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Architecture critic Patrick Nuttgens narrates a documentary on the 20th century architect Edwin Lutyns, exploring the plans and buildings of the man who designed Liverpool Metropolitan Cathederal and the city of New Delhi.
This 1985 show from the British rock band UFO captures the group tearing through a number of songs from their catalogue including "Heaven's Gate," "Only You Can Rock Me," and "Doctor Doctor."
A Royal Navy travelogue looking at Hong Kong.
Shot between 1986 and 1988, Kafi's Story captures Nuba life at the moment before it was engulfed in the Sudanese civil war. Kafi, a young man from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, is one of the first to travel north to the capital city Khartoum in search of money. Only when he has money can he buy the cloth for a dress and so marry a second wife.
The Final Chapter of 'The Creature' Trilogy (1987).
Short by Vera Neubauer.
At the Southern end of the line, the three stations around St Leonards are separated by two long tunnels. Emerging at Bopeep Junction our "4-CEP" EMU - in the much lamented "Jaffa cake" colour scheme - turns north through the East Sussex countryside through Battle to Tunbridge Wells. The character of the line changes at Tonbridge as we join the main artery from Ashford, Dover and Folkestone. The Hastings line became infamous for its tunnels. Many had been constructed by a rogue contractor who saved thousands of pounds by only lining the tunnel with one row of bricks instead of the specified two. In danger of collapse, when the scam was realised a second layer had to be built inside, reducing the overall width. Following this, special narrow bodied trains had to be specially constructed. Since the scrapping of these and in order to allow the passage of standard width stock at the time of the 1980's electrification, many of the tunnels had to be singled.
Motor race, fun-fair, sponsors' bonanza, death trap. Whatever it is, the 24-hour race at Le Mans has become a legend; for the driver, just to finish is an achievement; for the fans, to be there is a unique experience. For the race marshals and police there is little chance to relax, for when tragedy strikes it can be swift and terrible. Last year, during one of the hottest weekends in the history of the race, reporter Jack Pizzey joined the 250,000 spectators. He followed the fortunes of two British entrants. One was Guy Edwards, the former Grand Prix driver who made the headlines when he rescued Niki Lauda from a blazing wreck in 1976. Now he is one of the most successful businessmen-drivers on the road racing circuit. The other was Alain de Cadenet, who with little backing has made 11 attempts, and is dedicated to winning Le Mans.
"It's still men who win coal": a look at the past, present and future of the coal industry.
Clause and Effect is a tape that combines documentary footage with positive images of gay men and lesbians to show the impact of Clause 28 of the Local Government Bill both on them and the wider community. The tape is framed by an exclusive interview with Derek Jarman who talks about the origins of the Clause, ‘its roots in the moral majority and their interpretations of the Bible’, the effect that it will have on the community and on his work as a film maker.
The hip-hop or rap scene came to the UK from New York in the early 1980s. The media exploited the new craze and then dropped what has become, for a growing number of young black Britons, a way of life. Tim Westwood, a DJ well-respected 'on the street', has made this film as a showcase for the talented young rappers, scratch-mix DJs and graffiti artists in London. With a special guest appearance by the New York kings of rap, Run‐D.M.C., at the Brixton Academy.
Autobiographical film in which the film-maker’s mother recalls incidents from her daughter's childhood in a Somerset mining village, and the three imaginary friends, two with red hair and one with dark hair, who ‘came down from the stars’.
Using music and images the history of the people of Glasgow set against scenes of demolition, unemployment and industrial wasteland.
Riding the Iron Horse - a roaring, full-throated Harley Davidson - across the open prairie is an American dream. Fifty thousand leather-clad bikers make romance come true as they converge, from all over the States and beyond, on Sturgis, a sleepy farming town in South Dakota. The 48th annual Black Hills Motorcycle Rally brings together weekenders on little Japanese bikes and hard-core, all-American Wild Ones. It's a raucous summer week of racing, drinking, partying and generally raising hell. 'The Sons of Silence' is one of the many bikers' chapters here. The Sons believe in America, freedom, white power, and loyalty to each other. They've got their own chaplain; women are not members, but 'property'. Rebels against convention, they live by their own strict code - 'We are the Sons of Silence until death'.
Put on your dancing shoes! A documentary about the roots, the tradition, and the impact of disco music; about its “gay gene” and the fever it brought onto the dance floor; and about the way it got its revenge, by inspiring the music of the present and winning the acclaim it deserved.
Arrows uses a combination of live action and rostrum work to communicate the experience of anorexia and to analyse the cultural causes of the condition. 'I am so aware of my body', we are told on the soundtrack, whilst images of caged wild birds are intercut with images of the rib cage of the film's subject, the film-maker herself. The pressures placed upon women to be thin are articulated by an account of a new technique for surgical removal of fat. Once again, a woman who does not conform to male expectations in terms of her body-shape is classified as sick, in need of surgery. The constantly recurring motif of cages, bars and railway lines reiterates the feeling of entrapment throughout the film. Yet, taking the camera into her own hands, and revealing this process to the spectator by using a mirror, the film-maker shows herself in control of this representation of a woman's body.
