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“I am interested in this possibility, or responsability, of enacting your ideologies, and how that can happen in a way that’s fictitious. When you summon up material reality in your language, why does that always take on this fictitious dimension?” – EW.
On the 20th of March 1992, Jon Pertwee, veteran star of The Navy Lark, Dr Who and Worzel Gummidge, spoke candidly to Liam-Michael Rudden about his life in show-business. The in-depth interview covered his entire career, from his first-ever job to his hopes for the future. Seventy three years young at the time of filming, Jon allowed Archangel Media to tail him for what turned out to be a very energetic day in his life. They follow Jon as he arrives at his Edinburgh Hotel, attends a press call, enjoys a buffet lunch and meets with his fans at a signing session at a Virgin Megastore. The documentary also Includes the footage from 1999 release featuring Richard Franklin who played Captain Yates alongside Pertwee in Doctor Who.
A documentary on the life and writings of Saunders Lewis.
What has happened to "Essex man" in the 90s? The product of Margaret Thatcher 's economic policies of the 1980s, Martin Smith and his girlfriend Mandy epitomise many young people whose champagne lifestyle has suffered in the recession-hit 1990s. Encouraged to believe that when you saw the chance you should grab it, he had become a second-hand car dealer and she had set up as a mobile hairdresser. The 1980s were good for them, but what of the nouveaux riches now? This film finds out what happened to one "Essex man" and his girlfriend and how they feel about the country now.
Using family photographs, films, newspaper articles, news footage and interviews - Looking for Mr. Rogers, a three screen documentary charts the history of Castlemilk, one of Glasgow's satellite housing schemes, built to relieve the problems of the city's overcrowded slums.
Nick Broomfield tries to interview Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the sinister neo-nazi AWB Afrikaner Party in South Africa. Cameras capture awkward interactions with skittish AWB supporters, combat training of militant youth, and the coveted interview itself. Broomfield's access to these events is made possible by the leader's driver, whose wavering allegiance to the movement is explored as well.
Welcome to the official review of Liverpool's 1990/91 season....and what a year it was! A season of great goals, dramatic action, management changes, and sustaining individual and team performances. This 90-minute video captures the full story of Liverpool's eventful 1990/91 season and features action from every Liverpool's League game (home and away) as well as thrilling coverage of Liverpool's dramatic Rumbelows League Cup and F.A. Cup runs
Two Catalonian women are travelling through Cornwall in 1611, in the company of an Englishman and find themselves forced by bad weather to take shelter in a small farmhouse. The evening promises to be a difficult one due to the lack of any common language, culture or background. However, when they discover a rare spice from their homeland being used by the Cornish woman in the preparation of buns, the conversation begins to warm up.
Blue Boys is a hard-news documentary which questions operations by the Police and Customs to smash so-called 'gay sex rings'. By talking to academic experts in the gay professions, and gay men who have come up against the law (including those convicted as part of the notorious 1990 sado-maochist 'Spanner' trial), the programme describes how the policing of pornography is fed by common prejudices against gay men and their culture. Blue Boys also looks at the relationships between Christian moral pressure groups, the government, and policing agencies (including the powerful Obscene Publications Squad of New Scotland Yard). It provides new evidence to challenge myths about the volume and violence of today's pornography and the dangers presented by it.
After the Rains is about a woman survivor who builds a flying machine from debris. Her vision is a contemporary myth on environmental destruction caused by society ignoring the consequences of its actions. The global effects of Climate Change show that After the Rains is just as relevant now.
The invisible becomes visible. Every room has a spirit which sleeps beneath the layers of peeling paint and wallpaper. Spirit of Place observes the awakening of such a spirit, coerced into life by moonlight to reveal sumptuous velvets, decaying gilt, and an assemblage of neo-Gothic objects d‘art – a ghostly reflection of its past. In one long, carefully choreographed sequence, pictures animate and a message is disclosed as the motion control camera passes on its programmed course.
The story of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists' Mission (1841-1969) to the Khasi Hills in north-east India, written and presented by Welsh poet Nigel Jenkins.
Ray Mears' World of Survival, is a cult survival documentary miniseries. In World of Survival, Ray demonstrates his wilderness skills and is taught new skills in every episode.
A drama/dance adaptation of a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. By drawing on elements of African culture, it tells of a spiritual journey of an African woman taken in captivity to the Caribbean, her experiences as a slave, and how she survives being uprooted from her native land. Dramatised sequences are interspersed with Grace Nichol's comments about her poems, placed in the context of Afro-Caribbean history.
Channel 4 Equinox documentary about the mystery of crop circles, broadcast shortly before Dave Chorley and Doug Bower revealed themselves to have started the craze.
A study of artist Andy Goldsworthy’s work in Scotland and Japan.
