Eddie Prévost | Sebastian Lexer | Seymour Wright - Impossibility in its Purest Form
In 1999, percussionist Eddie Prévost began convening an improvisation workshop in London. From its earliest days the pianist Sebastian Lexer and saxophonist Se..(read more)
Label: Matchless / MRCD82
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Improvisation, Modern Jazz, UK.
Central Office of Information - Design For Today
Established in 1946, the Central Office of Information (COI) was a successor to the wartime Ministry of Information and was responsible for producing thousands ..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD855
Artist: Central Office of Information
Medium: 2DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Design, History, UK.
Kim Newman - Flipside: Kim Newman’s Guide to the Flipside of British Cinema
In an all-new documentary, produced exclusively for the BFI, the UK’s most knowledgeable and well-respected cult film critic, Kim Newman, explores such qu..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD878
Artist: Kim Newman
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Cinema, Documentary, UK.
Flaming Tunes - Flaming Tunes
aka Gareth Williams (of This Heat) and Mary Currie, in the early 1980s; music with a different mood and texture to the uncompromising This Heat recordings
Label: Life And Living Records / LALR 06
Artist: Flaming Tunes
Medium: CD
Categories: Records & Tapes, Second Hand.
Tags: '80s, Avant-Rock, Post-Punk, UK.
Terence Davies - Terence Davies Trilogy
In stark black and white,
Davies excavates the life of his fictional alter ego, Robert Tucker, in
a narrative that slips between childhood, middle age and death..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD752
Artist: Terence Davies
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Cinema, Classics, UK.
Isaac Julien - Derek
Derek is a remembrance of one of Britains most important independent filmmakers.The revealing and frank interview at the core of the film is embroidered with a ..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD797
Artist: Isaac Julien
Medium: 2DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Documentary, Portrait, Queer Culture, UK.
Eddie Prevost - No Sound Is Innocent
In this volume Eddie Prevost, the drummer and founder member of AMM, unravels the reasons behind the formation of the improvising group, the influences and refu..(read more)
Publisher: Copula / Matchless / ISBN 0-9525492-0-4
Author: Eddie Prevost
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Free Improvisation, Music Theory, Politics, UK.
Various Artists - Shoot Shoot Shoot
First time that works from this period in British artists’ filmmaking are made available on DVD. An important organisation in England was the artist-led Londo..(read more)
Label: Re:voir / 519
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, '70s, Pioneers, UK.
Peter Whitehead - Peter Whitehead and the Sixties
Compilation of Wholly Communion (1965) and Benefit of the Doubt (1967),
coupled with a new interview with Peter and additional rare footage.
With over three hou..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / 750
Artist: Peter Whitehead
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, Compilations, Poetry, UK.
