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Youssou N’Dour - Live (2003)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 65 minutes), £19.99

A recording of the 1994 tour of West Africa by Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour, with additional footage of N’Dour’s headlining performance at Fiesta des Suds. His band, Super Etoile, founded in 1979,...

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Road: A Story of Life and Death

Director

Marc Isaacs

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £15.99

Documentary filmmaker Marc Isaacs follows the lives of a number of people who have been led, through force of circumstance, to call London their home. Isaacs’ subjects include a retired German air hostess...

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Robert Mapplethorpe (1988 Video)

Director

Nigel Finch

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Profiles photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, with contributions from body-builder Lisa Lyons, singer Patti Smith, novelists Kathy Acker and Edmund White. Mapplethorpe’s studies of nude black men were a...

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Goddess and the Computer, The (1989 Video)

aka: Water Goddess and the Computer, The

Director

Steve Lansing; André Singer

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (INCA, RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) (INCA) 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

Demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by religious authorities. A biologist and an anthropologist look at the...

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Lamia (2011)

Subject

Drama; Literature

A BBC Radio 4 dramatic adaptation of Keats’ narrative poem ‘Lamia’, about the ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia, and the innocent mortal Lycius. [1 hour] Featuring original music by John...

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Witchcraft Among the Azande (1982 Video)

aka: Azande, The

Director

André Singer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 52 minutes), £8.00 (hire), £50.00 (sale)

A study of the Azande of the Sudan who today live a life of obscurity, dominated by magic, oracles and spells. Discusses how their beliefs influence their reactions to such events as an illness, a spoiled...

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Literary Festival 2014: War and Memory

Subject

History; Literature

Panel discussion about the differing imperatives of the historian and the creative artist in response to the First World War. Richard Ormond is an art historian, co-author of the John Singer Sargent...

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Cosi Fan Tutte (2017)

aka: Così Fan Tutte: W.A. Mozart

Director

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 188 minutes), £21.58

An unconventional ballet production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte for the Opéra National de Paris. Così is an opera of double meanings, plot twists and partner-swapping. Choreographer Anne Teresa De...

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Inside China: Living with the Revolution (1983 Video)

Director

Leslie Woodhead

Producer

André Singer

Subject

Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Filmed in south-east China (near Wuxi in Jiangsu province) follows the daily life of three Han peasant families living in communes. Concerned with the discontinuities the older generation have faced since...

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Animal Farm (1954)

Director

John Halas; Joy Batchelor

Subject

English language and literature; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £6.98

John Halas and Joy Batchelor’s adaptation of George Orwell’s novel was the first feature-length British animated film to be given a theatrical release. Actor and singer Gordon Heath narrates, and the...

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