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The film was shot in one continuous 400 foot take. The camera looks through the blades of the windmill, recording either what is behind or in front of the windmill blades. A rhythm determined by the speed and direction of the wind.
Part 6 of the Creation Cycle
A study of the development of British Rail's hovercraft services in the Solent and across the Channel, using SRN6, HM2 and SRN4 air-cushion vehicles.
A young couple go on a picnic. During a walk, they run into the Grim Reaper, and it seems the couple are not all they seem.
Evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting. The film attempts to display sexual barriers and misconceptions, and about the role-playing and the confusion around the whole question of sexual and sensual involvement. The essence is the confrontation with self-deception, lies and the real fear of contact with both sexes.
A look at the new Scottish town of Livingston and it what it has to offer a young family.
Based upon the theme of Faust, with the characters portrayed serving as representatives of the crises of their time. A triple portrait of three important figures in the art world: British artist David Hockney, Argentine surrealist painter Leonor Fini, and German-French art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
How to dispose of the 23 million tons of household rubbish produced each year in Britain.
Directed by Malcolm Le Grice. "It nears the end of the political paranoid works using found military documentary images. It explores a complex form of loop permutation in both the image and sound track."
The film, shot in super 8 features figures moving in the foreground and background of an empty space holding mirrors which occasionally flash in the lens of the camera. The images portrayed in the film are reminiscent of Jarman's Abstract Landscape paintings of the same period. In his diary Jarman wrote of this film, 'this is only something that could only be done on a Super 8 camera, with it's built in meters and effects.' The film's title was reworked in the script for 'Dr Dee The Art Of Mirrors and The Summoning Of Angels' in 1975.
An intervention in the middle of the street.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary explaining what proteins are, how they work and why we need them.
The story of Harris Tweed and its Hebridean homeland.
Directed by Geoffrey Jones.
This punchy warning to motorists is a memorable example of the simple, take-no-prisoners school of public information warnings. Using a fist and an open palm, actor Edward Judd (in the tight roll-neck jumper that was a symbol of no-nonsense masculinity in the late 1970s), demonstrates the impact of a collision between a car and a motorbike at a junction. Some alarmingly convincing simulated crash footage helps hammer in the message.
How the London Transport Board, with the aid of modern technology, is tackling the problems brought about by an ever increasing volume of traffic. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."
An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.
The Lacey watch British astronauts landing on the moon
A BAFTA award nominated docu-drama that illustrates the fact that every individual working in any potentially hazardous situation is responsible for his own safety and for the safety of others.
A devious spirit haunts this castle. What was she willing to do to keep her hands on her husband’s fortune and why can’t she rest easy in her grave?
The gang unknowingly steal the tools of a demolition gang in order to build themselves a headquarters, which the foreman accidentally destroys when he drops a lighted cigarette into a box of dynamite.
A 1975 documentary on the great Blues pianist Earl Hines, one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano.
Filmed live at Austria's Opera Festival St. Margarethen in 1999, this spectacular open-air production of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute," directed by Robert Herzl, interprets the classic tale as a fantasy about love. The Junge Bundesländer Philhamonie, conducted by Michael Lessky, provides accompaniment. The program also contains interviews with some of the people involved in the production and takes viewers on a journey through the stage set.
Valerie Singleton shows children of primary and middle school age how they can cross the road safely by following the Green Cross Code.
Docudrama looking at the way children's panels will deal with juvenile delinquency in Scotland.
An inside view of life on the Bishop Rock Lighthouse. Perched on a tiny outcrop of rock at the edge of the Atlantic, ' the Bishop ' has something special about it for the Trinity House officers who man Britain's light-houses. It's the last lighthouse for westward-bound ships, and the last still operating almost as it did under Queen Victoria's patronage. Soon, it may be replaced by an unmanned light, but in this ruggedly beautiful documentary, Tony Parker talks with the men who still maintain their lonely vigil in the ' Ships' Graveyard,' off the Isles of Scilly.
A filmed record of a bizarre garden party organized to pay a fine incurred by singer Ulla for "liberating a chandelier from Harrods."
"This film is a consequent continuation and contraction of my film work, research which began with Room (1967). The film is not a translation of anything, it is not a representation of anything, not even of consciousness."
Comparing and contrasting the cities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Munich, Germany.
Two screens of film about - and sometimes shot by - Claes Oldenburg, detailing his inspiration, his methods and his relationship with his partner Hannah Wilke.
