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  1. John Cage (1984)

    Director
    Peter Greenaway
    Producer
    Revel Guest
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Documentary on the avant-garde composer John Cage. Includes a postcript by Peter Greenaway in which he discusses some of the issues raised.

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  2. Through the Looking Glass (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    When a typical household scene is observed through a mirror, is there anything that enables you to know that you are not observing reality directly? Looks at the question of distinguishing between the mirror...

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  3. Meredith Monk (1984)

    Director
    Peter Greenaway
    Producer
    Revel Guest
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Discusses Meredith Monk’s achievements as singer, dancer, performance artist, composer and filmmaker. Includes a postcript by Peter Greenaway in which he discusses some of the issues raised.

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  4. Through the Looking Glass 2 (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at the ‘self’ - the idea that each person has many character aspects that may remain hidden. Follows the work of Edwart Argent, Director of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, who uses...

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  5. Marc Chagall: The Colours of Passion (1978 Film, Video)

    Director
    Charles Harris
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Based on Chagall’s personal museum in Nice, the artist talks about the major influences on his creative life from the Impressionists and Cubists to the roles of his first and second wives and presents his...

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  6. Batching (1970 Video)

    Director
    Guy Fergusson
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 9 min.

    Shows how the batching operations are carried out on a site using a medium sized reversing drum mixer. It starts by examining the materials and equipment that will be used; it goes on to show how the...

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  7. Robert Ashley (1984 Film)

    Director
    Peter Greenaway
    Producer
    Revel Guest
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Uses material from various performances of the stage version of Ashley’s ‘made for television’ opera ‘Perfect Lives (Private Parts)'. The stage version was a collaboration between Ashley, the...

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  8. Romantics and Realists (1870-C1920) (1984 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) 1997 sale: £89.95 (+VAT +p&p) series of 16 programmes

    Readings from Thomas Hardy, Gerald Manley Hopkins, E A Houseman and Rudyard Kipling. Ashcroft and Glover read from Hardy: ‘The Ruined Maid’, ‘In Church’, ‘At Castle Boterel’, ‘I Looked into my...

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  9. Cyberville (1994 Video)

    Director
    George Haggerty
    Producer
    Mike Wallington
    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1994 sale: £25.85 (inclusive)

    The electronic revolution, led largely by American technology, has created new ways of modelling, mapping and imagining the world. Video games, the Internet and virtual reality open up new space for us to...

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  10. Film Montage: The Projection of Modernity (1993)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 60 minutes ), £34.99 (CM)

    Dr Briony Fer talks about the political aesthetic of film montage and the different approaches that the influential Soviet film-makers. Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov developed as they invented this new...

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