Anna Ambrose

Phoelix

Anna Ambrose

Philip Beaumont, Angela Coles

An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality. Although this raises certain much-discussed questions about the nature of representation, and about the construction of narrative and daydreams in films, 'Phoelix' tends to treat these as just pretty and pertinent issues, opting instead for a mannered concentration on detail.

The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin

Anna Ambrose

Stephen Dwoskin, Laura Mulvey

A exploration of the origin, theory, philosophy and themes of Stephen Dwoskin's films from 1963 to 1984.

Honour, Profit & Pleasure

Anna Ambrose

Hugh Grant, Simon Callow

British biopic of composer George Frideric Handel

Noodle Spinner

Anna Ambrose

Noodle Spinner takes some basic documentary footage of a Chinese noodle spinner and then loops, split, reduces and staggers it to present a series of multiple-image collages in motion: in an inventive way the film's form thus resembles the process it was seeking to represent.

Alan Bush: A Life

Anna Ambrose

Alan Bush, Nancy Bush

About the life and work of the composer, which includes an interview in which he discusses his musical ideas and important events in his life. Excerpts from a number of key compositions dating from 1925 to 1977 including the choral 'Africa is my name' and Lidice, Five pieces for violin, viola, cello, horn and clarinet' and Dialectic' are used to illustrate the development of his music.