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Riding the Tiger 1997
The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry 1996
French Cooking in Ten Minutes 1995
Brazil: Beyond Citizen Kane 1993
Seeking Approval 1992
New Chinese Cinema 1989
Opening Up the Family Album 1988
Raymond Williams: A Tribute 1988
A Dream From the Bath (Marc Karlin) 1985
Family Business by Chantal Akerman 1984
Angela Carter and Neil Jordan discuss ‘A Company of Wolves’ 1984
Cinema as Foreign Exchange: Mozambique, Madagascar and Zimbabwe 1984
Wendy Toye and Sally Potter: Two Directors 1984
Cinema in China 1983
Hindi Cinema 1983
Michael Snow: Snow in England 1983
Visions, Series 1, Programme 1 1982
ALL PROGRAMMES
Riding the Tiger (2)
4 x 24 mins for Channel 4, t/x August 1998
Hong Kong’s residents come to terms with Chinese rule during its first year.
Riding the Tiger
4 x 50 mins for Channel 4, t/x June 1997
The effect on Hong Kong’s population of the handover to Chinese rule.
The Architecture of Carlo Scarpa
51 mins for Channel 4 and Arts Council, t/x 21 Sept 1996 (with Viz Ltd)
The Italian architect who revolutionised our view of old buildings and how to re-use them.
The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry
25 mins, t/x Channel 4, March 1996
Profile of John Davis, who ran the Rank Organisation 1949-76.
The Reel Truth
4 x 25 mins, t/x Channel 4/S4C, Nov/Sept 1995 (with Teliesyn)
The story of factual film 1895-29. Directed by Colin Thomas
French Cooking in Ten Minutes
6 x 9 mins, t/x BBC2, April/May 1995
A dramatisation of the famous cookery book, with Christopher Rozycki, dir. David Giles
Dream Town
40 mins, t/x BBC2, August 1994
Director: Mark Kidel
A celebration of Blackpool’s continuing success, 100 years after the Tower was opened
Those British Faces, 1993/4
12 part series of profiles of British character actors for Lumiere Group and Channel 4 TV, using only footage from their films.
Brazil: Beyond Citizen Kane
90 mins, t/x. Channel 4, April 1993
An expose of the world’s most powerful TV network TV Globo, Director: Simon Hartog
See: Roberto Mader, ‘Globo Village: Television in Brazil’ in Channels of Resistance ed. Tony Dowmunt, British Film Institute 1993 pp.67-89
Seeking Approval: the Complicity of Women
52 mins, t/x. Channel 4, May 1992
Examining the tortured relationship between mothers and daughters. Director: Agnieszka Piotrowska, Writer/Presenter: Rosalind Coward
The Holy Family Album
25 mins, t/x. Channel 4, December 1991
Angela Carter’s last work, an irreverent view of Christian religious paintings
See: ‘Acting up on the Small Screen’, Chapter 6 of Charlotte Crofts, Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter’s Writing for Radio, Film and Television, Manchester Univ Press 2003 pp. 168-193
Distilling “Whisky Galore”
52 minutes, t/x. Channel 4, January 1991
On the making of myths, and of the classic Ealing comedy. Director: Murray Grigor Presenter: Derek Cooper
DVD Optimum Releasing 2005, as part of 2-disc Whisky Galore special edition
This Food Business
4 parts, t/x. Channel 4, August 1989
A Channel 4 current affairs series on the food industry, produced with the London Food Commission. Presenter: Derek Cooper
Winner of the 1990 Glenfiddich Award, “Best Television Programme”
New Chinese Cinema
52 mins, t/x, Channel 4, May 1989
The vibrant new cinema of China, caught just before Tiananmum Square. Co-produced with the China Film Corporation. Director: Tony Rayns
Truffaut on Truffaut
52 mins, t/x. Channel 4, November 1989
Re-editing of a comprehensive interview with Truffaut filmed 18 months before his death
Opening Up the Family Album
4 parts, t/x. Channel 4, August 1988
A series on the uses of amateur photography. Director: Nina Kellgren. Presenter: Jo Spence
Raymond Williams: a Tribute
26 mins, t/x. Channel 4, February 1988
A discussion tribute, participants include Stuart Hall, Terry Eagleton, Judith Williamson, Daffyd Ellis Thomas MP
Eastenders Against the Grain
64 mins, t/x. Channel 4, July 1988
London’s East End on archive film and video. Director: Adam Kossoff. Presenter: Warren Mitchell
The Films of Stephen Dwoskin
52 mins, t/x. Channel 4, April 1984
A portrait of the experimental film-maker. Director: Anna Ambrose
Visions
32 parts, t/x. Channel 4 November 1982 – December 1985
Channel 4’s long-running series on world cinema. Find a complete list of Visions episodes here. Long documentaries include:
Cinema in China (May 1982)
Wendy Toye and Sally Potter (May 1993)
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (June 1993)
Magazine programmes covered the film-making in China, Africa, Europe; film festivals in Cannes, Ouagadougou, Italy; film-makers as diverse as Godard, Svankmajer, Jordan, Snow; and commissioned material from Chantal Akerman, the Quay Brothers, Neil Jordan, Gina Newson, Chris Petit, Mick Eaton, Marc Karlin. One run of 6 programmes co-produced with the French series Rue du Cinema (Canal Plus)