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Tracks uses the character of a struggling female teacher in order to connect areas of pre-feminism such as the suffragette movement, contraception and abortion rights, motherhood, later feminist writings and poverty, whilst highlighting the contradictions and differences within feminist discourse at the time. It’s a collage film which combines photographic, animated and live-action parts, black and white and colour footage. The voice-over soundtrack is partly a reworking and rewording of individual experiences and also a reflection on perceived actions of women due to historical and contemporary circumstance. It draws on a rich collection of personal and public imagery, re-made and manipulated, layered and textured, while taking a critical look at certain feminist theories.

Boys buy an aeroplane and fly to the United States.

Friday Fried mixes sound images in a strictly procedural manner based upon a relationship with the picture track which itself is structured around a sequence of 16 slide images. Four voices narrate a series of descriptions which refer to the visual detail in the picture whilst also cross-narrating with one another. During the construction of the soundtrack 12 different sources were combined without alteration to balance, tone etc. throughout the film’s 15 minute duration.

Tentative gestures of hands and body become symbolic of opposing emotions involved in closeness to one person, trust – the need to escape. Actions merge into one continual unresolved movement.

A video magazine put out by the Come Organization label. Noise, smut, medical procedures and an unwholesome fascination with infamous murderers. CHARLES MANSON family interviews/LP tracks WHITEHOUSE LP TRACKS 2 birthdeath experience side B SUTCLIFFE JUGEND studio action 1 RAMLEH interview & music PETER SUTCLIFFE trial report KINGS CROSS PROSITIUTION 1982

Three couples meet once a month at each others' homes for an evening of vintage horror videos. On the day of the latest gathering, Colin and his wife Barbara have a massive row which ends in violence, when Colin attempts to strangle his wife. Has his life now become just like one of the movies he so loves? One thing is certain...tonight, The All Night Horror Club is in for a shock ending!

From Romance to Ritual invokes and inverts the title of the 1920 book by Jessie L. Weston, as it, like the book, draws connections between pagan history and ritual and mythology.

Be warned, this campaign from the now defunct anti-fur trade pressure group Lynx fully deserves its 18 rating, as it starts out in a genuinely unsettling mood of David Lynch weirdness, then triumphantly embraces the sort of gut-level revulsion Lucio Fulci and David Cronenberg utilised in their most effective shockers to hammer the point home.

Andy arrives home from school, and goes to light the fire in the living room. His sister, Sal, warns him against this, but Andy is adamant that if he's careful everything will be OK. Unfortunately a smouldering match lands on a copy of The Beano…

Peter Hall and the National Theatre of Great Britain take their 1981 production of The Oresteia to the outdoor amphitheatre at Epidaurus. Includes interviews with Sir Peter Hall (direction), Tony Harrison (translation), Jocelyn Herbert (masks), Harrison Birtwistle (music), and cast members.

1987 documentary on the history and music of Winchester Cathedral.

Released from the petty encumbrances of normal life - Enzyme by his superlative IQ (12,794, though he lost a few points when he watched television) and Doberman by his superlative wealth - these two embark on a programme of esoteric research, performing laboratory experiments on sex therapists, exploring the vulgar extremities of wealth and poverty, isolating pure guilt in a flask, inventing such useful devices as the Doom module, which runs in terror from anything that moves, and a machine which lobs portable television sets into the sea.

Amateur tale about a company boss and his wife who turn up late for a dinner party hosted by an ambitious young salesman of his company and his wife. After their car breaks down they have to change a wheel in the rain, arriving soaking wet, where their young hosts dry them out and give them a nice meal.

A bicycle seeks revenge for its' 11-year-old owner who was disrespected.

Short piece sees schoolchildren from Brixton in the London borough of Lambeth on summer holiday by the sea at Wembury Beach in Devon.

One of many films commissioned by the U.N. to commemorate the Decade For Women, which began in 1976, The impossible decade assesses what has actually happened to women in those ten years.

A portrait of Alison French, a young woman with cerebral palsy, and her attempts to lead a normal life

British Rail film about the rail freight service Speedlink, and the various types of wagon used to transport different cargo.

The London Dockland Development Corporation has been given a free hand by the government to regenerate the Docklands, but local people are suffering as compulsory purchase increases homelessness and few jobs have been created for them.

