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A studio discussion which looks at the push for gay marriage, or domestic partnership laws, in Britain, the USA, and Denmark. Would such laws be a truly radical initiative, or a complete sellout to the notion of equality with heterosexuals?
UK road safety advert showing the effects of passengers not wearing seatbelts.
This short documentary examines multiple facets of Nigeria’s cultural attitudes towards pregnancy, women’s productive options, and the familial structure.
Johnathan Watson live
Recorded live at The Lyric Theatre in London featuring levitation, a rare live appearance by Stouffer The Cat and an actual Badger Parade live! Also a full supporting film: The Boy With The Big Face.
Normal behaviour will resume after the break—but what’s normal when you split up with someone?
The following group of films highlights the major environmental problems facing our planet today. In particular they focus on waste, pollution and energy use.
A tale of an HIV positive young man, his lover who died from AIDS and axolotls- the larval stage of a species of salamander which give birth and die while still physically immature.
Rod Ferrell the leader of a vampire cult in the bible town of Murray Kentucky drove to Florida where he brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend's parents. The film explores the impact of his actions on the friends he left behind and the community of Murray Kentucky. There is also a death row interview with Rod Ferrell who explains his actions.
Love turns into jealousy as a man's obsession becomes too much.
Camping out by a disused tunnel. Kirsty winds Jamie up with horror stories about the mysterious hunter Johnny. A nasty shock lies in wait for both of them when Kirsty lures Jamie into the tunnel to look for the bodies of Johnny’s victims.
The directorial debut of filmmaker Paul Williams.
A contemporary, Faustian romantic drama with a sinister twist. The glamorous Lauren meets her ex lover, a struggling artist, in Docker's greasy-spoon café the night before she is to marry a rich man. When the Tall Man arrives we realize the price she has had to pay for her new life.
The Metropolitan main line is now the exclusive domain of S8 stock trains introduced between 2010 and 2012. The iconic “A” stock trains plied the route for over 50 years, firstly in unpainted aluminium finish and later in refurbished blue, red and white Underground colours. Filmed in 1995, here you can see both incarnations of the A stock at work – a tastefully refurbished train running on the main line, with unpainted stock (with the inevitable graffiti) running on the branches.
An environmental morality tale. A divine gate gives one all that one desires, on the condition that one takes only what one needs and one gives something good in return.
Exploring the 'Madchester' music phenomena of the late '80s and early '90s. The band Northside appears in interview, rehearsal, live in concert and even at work; Central Station Design in their studio creating something out of a pane of glass and loads of ephemera; Happy Mondays in Amsterdam; 808 State; and MC Tunes. Aired as part of Granada Television's Celebration arts strand.
Follow the final tour of impressario Ward Hall, the 'Ziegfield of the Cornfield', who has been bringing the strange and bizarre to middle America for the last 50 years.
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko. Performed by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company during the 1992 Anniversary Tour at the Buxton Opera House.
Second in a series of films based on the poetry of Brian Patten.
“Now I am happy, I am very well... I am cooking.” Six years after Jane Gabriel made the documentary “Island Οf Outcasts” revealing the inhuman conditions in the adult asylum on Leros, she returned to meet some of the men who had been kept naked in block 16 for decades, and women who had lived in filthy conditions. Now living freely with support in the community they talk about their new lives. This film records how Leros was transformed for both the ex-inmates and the staff - from being an island of incarceration and misery, into an island of liberty.
A 30 minute documentary, made by BBC East in 1990: it was never broadcast at the time, for reasons which are currently unknown. The documentary follows John in his day to day life with his family, as well as documenting his career as a DJ. It also shows him attending a gig from Ipswich band Extreme Noise Terror.
Created through a process of close collaboration between director, performer and crew, this thoroughly eccentric and stylistically original film does not attempt to narrate a dream, though it exploits the same kind of mechanisms that dreams utilise.
End of Restriction enters into the claustrophobic world of a teenage boy growing up in an English village. The film follows the boy’s cycle journey, on which we discover, through his eyes, the general decay and conservative nature of the village.
A look at the last days of James Ferman's rule as Chief Censor of the British Board of Film Classification.
Away from the cameras, Tom can be both reclusive and elusive and finding out about the man behind the myth can prove extremely difficult. Until now! In this unique production, ten years after he left the show, Tom agreed to give us his view of tom Baker. Shot on location in and around his home and filled with Tom’s views on Doctor Who, life and (more importantly) death, it could be called an autobiography, but it’s a whole lot more than that!
