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Film (A Screenplay by Samuel Beckett) 1979 star_border 6
A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes.

Herostratus 1967 star_border 6.2
When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.

In Separation 1965
In Separation - of what from what? Sound, image; cause, consequence; people? The breaking apart of a relationship is exteriorised far beyond the taut emotional inner worlds of a young Brighton couple in this highly concentrated, sharp 60s short.

Boy and Bicycle 1965 star_border 5.7
A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as he imagines he is the only person in the world...

An Untitled Film 1964 star_border 6.5
A BFI production from 1964, directed by David Gladwell, who is best known as an editor of films like Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968) and O Lucky Man! (1973). This short was shot at 200 fps, depicting a series of pastoral scenes from a British farm, edited to produce a suggestion of violence in contrast to its visual beauty.

Other Worlds 1964
The worlds of the painter Le Douanier Rousseau and the poet Arthur Rimbaud form a basis for exploration of their works.

The Maestro 1964
The Maestro is conducting Rossini's William Tell overture, but suddenly the music stops dead and he is unable to start again…

The Peaches 1964
A film fantasy concerning the adventures of a modern girl whose passion for peaches is eventually replaced by a very different type of passion.

Ten Bob in Winter 1963 star_border 5
An unemployed black student borrows ten shillings from a friend, then lends the money to a musician he has just met.

The Blackhill Campaign 1963
The fight of one village and its miners against the closing of the pit that is their main source of livelihood.

Shirt Factory 1963
A musical performed by schoolchildren from a secondary modern (Markfield) in North London, combining lively dance to the sounds from a transistor radio, and the automative actions of a production line to the monotonous music of the sewing machines.

The Party 1962
A group of art-school students hold a party.

Man of Rope 1961
Story of a man in prison, condemned to death, and his subsequent execution. Inspired by "Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde.

The First Step 1961
A child discovers her ambition on her first day at a new school. First act of a three-act ballet, "The Choice", with music by Tchaikovsky.

Circus at Clopton Hall 1961
On a summer's day, a group of children improvise a circus at an abandoned farm in Suffolk.

Michael 1961
Sensitive portrait of a boy with Down syndrome, and the small village that includes him.

The Christmas Play 1959
Taking the lid off the creative process with a group of theatrically-minded 11-year-olds as they stage the nativity.

Refuge England 1959 star_border 7.5
Short drama-documentary showing the first day in England of a Hungarian refugee.

Alone with the Monsters 1958 star_border 4.5
An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.

Amelia and the Angel 1958 star_border 6.3
A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist's model - the ANGEL. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot - supposedly to heaven-and reappears to restore Amelia's joy with a pair of wings.

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