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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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  • 2019
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    TEETH

    TEETH

    5.00 2019 HD

    An eager couple, Charlotte and Myles, are interrogated by two Home Office agents about their spousal visa application. They endure a series of...

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  • 2017
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    More Utopias Now!

    More Utopias Now!

    1 2017 HD

    2016 marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia. His pioneering account of an ideal society (the original meaning of the word utopia...

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  • 1996
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    Remember Me

    Remember Me

    5.00 1996 HD

    Remember Me is a dark, obsessive and emotive treatise on death. Its aim is to explore the intimate, personal and often secret relationships that...

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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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    The Directors: Marcus

    The Directors: Marcus

    1 2002 HD

    The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis....

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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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  • 1996
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    White Light

    White Light

    1 1996 HD

    White Light consists of extreme close-up shots of chrome bath taps and their reflections, including the camera lens, which becomes its own subject,...

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  • 2023
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    Moving in Time

    Moving in Time

    1 2023 HD

    A partnership between Matthew Bourne's New Adventures and Magic Me, the UK's leading intergenerational arts charity, Moving in Time is a heartwarming...

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  • 1999
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    Little Dark Poet

    Little Dark Poet

    7.00 1999 HD

    A poet, inverting the cliche of the starved artist in the garret, and immediately begins to compose. He has nobly romantic intentions, and begins...

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  • 1982
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    Eugene Atget: Photographer

    Eugene Atget: Photographer

    1 1982 HD

    Meet France’s mysterious master of photography, neglected in his own lifetime but since feted for helping position the medium as an art form,...

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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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  • 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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  • 2013
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    Magic Mirror

    Magic Mirror

    1 2013 HD

    Magic Mirror combines a re-staging of the French Surrealist artist Claude Cahun’s black and white photographs with selected extracts from her...

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  • 2004
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    Doubled Up

    Doubled Up

    1 2004 HD

    Sam Moore's Doubled Up tells of the shock and awe of finding out she was expecting twins. The film is an opulent and multi-faceted song of love,...

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  • 2022
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    Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time

    Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time

    1 2022 HD

    A new film made from more than a hundred fragments of archive film, Echoes of the North transports you back to Northern England a century ago, taking...

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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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  • 2017
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    Relic 1

    Relic 1

    1 2017 HD

    The second film in the series, 'Relic 1' forms part of Larry Achiampong's Relic Traveller: Phase 1, a multi-disciplinary project manifesting in...

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  • 1995
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    Cedar Wood & Silk

    Cedar Wood & Silk

    1 1995 HD

    Differing opinions about fashion spark a vibrant, insightful exploration of the tender relationship between a Jamaican mother and her British-born...

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  • 1994
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    I'm Not Here

    I'm Not Here

    1 1994 HD

    In January 1970 the actor Sir Alec Guinness wrote a letter to The Times complaining about the lack of attention shop assistants gave to customers....

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