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  1. Artists Must Live (1953)

    Director
    John Read
    Subject
    Art

    This film looks at the role that sponsors such as the Arts Council and the British Council can play in supporting artists in 20th century Britain. Among the featured artists are Keith Vaughan, Reg Butler,...

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  2. Abstract Cinema (1992)

    Director
    Keith Griffiths
    Producer
    Keith Griffiths
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £50.00

    Celebrates and debates the idea that films need not tell stories. Offers an illustrated overview of a tradition of ‘abstract’ film-making, from the earliest decades of the century to the present....

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  3. Eye of the Heart, The: The Paintings of Cecil Collins (1978 Film, Video)

    Director
    Stephen Cross
    Producer
    Stephen Cross
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Discusses the work and teaching of the visionary painter Cecil Collins.

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  4. Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, The (1983 Video)

    Director
    Murray Grigor
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Frank Lloyd Wright created over 430 buildings in his career. He designed in a manner appropriate to the building’s location and the climate of the district. Shows buildings at different times of the year...

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  5. World of Gilbert and George, The (1981)

    Producer
    Philip Haas
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £19.99 (Tate)

    A collection of episodes and images, designed to compare and contrast the role of the artists Gilbert and George with the nature of an environment, the East End of London, which is often at odds with them....

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  6. Blast (1975 Video)

    Director
    Murray Grigor
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes)

    BLAST was the manifesto of the Vorticist movement, whose name was coined in early 1914 by Ezra Pound. The co-signatories of the manifesto, among them Gaudier-Brzeska, Pound, Wadsworth and Wyndham Lewis, were...

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  7. Wot! No Art (1978)

    Director
    Christopher Mason
    Subject
    Architecture; Art; Economics; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £50.00

    A film about art and architecture during the post-War Labour administration of 1945-51. It was a time of austerity during which the dreams of a democratic society and promises of universal access to the...

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  8. Where Did Humans Go During the Last Ice Age? (2013)

    Producer
    Sarah Castor-Perry
    Subject
    Archaeology

    This video was produced as part of the Digital Research Video Project, led by Suzanne Pilaar Birch as part of the Social Medial Knowledge Exchange (SMKE) at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social...

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  9. Dread, Beat an’ Blood (1980)

    aka: Dread, Beat and Blood

    Director
    Franco Rosso
    Producer
    Franco Rosso
    Subject
    Literature; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (45 minutes), £50.00

    Profile of Linton Kwesi Johnson whose poetry is rooted very strongly in feelings of marginalisation and alienation found within urban black populations in the UK. Johnson, born in Jamaica in 1952, has...

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  10. Case of Marcel Duchamp As Investigated by Sherlock Holmes, The (1984)

    Director
    David Rowan
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 98 minutes), £30.00

    A witty, feature-length drama documentary in which Marcel Duchamp, who once compared his own mind to that of a master criminal, is investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes comes out of retirement, and with...

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