A time-capsule of Liverpool in the early 1980s, made by Photoflex Studios to promote tourism in the city.
Examines the destruction, waste, profiteering and corruption that is stripping Papua New Guinea of its forest resources. Interviews with villagers reveal how ordinary people have been taken in by the promises and propaganda of the logging companies.
A video magazine put out by the Come Organization label. An in-depth documentary of the life & works of Peter Kurten, the monster of Dusseldorf, including previously unpublished pictures and information. With music by WHITEHOUSE, J.S.BACH & BEETHOVEN
The Keen family go on holiday in the jungles of the English countryside while the mysterious Silver Head - Jeff Keen wearing an inside-out, silver-lined photographic paper bag - haunts Brighton and the snowy fields of winter. Part diary, part fantasy.
A look at British involvement in the construction of the new double-track railway from Kowloon, on Hong Kong's harbour, to the Chinese border.
Unfolding depicts the gendered space of the launderette as both a site of oppression and possible resistance. “I was interested in making a film about women’s work spaces; the launderette is a functional space, but it is also a place where women meet socially. I got to know the women, took my Bolex (a wind-up camera) and after a while I felt comfortable enough to start filming. It made me aware of the way in which documentaries can be a form of control. On the one hand, it was a straightforward documentary and, on the other, it questioned my role as maker. It took a long time to make and was extremely rigorous.” (Alia Syed)
A partly dramatised documentary built around Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographs of the Newcastle terraced community, demolished to make way for the Byker Wall. Konttinen, a founder member of the Amber collective moved to Byker when the group came to NE England in 1969. She lived there until 1976, when her own flat was demolished. The film reconstructed some of the contexts, which had already gone, creating a celebration of traditional working class culture that has been widely shown to community and general audiences, as well as in planning and architecture forums. Together with Keeping Time, the film was one of Amber’s early photo films. Others created around Konttinen’s photographs include The Writing in the Sand (1991), Letters to Katja (1994), Today I’m With You (2010) and Song for Billy (2016).
Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community living in the shadow of uranium mines in Ontario Canada.
CARS! BIKES! TRUCKS! & BOATS! Experience the crashes, smashes, thrills and spills of the fastest sports in the world! Over 130 spectacular crashes!
Performance video about a holiday romance at St Ives, Cornwall.
Experimental short film by Sarah Turner.
Thera was shot in a single day in the hilltop village of Pyrgos on Santorini in Greece. It adopted a ritualised shooting style which involved walking ten paces, waiting for an event or ‘interruption’ to occur in frame, which would then prompt a 10 second shot of film. This took place from dawn to nightfall, beginning in the lower outskirts of the village and ending at the hilltop chapel. In the interim, the camera explores the narrow, whitewashed alleys that circle the hill.
This film, photographed in London, is an exploration into the depths of unconscious reactions.
A commentary-free documentary looking at the cotton-like down produced by thistles to disperse their seed. The film follows down drifting through various settings including the Water of Leith and the pitch at Partick Thistle Football Club.
The bar flies prepare for the big day with betting, boozing and banter. But will best man Billy break more than his ma’s heart before the wedding? This award winning drama set in Derry reflects the ordinary ways drinking affects friendships and marriages. It stars Seamus Ball as hapless best man and confirmed bachelor Billy. Described by Alexander Walker as a ‘boyo who tries to drag his marrying pal back from the alter into the drinking circle’s celibacy’. What will happen as Billy stirs up the marital troubles, misunderstandings and regrets that brew in the tension between the pull of the pub and the plea to come home?
Filming clandestinely in Kandahar, Harmon and Lindsay have captured stunning images of combat and daily life under Soviet occupation. The result is an extraordinary documentary on Afghanistan's holy war as seen through the eyes of Haji Adbul Latif, the 'Lion of Kandahar' and his Mujahideen. The definitive film on the Soviet-Afghan War.
That Has Been is the last in a series of longer works made in the first half of the 1980s. The film was shot in two adjacent rooms. Outside views are seen in reflection via an aluminum photographic lamp, while some of the imagery is generated from photographs taken in the same spaces. The occasional voice over explores the relationship between places and dreams and that between memories and the physical events that can trigger them.
An enchanting tale from Africa about five children made of wax. They are industrious, loving, and they feel no pain. But because they are wax, they can only go outside in the cool of darkness. One child, however, determines to see the world by day.
When in 1776 the United States of America broke away from Britain, a country without a written constitution, with an established Church and an unelected House of Lords, Thomas Paine, an artisan from Thetford in Norfolk, England, made a call for freedom that is still reverberating around the world today.
