Arts Council Of England Movies

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 his un...

HYPERLINKS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN is narrated by the failed CGI rendering of a recently deceased actor, PHIL, and follows a group of digital beings—rende...

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

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

Reflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture, Ouvertures follows a collective’s process of translating Édouard Glissant’s p...

Readings from the poets Byron, Keats, Brontë, Tennyson, Coleridge and songs from the dark repertoire of the singer Nico with portraits from the films...

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

It's not the bats' fault. Holed up in lockdown, I made a bat-head mask, I made a skeleton. I made a miniature wood by collecting twigs and moss from t...

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.

A woman travelling on the underground is bedeviled with images of desire. What She Wants – wholly created on an Amiga 1500 home computer – is a film a...

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. The...

End of Restriction enters into the claustrophobic world of a teenage boy growing up in an English village. The film follows the boy’s cycle journey, o...

"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 tog...

Slyly integrating audio descriptions and captions, visual artist Angela Charles shares her story of ‘coming out’ as a blind artist after years of hidi...

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...

The J. Street Project 2002–5 is a sixty-seven minute film that consists of a sequence of static camera shots of street signs in Germany that incorpora...

Part intimate portrait and part observational documentary, this film looks at how a Dartmoor farming family relate to the land and their animals. Clos...

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

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

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, Shakesp...