Please note: This was screened in July 2025
Channel 4’s remit to broaden diversity of programming and the commissioning of independent producers extended into the way it presented and explored film culture.
In the televisual pre-internet landscape of the early 1980s Hollywood and stars invariably dominated the public broadcasting conversation. The new channel commissioned a Visions and cinema series which would explore world cinema and include a range of then new voices talking about a wider world of cinema.
Programmes subjects would range across such diverse subjects as Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, experimental Canadian filmmaker Michael Snow, Contemporary Philippine cinema and French Film Policy!
Film Historian Professor Ian Christie who contributed to the series will talk about the impact the series made in film culture in the UK and his own work on programmes about Jean Luc Godard and Raul Ruiz.