Illuminations

Essential films about the arts
Harold Pinter

Broadcasters and Producers

BBC
Productions for BBC Television include Gloriana, A Film (1999), which was honoured with an International Emmy award, and Tx.: Children of the Revolution (1996), which won a BAFTA for Best Arts Programme. Other programmes include the dance film There Will Be Something Later (2005). 2007 iproductions included Arena: Flames of Passion and the thre-part Dance Britannia.

Channel 4
Illuminations has produced films for Channel 4 for more than twenty years, including the annual live coverage of the Turner Prize since1993, Gregory Doran's Macbeth (2001), All About Desire (2001), a profile of Pedro Almodovar, and many more. Close to completion the contemporary opera film The Eternity Man, a co-production with Australia.

Channel 4 Learning
In 2005, Illuminations produced Talking Art, a series of thirteen short films for Channel 4 Learning. Each programme focuses on three prominent artists who explore an aspect of their work shared with the others.

Five
Illuminations productions for Five include the two-part The British Face (2006), How Festish/Porn/Nudity Conquered the World (2006), a 3-part series about global erotica, X-Rated (2005), a three-part series about film censorship, and a number of exhibition films including Turks (2005), Encounters (2004), Gothic: Art for England (2003) and AZTECS (2002).

Gallery HD
In the summer of 2006 Illuminations made an "art road trip" across the United States, filming the 12 one-hour series Artland: USA for Gallery HD, the New York-based HD channel devoted to the visual arts. A second series followed in 2007. For Gallery HD we also made in 2007 three Art in Progress films about Anish Kapoor, Conrad Shawcross and Anthony Caro and Sheila Girling.

Ideale Audience
Ideale Audience is one of the European independent producers with whom Illuminations co-develops projects. A French-based company run by Pierre-Olivier Bardet, they co-produced with Illuminations Making the Magic Flute, a documentary in HD about the creation of Kenneth Branagh's feature film, released in 2007.

Illuminations Films
A joint venture with Keith Griffiths and Simon Field, Illuminations Films produces distinctive feature-length films. Chris Petit's Unrequited Love (2006) for Channel 4 and other European partners, now released by Illuminations on DVD. Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair's London Orbital (2002) is also available as an Illuminations DVD.

Just Radio
A partnership with radio producers Kate Bland and Susan Marling, Just Radio creates programming about the arts, history, travel and social issues for BBC Radios 2, 3 and 4 and for the BBC World Service. Just Radio also produces audio guides for, among others, the Wellcome Trust.

More 4
In 2005 the company made its first programme for More 4 entitled Art, Truth & Politics, a 46-minute film of Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize speech, also available as an Illuminations DVD.

Sky Arts
Many of Illuminations' productions have been shown by Sky's arts channel in the UK, Artsworld. Recent co-productions with the channel include Turner at Tate and Constable at Tate (both 2006). In production with Sky Arts in early 2008 is the ambitious series Art of Faith; for more see the production's blog.