Other
DOCUMENTARIES
Style Tribes
Following British designers and materials through the dramas, dilemmas and debates leading up to the February 2000 London Fashion Week.
Director: Georg Misch
British Foreign Office
2000
50 mins
The Real History Show
Social events from the past are authentically recreated by keen members of the public. Bernard Hill is our interlocutor. Episodes include: The First Flower Show, Fish and Ships and a Victorian Wedding.
Director: John Triffitt
Channel 4
2000
3 x 60 mins
Glasgow Kiss
A docusoap 'cast' from Glasgow's eclectic lesbian and gay scene - a year of laughter, tears and triumphs in these real and very personal life stories.
Director: Dianne Barry
Channel 4
1997
4 x 30 mins
The Women From 10 Downing Street
Portrait of the year long strike for union recognition in Birmingham. Critical Eye for Channel 4.
Channel 4
1993
52 mins
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
The son of one of the infamous Baarder-Meinhoff terrorists, confronts fictionalised accounts of his childhood.
Director Victoria Mapplebeck
Channel 4
1993
50 mins
Barcelona
A personal portrait of Barcelona. Written and presented by Robert Hughes Omnibus for BBC / WNET.
BBC / WNET
1992
52 mins
Over Our Dead Bodies
AIDS Activism in UK and USA.
Channel 4
1991
75 mins.
Operation Solstice
A look back at the events of the 1984 'Battle of the Beanfield' - a confrontation between police and travellers on their way to Stonehenge.
'Critical Eye' Nominated for a Grierson Award 1992
Channel 4
1991
25 mins
Under Suspicion
A Gulf War Special
Channel 4
1991
27 mins
Comrades In Arms
Experiences of gays and lesbians in the services during WW2.
Channel 4
1990
52 mins
Desire
Sexuality in Germany 1910-1945.
Channel 4
1989
52 mins
OUT
Numerous short and full length magazine items for Channel 4's pioneering lesbian and gay series.
Channel 4
1988-94
FEATURES
A Bit of Scarlet
An archive feature weaving cinema and television extracts of gay and lesbian images to build a telling narrative charting the stereotypical presence and nuanced absence of gay men and lesbians in British cinema and television from 1920 - 1970.
Premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 1997
Director: Andrea Weiss
Producer: Rebecca Dobbs
A Channel 4 / BFI production
1996
78 mins
Theatrical release 1997
TX Channel 4 July 1997
Three Steps to Heaven
A dark comedy of a naive young woman's obsessive search through the seamier underside of contemporary London for the truth behind her boyfriends death. Infiltrating the lives of the three celebrities who last saw him alive she finds that the truth is not always want you want to hear!
Best Director - Mysfest Italy 1995
Premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival
Director: Constantine Giannaris
Producer: Rebecca Dobbs
Ricochet
David Bowie's 1982 tour in SE Asia.
1982
78 mins
Feature Documentary
DRAMA
Johnny Panic
Third part of a visionary trilogy on the life and work of Sylvia Plath.
BFI / Arts Council Lottery Funding.
Director Sandra Lahire
BFI / Arts Council
50 mins
Crystal Aquarium
An engaging and delicate lyrical drama by one of the leading practitioners of the genre.
Director: Jayne Parker
Producer: Christopher Collins
Arts Council Long form
Experimenta
1995
32 mins
The Chocolate Acrobat
A young nurse and elderly acrobat share an abrasive relationship leading to self discovery.
Director: Tessa Sheridan
Producer: Sally Thomas
BFI short
1995
40 mins
A Place In The Sun
An Albanian refugee arrives in Athens and finds tragedy and the chance of love.
Directed by Constantine Giannaris
Arts Council Experimenta
1994
45 mins
TX Channel 4 1994
Caught Looking
Virtual reality sex toy; any time, anywhere, anyone - you choose!
Winner Golden Teddy Bear, Berlin 1992
Directed by Constantine Giannaris
Channel 4
1991
35 mins
TX July 1992
North of Vortex
B/W post-modern road movie.
Winner Silver Plaque Chicago Film Festival - short drama.
Directed by Constantine Giannaris.
Channel 4 / Arts Council
1991
58 mins
TX April 1992
Nocturne
Film noir psycho-sexual drama.
Directed by Joy Chambelain
Channel 4
1990
58 mins
TX Sep 1990
The World Turned Upside Down
Jayne Parker inverts social perceptions and explores the In Production, relationship between Man and his best friend. Dance for the Camera.
Directed by Jayne Parker
BBC2 / Arts Council
10 mins
Corde Lisse
Circus players and swimming horses intersect in Jayne Parker's experimental drama.
Directed by Jayne Parker
Arts Council
In Production
15 minutes
Random Acts of Intimacy
Truth and fiction collude in a collage of romanticised and perhaps fabricated memories of impulsive, passionate and intense random acts of intimacy. An exploration of documentary as vérité and its ability to deliver truth through unconstructed narratives.
Director: Clio Barnard
Producer: Sally Thomas
Channel 4 / BFI
1998, 15 mins
TX Dec 1999
The Whirlpool
A short choreographed underwater spectacle in which a dancer puts on a pair of red ballet shoes and dances to Schumann's Davidbundlertanze.
Director: Jayne Parker
Producer Sally Thomas
Carlton TV
1997
8 mins
TX Oct 1997
The Reunion
Short dance piece about the passion of past desires and memories and the reality of the present. Royal ballet stars Lynn Seymour and Donald MacLeary reunited after 30 years.
Directed by Jayne Parker.
BBC 2 / Arts Council
1997
9 mins
Dance for the Camera
TX 1997
Headcase
A 'home movie' horror film weaving a complex path between fiction, reality and memory blurring boundaries and genres.
Director: Clio Barnard
Producer: Sally Thomas
Channel 4 / Arts Council
1997
15 mins
TX June 1997 Channel 4
Hermaphrodite / Bikini
A lyrical computer enhanced exploration of sexual difference based around a bi-gendered idyllic fantasy!
Director: Clio Barnard
Producer: Sally Thomas
Channel 4 / Arts Council
1995
5 mins
TX June 1995