George Barber Movies

Short film.

The inside story of the long-running Hovis TV advertisement as Barber’s voice-over highlights the psychological emptiness of the narratives...

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...

Short film.

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.

Barber constructs a curious biography around his father's relationship to his nephew Alan Rickman who he dislikes one Christmas for refusing to eat...

A meditation on product history. A lo-fi dramatisation of Vidal’s Sassoon’s momentous, groundbreaking invention of the shampoo Wash & Go.

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

Following Your Heart uses off-air adverts and minor films. The central conceit is to take found footage and manipulate it into a new artistic...

Short film.