American defence policy under Gerald Ford, successor to a disgraced president, is the subject of Mr Nixon’s Secret Legacy. John Pilger says that military thinkers in Washington are for the first time “thinking the unthinkable” and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union announced by Ford and Henry Kissinger are “no more than a sham”. Before resigning over Watergate, President Richard Nixon had given Pentagon generals a flexible strategy that would blur the distinction between conventional and nuclear warfare.
"Honestly, mam, it's all a load of rubbish. I mean, I read me horoscope and things like that, for a joke... but this." A group of women gather to have their fortunes told by a drunken clairvoyant.
A short Christmas animation produced by Sheila Graber in which Santa Claus and his three robin helpers deliver presents all over the world.
Activities leading up to the launch of a large ship built at the Swan Hunter's Wallsend shipyard.
One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera and used multiple exposures. They would then be projected in various combinations though usually as a four-screen.
This production from Covent Garden is set in Stockholm, and not Boston. With Reri Grist (Oscar), Placido Domingo (Gustavus), Katia Ricciarelli (Amelia), Piero Cappucili (Renato), Patricia Payne (? - the booklet or DVD fails to credit the singer) (Ulrica) and Claudio Abbado in the pit: all at their peak, you just simply cannot go wrong when purchasing this DVD. This performance made me realise why I had fallen in love with opera: beautiful (today one should be thankful) and convincing sets and costumes, and fiery conducting and singing from all the above soloists which leaves you breathless. Domingo as the King (not the Governor of Boston) is simply ravishing! He is so convincing and dashing as Gustavus - I think very few tenors nowadays can even attempt such a convincing vocal and dramatic performance.
A woman ruminates about her ex-partner. He is involved in a new relationship. She is alone.
This almost three-minute film, the approximate length of a Super 8 film cartridge, is filled entirely with Birch's energetic screaming
A BAFTA award nominated documentary discussing man's historic use of energy and examines the limits of the world's supply of fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas.
A BAFTA award winning documentary on the basic physics, properties, uses and fascination of light. Intended for educational and general audiences.
A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.
Compilation film made from extracts, "Headline Hunters", the Christmas Tree", "Operation Third Form", and "The Runaway Railway".
A BAFTA award winning documentary investigating the work undertaken by the Ancient Monuments Division of the Department of the Environment in preserving the fabric of structures from Neolithic to Georgian.
The manufacturing of PVC in Edinburgh and Manchester.
Real Time is a reflexive documentary essay on time and a personal evocation of the filmmaker’s childhood and her feelings towards ageing and death. Conceived as patchwork of photographs, re-enacted memories and recorded conversations, the film is structured around a car journey from London to the Rees-Mogg family home in Temple Cloud, Somerset.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the disease, and the current methods of treatment. It further stresses the importance of research into develop new and better treatments.
BBC Schools documentary about the successful British rock band The Sweet, their riches and the price of fame. Charting 24 hours in the life of a rock band that asks the question: "Is the music business really that glamorous?" The show contains live material shot on the 21st December 1973 during their legendary concert in the Rainbow Theatre, London.
A dog on holiday is shocked to discover his kennel has been burgled. He learns about the ways in which he can protect his home through the Good Neighbours Scheme.
This film is a travelogue which shows the relationship between the car and the weather. The focal point is the windscreen and the structuring elements, the rain and the windscreen wipers.
A person walks backwards and forwards across two white screens casting a shadow, later his actual shadow is joined by pre-filmed shadows performing the same actions. Gradually the actions within the film deviates from what is directly possible for the shadow cast by the person in real TIME/SPACE, but the two 'realities' are kept closely relatable as references to each other.
The poet Donald Campbell gives workshops in an Edinburgh high school.
We all observe the world differently, 4 artists (Constable, Turner, Monet, and Van Gogh) show how they see it.
Showing the sights and sounds of pastoral South Yorkshire with regional carols and sword dancing.
A short documentary about a northern English seaside town on a public holiday.
The performer’s upside down frontal head fills the monitor, staring into the camera trying not to blink for the duration of a recording of Ray Charles’ “It’s No Use Crying”.
A 14 year-old boy, living with his grandmother after the separation of his parents, flees to London in search of his mother after a row with his grandmother.
Documentary film of the late great Mike Hailwood's return to the 1987 Isle Of Man TT motorcycle championship race.