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  1. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)

    Producer
    Fenton Bailey; Randy Barbato
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (108 minutes)

    Feature length film about controversial American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, featuring previously unreleased interviews with Mapplethorpe himself as well as family, friends and lovers.

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  2. Robert Aickman: Author of Strange Tales (2016)

    Director
    R.B. Russell; Rosalie Parker
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £10.00

    This documentary explores and provides new insights into the life and writing of British author Robert Aickman (1914-1981), with special reference to his celebrated ‘strange stories’, his two volumes of...

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  3. Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Mathematics of Big Hair (2016)

    Subject
    Mathematics; Physics

    A talk by Professor Raymond E. Goldstein which discusses the maths behind the physical properties of hair. Can the macroscopic properties of hair - its texture, body, volume and other qualities such as...

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  4. In Search of Robert Burns (2013)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £12.99

    Documentary about Scottish poet Robert Burns, presented by David Hayman, who explores Burns’ life from his childhood to his rise to fame throughout the nation. The programme also includes a section in...

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  5. Balance (2013)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £17.99

    BALANCE features the American artist Sarah Sze, English painter Rackstraw Downes, and American minimalist Robert Mangold. Sze creates massive but intricate works that are produced with the space being used...

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  6. What is Beauty? (2012)

    Director
    Neil Crombie
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £9.99

    Artist and writer Matthew Collings presents an exploration of the subject of beauty in art, as he wonders if beauty is only in the eye of the beholder, or if there is something more universal we can say...

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  7. Mugabe’s Zimbabwe (2012)

    Director
    Shrenik Rao
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 54 minutes), £12.99

    This documentary by Indian filmmaker Shrenik Rao traces the political career of Robert Mugabe, from fighter for independence and president of a free Zimbabwe to despotic leader of a country bankrupt,...

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  8. Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Robert Rauschenberg Collaborations: Suite for Five, Summerspace, Interscape (2010)

    Director
    Charles Atlas
    Subject
    Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 97 minutes), £40.99

    In 1954, Robert Rauschenberg became the Resident Designer to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, a position he held for ten years. During that time these friends and collaborators, along with the musician...

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  9. 'They Walked and Talked ...' a Dymock Poets’ Collection (2010)

    Director
    Rachel Plant
    Producer
    Cate Luck
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £10.00

    On the north-west borders of Gloucestershire, in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of the First World War, a literary community was formed which came to represent a significant development in the...

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  10. Zimbabwe Countdown (2010)

    Director
    Michael Raeburn
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56 minutes), £15.99

    Documentary filmmaker Michael Raeburn was a supporter of the man once hailed as the ‘saviour of Zimbabwe’, Robert Mugabe. This film examines how the self-stylised liberator became a dictator and how the...

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