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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1996
Kite
Kite01996HD
Short film.
- 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...
- 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.
- 1984
Scratch Free State
Scratch Free State01984HD
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...
- 1994
Bridget Riley in the Sky with Diabetes
Bridget Riley in the Sky with Diabetes01994HD
Short film.
- 1996
Autumn
Autumn01996HD
Short film.
- 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...
- 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...
- 1995
Schweppes Ad
Schweppes Ad01995HD
Thirsty? The longing created by advertising is satirised in this remix of Schweppes advertising.
- 1994
Arizona
Arizona01994HD
Short film.
- 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...
- 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.
- 1991
Curtain Trip
Curtain Trip01991HD
Short film.
- 1995
The Story of Wash & Go
The Story of Wash & Go01995HD
A meditation on product history. A lo-fi dramatisation of Vidal’s Sassoon’s momentous, groundbreaking invention of the shampoo Wash & Go.
- 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...
- 1988
Arts Council GB Scratch
Arts Council GB Scratch01988HD
Promo video for the Arts Council
- 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...