Titles for a Channel 4 project that didn't get aired. Released later on YouTube.

THE BODY ON THREE FLOORS was a collaborative project that emerged from a dance class, between a dozen people with different professional art form and science skills and featuring the pianist, Keith Tippett. A project by filmmaker Mike Leggett and produced with the technical and financial assistance of a regional arts board and a regional television station in Britain. The program approach utilises the method of essay, and the essay of imagination, working across television genres in a manner intended to be both serious and entertaining.

1981 short film made by Nik Allday, the drummer on Cabaret Voltaire’s critically acclaimed third album ‘Red Mecca’, and features music by Allday and the Cabs’ Stephen Mallinder. The 10 minute abstract film uses raw material of video feedback and some nuclear bomb footage to represent “the cruel chaotic dysfunctional nature of the human condition with all its potential for self destruction”. Allday wanted a soundtrack that complemented the film thematically and approached Mallinder to see if he’d be interested in creating the audio.

In 1929 Nell Logan took part in a youth peace conference in Moscow. More than 50 years later she was among the women fighting against Cruise missiles at Greenham Common.

Made with young lesbians aged between 16 and 23 from Newcastle, Liverpool and London, this warm and engaging film explores the ups and downs of being lesbian in a predominately heterosexual and homophobic society geared to wedding bells and boys. The young women interviewed speak openly about their experiences of coming out to friends and parents and how in many cases they were told it was only a ‘phase’ they would grow out of. ‘If you can go out with boys at 14 and that’s OK, why can’t you go out with someone of your own sex without it being a crush’ asks one of the young women.

Home Turf addresses the content of cinema as an element of reality. It is what is real in the film, and yet it’s neither the characters – who stay as characters - nor the story, which is still a story, but the ideals, the ideas and the perceptions of the characters which are the reality.

Clad in resplendent Scottish regalia, Macbeth sits next to a woman reading the Oxford Companion to English Literature's dry-as-dust synopsis before the "tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy finally introduces Shakespeare's original poetry. To emphasize this already Brechtian approach, the single-take treatment frequently (and deliberately) reveals both lights and a crouching sound recordist.

She Said explores the theme of women and work, using the formal properties of film to reflect on the overlap between work and free time. The film begins with a series of old and contemporary photographs, cut to a rhythm, which echoes that of monotony. A fragmented dialogue creates a feeling of alienation and lack of control (often identified with the labour process), interrupting further sequences of live action and images. “Feeling strongly that women's work is continuous, I realised that the film work could only be seen after work or in moments of non-work which I hesitate to call leisure. With this in mind I tried to bring this contradiction to the surface within the film itself”' (Susan Stein)

Documentary shot just three months into the 1984/'85 miners' strike

Welephant, a character that is still handing out fire safety advice to children today, here appeals to kids not to play with matches. Very commendable even if the hypnotic chant at the end is a bit Children of the Corn.

UK public information film advising parents to watch small children when near open stretches of water.

Examines the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, highlighting how the movement for change was overtaken by strict Islamic rule. The documentary explores the disillusionment of those who initially supported the revolution against the Shah, featuring insights into the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini and the transformation of the political landscape.

Ken Chambers describes the plans for the new Rastafari community centre in Wolverhampton. After an opening speech by the mayor of the town, Alfred Laws, Ken gets down to business in conversation with Hilary Minster. In ten years time, he says, "it's going to be massive". His enthusiasm is infectious and, with plans to reach the Wolverhampton black community with everything from nursery care to meals on wheels.

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Alternatively known as Bottle, this PIF dates from 1987 and warns of the perils of littering

A documentary on the choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, directed by Stephen Darlington and accompanied by organ scholar Iain Simcock.

The artist watching television. Illuminated by the flickering glow of the TV the artist as TV viewer earnestly peers out of the screen whilst balancing a cup of tea and a chocolate eclair on his lap.

