Films

Lizbeth Goodman in A Civilised Clash (2008)

1971 - Running, 10 min., fiction (based on a story by F. Kafka), Director, Producer.

1972 - Spring’s End, 19 min., fiction. Director, Producer. First shown at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv Museum, November 1972.1973 - The Test, 11 min., fiction. Director, Producer.

1975 - The Crumbling Ivory Tower, 45 min., a documentary about art education in Britain, commissioned by UNESCO. Distributed through UNESCO. Director, Producer.

1977 - Dinosaurs in the Playground, 40 min., a documentary charting the development, over a number of years, of a public art project in London. Commissioned by the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA). Distributed through the Arts Council of Great Britain. Production, Camera.

1977-1979 - Senior Producer/Director at Medi-Cine Ltd, producing and directing over 30 individual films, mainly medical documentaries. The main productions were:CVC - an 8-part series of films about the Cardio-Vascular system, each on a different aspect, lasting half an hour. Produced for ICI. Echo Sound - A series of four films, concentrating on what was then a revolutionary method of medical examination of internal organs, each part lasting 25 minutes. Ampicillin - A film of 30 minutes presenting what was then the newest antibiotic.

1981 - The Options, 30 min., a documentary about the Steel Workers strike. Production, Sound, Camera.

1989 - A State of Danger, 30 min., a documentary about Israeli-Palestinian cooperation against the brutalities of the occupation, during the first Intifada. Aired on BBC2, March 1989.
Director/Producer, Sound, shown in film festivals at Chicago, October, 1989, Leipzig , November, 1989, and France, October, 1989, Recently shown at the EmptyLand Film Festival, Amsterdam (January 2001). Distributed through Women Make Movies. To read a review.

In Progress – Art in Exile, 45 min. (projected) a documentary about the art acquisition policies of western museums, to be shot in UK, USA, France, Italy and Egypt. Financed by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK)In Progress – A Civilised Clash, 18 minute – a 16 screen drama-dance production, with Prof. Lizbeth Goodman and Bobby Byrne as the Dancers. Music by arrangement with Kila, Dublin. An introduction to the project and Production photographs can be viewed here. To see a short clip of the making of this film, click here.

Tags: documentary, Egypt, Intifada, Museum, Museums, photographer