British Film Institute Production Board

A woman encounters her memories, explored through dance. Featuring Marguerite Porter, former Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet.

Vinko Globakar, a virtuoso trombonist, plays on a stage, alone, Luciano Berio's Sequenza for Trombone.

July 1931. A farmstead near Kilmore, Southern Ireland. The country is in drought. Day after day the sun scorches the land and parches the crops. The dry East wind carries a plague of rooks and crows which plunder the fields continually. Each new day brings little hope of change...

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.

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

The words to the Paul McCartney-penned Beatles classic Penny Lane are vividly illustrated in this short montage film, released in the same year as the track, which juxtaposes characters inspired by the song with suburban street scenes and St. George's Square statuary.

Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair.

Faulty plumbing in the home of a painter causes an old woman to be covered in red paint while she showers. The painter's neighbours engineer his fate in a bathtub of aubergines.

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.

Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.

Sunflowers, seen as a life source, with their life cycle visually equated with that of humans.

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.

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

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.

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.

“Film questions whether the encouragement of very low paid jobs and schemes - both in general and specifically how they function in the area affected by the closure of the Consett steelworks in 1980 - is a sufficiently visionary response to the question of survival in post-industrial Britain. Local people talk about their experiences, an escapologist performs and a drag act sings. Plus drama sequence in which Bill tells Rose that making a fortune is easy.” - BFI.

Experimental film consisting of two super-imposed (in camera), continuous looping camera movements across a short stretch of the English Channel. A light swell, two marker buoys and a pier are the only features, apart from the repeated rotation of the camera play.

Explores the communal life of young hippies in Devon, through a series of theatrical happenings, conversations on revolution, and strange encounters in an underground labyrinth.

A documentary about abortion

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.