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Tony Harrison: Six Poems (1998 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2004 sale: £9.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Six readings by Tony Harrison of his poems and 20 minutes of interviews. The poems are ‘The Icing Hang’, ‘Background Material’, ‘Them and [uz]', ‘Illuminations’, ‘National Trust’,...

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Alvar Aalto

Director

Ywe Jalander

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 59 minutes), £14.95

The Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) is one of the leading figures of 20th-century architecture. This film explores Aalto’s development, via the international modern style, of a highly personal...

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Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet (2021 Video)

Director

Matthew Bourne

Recording of the 2019 production, a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s classic love story by director and choreographer Matthew Bourne, featuring new orchestrations by Terry Davies of the Prokofiev score...

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Age of Kings, An (2013 Video)

aka: Shakespeare’s an Age of Kings

Series

Age of Kings, An

Director

Michael Hayes

Producer

Peter Dews

5-disc DVD box set of the fifteen-part BBC series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies). The Illuminations release also features THE MAKING OF AN AGE...

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David Batchelor (2006)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 26 minutes), £13.99

David Batchelor’s works are concerned with what colour means in today’s world and with how we experience it. In this documentary, the artist is interviewed in his studio. He speaks about many key works...

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British Face, The (2006)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 110 minutes), £21.99

Produced in association with London’s National Portrait Gallery, Fiona Shaw goes on a journey to explore pictures of people in history and today, interviewing painters, photographers and caricaturists....

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Paul Delvaux: The Sleepwalker of Saint-Idesbald (1987)

Director

Adrian Maben

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 58 minutes), £17.99

Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) was a surrealist painter famours for his mysterious, dreamlike paintings. Produced when the artist was in his 90s, this film provides a unique insight into his work and his intense...

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Bauhaus, The (198)

aka: Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century

Director

Julia Cave

Subject

Architecture; Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 49 minutes), £19.30 (I)

The Bauhaus school of design, craftsmanship and architecture, founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 and closed by the Nazis in 1933, revolutionised modern design. This film examines the personalities, teaching...

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Bill Viola

aka: Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul’s

Director

Gerald Fox

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 82 minutes), £17.99

Documentary following one of the world’s most influential video artist, Bill Viola, and his wife and close collaborator, Kira Perov, over a twelve-year period. During this time they undertake and complete...

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Women of the Impressionist Movement (2016)

Director

Rudij Bergmann

Subject

Art; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 45 minutes), £17.99

This documentary by Rudij Bergmann, an expert on impressionism, which was filmed in France and the United States, tells the story of Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès and Marie Bracquemond, four...

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