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Iris (2015)

Director

Albert Maysles

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £9.99

A documentary by Albert Maysles about Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. More than a...

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Civilisations (2018)

aka: Civilisations: Our Story Told Through Art

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 522 minutes), £17.99

This BBC remake of Kenneth Clark’s acclaimed 1969 series tells the story of art from its origins to the present day. Presented by Simon Schama, Mary Beard and David Olusoga, the programmes explore the...

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Bill Cunningham, New York (2012)

Director

Richard Press

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £6.99

The "Bill" in question is veteran New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and...

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Show of Shows DVD, The (2016)

Director

Benedikt Erlinsson

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £10.00

This film tells the story of itinerant circus performers, cabaret acts and vaudeville and fairground attractions. In this film, rarities and never-before-seen footage of fairgrounds, circus entertainment,...

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Station to Station (2015)

Director

Doug Aitken

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 78 minutes), £9.99

Station to Station is a living project exploring modern creativity. The project first crossed North America by train, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, over 23 days in September 2013. Over the course of the...

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Third Front, The: Erwin Piscator: Political Theatre (1978 Film, Video)

Director

Peter Wyeth

Producer

Margaret Williams

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Erwin Piscator’s work in the 1920s moved theatre away from the confines of domestic drama to the play of forces in world politics. To equip the stage for the ‘epic’ approach, he employed a whole range...

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Rigby Graham’s Irish Voyage (2003)

Director

Charles Mapleston

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 53 minutes (main film)), £10.00

This documentary follows painter, printmaker, muralist, illustrator, writer and teacher Rigby Graham as he visits many of his old haunts in Ireland and creates new work along the way. Graham has a dry sense...

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Picturing Derry (1985 Film, Video)

Director

David Fox; Sylvia Stevens

Subject

Art; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £50.00

Discusses photographic images of Derry, raising questions about the selection process which determines what photographs will be widely seen and how political influences amongst others can enter into this...

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Chamber of Demonstrations, The (2009)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £17.99

An interactive DVD documenting the research of Martin White, Professor of Theatre at the University of Bristol, into original practices in the Jacobean Indoor Playhouse. It contains footage of theatre...

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British Dance Legacies (2010)

Director

Becky Edmunds; Simon Ellis

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £9.00

This DVD celebrates the life and work of Madge Atkinson and her Natural Movement technique. It provides an insight into this early British modern dance form through oral recollections, academic...

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