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In his final - and most daring - cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen, laying bare his physical and spiritual state.

A man finds himself haunted by a mysterious black tower that appears to follow him wherever he goes.

A gay poet heads west from New York City in his convertible. He picks up a muscular sailor who's bisexual; then Jackie, a waitress at a diner, joins them. Jackie is attracted to the poet who rebuffs her romantic gestures; rejection fuels her continued interest in him. The sailor and the poet are bonded by sex, but the sailor's frank advances to Jackie make him uninteresting to her. The sailor can get violent, the poet is passive, Jackie is glamorous and detached. The landscape changes, they stop in cities and in the desert. They reach a lake. Who will be left out of a final pairing?

John Maybury's dark, queer state of the nation film. The media is lampooned, alluring black humour is deliciously if painfully proffered, and technical innovation rules. A partially-evil twin to Jarman's The Garden.

A small hotel's night desk clerk navigates ethereal fantasies unfold during routine tasks over night shift. Time stretches as transitive space blurs reality and imagination in interconnected narratives unveiling throughout clerk's shift.

Dada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize Dada's anarchy into an artistic blend of Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxist provocation. In the interests of conquering the irrational, Salvador Dali opened exhibitions dressed in a diving suit, Marcel Duchamp turned himself into woman, Benjamin Peret assaulted priests, and Yves Tanguy ate spiders. Andre Breton, nicknamed "the Pope of Surrealism", led an inspired gang of artists, lunatics and writers. By the 1950s they were denouncing each other for betraying the movement, but their ideas had infected Hollywood, advertising agencies and were turning up as TV humor and album covers.

What happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini's La boh?me? In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera's comic heroine Musetta to investigate her own death.

Looks at our quest for someone to love and something, or someone, to believe in. The tyranny of couples and groups, the pain of not belonging and the fear of being alone are all laid bare in a series of powerful images.

Ilias, a young man of Athens, meets Panagiotis, a new-comer from Albania and falls in love with him. He pays dearly for the relationship.

Tongue-in-cheek, early Greenaway short reflects the incredibly meticulous encyclopedic nature of his early films. An attempt is made to "reconstruct" a proposed, but never made, film according to some reasonably vague directions. The attempt is made over and over because of conflicting interpretations of the instructions.

This documentary is related to an art show directors Wollen and Mulvey organized for London's Whitechapel Gallery, attempting to pair the rather different work of two female creators, painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti.

LONDON UNDERGROUND was a documentary feature film produced to promote a series of albums for the German market also called London Underground. Producer David Wilkinson, director Matt Lipsey and Associate Producer Richard Gooderick came up with a formula of taking a varied group of bands, party promoters and participants all involved in the underground music scene across London. The film starts with them at 6:00pm on a Friday and follows their progression through Friday night to Saturday morning, afternoon and night into the very early hours of Sunday morning. It had a high profile launch in Germany with the film, filmmakers and various bands and DJ's including Jerry Dammers visiting Munich, Frankfurt, Ulm, Koln, Hamburg etc. The film had a small release in the UK and was sold internationally by the Arts Council of Great Britain.

How do we relate to and make use of our physical senses? This film examines the mechanics of perception and the still mysterious way in which the brain makes meaning of it all. Includes comments by artists on how they use their senses in creative work.

Based on a true story by the director's father, Chicken Soup is set late at night in an anonymous airport bar. It is the heart-warming story of Khal, a young Arab, whose need for independence and to belong in western society has alienated him from his father. A chance encounter with a mysterious blind old Arab whose revelation of a childhood accident reminds Khal, what his father really means to him and that parents can make mistakes.

An arts documentary examining the phenomenon of "chutney soca", a musical hybrid from Trinidad & Tobago which blends the traditions of the islands' two biggest ethnic groups - Indian and African. As much political as musical, "chutney soca" seems to offer a way for the two cultures, often perceived as being mutually antagonistic, to come together in a new exciting fusion of sounds.

Documentary that covers John Cooper-Clarke's tour with reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson.

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson come out of retirement to solve a final case concerning the artist Marcel Duchamp.

Biography of William Morris (1834-1896), regarded as a pioneer of Socialist thought and a founder of the ecological movement.

A man uses different words to describe an amphibian as the film evolves.

This movie is an experimental documentary following the flow of the Thames out of London to the sea. It has a narration from John Hurt that takes the form of reading old manuscripts, books and news articles, and also a posthumous narration from poet TS Eliot reading from his own work, The Dry Salvages from the Four Quartets. Engravings, paintings, and archival film are juxtaposed against the contemporary footage, including Pieter Breughel the Elder's "The Triumph of Death" (c.1562) from the Prado Museum.