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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.

Animals used in advertising.

This documentary travels to nine Pacific nations, including New Zealand, to chronicle the long struggle to create a regional nuclear arms free zone.

Dramatisation of children's book by Gene Kemp.

Documentary which examines the work of the GPO Film Unit in its fiftieth year. Co-produced by The Post Office and Arena.

Amy and Audrey King are desperate to find jobs, so they apply for work at their local supermarket. They are fortunate enough to end up on a shortlist of five and receive invitations to attend an interview 10:30pm at night. They arrive at the store to meet two of the other interviewees and the manager, Anthony Parker, who locks the door on the late arrival and takes the four to the staffroom, inviting them down individually for their interviews. Then murder and mayhem begins as the applicants are stalked through the darkened supermarket warehouse by a masked murderer.

Short film directed by Jonathan Roberts

British Public Information Film about looking both ways before crossing the street.

A high-speed journey from Paddington to Bristol on an Inter-City 125.

Documentary on various jazz musicians, still playing today (1989), who made their names in New York City. Focuses particularly on Scottish baritone sax player joe Temperley who moved to New York in 1965 and played with some of the greats.

Follows the daily lives of new naval ratings, from their arrival at training establishment HMS Raleigh, beginning the first phase of their training and onwards to the day of their passing out parade.

Filmed at the start of Greenham Common. Women sit in the dark round the fire, occasionally someone throws more wood on the fire and we see them talking about the peace movement, the action taken by women, the Pentagon action and the importance of creating an international network.

The 38th GRAND MATCH of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club held on the frozen Lake of Menteith in 1979.

Traces independent filmmaking in 1930s Britain, focused on coverage of political marches and rallies. Essay film, formed from the archives of the Film & Photo League with the Kino Group.

This film is an invitation to see Javanese palace dancing as performed in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and to go beyond appearances to discover what the dance means to those who continue the tradition. In this film dancers prepare to entertain guests at a wedding reception and perform the Love Dance (Langen Nawung Asmara). The female dancer, Susindahati, becomes the centre of attention as she does her household duties and then goes to the Secondary School of Performing Arts for classes in teaching theory and practical training in the Golek Asmarandana dance. Susindahati's generation is concerned with the perfecting of technical mastery. It is the older generation who can explain the importance of dance as a discipline, and the ideas associated with it.

When they retired from selling insurance and teaching, John and Irene Brown volunteered to work overseas under a British Aid programme. They were sent to expand a marketing project aimed at gardeners in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The film brings out the conflicts within a development project, where expectations of European market capitalism clash with the local subsistence system.

Part of The Videolabel series. Approx Running Time 25 Minutes Stereo-Mono Compatible © 1989 Stakker Communications Ltd.

A mock trial, featuring 5 international judges, to evaluate whether Austrian president and former U.N. secretary-general Kurt Waldheim should be tried as a war criminal.

A short film about the assumption of roles. A voice-over offers a long list of synonyms for transformation: change, modulation, shift, turn, mutation… Two girls are transformed into 18th century young ladies by putting on dresses. A performer, Alexei Sayle, gets ready for and then goes into his routine. Made, like many of Anne Rees-Mogg’s films, in the Rees-Mogg family home in Somerset, Transmogrification features her nieces and nephews Charlotte, Emma, Thomas and Jacob.

Imaginary is a film in three parts (From Today, Touched and One) shot in varying intimate and personal environments. Fleeting images are re-filmed and stylised in an unsentimental manner.

Documentary following the famous HMS Endurance on what was planned to be its final journey.

George Barber deconstructs two feature films, The Blue Lagoon and The Deep, pillaging ‘moments’ which when re-edited constitute a new totality.

A woman, enclosed in the four walls of her home, struggles to find a balance between her fairy tale upbringing and the mundane reality of her everyday life.

Ten of the most dangerous and disruptive men in the prison system have been brought together in an experimental unit at Hull Jail. A new softly-softly regime is being tested on inmates like Fred Low, who is serving three life sentences - one for killing a fellow prisoner - and Patrick Mackay, serving five life sentences for manslaughter and robbery. 40 Minutes gained access to the unit as the prisoners started to reveal themselves to the hand-picked staff, and as conflicts began. The most serious clash was over the only woman working full time in the unit, and it involved David McAllister, serving 19 years for armed robbery and assault, who later escaped from the unit and was on the run for five days. This film tells the story of the most controversial unit in our prisons.

Television documentary about Scottish society's attitudes towards homosexuality, including interviews with gay men and couples and featuring footage of the Edinburgh Gay Centre and the Lavender Menace bookshop.

The first in a series of newsreels made by a local co-operative production group about the recently revived schemes of the Department of Transport to build a motorway alongside Archway Road in North London, despite local opposition over the past fifteen years and three public inquiries. Composed of interviews in local pubs, meetings etc., footage of the area affected and found footage. In three parts, subtitled "Your home town?", "Road to nowhere (dead end)" and "Who wants it? Who needs it?".

A boy begins to transform and leaves the house to feed.

What do lesbians do in bed? With a star-studded soundtrack, we're shown women doing everything in bed from knitting and drinking tea to having raucous pillow-fights.

The miners' strike 1984 was one of the longest and most brutal in British labour history. A community fighting for jobs and survival was wholly denigrated and depicted as violent by the majority of the media. THE BATTLE FOR ORGREAVE puts the record straight, as miners recount their own history, their economic and political struggles over decades and the trial they endured for 48 days in Sheffield when charged with riot at Orgreave - facing life imprisonment. Containing compelling testimonies, emotive cinematography, in depth analysis coupled with meticulous detail of the mass picket and the ensuing events of June 18 1984 at the Orgreave coking plant, the documentary also has unique footage of police violence -- all these make this an historic and important document of our time

A member of The Ramblers’ Association (now known simply as The Ramblers) and reporter Sally Jones follow a route on the map of Sundry Ancient Trackways on Dartmoor starting near Gidleigh Parish Church in West Devon on the Mariners’ Way. Trackways or green ways may date to prehistoric times and started as paths formed by people or animals. In bog areas impressions or fossilised imprints attest to the pathways having been in use for thousands of years.

