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  • Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock

    Four films specially commissioned by The Space which explore Hitchcock's directorial debut, The Pleasure Garden (1925) plus a 1966 interview from the BBC Archive

    British Film Institute
    Film
  • The making of Macropolis
    The making of Macropolis

    A series of short films which document the making of animated short film Macropolis and includes an edited version of the finished product

    Flickerpix Animation
    Film
  • The Space Collections:Arena Hotel: Nightclub
    The Space Collections:Arena Hotel: Nightclub

    The BBC's arts documentary series Arena has turned its unique archive into a hotel for The Space. It is modelled on New York's Chelsea Hotel, a legendary haunt of the stars. This is the nightclub

  • Ealing Studios
    Ealing Studios

    A series of films exploring the heyday of the great Ealing Studios between 1938 and 1959, when it produced classic British films including The Lavender Hill Mob and Whisky Galore! under the leadership of Michael Balcon

    British Film Institute
    Film
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  • “Takes me back to my home town. A mini masterpiece”Nicola Reece via Facebook on Ridley Scott's Boy and Bicycle
  • “Takes me back to my home town. A mini masterpiece”Nicola Reece via Facebook on Ridley Scott's Boy and Bicycle
  • Push Me Collection
    Push Me Collection

    A series of short films about artists pushing themselves to reach previously unattained goals

    Watershed
    Film
  • BFI Shorts
    BFI Shorts

    A showcase of the best contemporary short films

    British Film Institute
    Film
  • Peter Greenaway
    Peter Greenaway

    A showcase of some of the early works of British filmmaker Peter Greenaway

    British Film Institute
    Film
  • Flowers of London : Scoring the silents
    Flowers of London : Scoring the silents

    Customise your own soundtrack to the silent film Flowers of London using the music, sound effects and narrative of the New Radiophonic Workshop

    duration: 10 mins

    The New Radiophonic Workshop
    format: Video
  • Learning disabled film-makers: a view of the world
    Learning disabled film-makers: a view of the world

    A selection from the Oska Bright film festival which showcases the work of the learning disabled community

    Carousel
  • BFI Beginnings
    BFI Beginnings

    A showcase of first or early films by major British directors, from the British Film Institute archive

    British Film Institute
    Film
  • The Space Collections:Scoring the silents
    The Space Collections:Scoring the silents

    An exploration of how music has been created in modern times to bring to life archive film which was made without sound. This includes The New Radiophonic Workshop's project to compose music and sound for Flowers of London from the BFI archive

  • The Slade film collection
    The Slade film collection

    A curated collection of single screen videos by artists at the Slade School of Fine Art

    Slade School of Fine Art
    Visual & Media ArtsFilm
  • CountryBoy's Struggle
    CountryBoy's Struggle

    Contact’s series of storytelling music videos mix hip-hop and comedy to tell the story of Michael Crompton, a man on a journey to become an MC – from the cliffs of Cornwall to the streets of London

    Contact Theatre
    MusicFilm
  • Woman2Woman
    Woman2Woman

    Film curator Karen Alexander has selected productions from The Film Collection of Arts Council England that display a persistence of vision by women both in front of and behind the camera

    British Film Institute
    Film
  • Songs from the Shipyards
    Songs from the Shipyards

    Enter a world which brings to life the powerful story of shipbuilding in the UK, through music, song, and archive footage. Charting more than 100 years years of an industry which has had a profound impact on the lives of so many people, this special site, put together by Tyneside Cinema, features music from the Unthanks

    Tyneside Cinema
    MusicFilm
  • Nora: A Doll's House revisited
    Nora: A Doll's House revisited

    Hattie Morahan, who recently played Nora in a Young Vic production of Ibsen's A Doll's House, stars in writer Nick Payne and director Carrie Cracknell's short film imagining what a modern-day Nora might look like, 130 years on from the original

    duration: 9 mins

    The Space
    format: Video
    TheatreFilm
  • Silent Shakespeare
    Silent Shakespeare

    A collection of very early films of William Shakespeare's works from the BFI archives.

    British Film Institute
    Film
  • Paradigm
    Paradigm

    Paradigm, a short film from BS Johnson, about a belief in the inevitable trajectory of the human experience

    duration: 8 mins

    British Film Institute
    format: Video
    Film
  • From the Sea to the Land Beyond : The performance
    From the Sea to the Land Beyond : The performance

    Made from over 100 years of BFI archive footage, award-winning director Penny Woolcock’s film is a portrait of our unique coastline and the role it plays in our lives

    duration: 74 mins

    Sheffield Doc/fest
    format: Video
    MusicFilm
  • The Space Collections:The animation collection
    The Space Collections:The animation collection

    A collection of the best animated material that is featured on The Space

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