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  1. Queen (2019)

    Director
    Katryn Elkin
    Subject
    Film studies; Women’s studies

    In this "pregnancy and baby" video, as the artist describes it, Elkin tackles, with humour and irreverence, issues around motherhood, labour and creation, personal biography, being an artist and the...

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  2. Private Joseph Kay (2018)

    Director
    Matt Kay
    Subject
    History; Literature

    Jackie Kay’s poem Private Joseph Kay is dedicated to her grandfather who fought at the Somme. This short film, made by award-winning director Matthew Kay, responds to the poem and the themes it raises. [7...

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  3. Mic Drop (2017)

    Director
    Keith Piper
    Subject
    American Studies; Film studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 12 minutes), On request

    When Obama dropped the microphone, he knew what he was doing: this gesture remains a powerful way of underlining some final words. Derived from the 1980s rap scene, it signals the point when words reach...

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  4. Abu Ammar is Coming (2016)

    Director
    Naeem Mohaiemen
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Film

    A photograph showing five men: four stare out of a window, one looks at the camera. The light has a soft glow. The stage is a bombed building. All five men wear military clothes. Abu Ammar was the nom de...

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  5. Michael’s Theme (2014)

    Director
    Katryn Elkin
    Subject
    Television studies

    Using previously unbroadcast fragments from the opening and closing of several episodes in the first two series of Parkinson from the 1970s, this experimental work explores the talk-show convention of...

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  6. Go West Young Man (1996)

    Director
    Keith Piper
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 4 minutes), On request

    Man hands on misery to man. Father and son resist the stereotypes of their race and gender in this personal / historical survey of bias and prejudice. Montage and masculinity meet in an analysis of the black...

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  7. Symmetry (1966)

    Director
    Philip Stapp
    Subject
    Film studies; Mathematics

    Philip Stapp was one of the greatest animators working in the 1950-1975 era, using stylized, often pointillist abstract imagery, in a floating world sometimes surrealist, at other times reminiscent of...

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  8. Czech Film Avant-Garde

    Director
    Libor Nemeskal
    Subject
    Film studies

    This history of the Czech avant garde and independent film movement in the 1920s and 1930s is an in depth look at the work of Vít zslav Nezval, Jaroslav Seifert, Alexander Hackenschmied, Jan Ku era and...

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