George Barber Movies

Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of...

This revolves around Tim West, an advertising executive who is developing a Channel 4 programme on cooking for terrorists. Disillusioned by the...

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

Short film.

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...

An unmanned drone deviates from its destined flight path, as it wanders through time and space its camera surveys its surroundings and the robot...

Promo video for the Arts Council

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...

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

On the left side of this video diptych sequences of a typical Hollywood movie of the genre "airplane catastrophy" are showing, while on the right...

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...

A remixing of Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe prints.

What’s it like being a Renaissance man when your host is a jerk-of-all-trades? What’s it like being obsessed with memory when you host...

Short film.

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

Video art by George Barber.

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...

A film about the discrepancy between the random and the intended. Chance meetings, chance adventures, holiday anecdotes and the slowed down...

"Walking Off Court concerns a story I saw in the Times about a tennis coach called James Goodman who had a nervous breakdown around about the time...

Film by George Barber.