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  1. Putting Art in Its Place (5 Parts) (1993 Video)

    Director
    Maggie Ellis
    Producer
    Trevor Boden
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. 5 x 25 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) each (VHS)

    Series looking at works of art commissioned for public places. 1: The city of Birmingham raised almost £1m to commission new art works for public spaces. Anthony Gormley’s ‘Iron Man’, cast in a local...

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  2. Carlo Levi Stopped Here (1992 Video)

    Director
    Virginia Heath
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Distribution
    Sale (Clips and Footage), Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min.

    Considers the relationship between the industrialised north of Italy and the underdeveloped south, as expressed in the paintings of Carlo Levi, author of ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’.

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  3. Fires Within, The (1992 Video)

    Director
    Antonella Ibba
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

    Portrait of Grazia Deledda, whose novels won her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Includes dramatised scenes from her novels and her life.

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  4. Memories in Mind (1992 Video)

    Director
    Shirley Thompson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 22 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS) (Arts Council)

    Four women from the Caribbean - a cricketer’s wife, a pianist and two young brides - recall their migration to Britain in the 1950s, an event that changed their lives irrevocably.

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  5. Sickert’s London (1992 Video)

    Director
    Jake Auerbach
    Producer
    Robert McNab; Hannah Rothschild
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £57.50

    Shows a day in the life of London seen through the paintings of Walter Sickert, one of Britain’s most controversial artists, who introduced a European flavour to British art. Sickert’s work was...

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  6. Step by Step (1992 Video)

    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min.

    A video guide to the commissioning of promotional video, aimed at those working on a limited budget. Gives general advice and guidance; also explores commissioning expectations and outlines potential...

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  7. Two Autumns: The Work of Andy Goldsworthy in Scotland and Japan (1992 Video)

    Director
    Peter Chapman
    Producer
    Peter Chapman
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

    Looks at the work of sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, who uses leaves, stick and rocks to capture the rhythms of time and place. Filmed on location in Scotland and Japan and shows the artists at work during the...

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  8. Vanishing Rembrandts, The (1992 Video)

    Director
    Geoff Dunlop
    Producer
    Clive Syddall
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

    Ecamines how Rembrandt’s works are now being reattributed to his pupils by scientists and scholars, bringing in controversial debates about authenticity and the nature of connoisseurs.

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  9. 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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  10. Mirrors of Paradise (1991 Video)

    Director
    Jurgen Schadeberg
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; History; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £50.00

    Celebrates the cultural and religious co-existence between Muslim, Christian and Jew which throve in Spain prior to 1492 and so influenced the European Renaissance. Features poetry, architecture, paintings,...

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