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.
Geoffrey Jones - The Rhythm of Film
Geoffrey Jones is best known as the director of three seminal films for British Transport Films; Snow (1963), which was nominated for an Oscar, Rail (1967) and ..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD548
Artist: Geoffrey Jones
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, Avant-Garde, Experimental, 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.
Derek Jarman - Wittgenstein
Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once stated that philosophy ought to be written as if it were poetry, and a poetic intensity typified his life and his work. No ..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / 725
Artist: Derek Jarman
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Arthouse, Cinema, Gay Cinema, Queer Culture, UK.
Veryan Weston - Tessellations for Lutheal Piano
A concert performance using a very rare Luthéal piano, playing a sequence of 52 closely linked pentatonic scales. “Visual interlocking symmetries and geo..(read more)
Label: Emanem / 4095
Artist: Veryan Weston
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Piano, UK.
Various Artists - Commercially Unfriendly
The Best of the British Underground 1983-1989′. Dedicated to John Peel, with many of his favourites: The Fall, The Nightingales, The Membranes, The Nosefl..(read more)
Label: Gott Discs / gott 029
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: New Wave and Post-Punk, UK.
