George Barber Movies

  • 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
  • 1996
    Autumn

    Autumn

    Autumn

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    Short film.

    Autumn
  • 1985
    Absence of Satan

    Absence of Satan

    Absence of Satan

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    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...

    Absence of Satan
  • 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
  • 1984
    Tilt

    Tilt

    Tilt

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    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...

    Tilt
  • 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
  • 2003
    I Was Once in a Shit Show

    I Was Once in a Shit Show

    I Was Once in a Shit Show

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    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...

    I Was Once in a Shit Show
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1988
    Arts Council GB Scratch

    Arts Council GB Scratch

    Arts Council GB Scratch

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    Promo video for the Arts Council

    Arts Council GB Scratch