Adam Low

Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety

Adam Low

W.H. Auden, Alan Bennett

Thirty years after his BBC film The Auden Landscape, director Adam Low returns to the poet and his work. Following surges of popularity - from featuring in Four Weddings And A Funeral to being the poet New Yorkers turned to after 9/11 - Low reveals how Auden’s poetry helps us to better understand the 21st century and the tumultuous political climate in which we now live.

The Private Dirk Bogarde

Adam Low

Dirk Bogarde

Documentary exploration of Dirk Bogarde's private life and long-term affair with manager, Anthony Forwood, seen through home movies and excerpts from Bogarde's memoirs.

Bacon's Arena

Adam Low

Francis Bacon, David Warner

A profile of British painter, Francis Bacon.

Arena: Salvador Dali.

Adam Low

Documentary showcasing the life and works of surrealist artist Salvador Dali. "Presents Dali's entire oeuvre--painting, sculpture, writing, fashion and film--in the context of his extraordinary life and international career."

Kurosawa

Adam Low

Akira Kurosawa, Sam Shepard

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

Frankenstein: A Modern Myth

Tim Van Someren, Adam Low

David Bradley, Daniel Ings

From Boris Karloff to Mel Brooks - Frankenstein has fired the imagination of generations of artists who have created their own interpretation of this Gothic masterpiece. Frankenstein: A Modern Myth looks at some of these depictions, including Danny Boyle's sell-out hit at the National Theatre. The film has exclusive access to rehearsals and interviews with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller - who alternate the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature - and with Danny Boyle. It also features cult film director John Waters: "I'm sympathetic to monsters, and this was the first one I came across as a child".

The Ten Commandments of Krzysztof Kieslowski

Adam Low

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Documentary on Krzysztof Kieslowski's Dekalog from the BBC Arena series.

Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens

Adam Low

A portrait of Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. Six years after his death, his family recalls the experiences that inspired his finest poems.

Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling

Adam Low

Alan Yentob, Marina Abramović

Performance artist Marina Abramovic invites Alan Yentob into her home, opens her archive, travels to her birthplace in Belgrade and talks about turning her life into art.