A visual poem on the steam driven Hook Norton Brewery in Oxfordshire UK

1. Bone Orchard – The Mission 2. The Milkshakes – Red Monkey 3. The Sharks – Short Shark Shock 4. The Stingrays – Blue Girl 5. The Jazz Butcher – The Jazzbutcher Meets Count Dracula 6. Guana Batz – King Rat 7. Crazy Tim And Sid – Goin Bowling 8. The Ghost Riders – Rockin In The Graveyard 9. Screaming Lord Sutch – The Wolfman Strikes Again 10. The Meteors – Graveyard Stomp 11. The Turnpike Cruisers – I Wanna Be Like You 12. The Blubbery Hellbellies – I Dont Wanna Get Thin 13. Living In Texas – Godemokrafasc 14. Folk Devils – Chewing The Flesh 15. Inca Babies – Jericho 16. Ausgang – Weight 17. Alien Sex Fiend – Wish I Woz A Dog

Montage of images depicting Glasgow in 1984. Shot on super 8mm and subsequently duped unsuccessfully to second mute 8mm and 16mm sound print. filmed in 1983, completed in December that year. Filmic ideas used in this film developed in later Clyde Film (1985).

The Time-Slice camera was first devised in 1980 by Tim Macmillan at Bath Academy of Art during his BA. Fine Arts degree course. Originally a painter, Macmillan was interested in combining Cubist theory with contemporary technology. Initially using hand-made photographic emulsions and photo grams, he went on to create a series of cameras creating multiple viewpoints of a space which were then collaged together. The multiple camera concept then made a lateral leap to being applied to cine film. The first camera involved a length of 16mm film negative, clear Perspex spacers providing a focal length and a strip of opaque 16mm cine magnetic tape with a pinhole drilled into each frame. A simple shutter over the magnetic tape then provided the means of exposure. The result was a tracking shot through a space. The profound revelation was that while the viewer experienced a move through space, time was frozen. A paradox!

Subverting the classic children’s book series "Peter and Jane" in order to reveal how language structures gender roles.

A documentary about the 1984-85 miners' strike, exploring what happened to the people at the centre of the dispute five years later.

Red Star's 1982 account of the workers' film movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

Promo video for the Arts Council

The first months of Britain's first purpose-built AIDS Hospice, with radical new ideas about nursing and health care

Grendon prison in Buckinghamshire, Britain's only voluntary psychiatric prison.

Lagan College in Belfast, a school planned for the integration of protestants and Roman Catholics.

Cameras follow shock troops of anti-hunt demonstrators disrupting hunt.

Fifty years ago cricket was riven by an acrimonious feud. The cause of the furore was the determination of England's Captain, Douglas Jardine , to regain the Ashes at any cost. Against Australia's ' run machine ' Don Bradman and the rest of the team Jardine unleashed Harold Larwood , one of the fastest bowlers the world has ever seen. As Larwood scythed through the demoralised Australians' batting there were howls of anguish from cricket lovers, who branded it ' unsportsmanlike '. The story of that explosive tour is told by some of the men who played through cricket's darkest hour, and the man whose bowling changed the ethics of international cricket for ever, the former Notts miner - Harold Larwood.

A Bauhaus live show which was part of the 1980 - In The Flat Field tour in the UK. It takes place in the University of London.

This is the first of a series of four themed programmes made by Yorkshire Television that aired in 1987 about life on the Manor Estate of council housing in Sheffield, consisting of events on the Estate and interviews with, mostly unidentified, residents. This one focuses on interviews with residents about living on the Estate. It relates how the residents feel about living on the Estate, the rundown conditions and poor housing, the changes, or lack of, that the Estate has seen, and the unemployment and demoralisation of those living there.

Absurd animation on the pastry cook's wife who pampers a burglar.

Describes continuing opposition by local people to government plans to build a motorway alongside Archway Road in North London, including an analysis of the profit-based motives for the scheme, an expose of the tactics of the pro-motorway lobby and a mass march by people in the community. Credit's acknowledgement to the people of Hackney, Islington, Holloway, Archway and Finchley and the facilities of the London Film-Makers Co-op.

Explores a holiday camp in Minster, on the Isle of Sheppey, specifically designed for the disabled, and highlights two particular guests: one an elderly lady, and the other a young man of eighteen.

Documentary about Sandy Kidd, who claimed to have a gyroscopic device which will one day propel flying saucers across the galaxy.

A British Transport internal training film. Training for Overhead Power Supply (TOPS).

British Transport film.

Low budget amateur horror film, made in 1982, produced and directed by Gordon Louch.