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Articles of type: “Video”

 

Video: Monkeying Around

Video: Monkeying Around

Posted: 27th Jun 2007

Limb contortions, plate spinning, rope dangling, human pyramids... Watch the acrobats hard at work during rehearsals for Monkey, Journey To The West.

 

Video: Damon's Musical Journey

Video: Damon's Musical Journey

Posted: 25th Jun 2007

Watch Damon Albarn, Blur front man and brain behind Gorillaz, on the process of writing the opera Monkey, Journey To The West.

 

Video: Jamie Hewlett's Monkey Memories

Video: Jamie Hewlett's Monkey Memories

Posted: 25th Jun 2007

"Friday night, school's finished, watch Monkey." Watch artist Jamie Hewlett share some of his designs for the character Monkey.

 

Video: Chen Shi-Zheng's Dream World

Video: Chen Shi-Zheng's Dream World

Posted: 25th Jun 2007

The director of Monkey, Journey To The West, Chen Shi-Zheng, on his first Monkey encounter.

 

Video: A New Way Of Juggling

Video: A New Way Of Juggling

Posted: 30th May 2007

The Surrealists enjoyed subverting ordinary ways of doing things. Watch Alan Yentob's New Way Of Juggling.

 

Video: Limbo-Land

Video: Limbo-Land

Posted: 30th May 2007

Watch artist Zoe Walker's tragicomic and surreal attempt to launch a handmade moon into the night sky.

 

Video: Proverbs For Today

Video: Proverbs For Today

Posted: 29th May 2007

Watch Alan Yentob offer a surreal twist on Proverbs For Today.

 

Video: A Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism

Video: A Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism

Posted: 29th May 2007

"Kink, lesbianise, masturbate." In their quest to subvert all things the Surrealists even managed to make sign language dirty. Watch as Alan Yentob delivers a Succinct Lexicon of Eroticism.

 

Video: How To Be A Surrealist

Video: How To Be A Surrealist

Posted: 29th May 2007

"The mad beast of custom must be hunted down!" the Surrealists declared of the conventions of art and life. Watch our guide on How To Be A Surrealist.

 

Video: C'etait Un Rendezvous

Video: C'etait Un Rendezvous

Posted: 24th May 2007

Watch an extended clip of the cult French driving film C'etait un Rendezvous, as used in Imagine…it's the surreal thing.

 

Video: Listening To Scott

Video: Listening To Scott

Posted: 22nd May 2007

Watch musicians Jarvis Cocker, Dot Allison, Johnny Marr, Damon Albarn, Alison Goldfrapp, Sting and others comment on Scott Walker's early work.

 

Video: Scott Walker's Pork Percussion

Video: Scott Walker's Pork Percussion

Posted: 18th May 2007

Watch Scott Walker on the song Clara, inspired by the execution of Mussolini, along with rehearsals of Walker instructing his percussionist how to punch raw pork.

 

Video: "The Greatest Theft In History"

Video: "The Greatest Theft In History"

Posted: 14th May 2007

Watch a preview of Stealing Klimt, the dramatic story of how the Nazis stole Klimt's masterpiece from Maria Altmann's family and her desperate struggle to reclaim it years later.

 

Video: Dance with Gilbert and George

Video: Dance with Gilbert and George

Posted: 9th May 2007

Watch Gilbert and George recreate their famous Bend It dance, with your choice of soundtracks, including Green Onions and Just The Two Of Us.

 

Video: The Singing Lobster

Video: The Singing Lobster

Posted: 8th May 2007

Watch Gilbert and George show Alan Yentob their treasured singing lobster.

 

Video: "Spice Boys"

Posted: 8th May 2007

"All Mouth And No Trousers." Gilbert and George read some of their favourite newspaper headlines about themselves.

 

Video: "My sister Lilly is a whore down Piccadilly..."

Posted: 8th May 2007

"My mother is another down The Strand..." Gilbert and George talk about the street where they live in a clip only available on this website.

 

Video: Sexual Townscape

Posted: 8th May 2007

Gilbert and George take Alan Yentob around their recent Tate Modern exhibition, showing him work inspired by East End grafitti and personal ads.

 

Video: "I Love The Burnt Sienna"

Posted: 8th May 2007

Watch Gilbert and George as they make a piece of art exclusively for Imagine...



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