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  1. By Our Selves (2016)

    Director
    Andrew Kötting
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 83 minutes), £22.99

    BY OUR SELVES documents a four-day walk made by the English poet John Clare from an asylum in the Epping Forest up into Northamptonshire. Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps...

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  2. Patience (After Sebald) (2011)

    Director
    Grant Gee
    Subject
    History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £15.99

    Film essay based on the work and life of German writer W.G. Sebald, with particular reference to his book The Rings of Saturn, a melancholy and atmospheric account of a walking tour of Suffolk, in which...

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  3. Just Entertainment? Culture in the 1980s (1992 Video)

    Director
    Peter Wollen
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Critical analysis from Patrick Wright, composer Harrison Birtwhistle, theatre critic Michael Billington and Iain Sinclair.

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  4. Running Down the Mountain (1992 Video)

    Director
    Maggie Millman
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    Discusses elitism in art, with contributions from composer Harrison Birtwistle, novelist Iain Sinclair, and artist Sonia Boyce. Patrick Wright traces the emergence of a new 1980s’ culture which equates...

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  5. London Orbital (2002)

    Subject
    Geography; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

    An impressionistic film about the M25. A road movie (literally) and a cinematic excursion into the difference between driving and walking, film and tape, time and memory, sound and image. Also a look at...

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  6. Wonderful London (1924)

    Director
    Harry B. Parkinson; Frank Miller
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (75 minutes), £19.99

    A collection of twelve silent films made in 1924 by Harry B. Parkinson and Frank Miller. The films were made to capitalise on the popularity of the magazine of the same name and were often based on the idea...

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  7. Gallivant (1996)

    Director
    Andrew Kötting
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 243 minutes), £10.99

    Part home movie, part road movie, Kötting’s film stars his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys and his eight-year-old daughter Eden, who has Joubert Syndrome, a condition that affects her speech and movement,...

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  8. Edith Walks (2016)

    Director
    Andrew Kötting
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 72 minutes), £19.00

    Feature film inspired by a walk from Waltham Abbey in Essex via Battle Abbey to St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, in Southern England. The film documents a pilgrimage in memory of Edith Swan Neck. Bits of...

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