Marc Karlin

Open Door: The Other Cinema

Stephen Dwoskin

Stephen Dwoskin, Nicky Hamlyn

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC community programme unit.

The Nightcleaners

Mary Kelly, Marc Karlin

“The Nightcleaners” is set in the context of the campaign (1970-1972) to unionize the women who cleaned office blocks at night and were being victimized and underpaid. Intending at the outset to make a campaign film, the Collective was forced to turn to new forms in order to represent the forces at work between the cleaners, the Cleaner's Action Group and the Unions - and the complex nature of the campaign itself.

A Dream from the Bath

Marc Karlin

Marc Karlin looks at film production in Britain.

For Memory

Marc Karlin

Marc Karlin, E.P. Thompson

Charts a journey through various `memory' productions such as murals, monuments, TV histories, commemorations etc, and in so doing questions the role that historical memory plays in our society.

The Outrage

Marc Karlin

An exploration of the work of American abstract artist Cy Twombly, using the device of a fictional character "M", who disappears after having looked at one of Twombly's paintings.