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Drama, UR, 01-Jan-1976
For this remarkable experimental film, provocative avant-garde artist Stephen Dwoskin gathered a group of strangers and filmed them exploring their sexual fantasies over a period of five days; the camera lingering on looks, movements, costumes and improvisations. A subversive investigation of social relations, or possibly a pretentious proto-Big Brother, the film, once seen, is never forgotten.
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The Gold Diggers
Sally Potter's avant-garde debut is a key film of early '80s feminist cinema. Made with an all-woman crew, and featuring stunning photography by Babette Magolte and a score by Lindsay Cooper it embraces a radical and experimental narrative structure.
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The Great White Silence
The Great White Silence is one of the jewels in the crown of the BFI National Archive fully justifying this stunning tinted and toned restoration with new score by electronic musician Simon Fisher Turner.
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The Battles of Coronel and Falkland I...
This dramatic reconstruction of two decisive naval battles from the First World War is one of the finest films of the British silent era. Walter Summers’ film was originally released on Armistice Day 1927 to act as a memorial to the thousands who died in the Battle of Coronel, triumph for German ...