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  • 2007
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    The Rock Tours Around Great Britain, 2006-2007

    The Rock Tours Around Great Britain, 2006-2007

    1 2007 HD

    The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that involved a walking circumambulation of Great Britain...

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  • 1998
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    The Woodlanders

    The Woodlanders

    5.14 1998 HD

    The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after...

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  • 1999
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    Prometheus

    Prometheus

    5.60 1999 HD

    Tony Harrison's poetic essay on the working class - in particular the British miners -, its struggles, its dreams and its icononography - at the very...

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  • 2017
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    I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow

    I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow

    1 2017 HD

    “I don’t want to feel like it’s only me. I know it’s not only me, because there are others out there…” ‘I...

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  • 1995
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    Cremaster 4

    Cremaster 4

    6.00 1995 HD

    CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward...

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  • 2015
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    Tin

    Tin

    1 2015 HD

    Cornwall 1895: a blatant swindle by the local bank threatens the life of a remote mining village. The fate of its whole community hangs on the...

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  • 1996
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    Gallivant

    Gallivant

    7.22 1996 HD

    Part home movie, part road movie, Kötting's riveting and eccentric film stars his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys - opinionated, bursting with...

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  • 2009
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    The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

    The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

    1 2009 HD

    Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the...

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  • 2004
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    Aspect

    Aspect

    1 2004 HD

    Across the surface of the forest, light, colour, shadow shift; rhythmic, kaleidoscopic. Matter and the immaterial in constant counteraction. The...

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  • 2002
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    Dad's Dead

    Dad's Dead

    5.80 2002 HD

    Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno. Well known for being a showman and a keen one...

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  • 1995
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    Heliocentrum

    Heliocentrum

    1 1995 HD

    Political documentary meets baroque rave video in this computer animated portrayal of Louis XIV and his pleasure palace at Versailles. Courtiers...

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  • 1998
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    Surviving Sabu

    Surviving Sabu

    5.40 1998 HD

    The difficult relationship between a young gay South Asian man and his father, refracted through images of the late film star Sabu of Jungle Book and...

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  • 2005
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    Block

    Block

    1 2005 HD

    Day through night Block is a portrait of a 1960s London tower block, its interior and exterior spaces explored and revealed, patterns of activity...

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  • 1999
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    A Kind of Hush

    A Kind of Hush

    1 1999 HD

    Six teens who were traumatized by child abuse early in their lives come together to form a gang that ultimately plots revenge against the ones who...

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  • 1986
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    The Dream Machine

    The Dream Machine

    4.40 1986 HD

    A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke...

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  • 2018
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    Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    1 2018 HD

    Written more than 100 years ago, Heart of Darkness is a tale of lies and brutal greed and of the dark heart which beats within us all. Now re-sited...

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  • 1991
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    Mile End Purgatorio

    Mile End Purgatorio

    6.00 1991 HD

    Mile End Purgatorio is Guy Sherwin and Martin Doyle’s one minute hymn to the London road via its shop signs. A heady rapid-fire brew of Dante,...

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  • 1996
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    Blight

    Blight

    6.40 1996 HD

    A short film featuring the voices of those affected when the M11 Link Road in East London was built, accompanied by scenes and sounds of demolition.

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  • 1995
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    Hermaphrodite Bikini

    Hermaphrodite Bikini

    1 1995 HD

    Director Clio Barnard, using Harry and Paintbox techniques, intercut with a Hi-8 video diary, presents a non-narrative collage addressing sexual...

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  • 2008
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    Cobra Mist

    Cobra Mist

    10.00 2008 HD

    Construed in the time of running clouds, a panoramic and another examination of vacant buildings on the British shore (Orford Ness), a deserted place...

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