Filmmaker James Scott has enjoyed a diverse career, ranging from early experimental-art documentaries on key 1960s figures such as David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg and R B Kitaj, to work with the radical Berwick Street Collective, independent features and the Oscar®-winning 1982 short A Shocking Accident. The son of celebrated painter William Scott, his film Every Picture Tells a Story is his sensitive, exploratory portrait of his father's early y find out more...
The Camera is Ours tells the story of some of the key female pioneers of the British documentary movement beginning in the 1930s and culminating in the late sixties from collections held by the BFI National Archive ,including: Beside the Seaside (Marion Grierson, 1935, 23 mins) Behind the Scenes (Evelyn Spice, 1938, 17 mins) They Also Serve (Ruby Grierson, 1940, 9 mins) 4 and 20 Fit Girls (Mary Field, 1940, 11 mins) The English Inn (Muriel Box, 1941, 11 mins) Birth-day (Brigid ‘Budge&rs find out more...