George Barber Movies

This revolves around Tim West, an advertising executive who is developing a Channel 4 programme on cooking for terrorists. Disillusioned by the...

Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of...

Actor Brian Hickey performs a parody of a TV weatherman in a film which reminds us just how mannered most weather presentations are.

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...

Observed from an overhead camera, a man stops by the roadside one morning and empties the contents of a number of large cans of paint over the...

Video art by George Barber.

An unmanned drone deviates from its destined flight path, as it wanders through time and space its camera surveys its surroundings and the robot...

A beautiful woman screams at something unseen off camera. Paul Newman appears eating salad and soon the famous sequence of Paul Newman closing a car...

Short film.

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...

Thirsty? The longing created by advertising is satirised in this remix of Schweppes advertising.

"Walking Off Court concerns a story I saw in the Times about a tennis coach called James Goodman who had a nervous breakdown around about the time...

A comic monologue, I Was Once In A Shit Show is a recollection of an imaginary art event that tallies with what most artists experience when they are...

Short film.

A film about the discrepancy between the random and the intended. Chance meetings, chance adventures, holiday anecdotes and the slowed down...

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...

Promo video for the Arts Council

George Barber deconstructs two feature films, The Blue Lagoon and The Deep, pillaging ‘moments’ which when re-edited constitute a new...

A home movie on permanent loop. Live action up for grabs. A family walk the walk across a field, disappearing into memory as they do. Who knows where...

Short film.