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  • The Space Journey
    The Space Journey

    Follow the story of The Space since its launch in May 2012

    duration: 13 mins

    The Space
    format: Video (Captioned)
    Film
  • The Space Collection

    Full performances
    Original work
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    Direct from some of the UK's greatest artists and arts organisations

  • NEST
    NEST

    NEST was Northern Ireland’s largest ever public art installation. It brought together thousands of individual possessions, thoughts, words, sounds and voices for the making of a single landscape. See how it was put together in this film, then explore a selection of the donated objects on the interactive website

    duration: 5 mins

    Dumbworld Productions
    format: Video
    Visual & Media Arts
  • David Bowie: The Space's Odyssey
    David Bowie: The Space's Odyssey

    The Space presents five short films, made in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, which each explores the genius of David Bowie on occasion of the first full-scale retrospective of his career, David Bowie is, at the V&A in London

    The V&A
    Visual & Media ArtsMusic
  • The Parade
    The Parade

    A quartet of filmed plays set in parts of a declining shopping parade, from a kebab shop to the newsagent. The stories are dramatic and sometimes humorous examinations of the British high street

    The Parade
    Theatre
  • The Space Collections:The Hamlet collection
    The Space Collections:The Hamlet collection

    Enjoy gems from the BBC archive connected to one of William Shakespeare's most famous plays

  • The Space Collections:#wearmima
    The Space Collections:#wearmima

    Watch members of the public wearing and reviewing designer jewellery from the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art's (mima) contemporary art collection

  • Lichtenstein in London
    Lichtenstein in London

    A film from the Art Council's archive about reactions to the Pop artist's 1968 London exhibition, which includes the words of Lichtenstein himself

    duration: 20 mins

    The Space
    format: Video
    Visual & Media Arts
  • The Chelsea Hotel : Arena
    The Chelsea Hotel : Arena

    A documentary made in 1981 for the BBC's Arena programme, looking at New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel, a haven for figures including Quentin Crisp, Andy Warhol and William Burroughs

    duration: 55 mins

    format: Video
    Film
  • Will Self's Digital Essay
    Will Self's Digital Essay

    Read Will Self's literary essay, reimagined for the digital age and inspired by Franz Kafka's work A Country Doctor

    London Review of Books
    Literature & Spoken Word
  • SUB : Rambert Dance Company
    SUB : Rambert Dance Company

    An all-male work by choreographer Itzik Galili from the Rambert Dance Company, set to the exuberant energy of Michael Gordon’s composition for string sextet, Weather One

    duration: 21 mins

    format: Video
    Dance
  • Kursk : Produced by Fuel
    Kursk : Produced by Fuel

    An adaptation of Sound&Fury's award-winning play Kursk, based on the events surrounding the Russian submarine in August 2000 - with subtitles

    duration: 65 mins

    Fuel
    format: Video (Captioned)
    TheatreFilm
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  • Pericles : Shakespeare: Globe to Globe
    Pericles : Shakespeare: Globe to Globe

    Pericles by William Shakespeare is performed in Greek by the National Theatre of Greece, with scene description in English

    duration: 228 mins

    format: Video (Subtitled)
    TheatrePerformance & FestivalLiterature & Spoken Word
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