George Barber Movies

  • 2008
    Following Your Heart Can Lead to Wonderful Things

    Following Your Heart Can Lead to Wonderful Things

    Following Your Heart Can Lead to Wonderful Things

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    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...

    Following Your Heart Can Lead to Wonderful Things
  • 1996
    Kite

    Kite

    Kite

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    Short film.

    Kite
  • 1994
    Videohigh Volume One

    Videohigh Volume One

    Videohigh Volume One

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    Film by George Barber.

    Videohigh Volume One
  • 1995
    The Story of Wash & Go

    The Story of Wash & Go

    The Story of Wash & Go

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

    The Story of Wash & Go
  • 1994
    Hovis Ad

    Hovis Ad

    Hovis Ad

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

    Hovis Ad
  • 1994
    Waiting for Dave

    Waiting for Dave

    Waiting for Dave

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    A humorous rooftop monologue: George Barber explains how he sees the year developing, while waiting for the ever unreliable Dave.

    Waiting for Dave
  • 1989
    1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of

    1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of

    1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of

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    Takes the scratch genre to a postmodern extreme by processing and colouring Andy Warhol's Marilyn prints. Warhol's famous print undergoes intense...

    1001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of
  • 1994
    Bridget Riley in the Sky with Diabetes

    Bridget Riley in the Sky with Diabetes

    Bridget Riley in the Sky with Diabetes

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    Short film.

    Bridget Riley in the Sky with Diabetes
  • 1984
    Scratch Free State

    Scratch Free State

    Scratch Free State

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    Scratch Free State has great energy and straddles an interesting line between a popular culture and fine art sensibility. This piece was made at the...

    Scratch Free State
  • 1970
    Refusing Potatotes

    Refusing Potatotes

    Refusing Potatotes

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

    Refusing Potatotes
  • 1996
    2001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of

    2001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of

    2001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of

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    A remixing of Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe prints.

    2001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of