Dust, grain, flour. Negative/positive; film ‘history’ re/presentation, figure antics and play. (After George Albert Smith)

Playful experimental film about one of the most famous, widely reproduced paintings in the world.

Using music and images the history of the people of Glasgow set against scenes of demolition, unemployment and industrial wasteland.

Peter Mudie's marvelous look at woman's best friend.

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.

"Material that has collected me throughout my life, embedded into the pages of a book, using film as a transferring, alchemical tool. The birds fly, the candle is lit, the eyes open and the powers of pixilation brings active the dead." – P. R.

The luxurious Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, contrasted with the poverty of the city's slums.

Shows the effect of the harassment women live with every day, ranging from ‘street humour’ and media stereotyping to actual physical violence. The film was made by women who lived in Leeds during the 1970s and early 80s, when a series of murderous sexual attacks by the so-called Yorkshire Ripper led to a virtual ‘curfew on women’. In response, the many women’s groups already active in the area decided it was time to put their own point of view.

More than one hundred years ago the winner of the very first motor race was a Panhard-Levassor using a Daimler engine made under licence. Ever since that day in 1884, German engineering has come to the forefront of motorsport time and again, especially under the distinctive mantle of Racing Silver. Now you can join motoring authority Neville Hay for a fascinating journey through the archives of Mercedes, Benz and Auto Union from 1900 to the late Sixties, plus a look at Porsche and BMW, as he sheds light on the innovative design, construction and magnificent drivers which brought these manufacturers extraordinary success in Grand Prix and sports car racing during those exciting years. Watch in awe and admiration as these spectacular silver machines wing their way to victory with legendary reliability. This incredible movie features racing legends Moss, Fangio, Caracciola, Lang and Nuvolari at the wheel.

Looking outside and looking back in the same moment; the collision of memory and reluctance. In Returning Susan Stein achieves a simultaneous sense of identification and displacement by filming from the ‘inside out’ – a subjective camera places us inside a house, behind a door, peering through blinds – and from the ‘outside in’ through a voice-over whose broken streams of memory describes ‘her’: “Fragments – she arranged them as moments to be watched.” Filmed in black and white, it is though we were invited into the shadowy area of our own fragmentation, our own sense of stopping and starting.

Mysteries is a photomontage film, shot at Penmon, Anglesey and Whiteknights Farm, Hampshire. Beginning with a quotation from a dream, it becomes the filmmaker's interpretation of the harvest and the old mystic theme of the Mysteries: “The women are celebrating the Mysteries on the beach at Penmon... No-one is watching... The sound of the general waves crashing against the bank of pebbles; the sound of the barley waving... Someone holds out her hand, holds it open against the sea. Perhaps it is my hand, the hand holds three ears of barley...”.

A filmic exploration of the working conditions of female workers at nuclear power stations. Voices of women describe their heightened exposure to the risks of lung cancer, miscarriage, Down syndrome or neurological damage. Echoing the way that the nuclear workers’ bodies are harmed by exposure to radiations, the filmstrip is constantly overexposed, burned to the point of the image’s near disappearance. Sandra Lahire (1950-2001) was a central figure in the experimental feminist filmmaking that emerged in the UK in the 1980s. She made a number of films addressing the dangers of nuclear power.

I have tried to give a truthful picture of a taboo subject in an unbiased way, which I hope gives some reason to an occupation perceived by many as unreasonable – the gay sex/desire/frustrations in toilets. D.F.

Female punks have fun boozing, smoking and talking in this fascinating film by London lifestyle chronicler Captain Zip.

A short film based on Tristan Tzara’s Seven Dada Manifestos. The Deflatable Man follows the mental wanderings of a loner in a quiet English suburb.

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.

Flamboyant comic Julian Clary presents his brand of chiffon laced humour to an appreciative audience at the Hackney Empire in 1989.

Spring tides at Ynys Llanddwyn at the full and new moon are compared to the filmmaker’s own ‘body tides’ from dark to light and back again. Like other films by Judith Noble (formerly Higginbottom), The Red Sea is concerned with the menstrual cycle, and its relationship to lunar cycle. Higginbottom and other feminist artists such as Catherine Elwes, Carolee Schneemann and Judy Clark were trying to reclaim menstruation from its negative image and assert it as a source of creative energy. The Red Sea is made of 16mm film and 35mm still images, re-worked and over-printed.

Portrait of Tobagonian calypsonian Shadow performing in London and discussing his music.

A look into the world of saucy Plymouth artist Beryl Cook, one of Britain's most popular painters.

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.

Looks at the lives and beliefs of miners in a small Yorkshire mining community.

The sequel to Great British Moments. Obscure claymation.

Phil Cool's 1989 Live Show

A documentary on the devastating effect of the environmental menace just below our feet - the heat of the earth, and the eruption of this heat in the form of volcanoes.

The final Mining Review, "it's laced with melancholy, yet utterly free of self-pity."-BFI

A boy plants a microphone in the sitting-room so that he can listen to his parents after going to bed at night.

Sequel to Death Faces

"The film is a visual poem about the unseen dimensions, 'wisdoms' of black women. Interweaving myth and documentary drama, the piece gives expression to the dreams and histories that are the legacy of black women. As film-makers coming from different cultural traditions - Afro-Caribbean and Latin American, we are interested in exploring themes and visions shared by these cultures, using conventional formats of film-making." - PD 16mm, black & white