, The (1916 Video)

Producer

Geoffrey H Malins

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 67 minutes), £9.99

Official World War 1 film of the Western Front. Actual shots of men in the trenches. No heroics, slow-moving, mundane in style and yet greatly interesting on account of the reality of the situations and the...

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Act of Killing, The (2013)

Director

Joshua Oppenheimer

Producer

Werner Herzog; Errol Morris

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 122 minutes), £12.99

THE ACT OF KILLING is a documentary about Anwar Congo, a gangster who, as leader of a death squad, committed mass murder during the killings of 1965 - 1966, which took place following the failed coup of the...

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Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film 1920-1970

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 418 minutes), €50.00

This collection includes 37 films, restored to high-definition, from some of the foremost experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. Commencing in 1920 with Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand’s creative...

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Black Orpheus (1959)

aka: Orfeu Negro

Director

Marcel Camus

Subject

Classical studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £19.99

Marcel Camus’ multi award winning film Black Orpheus made a huge impact on its original release, garnering top accolades, an Oscar, Golden Globe and Palme D’Or and putting bossa nova on the map.This...

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Battle for Music (1943)

Director

Donald Taylor; Len Lye; Ralph Keene; Ralph Bond; John Banting; Dylan Thomas; Charles de Latour

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 186 minutes), £14.99

Dramatised documentary about the trials of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II. The year is 1939. Following the liquidation of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the players form a new...

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