Harry Watt / Basil Wright - Night Mail
Night Mail (1936) remains one of the most popular and instantly recognised films in British film history, and was one of the most critically acclaimed films to ..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD833
Artist: Harry Watt / Basil Wright
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Classics, Documentary.
Various Artists - Roll out the Barrel
Roll Out the Barrel: the British pub on film is a unique and fascinating collection of 20 films, made between 1944 and 1982. From wartime documentaries intended..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIDV937
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Atmospheric, Compilations, Documentary, UK.
Hans Richter - Dreams That Money Can Buy
Hans Richter – Dadaist, painter, film theorist and filmmaker – was for four decades one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD659
Artist: Hans Richter
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Classics, Cult, Dada, Experimental, Pioneers, Surrealism.
Gerd Kroske - La Villette
Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists, including Jürg..(read more)
Label: DEFA
Artist: Gerd Kroske
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Art, Documentary, Eastern Europe, History.
Wilhelm Hein / Birgit Hein - Materialfilme
For their 35mm Materialfilme (1976), the Heins randomly spliced together a mix of color and black and white material taken from the header and footer of commerc..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / 54
Artist: Wilhelm Hein / Birgit Hein
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Abstract Cinema, Avant-Garde, Experimental, Found Footage.
Evgenii Bauer - Mad Love
It was only in the dying days of the Soviet regime that the work of the Russian film pioneer Evgenii Bauer was rediscovered and celebrated. Before a prema..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD515
Artist: Evgenii Bauer
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Classics, Pioneers, Russia.
Joke Olthaar - Hier is Harry Merry
Very enjoyable and endearing, this portrait of the eccentric, one-of-a-kind musician/songwriter Harry Merry.The film follows Harry between stages in Europe and ..(read more)
Label: AS Film
Artist: Joke Olthaar
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: 1-of-a-Kinds, Documentary, Eccentrics, Songwriters.
Jonas Mekas - Jonas Mekas
On the occasion of Jonas Mekas' complete film retrospective at the Pompidou Center in Paris in December 2012 -January 2013, and the BFI retrospective and t..(read more)
Label: Re:voir
Artist: Jonas Mekas
Medium: DVD Box
Category: Films.
Tags: Arthouse, Avant-Garde, Classics, Cult, Documentary, Experimental, Pioneers.
Paul Sharits - Mandala Films
In the mid-1960s, Paul Sharits developed an abstract cinema in radical opposition to the pictorial tradition. His works taken together propose a reflection on t..(read more)
Label: Re:voir / EDV 519
Artist: Paul Sharits
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: '60s, Abstract Cinema, Cinema, Experimental, Psychedelic.
