| Title |
Date |
Director |
Production Company |
Synopsis |
Minutes |
Film ID |
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| Blue Notes and Exiled Voices |
1991 |
Imre Bakari |
Ceddo |
Black South African musicians living in Britain - including Pinise Saul (b.1941), Hugh Masekela (b.1939), Louis Moholo (b.1940) and Mervyn Africa (b.1950) - who use their music as a weapon of resistance and solidarity. |
52 |
ACE242 |
Full details |
| Carlo Levi Stopped Here |
1993 |
Virginia Heath |
Bandung |
The life and work of the Jewish Italian writer, painter and anti-Fascist activist, Carlo Levi (1902-1975), illustrated with extracts from Francesco Rosi’s 1978 version of Cristo si è fermato a Eboli.
|
39 |
ACE243 |
Full details |
| London Underground. 36 hours in the life of the London underground scene |
1992 |
Matt Lipsey |
Wilkinson-IPH |
The London underground music scene, including scenes of Pressure Drop, The Sandals, Spiral Tribe, Jah Shaka, etc., in rehearsal and performance. |
53 |
ACE244 |
Full details |
| Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day by Henry Purcell, from Stationers’ Hall, London where Purcell gave the first performance on St.Cecilia’s Day, November 22nd,1692 |
1992 |
Chris Hunt |
Iambic Productions |
A performance of the Ode on St Cecilia’s Day (1692), by English Baroque composer, Henry Purcell, 1659-1695). |
45 |
ACE245 |
Full details |
| Mirrors of Paradise |
1992 |
Mike Dibb |
Dibb Productions |
The enduring legacy of the mediaeval Islamic period in Spain, in music, architecture and decoration, agriculture and cuisine, literature and medicine, and the contribution made by the Jewish population. |
52 |
ACE246 |
Full details |
| Sickert’s London |
1992 |
Jake Auerbach |
Hannah Rothschild, Jake Auerbach |
The work of British Impressionist painter, Walter Sickert (1860-1942) with particular regard to his depictions of life in north London. |
49 |
ACE247 |
Full details |
| Two Autumns. Futatsu no Aki. The work of Andy Goldsworthy in Scotland and Japan
|
1992 |
Peter Chapman |
Lightyears Films |
Projects by British environmental sculptor, Andy Goldsworthy (b.1956), undertaken in rural settings in Scotland and Japan. |
52 |
ACE248 |
Full details |
| Vanishing Rembrandts |
1992 |
Geoff Dunlop |
Paladin |
The controversial activities of the Rembrandt Research Project in assessing the authenticity or otherwise of paintings by Dutch painter, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669). |
48 |
ACE249 |
Full details |
| Along the Tracks |
1993 |
Maggie Ellis |
Open Air |
One of a series on public art, a record of Sustrans (”Sustainable Transport”) and its creation of a National Network of Cycle Paths, for which it commissions sculptures from a number of artists such as Jim Partridge (b.1953), Liz Walmesley, Richard Harris (b.1954), and Andy Goldsworthy (b.1956), and, in particular, David Kemp. |
25 |
ACE250 |
Full details |
| Changing Faces |
1993 |
Maggie Ellis |
Open Air |
One of a series on public art, looking at Smethwick, where Francis Gomila (b. Gibraltar, 1954) has created murals and other decorations for High Street frontages, and Swansea, where Robert Conybear and other artists and writers have collaborated with the Development department to produce new sculptures.
|
25 |
ACE251 |
Full details |
| Gallery Without Walls |
1993 |
Maggie Ellis |
Open Air |
One of a series on public art, on the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and efforts by British artist, Don Rankin, with the help of partially-sighted art consultant, William Kirby (d.2006), to make the Access Sculpture Trail more enjoyable for people with disabilities. |
25 |
ACE252 |
Full details |
| On Common Ground |
1993 |
Maggie Ellis |
Open Air |
One of a series on public art, this shows the conservation work of environmental lobby group, Common Ground, and their commissioning of artists such as British sculptor, Peter Randall-Page (b.1954) to create wayside artworks.
|
25 |
ACE253 |
Full details |
| Showcase City |
1993 |
Maggie Ellis |
Open Air |
One of a series on public art, this looks at Birmingham, with particular reference to the decorative work on the International Convention Centre by British artists, Ron Haselden (b.1944), Deanna Petheridge (b.1939), and Alexander Beleschenko (b.1951), and sculptures and other features in Centenary Square and elsewhere, by Tess Jaray (b.1937), Tom Lomax, Raymond Mason (b.1922), and Antony Gormley (b.1950). |
25 |
ACE254 |
Full details |
| Beethoven in Love. A fantasy in five songs |
1993 |
Bob Bentley |
Songbird Film Productions |
One of a series of dance pieces created specially for television, this expressionist work derives its inspiration from the composer’s difficult relationships with woman and explores the nature of the outsider.
|
15 |
ACE255 |
Full details |
| Duets With Autombiles |
1993 |
Terry Braun |
|
One of a series of dance pieces created specially for television, this sets Indian classical dance forms in high-tech London office blocks. |
14 |
ACE256 |
Full details |
| Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
1993 |
Milfid Ellis |
Palindrome |
One of a series of dance pieces created specially for television, an adaptation of the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). |
15 |
ACE257 |
Full details |
| Should Accidentally Fall |
1993 |
Ross MacGibbon |
Landseer |
One of a series of dance pieces created specially for television, featuring bottles and a bar. |
14 |
ACE258 |
Full details |
| From Hill to Castle |
1993 |
Anna Ridley |
Annalogue |
The transport and installation of It Takes Two (1991) by Scottish sculptor, David Mach (b.1946), at an exhibition of his work at Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. |
20 |
ACE259 |
Full details |
| Grateful and the Dead |
1993 |
Jeremy Marre |
Harcourt Films |
Phil Lesh (b.1940), Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), and Bob Weir (b.1947), members of American Pop group, the Grateful Dead, describe the work of their Rex Foundation in financing British composers like Bernard Stevens (1916-1983), Michael Finnissy (b.1946), Havergal Brian (1876-1972), Richard Barrett (b.1959), and Chris Dench (1953), and American musicians such as Pharoah Sanders (1940) and David Grisman (1945) |
60 |
ACE260 |
Full details |
| Lido |
1993 |
Christopher Dudman |
Cinecontact |
Personal reminiscence, archive film and new footage are combined in an evocation of the open-air swimming pools built in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. |
10 |
ACE261 |
Full details |
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