What goes around comes around: the daily cycle of home-work-home illuminated in collage, Hi-8 and paint. Layered and luminous with in-sight. An account of a journey from home to work as seen through the filter of the conscious and subconscious mind. Through the use of moving collages and painterly animation laid over Hi-8 footage, the viewer is able to share the traveller’s experiences and his mental reactions to the trials and triviality of urban existence. An animated account of a two mile journey made from home to work on foot. Hi-8 video footage digitized and printed out using an inkjet printer is combined with drawings, text and paint. A subjective representation of how visual information is filtered and processed by the conscious and subconscious mind. We share the traveller’s experiences: his idle thoughts and repetitive neuroses and see his mental reactions to the trials and triviality of daily life.
A film exploring the daydreams of a young Victorian girl.
Two figures attempt to capsize a semi circle.
A beautifully-shot documentary film on the life of the composer. With footage of the young Tavener as pianist and organist, performances of his music, and contributions from family, friends and experts.
"Cape Verde is an archipelago situated 500km off the West Coast of Africa. On the island of Santiago lives Mano Mendi, the last player of the cimboa, a one-string violin used to accompany the traditional batuque music. Through the portrait of Mano Mendi and the learning experience of To, a music teacher in the capital city of Praia, the film shows us how this music is rooted in the rhythms of everyday life."
A special edition of the BBC show 'Later with Jools Holland' featuring the Mancunian popsters M People. Backed by Jools, a mini orchestra and a Gospel choir, they perform a string of their best known songs in front of a specially invited audience. Tracks include 'One Night in Heaven', 'Movin' On Up' and 'Angel Street'.
Johnathan Watson live
Drug use among children under 14 is increasing at an alarming rate. DISPATCHES' research shows that drug use among pre-teenage and young teenage children is not confined to inner city areas, particular ethnic groups or 'problem' schools. This programme focuses on the experiences of Damien (13) and Ranjit (14), both drug addicts, and the problems such young people face since there is very little support for that group after the withdrawal of government funds in April 1993. In 1990 there were 135 drug advisory posts in education. Today there are only 75. Those taking part include various 9 - 14 year-olds who are either users or dealers, Colin Cripps (Newham Youth Awareness project), Rita Funnell (parent of drug-taker), and Chief Supt. David Gilbertson (Notting Hill Police), Yvonne Bailey-Smith (Family Service Units).
The film opens directly and freshly with a screen journey which is also a kinetic light sculpture holding its rotation steadily before our eyes. Many associations emerge as we hear the tale in relation to this image and its shifting background. . . including a bicycle being ridden by the filmmaker, spools and spokes, a feeling of a metal insect or iridescent whirring dragonfly picking up the passing colours. There is a still centre to the radial motion against linear road or landscape. A feeling of cyclical storytelling comes with the account of her own life and giving birth to a ‘computer literate and perfectly bilingual’ baby daughter. We are led to respond to her not being guaranteed to stay in control. Again multiple strands are knotted in this fortune wheel: gain on the swings, lose on roundabouts, with no ‘perfection’ in relations with other beings on the round of merry, or social, or just plain recurring intercourse. -Sandra Lahire
A history of the anglo-saxon gay and lesbian movement scored to the liberating popular tunes of the last 25 years. Moving from the initial struggle for gay law reform, to the revolutionary politics spurned by Stonewall to the homophobic policies initiated under Thatcher and the New Right, this film is a celebration of the achievements and struggles of gay and lesbian activists. Funny, inspiring and bound to get your feet tapping “The Gay Rock and Roll Years” is a great introduction to queer history. Songs featured include Doris Day singing “Secret Love”, The Kinks doing “Lola”, Sylvester singing “You Make Me feel (Mighty Real) and Culture Club asking “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?”. From rockabilly to soul to glam to disco to punk to house: we’re gay, we’re proud, we don’t ever stop the dance.
The setting is an island peatbank, far from any habitation. The time is bright early summer. A man and a woman enter this empty landscape to cut peat for winter fuel. Before the sun goes down they will encounter shadows from the distant past and begin to come to terms with the troubling realities of the present.
Gwen Mallory is an abused wife who is having a secret affair with office manager, Nick Bevan. Nick decides it is time to free Gwen from her painful existence with her husband Vinny, so with the help of his co-worker, Martin (who has a shady past), he hires a hit-man to kill Vinny. By doing this, Nick has set off a chain of events that will totally shatter his world and put he and his lover in mortal danger.
This lesbian re-working of Kenneth Anger's homoerotic classic, is a heady mix of influences from the avant garde to girl gang movies.
A mother and her twins talk about each other. The device of miming each others words, gives a disconcerting twist to the children's cruel honesty and their mother's unconditional adoration.