Three English girls at Institut Villa Pierrefeu in Switzerland.
Four 'skins' in 1982 London; their lifestyle and the skinhead culture.
David Hepworth introduces part of a live concert by Squeeze from 1982 at the Regal Theatre in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
Harry Cohen is distraught, he has just been fired from his job and is driving home to face his demanding wife, Melissa. Just when he thinks his day can't get any worse, his lack of attention to the road causes him to knock a man over and apparently kill him. In his desperation, Harry decides to bury the body in the nearby woods, only for his day to get a damn sight worse than he could ever have expected.
Hang On a Minute addressed issues topical to the political landscape of the period – many of which are still urgent today, from Greenham Common to domestic violence – with formal ingenuity, wit and contained but steel-edged anger at injustice. Here language unrolls across the screen in the form of statistics, newsprint, legal document, poetry, prose and hand-written words; it is spoken, sung and recited.
Celestial Navigation could be seen to work in the tradition of British landscape film in that it incorporates a natural element (the Earths rotation) into the structure of the film. Filmed in the course of one day on a beach the film uses pan and tilt movements to follow the shadow of a spade and retain its vertical position in the frame.
A special full of Syd and Eddie's daft sketches, including Christmas in Dallas, and "Syddy's House of Horror". Guests on the show are two Scottish singers, who Syd tries to impress - but can he stop Eddie from doing Scottish stereotypes?
A young woman wakes up in a strange bed after a one-night stand.
Sequel to Death Faces
A two part TV documentary produced by Liverpool Black Media Group and Bea Freeman. First aired on Channel 4, the film reflects on the social conditions of Liverpool four years after the 1981 uprisings in Toxteth. They Haven’t Done Nothing interrogates the social conditions and institutionalised racism that continue to be responsible for uprisings in Liverpool since 1919.
A documentary about the history of the Free Cinema movement, made by one of it's greatest proponents, Lindsay Anderson, to commemorate British Film Year in 1985. Produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. Unlike Richard Attenborough's celebratory episode of the same series, or Alan Parker's more aggressive show, which was balanced between celebrating the greats and attacking Parker's bugbears, Greenaway and Jarman and the BFI, Anderson's show accentuates the negative, painting an image of a British cinema in terminal artistic decline and trashing the ambitions and approach of British Film Year itself. It's mordantly funny and very savage.
The advantages and pleasures of crossing the channel by Hovercraft. In this film a sales executive, with his car and engineering samples, travels to Lille for a business appointment; and a family goes to Paris for a holiday. The former's journey is via Dover/Calais, and the latter's via Dover/Boulogne. Both demonstrate the benefits of using this modern, speedy method of reaching Europe. An impressionistic look at the hovercraft journey across the channel with no commentary, using the same footage was used to produce Seaspeed Hovercraft.
Broken fragments of narration accompany broken fragments of 'Hilda's' physique. A woman recalls the early aspects of her family's life, centering on her older sister's rejection and subsequent acceptance of her suitor (who, in a lighter moment, wins the girl over by banging his head against the wall).
The closeness of three girlfriends is shattered when Pat takes a sudden shine to a boy she knew, now back on leave from the army.
A young man pours out his morning cereal, He gets more than he bargained for when his free gift emerges from his breakfast and goes on an eating spree.
Eetc (1986) was produced with the aid of Channel Four as part of the project Arts for Television. The film comprises materi¡al on film and photos collected by Larcher over a long period and documenting his own past. The E in the title stands for Elisabeth.
The London Contemporary Dance Theatre perform a fantasy set in the city’s underground system. A boy meets the girl of his dreams, and their journey is followed, against the background rhythms of the train and tunnel sounds. Choreographed by Darshan Singh Bhuller.
Joni Mitchell's captivating 1983 performance at Wembley Arena, blending complex jazz-pop arrangements with her iconic songwriting, as featured on The Old Grey Whistle Test.
The aim of this film was to develop awareness of the dangers of infectious disease. Agriculture was beginning to rapidly intensify when overland refugees from West Papua posed a possible health problem, as they often brought their animals or crops with them. The hope was that people would be less confused by government quarantine initiatives and perhaps engage in their own monitoring.
1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia.
A man reading a copy of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ begins to hallucinate; at one point he crawls across the floor, with the camera angle suggesting the count scuttling down the walls of his castle, and another scene has the book itself flying in mid-air, its covers flapping like bat wings”.
Depending on your point of view, George Best is either the carefree hedonist who played football for the love of it, and gleefully enjoyed the fringe benefits (booze 'n' birds) which came with the territory, or he is the sad, shambolic, wife-beating alcoholic who frittered away his God-given gifts. Both perspectives are given a full airing in Best Intentions, an old Ulster TV documentary which has been re-released on video to coincide with Best, the recent biopic starring John Lynch as George Best.
The 38th GRAND MATCH of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club held on the frozen Lake of Menteith in 1979.