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

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

Loaded

Loaded 1994

3.90

A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them collapsing, and tragedy subsequently striking.

1994

K

K 1954

5.20

Short film adaptation of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'.

1954

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

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

Requiem for a Village

Requiem for a Village 1975

6.50

The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.

1975

Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer

Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer 2018

10.00

An artistic pioneer, Agnès Varda has never stopped looking for the next way to tell a story. Here the 90-year-old explains how Instagram, with a majority of users in the 18-24 age range, followed photography and film as her medium of choice.

2018

Piccadilly Circus by Night

Piccadilly Circus by Night 1995

1

European emigre Tanya moves to London to work as a family au pair. Still grieving for her recently deceased father and rejected by an old friend, Tanya draws closer to her employer's husband. The sights and sounds of the Capital at Christmas form a deceptively romantic backdrop, for this brief meditation on loneliness and love.

1995

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

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

Meat

Meat 1990

1

An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.

1990

Incident

Incident 1971

1

An anti-short short. On three occassions a man overhears a car accident while relaxing in his room. He reacts with less and less concern to each crash.

1971

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

Relax

Relax 1991

6.80

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

1991

Angel in the House

Angel in the House 1978

1

Inspired by Virginia Woolf, a young writer worries that marriage will hinder her literary ambitions. The film includes extracts from Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse and her essay Professions for Women, both read by feminist filmmaker and theorist Laura Mulvey.

1978

Welcome to Britain

Welcome to Britain 1976

1

Captures a moment in 1970s Britain's immigration debate, focusing on new arrivals at Heathrow as they wrestle with immigration law.

1976