London Orbital is an extraordinary and visionary film by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair about the world’s largest by-pass, the M25. It is a road movie, a cinematic excursion into the futuristic literature of a century past, and a film dialogue between two writers who are also filmmakers (and vice versa).
View Details >>State of the Art is an exciting, authoritative, and challenging series of thematic documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. The six-programme boxset features key artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Cindy Sherman, Antony Gormley, Hans Haacke, and Eric Fischl.
View Details >>Art that was “headbuttingly impossible to ignore” is how Charles Saatchi describes the work that intrigued him as he started to collect British art in the early 1990s. This fast-paced and fascinating film features 100 of these artworks.
View Details >>Directed and filmed by Chris Petit, and based on an English academic’s memoir on stalking and being stalked, Unrequited Love is a dazzling digital film essay on cinema and absence, on Hitchcock and Antonioni, on cinema and cities.
View Details >>Shakespeare’s Globe is a film offering an intimate look at the working life of a unique theatrical institution. The film explores a day in the life of this remarkable enterprise: behind-the-scenes preparations, rehearsals, backstage drama and performance extracts from a production of Romeo and Juliet, together with glimpses into Globe Education workshops and activities, the exhibition and tours!
View Details >>Muse of Fire is a heartfelt and inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare‘s work for just about anyone: from actors, directors, theatre-goers, and students, to the person on the street. Think Shakespeare is boring? Think again! Muse of Fire will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever.
View Details >>For fifty years, Harold Pinter has been at the centre of theatrical work and his contribution to theatre, film and, more recently the political stage, has been enormous. Working with Pinter offers unprecedented access to the his creative processes in the rehearsal room.
View Details >>In late 2005 Harold Pinter videotaped a lecture on the occasion of being awarded one of the most distinguished honours, the Nobel Prize for Literature. “Art, Truth & Politics” is a speech that made headlines around the world. It is an urgent and compelling appeal for us all as citizens to seek out and honour truth.
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Matthew Bourne brings his unique take on the legendary 1948 feature film.
Shakespeare’s classic love story is given a novel twist by being set in the dystopian “Verona Institution”.
