The Song of the Shirt

The Song of the Shirt 1979

1

Song tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of still photographs and acted reconstructions to show that this story has been rewritten/written-over many times before.

1979

One of the Missing

One of the Missing 1968

7.10

A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern cannon fire. His loaded gun is left pointing precariously at him and he is faced with imminent death.

1968

Value for Money

Value for Money 1970

1

A girl takes her camera along to a rocky beach, but quickly becomes fascinated with a far stranger mechanical contraption that she finds there.

1970

Exchange and Divide

Exchange and Divide 1980

1

A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband, the lawyer, the couple’s parents and their “home help”, a picture emerges of the transactional nature and economic fall-out of marriage, along with issues of class and gender politics affecting single mothers.

1980

Skinflicker

Skinflicker 1972

1

This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film. Bicât and scriptwriter Howard Brenton explore the consequences and co-option of political violence with hard, grubby directness and a pre-punk, semi-nihilistic attack on bourgeois values.

1972

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace 1997

1

A young man (Aidan Gillan) arrives in the midst of London's Soho. He's from Belfast, he's anxious and he looks like he's running away from something. Then, by chance, he meets Grace, a prostitute who happens to come from Belfast too. A connection is made and, for a brief time, she seems to offer the chance of a new future.

1997

Out of Order

Out of Order 1988

1

Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.

1988

Miss Queencake

Miss Queencake 1991

4.00

A tragi-comic boat movie in which Beauty and The Beast live out their own particular fairytales.

1991

No Arks

No Arks 1969

1

Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.

1969

At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength)

At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength) 1980

1

A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends are being sued by a former SS Kommandant, who denies their accusation that he was responsible for the genocide of 300 Belgians. Documentary interviews and archive footage merge with dramatised scenes to create a new way of representing history and memory.

1980

Anthrakitis

Anthrakitis 1998

1

Dolly, an elderly widow who lives alone, has been hoarding coal since the deaths of her husband and son years ago in mining accidents. When Dolly realises that everyone in the village wants a bit of her 50ft high coal mountain, including her niece Winny, Dolly is forced to take drastic measures...

1998

Going Going

Going Going 2001

1

Anna follows her absent Mother on her nightly ritual, as she walks round the family house, turning the house lamps on one by one. In the course of the lamp walk, Anna talks about being afraid of the dark and of the secrets that all families and lovers keep from one another.

2001

Fish Tale

Fish Tale 1994

1

An Englishwoman travels to a Normandy village to investigate her husband's disappearance.

1994

The Chalk Mark

The Chalk Mark 1988

1

In and around the tenement blocks and rubbish tips of the Glasgow slums, this short film depicts a young boy’s perspective of his family, his friends and the local ‘bad man’.

1988

Mad Bad Mortal Beings

Mad Bad Mortal Beings 1992

1

Cait, who has lost her boyfriend Marvin to another woman, sets herself a number of rituals to help overcome her loss.

1992

Loop

Loop 1976

1

About animation itself, in which a live-action man's movements are mimicked by means of various animated techniques.

1976

Relax

Relax 1991

6.70

An elegant film about one man's fears and fantasies regarding HIV testing.

1991

Darling, Do You Love Me?

Darling, Do You Love Me? 1968

4.60

In a hugely entertaining parody of her media persona, a pre-'Female Eunuch' Germaine Greer stars as a terrifyingly amorous woman who alternately cajoles, pursues and assaults a mild little man with cries of "Darling, do you love me?" until he succumbs to her strangling hands.

1968