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...

Short film.

Short film.

Short film.

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...

Barber constructs a curious biography around his father's relationship to his nephew Alan Rickman who he dislikes one Christmas for refusing to eat...

Video art by George Barber.

Actor Brian Hickey performs a parody of a TV weatherman in a film which reminds us just how mannered most weather presentations are.

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

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

Thirsty? The longing created by advertising is satirised in this remix of Schweppes advertising.

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...

The inside story of the long-running Hovis TV advertisement as Barber’s voice-over highlights the psychological emptiness of the narratives...

George Barber deconstructs two feature films, The Blue Lagoon and The Deep, pillaging ‘moments’ which when re-edited constitute a new...

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

A remixing of Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe prints.

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

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

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...