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 Art

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    02019HD

    Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of...

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
  • 1987
    Taxi Driver Two

    Taxi Driver Two

    Taxi Driver Two

    01987HD

    This revolves around Tim West, an advertising executive who is developing a Channel 4 programme on cooking for terrorists. Disillusioned by the...

    Taxi Driver Two
  • 1984
    Tilt

    Tilt

    Tilt

    01984HD

    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...

    Tilt
  • 1996
    Kite

    Kite

    Kite

    01996HD

    Short film.

    Kite
  • 1988
    The Venetian Ghost

    The Venetian Ghost

    The Venetian Ghost

    01988HD

    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...

    The Venetian Ghost
  • 1996
    The Weather

    The Weather

    The Weather

    01996HD

    Actor Brian Hickey performs a parody of a TV weatherman in a film which reminds us just how mannered most weather presentations are.

    The Weather
  • 1984
    Scratch Free State

    Scratch Free State

    Scratch Free State

    01984HD

    Scratch Free State has great energy and straddles an interesting line between a popular culture and fine art sensibility. This piece was made at the...

    Scratch Free State
  • 1994
    Bridget Riley in the Sky with Diabetes

    Bridget Riley in the Sky with Diabetes

    Bridget Riley in the Sky with Diabetes

    01994HD

    Short film.

    Bridget Riley in the Sky with Diabetes
  • 1996
    Autumn

    Autumn

    Autumn

    01996HD

    Short film.

    Autumn
  • 2017
    The Freestone Drone

    The Freestone Drone

    The Freestone Drone

    02017HD

    An unmanned drone deviates from its destined flight path, as it wanders through time and space its camera surveys its surroundings and the robot...

    The Freestone Drone
  • 1995
    Say Hello to Lottery Park

    Say Hello to Lottery Park

    Say Hello to Lottery Park

    01995HD

    A film about the discrepancy between the random and the intended. Chance meetings, chance adventures, holiday anecdotes and the slowed down...

    Say Hello to Lottery Park
  • 1995
    Schweppes Ad

    Schweppes Ad

    Schweppes Ad

    01995HD

    Thirsty? The longing created by advertising is satirised in this remix of Schweppes advertising.

    Schweppes Ad
  • 1994
    Arizona

    Arizona

    Arizona

    01994HD

    Short film.

    Arizona
  • 1989
    1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of

    1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of

    1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of

    01989HD

    Takes the scratch genre to a postmodern extreme by processing and colouring Andy Warhol's Marilyn prints. Warhol's famous print undergoes intense...

    1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of
  • 1994
    Waiting for Dave

    Waiting for Dave

    Waiting for Dave

    01994HD

    A humorous rooftop monologue: George Barber explains how he sees the year developing, while waiting for the ever unreliable Dave.

    Waiting for Dave
  • 1991
    Curtain Trip

    Curtain Trip

    Curtain Trip

    01991HD

    Short film.

    Curtain Trip
  • 1995
    The Story of Wash & Go

    The Story of Wash & Go

    The Story of Wash & Go

    01995HD

    A meditation on product history. A lo-fi dramatisation of Vidal’s Sassoon’s momentous, groundbreaking invention of the shampoo Wash & Go.

    The Story of Wash & Go
  • 1994
    Passing Ship

    Passing Ship

    Passing Ship

    01994HD

    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...

    Passing Ship
  • 1988
    Arts Council GB Scratch

    Arts Council GB Scratch

    Arts Council GB Scratch

    01988HD

    Promo video for the Arts Council

    Arts Council GB Scratch
  • 1986
    Yes Frank No Smoke

    Yes Frank No Smoke

    Yes Frank No Smoke

    01986HD

    George Barber deconstructs two feature films, The Blue Lagoon and The Deep, pillaging ‘moments’ which when re-edited constitute a new...

    Yes Frank No Smoke