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  1. Silent in the Crowd (199 Video)

    Director
    Monika Baker
    Subject
    Music; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 13 min., 1998 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

    A performance by the a cappella group Black Voices, taking as its subject the high incidence of mental illness in Britain’s Afro-Caribbean community.

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  2. Talking the Talk (199 Video)

    Director
    Marina Warsama
    Subject
    English language and literature; Music
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 7 min., 1998 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

    Brother Niyi and Zena Edwards are two young black poets whose work is directly confrontational in that it confirms the relevance of poetry in black popular culture today.

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  3. Tibetan Arts in Exile (199 Video)

    Director
    Mian Har Ng
    Subject
    Art; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

    Looks at how the unique Tibetan culture and religion is being preserved in exile in Scotland.

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  4. Berenice Abbott: American Photographer (1989 Video)

    Director
    Erwin Leiser
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. /col. 83 min., 1998 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Berenice Abbott started her career in Paris with Man Ray and produced expressive portraits of artists and poets, including James Joyce and Eugene Atget. Interviews with the artist and commentary give a lucid...

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  5. Blue Too (1989 Video)

    Director
    Peter Harvey
    Producer
    Peter Harvey; Jeff Lee; Simon Parker
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 35 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) )VHS)

    Part of a series documenting key artists, issues and debates within the black arts sector in Britain, commissioned between 1988 and 1995. Places the story of ‘Little Black Sambo’ in a contemporary urban...

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  6. Carrington: Dora Carrington (1989 Video)

    Director
    Teresa Grimes
    Producer
    Steve Garvey
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col 26 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The work of Dora Carrington, who was known more as a personality of the Bloomsbury Group than as an artist. She was a highly talented painter and decorative artist whose career was cut short by her suicide...

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  7. Colour of Dreams: Eileen Agar (1904-1991) (1989 Video)

    Director
    Susanna White
    Producer
    Steve Garvey
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Combines location filming, archive footage, interviews and paintings. Eileen Agar’s circle included Picasso, Salvador Dali, Man Ray and Ezra Pound. At age 85 she is still working and recounts her life...

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  8. Daughters of de Beauvoir (1989 Video)

    Director
    Imogen Sutton
    Producer
    Penny Forster
    Subject
    English language and literature; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

    Looks at the influence of French writer Simone de Beauvoir’s work. Kate Millet, Marge Piercy, Eva Figes, Ann Oakley, Simone’s sister Helene and her adopted daughter Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir talk of de...

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  9. Fast and Furious: The Life and Times of Nina Hamnett (1890-1956) (1989 Film, Video)

    Director
    Teresa Grimes
    Producer
    Steve Garvey
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Fflamboyant, eccentric and a rebel, Nina Hamnett enjoyed a whirlwind existence in Paris and London and her portraits and drawings are an illustration of her times.

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  10. Gavin Bryars (1989 Film, Video)

    Director
    David Rowan
    Producer
    David Rowan
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Illustrates the individual approach to composition by Gavin Bryars, a leading figure in the development of English experimental music, through varied musical extracts and his lively comments.

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