It begins with cheers but almost always ends in tears. Yet, as the election looms, competition for the top job grows ever more intense. Why? The hours are terrible, money so-so, job security non-existent. On the plus side, there's free accommodation in central London and probably more power over your country than any other leader in the western world. With the help of the present and previous incumbents, Michael Cockerell offers the first "how to" guide to the job of prime minister.
Jeffrey Dahmer was indicted on 17 murder charges, later reduced to 15. Dahmer was not charged in the attempted murder of Edwards. His trial began on January 30, 1992. With evidence overwhelmingly against him, Dahmer pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The trial lasted two weeks. The court found Dahmer sane and guilty on 15 counts of murder and sentenced him to 15 life terms, totaling 957 years in prison. At his sentencing hearing, Dahmer expressed remorse for his actions, and said that he wished for his own death.
A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.
On 16 February 1983, Divine performs a seven-song set at the Hacienda Club in Manchester. His peroxide blond hair sticks in all directions; he's dressed in a skin-tight, short, off-one-shoulder, sparkling dress that he says he got from the Queen, who wouldn't wear it. The set includes Gang Bang (the name-game song), Jungle Jezebel, Born To Be Cheap, Alphabet Rap, Native Love, Shake It Up, and, for an encore, Shoot Your Shot. The band, whom we never see, is techno-rock. Between songs, Divine chats up the audience, usually talking about sex.
In 1993 a trio of Bradford taxi drivers, Fazal, Patrick, and Azad, decide to buy three used Transit vans in Britain and drive them overland all the way to northern Pakistan. Their plan is to sell the vehicles on arrival at a nice profit, and then to celebrate the Eid Muslim festival with their extended families. A quirky and often comical film, the “Punjab Road Runners”, charts their stumbling passage through Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia
The Artwar face peers through painted celluloid and a barrage of explosions and film noise.
An animated short film by Phil Mulloy.
Michael Cockerell talks to all of the surviving people to hold the post of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs including the current incumbent, and invites the viewer to imagine their life in the position.
Short film about a young girl's rude retaliation for paternal humiliation. In voice over a young woman tells a subversive tale which interweaves suburban kitsch with childhood defiance. The film focuses its point of view on a child's gaze which interacts with the recounted story producing a sense of irony and challenging the truthfulness of the interpretation of events.
Hirst and Fairhust recount grisly tales of death while dressed up as circus clowns, chain-smoking and spraying one another with silly string.
Monkey Puss (Live in London) is a live video by Swedish band Entombed recorded during the 92' Gods of Grind tour in London. It was released in 1999 on Earache Records. Originally it was released on VHS cassette, it was later re-released in 2001 on DVD. The VHS and DVD version contain five additional promo/non-live videos: Left Hand Path, Stranger Aeons, Hollowman, Wolverine Blues and Night of the Vampire. // TRACKS: 01. Left Hand Path (Video Clip) 02. Stranger Aeons (Video Clip) 03. Hollowman (Video Clip) 04. Wolverine Blues (Video Clip) 05. Night of the Vampire (Video Clip) 06. Living Dead 07. Revel in Flesh 08. Stranger Aeons 09. Crawl 10. But Life Goes On 11. Sinners Bleed 12. Evilyn 13. The Truth Beyond 14. Drowned 15. Left Hand Path
The cameras follow the original cast from the early rehearsals right up to the live performance.
Dr Danforth Artie Bookout leads his team of intrepid Texans to search for an aircraft and the body of Weyland Bennett , "a home-town boy", missing in action 50 years ago. Deep in the bush sits Chief Jean Marc waiting for his Texan pay packet to lumber into view. And two days' walk behind the Texan strides a local explorer who knows the secrets of Dr Dan's past.
14 of Europe's hottest guys play around and have fun in the hottest and most erotic solo scenes ever filmed! It features sensual and even more beautiful new footage than ever before in a Bel Ami-cast video. There's no doubt about it, Bel Ami's reputation for casting the most beautiful young men for our videos remains unmatched. He roams his native Slovakia and neighboring Hungary and Czechoslovakia, finding amazing talent such as world-famous beauties Stephan Andersen and the spectacular Johan Paulik.
Documentary which follows three gangs of migrant Irish street workers as they tunnel beneath the streets of London to lay pipes.
A father and son set up a firm of bailiffs to seize the property of poll-tax dodgers.
A dead horse infects two men with a disease that turns them into overacting, poorly made up zombies. As they carry on defecating and vomiting on each other they contaminate a field of yeast, giving two Nazi-wannabes the idea of buying the infected field, selling the yeast in home wine-brewing kits and destroying the rest of humanity by spreading the infection.
