George Barber Movies
- 2019
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art02019HD
Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of...
- 1991
Curtain Trip
Curtain Trip01991HD
Short film.
- 1984
Tilt
Tilt01984HD
Made using footage from USA Olympics in Los Angeles 1984 and snippets of Alistair Cooke's America: A Personal History of the United States. The...
- 2017
The Freestone Drone
The Freestone Drone02017HD
An unmanned drone deviates from its destined flight path, as it wanders through time and space its camera surveys its surroundings and the robot...
- 1994
Arizona
Arizona01994HD
Short film.
- 1985
Absence of Satan
Absence of Satan01985HD
A beautiful woman screams at something unseen off camera. Paul Newman appears eating salad and soon the famous sequence of Paul Newman closing a car...
- 1987
Taxi Driver Two
Taxi Driver Two01987HD
This revolves around Tim West, an advertising executive who is developing a Channel 4 programme on cooking for terrorists. Disillusioned by the...
- 1996
Autumn
Autumn01996HD
Short film.
- 1994
Waiting for Dave
Waiting for Dave01994HD
A humorous rooftop monologue: George Barber explains how he sees the year developing, while waiting for the ever unreliable Dave.
- 1986
Yes Frank No Smoke
Yes Frank No Smoke01986HD
George Barber deconstructs two feature films, The Blue Lagoon and The Deep, pillaging ‘moments’ which when re-edited constitute a new...
- 1996
The Weather
The Weather01996HD
Actor Brian Hickey performs a parody of a TV weatherman in a film which reminds us just how mannered most weather presentations are.
- 1994
Passing Ship
Passing Ship01994HD
On the left side of this video diptych sequences of a typical Hollywood movie of the genre "airplane catastrophy" are showing, while on the right...
- 1997
Withdrawal
Withdrawal01997HD
A home movie on permanent loop. Live action up for grabs. A family walk the walk across a field, disappearing into memory as they do. Who knows where...
- 2005
Beyond Language
Beyond Language02005HD
Video art by George Barber.
- 2003
Walking Off Court
Walking Off Court02003HD
"Walking Off Court concerns a story I saw in the Times about a tennis coach called James Goodman who had a nervous breakdown around about the time...
- 2008
Following Your Heart Can Lead to Wonderful Things
Following Your Heart Can Lead to Wonderful Things02008HD
Following Your Heart uses off-air adverts and minor films. The central conceit is to take found footage and manipulate it into a new artistic...
- 2006
Automotive Action Painting
Automotive Action Painting02006HD
Observed from an overhead camera, a man stops by the roadside one morning and empties the contents of a number of large cans of paint over the...
- 1995
Say Hello to Lottery Park
Say Hello to Lottery Park01995HD
A film about the discrepancy between the random and the intended. Chance meetings, chance adventures, holiday anecdotes and the slowed down...
- 1989
1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of
1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of01989HD
Takes the scratch genre to a postmodern extreme by processing and colouring Andy Warhol's Marilyn prints. Warhol's famous print undergoes intense...
- 1988
The Venetian Ghost
The Venetian Ghost01988HD
What’s it like being a Renaissance man when your host is a jerk-of-all-trades? What’s it like being obsessed with memory when you host...