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  • 1999
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    Regression

    Regression

    1 1999 HD

    A portrait of the artist as a not so young man. The film-maker attempts to enter the digital age by making a new video version of his 1978 film 7P.

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  • 1995
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    Night Dances

    Night Dances

    7.00 1995 HD

    "Night Dances is for my mother, who died whilst helping me to make this piano musical. The Dance of Death is bound to life - Lechaim - as we whirl...

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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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  • 2019
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    Divided We Scroll

    Divided We Scroll

    1 2019 HD

    'Divided We Scroll' is an eerie depiction of our intimate relationships with technology.

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  • 1997
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    Peggy Su!

    Peggy Su!

    6.00 1997 HD

    Peggy wants to be married.......

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  • 2008
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    Trail of the Spider

    Trail of the Spider

    9.50 2008 HD

    Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or...

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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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  • 1992
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    We the Ragamuffin

    We the Ragamuffin

    1 1992 HD

    Julian Henriques' urban musical showcases the style, vernacular and vibrancy of British Caribbean Dancehall culture. Filled with undeniable style,...

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  • 1997
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    Diary of a Madman

    Diary of a Madman

    1 1997 HD

    An update of Gogol's comic story about a man who thinks the way to his boss's heart is by sending letters to her dog. Starring Steve Evets, Yasmin...

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  • 2019
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    This Camera is Broken

    This Camera is Broken

    1 2019 HD

    An ageing director is making her final film: one delving into her past. Face to face with the embodiment of her younger self, the line between her...

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  • 2002
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    The Old Fools

    The Old Fools

    1 2002 HD

    A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our demise, based on Philip Larkin’s poem of the same name.

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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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  • 1994
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    Jumping Joan

    Jumping Joan

    1 1994 HD

    With the dark resonance of the nursery rhyme from which it is drawn, this river story probes isolation and imagination, all painted directly onto...

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  • 1995
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    The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity

    The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity

    6.40 1995 HD

    A father and son rescue the sole survivor of a train crash.

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  • 1988
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    Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara

    Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara

    10.00 1988 HD

    In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and filmed him tracing with his feet, or constructing...

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  • 2012
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    Where is the Fish that Never Swam?

    Where is the Fish that Never Swam?

    1 2012 HD

    The film revolves a supposedly pivotal moment in Brown's life – his decision to quit accountancy in 1950s Glasgow for comedy after the death of...

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  • 2016
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    Confessions to the Mirror

    Confessions to the Mirror

    1 2016 HD

    A sumptuous and passionate reimagining of Claude Cahun's life.

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  • 2009
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    For Cultural Purposes Only

    For Cultural Purposes Only

    1 2009 HD

    The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian people. It was lost in the Israeli siege...

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  • 1999
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    Vanished! A Video Seance

    Vanished! A Video Seance

    1 1999 HD

    Vanished! A Video Seance is a true story. In 1932 elderly parents and their young daughter came to live in isolation on a windswept hill on the west...

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  • 1987
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    Dungeness

    Dungeness

    1 1987 HD

    ‘Dungeness’ was originally made for ‘Dungeness: The Desert in the Garden’, a multi-media theatre production directed by...

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