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Gilbert & George are renowned for presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures,’ fusing their art and identity with the external world....

About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different...

Documentary about the composer Elizabeth Maconchy, filmed during the rehearsal of a new composition

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek...

A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.

As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks while strange lodgers descend upon the dark corners of the inn.

Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt...

A brief look at the life of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.

Oscar Wilde’s famous and eloquent defence of love – made while he was being cross-examined at the trial that led to his incarceration and...

Toulouse-Lautrec's sketchbooks are turned into an animated short.

A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, "minimal" music. The program explores how Reich's music eventually became...

From the idea that glass, even when cooled, is a liquid that changes in appearance over time, an offscreen narrator launches a recollection of the...

Early 90s London gets a vibrant dose of African culture in this mini odyssey fusing dance, music and fashion.

“London artist John Smith uses light-hearted humour to explore theoretical concerns - Gargantuan, for instance, is both pleasantly silly and...

Assesses the contribution made by British avant-garde composer, Cornelius Cardew, to contemporary music. Includes interviews with Stockhausen and...

Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.

Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.

Documentary on advertising. Investigates the way work has disappeared from advertising images, and traces the phenomenon through archive advertising...

The London Contemporary Dance Theatre perform a fantasy set in the city’s underground system. A boy meets the girl of his dreams, and their...

An engaging and enlightening documentary about Jeff Keen shown on Channel 4 in 1983. Features Keen performing in front of his film projections as...