Bloomsbury Video Library – Rare and experimental art films!
Bloomsbury Video Library includes Hard to find examples of avant-garde cinema, performance art, dance on film, art installations, robotic and electronic art, art therapy, music and environmental art.
Archival recordings and interviews with wellknown practitioners, directors, artists and choreographers.
You can get inspired and find interesting films, for example, by browsing the material through different themes. For example: Body, Masculinity, Sex and sexuality, LGBTQIA+, Environment and ecology, Mental health, Future, Colonialism & Post-colonialism, Social change.
You can also search the database for videos on a specific topic. Here are examples:
- Documentary about George Maciunas, founding member of the avant-garde movement Fluxus: George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus.
- You can get to know the history of experimental film through, for example Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Films documentary.
- Bauhaus – Myth of the Modern documentary includes interviews with students on the significance of the Bauhaus art school to art life.
On the Bloomsbury Video Library website you can find instructions for using the database.
Also, explore other audio-visual materials and databases provided by the library. Uniarts students and staff can also use electronic materials remotely.