1990 BBCTV documentary on the life of the late celebrated folk singer, playwright and political activist
An immersive look at the free-range children who take charge of their lives at the highly influential experimental school. An insight into the unorthodox Suffolk boarding school where lessons are optional, swearing is common, and it's the pupils who decide the rules. Summerhill, the first and last bastion of totally permissive, anti-authoritarian, free education, has been going strong for over seven decades. This program from 1992 shows how Summerhill children, left entirely to their own devices, behave; it looks at whether they spurn or take advantage of the academic education offered; whether a tribunal can be effective when the vote of a five-year-old carries as much weight as that of the headmistress.
This exhibition is a unique opportunity to see ‘frame by frame’ into the world of director / animator Kayla Parker. Her films have been shown on Channel 4’s Four-Mations and The Dazzling Image series, on ITV and on BBC2’s The Late Show, as well as in many festivals and exhibitions worldwide. The exhibition includes artwork from Sunset Strip and features video installation, animation drawings, props and photographs from recent films.
Peter Righton, once a respected child protection expert and social care worker, fell from grace when customs discovered illegal material being mailed to him from Europe. This led to the revelation that he was a founding member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). Further investigations uncovered that he had abused children at a boarding school. Shockingly, Righton confessed to past abuses to his child protection colleagues, but they failed to act on this information out of loyalty to him.
An enchanting story of two teddies who magically come to life when their human "Huggy Friends" go to sleep, Once 'awake', Max and Mimms make their way to the children's toy box which, when opened, reveals a magical staircase to a world full of Nursery Rhymes and adorable teddy bear characters.
Handel is a thoroughly 'modern' composer whose genius for expressing human emotions is undimmed by time. This performance-based film, A Night with Handel, stylishly dramatises some of the composer's most beautiful arias, linked together over the course of one night in present-day London. Presented by Handel biographer, Jonathan Keates, the arias are specially recorded by world-class singers, accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
An elaborate gay dinner party with good food, good wine, and good conversation.
In Backcomb the demonic is unleashed on domestic space. It takes the form of two of femininity’s mildest tokens, hair and embroidery, that serve here in the creation of a sexualised surrealist experience. Within the claustrophobic space of a table-lay, a forceful and erectile mass of hair comes alive and slithers across its surface. The hair probes into vessels and punches through the cloth till finally order overturns and all smashes to the ground.
Swollen Stigma nourishes the fantasy of its protagonist’s inner life and proposes a lesbian imaginary which takes leap into risk and displacement. The film opens with an entranced seated woman working her fingers through a single strand of hair and proceeds to explore her lived imaginary in which desire and fear interlace. She re-visions different moments in time which are haunted by an absent lover. Like a playful fairy princess, this lover appears upside down in an armchair, hanging legs-down from the ceiling, playing dead on the floor, or eating roses; her body continuously permeates the woman’s reality. The film’s shifting points of view jump between the protagonist, fantasy spaces and her lover, making an internal world leak into what is external with the fluidity of blood into water.
A retrospective of the season.
Tan ar y Comin ("Fire on the Common") is a Welsh language film based on the novel by T Llew Jones. It follows the life of Tim Boswel, a young traveller who's life is takes a turn after his grandfather dies.
Gwen and Finbar leave a late-night party in search of a loaf of bread. On their journey through the dark and dangerous streets of Belfast, they meet an array of suspicious and neurotic characters who are either sad, amusing, or very dubious. In the end, as well as finding a pan loaf, Gwen and Finbar discover the sustenance of life.
A wry look at the effects of sexual repression on lesbian and gays in former Czechoslovakia. After the Revolution explores the impact of the new gay movement, combining personal accounts and rarely seen propaganda film. After 40 years of totalitarian silence about sexuality, lesbian, gay and transsexual contributors reveal how they reacted to exclusion from communist norms of heterosexuality and parenthood, including in the case of some women, by changing sex.
Following on from the other documentaries 'The Hartnell Years' and 'The Troughton Years', which showcased rare surviving episodes from incomplete stories. There are no missing Pertwee episodes, so instead, using a similar format with interviews and clips, Jon Pertwee introduces full episodes from his favourite stories - "Inferno" (episode 7), "The Frontier in Space" (final episode) and Pertwee's personal favourite, the final episode of "The Daemons".
An an in-depth look at the creation of Paul McCartney's new symphonic work, from the very beginnings of the piece through to the world premiere performance at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 14 October 1997.
Julius Caesar turned military victories into political power. His ambition created a colossal empire, and he gave his name to the rulers who succeeded him. From his strategic brilliance to the Ides of March this documentary examines the legendary ruler whose genius and determination forged an empire that would stand for centuries.