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  1. Examined Life (2010)

    Director
    Astra Taylor
    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £12.99

    EXAMINED LIFE takes philosophy out of the darkened corners of academia and into the hustle and bustle of the everyday, a visual reminder that great ideas are born through profound engagement with the world...

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  2. Chevolution (2009)

    Director
    Luis Lopez; Tricia Ziff
    Subject
    Art; Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £12/99

    In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto ‘Korda’ Diaz captured a photo of Che Guevara during a mass funeral. History conspired to enable this dynamic portrait to explode on the world scene where it became an...

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  3. Her Name is Sabine (2008)

    Director
    Sandrine Bonnaire
    Subject
    Mental Health and Counselling; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £15.99

    A sensitive and very personal portrait by actress Sandrine Bonnaire of her younger sister Sabine who spent five years in a mental hospital and has only recently been diagnosed as being autistic. The film...

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  4. Go Master, The (2008)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £12.99

    Director Tian Zhuangzhuang follows the fortunes of Wu Qingyuan, master of the ancient game of Go, in this intense, stately character study. A native of China, Wu emerged as a prodigy who, at a young age,...

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  5. Žižek : The Reality of the Virtual (2008)

    Director
    Astra Taylor
    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 69 minutes), £15.99

    Lacanian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek has been described as ‘the Elvis of cultural theory’, a misleading though at times strangely apposite title for the one-time Slovenian...

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  6. I for India (2005)

    Director
    Sandhya Suri
    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £15.99

    In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK. The first thing he did was buy two Super-8 cameras, one of which he sent home to his family in India. For the next 40 years, the family exchanged...

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  7. Bodyscan (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. ? min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Documents the Technophobia Conference, which explored the dangers and power of new technology to organise society and personal identity. Modern digital technologies have transformed medical practice, but are...

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  8. Dinos and Jake Chapman (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Jake and Dinos Chapman discuss the motives behind their sexually charged representations of the human body and explain how their work is influenced by the rethinking of human sexuality of the last 20 years.

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  9. John Baldessari (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 47 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    American conceptualist John Baldessari assesses the current status of conceptual art and how it has evolved from its beginnings in the 1960s. He looks at his own practice in terms of imagery and his use of...

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  10. John Currin (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    American figurative painter John Currin presents his views on figurative painting, representation and masculine identity.

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