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Errol Morris: Annual David Lean Lecture- Investigating with the Camera (2011)

Subject

Film & television production; Film studies

A video recording of the the 2011 David Lean Lecture given at BAFTA on 6 November by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who has won acclaim for combining journalism with dramatic recreation, confessional...

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Celluloid Closet, The (1995)

Director

Robert Epstein; Jeffrey Friedman

Producer

Robert Epstein; Jeffrey Friedman

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £14.99

A documentary compilation of film clips and interviews covering 100 years of cinema, looking at the way homosexuality has been represented in popular cinema and tracing how stereotyes emerged. and includes...

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Geometry of 3-Manifolds (2008)

Subject

Mathematics

Video lecture, including slides and notes, on the subject of low-dimensional topology. Includes question and answer session. [67 minutes]

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In the Land of the War Canoes (1972 Film)

aka: In the Land of the Headhunters

Director

Edward S Curtis

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A romanticised saga of Kwakiutl Indian life on the northwest coast of America, filmed in 1914 by Edward S Curtis, who was already famous for his still photographs of Indians, and his writings about them. It...

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Forever in Time (1989 Video)

Producer

Robert W Mull

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Looks at the life and work of photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis, who documented the the traditional ways of the American Indians. from 1989 to 1928. Uses film footage of the time to place his work in context.

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Trotsky’s Home Movies (1992 Video)

Director

Oliver Curtis

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination. Shows most of the surviving 45 minutes of Trotsky’s daily life filmed by family and friends in 1939. A discussion follows.

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All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)

Producer

Adam Curtis

Subject

History; Media studies; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

Adam Curtis’ series of films explores the idea that we have been colonised by the machines that we have built, seeing everything in the world through the eyes of computers. Episode 1, LOVE AND POWER looks...

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Gillo Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth (1992 Video)

Director

Oliver Curtis

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Film & television production

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Profiles the life of Italian film-maker Gillo Pontecorvo. David Puttnam and Edward Said discuss his influence on political cinema. Also contains an interview with Pontecorvo.

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Recreating Rudolph Laban’s die Grunen Clowns, 1928 (2009)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0), £17.99

A recreation, by Trinity Laban students, of the Laban’s Die Grünen Clowns, a response to the dehumanising aspects of modernity following the 1st World War. The performance of the short work is followed by...

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Doll’s House, A (1992)

Director

David Thacker

Producer

Simon Curtis

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 145 MINUTES), £125.00

A television version of Ibsen’s play. Nora’s (Juliet Stevenson) life has been dominated first by her father and then by her husband (Trevor Eve). Tired of being patronised and bullied, she rebels and...

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