100ft roll of 16mm film, edited in camera. No negative cutting, no grading, no sound. A day out from London to the coast. As a daily office worker, lunch hours and days out have been important and resonant times and spaces for me. Made with the help of Susi Arnott. World Premiere, International Film Festival Rotterdam 1999.
A story of illusion and disillusionment set in the 70s on a Glasgow housing estate.
The Music of Terezin. During the Second World War, people imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto of Terezin in Czechoslovakia performed theatre, cabaret, concerts and opera. Among these people destined for Auschwitz were four composers: Viktor Ullman , Hans Krasa (Brundibar!), Pavel Haas (Study for Strings in The World on Its Dark Side) and Gideon Klein , all of whom were sent to their deaths by the Nazis. This documentary shot in Terezin, looks at their music.
Stop motion claymation short featuring a family of cavemen.
This animated clip comments on different educational opportunities for boys and girls, and points out the positive impact of making all opportunities available to both sexes.
The Victorian era was one of the most remarkable periods of British history; it saw the Industrial Revolution, the birth of an empire and advances in medicine, transport and education. It was also a time when harsh working conditions and desperate poverty blighted the majority of the population, conjuring images of the orphan boy Oliver Twist. This DVD uses dramatised readings, expert analysis and extensive period imagery to present a view of a time when the British Empire was at its zenith but also when conditions for the vast populace were perhaps at their lowest.
Film based on the poem by Brian Patten.
The Artwar loops were made for non-cinematic exhibition and go from harsh film surface noise to colour bars and other video effects filmed from the TV. These can be watched as individual films or as loops.
Made by the 50 Plus video group for Pilton Video Project, this drama explores the life experiences of people of retirement age, from school days, through the second world war and working lives, and indifference from the authorities when they retire in 1990.
A view from inside the isolation and perceptual distortion of senile dementia.
Bedlam involves an imaginary meeting between two literary characters, Bertha Mason from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway from Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. In Bedlam, Bertha and Antoinette are confined and policed in a place where their experiences have been reduced to types of illness easily disposable in the field of curing.
Unless we put an end to the thoughtless exploitation of our natural resources there will be nothing left for anyone…
Winter bound, a snow queen dreams of love and the blooming of spring. Through frosted rococo cartouches she sings about the virtues of true love accompanied by miniature animated sequences.
After many years in prison a man returns to his town of birth. The memories from his childhood, which culminate in the inexplicable murder of a young girl, are portrayed through flashbacks. The man walks through the town, the same way he walked as a boy…
It's Amanda's birthday and her favorite boy band is playing in town. But how can she declare her love for the singer when she's only ever practiced with her hamster? A story about glamor, heartbreak and hysteria.
Rangers Goals and Outtakes round up some of the very best and more light-hearted Gers moments. There are plenty to relive from huge fans’ favourites including Jorg Albertz, Davie Cooper, Brian Laudrup, Gazza and Ally McCoist. We've some unforgettable goals from over the years too dating back to classic counters from Ralph Brand and Jimmy Millar in the 1960s right up to the present day. But as well as the strikes that saw Rangers clinch 9 in a Row, we've got some side-splitting moments that'll have you doubled over with laughter. With fantastic outtakes, funnies and general mayhem, it can only be 'Rangers Goals and Outtakes'
Jimmy runs a pirate radio station in a small Irish town. But when his broadcasts interfere with air traffic, the authorities send in the heavies.
In the middle of woods inhabited by wolves, an astrologist imagines what it would be like to be a werewolf, running and howling through the woods in a schizophrenic blur instead of sitting in his home watching videos. Then the moon calls to calls to him.
A short film by Gary Goldberger, Lara Hannay, and Peter H. Reynolds.
Short film.
Short by Vera Neubauer.
Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.
Canaries were used by miners to alert them to the presence of poisonous gases underground. If a canary died, they knew the air was bad. This film is about human canaries - some of the first victims of a newly recognised and devastating illness emerging in America. People are being poisoned by some of the 60,000 chemicals in everyday use. A group of chemically ill people have found refuge in unusual homes in the clean air of the small Texan town of Wimberley - with painful and bizarre results.
Chris Robinson apparently collapsed from "exhaustion" after this 'secret' acoustic show at London's famous jazz club, Ronnie Scott's. The group returned to the US, cancelling their pending tour dates. Anyone with even a passing interest in the band or the genre should check this out, as this is one of those truly great moments in Rock & Roll, documenting the period when the band shed the regimented sound of their debut album and settled comfortably into what they really were - a highly proficient and genuine rhythm and blues outfit.
Last of three programmes featuring ordinary people with first-hand accounts of extraordinary incidents.
Safety on the Move campaign short film, in which we learn about Mark (a great bloke).
The 1995 stand up show from the Perrier prize winning comic Sean Hughes.
A Black foster child raised by a White family searches for his identity.