These films have been produced in support of a specific exhibition or collection at important institutions, galleries and museums in the UK, including Tate, Royal Academy, National Portrait Gallery and V&A. Artworks featured include sculpture, painting, artefacts, and installations from around the world.
AZTECS introduces the last great civilisation of central Mexico, which flourished from the mid-14th century to its destruction by the invading Spanish in 1521.
View Details >>Produced in association with Tate and Artsworld. In the early nineteenth century John Constable revolutionised landscape painting and the way in which we see the natural world.
View Details >>Dulwich Picture Gallery is England’s first purpose-built public art gallery. Designed by Sir John Soane, the influential building holds one of the world’s finest Old Master collections including great works by Poussin, Rubens, Canaletto and Reynolds.
View Details >>The only child of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was born on September 7 1533 in Greenwich Palace. Illustrated with many key exhibition exhibits, this film explores Elizabeth’s life and characters, the England she governed, and the court in which she lived.
View Details >>Produced alongside the V&A’s landmark 2004 exhibition, Encounters explores both the Western fascination for the exotic materials of Asia as well as the interest in European technologies in India, China, and Japan.
View Details >>At the time of his death in 1904, George Frederic Watts was the most celebrated artist in Britain. Produced alongside centenary exhibitions at Tate and the National Portrait Gallery, this film explores the artist’s works and remarkable life.
View Details >>George Romney (1734-1802) was a key figure in British art in the late eighteenth century. A contemporary of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, he was a fashionable, prolific and at times dazzling portrait painter.
View Details >>Glass Now is a fascinating documentary exploring contemporary artists and their use of glass.
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Matthew Bourne brings his unique take on the legendary 1948 feature film.
Shakespeare’s classic love story is given a novel twist by being set in the dystopian “Verona Institution”.
