Ron Orders

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.

Assesses the contribution made by British avant-garde composer, Cornelius Cardew, to contemporary music. Includes interviews with Stockhausen and other composers, and extracts from Cardew's own works.

Based on the prize-winning novel by Dambudzo Marechera, on growing up black in white Rhodesia, and the exiled writer's return to the newly liberated Zimbabwe.

Shot in 1983, edited for the VISIONS: CINEMA programme in 1985, a short documentary about Shanghai Animation Studio.

This episode compares film criticism on TV in the USA and the USSR by presenting an episode of At the Movies and an episode of Kinopanorama.

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the organisation of filmmaking under the post-war communist government; the impact of the Cultural Revolution; the work of Xie Jin.

Journalist Maggie O’Kane returns to Iraq five years after Desert Storm to try to understand why she was not able to report the war freely and to investigate some of the stories which did not stand up.

Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.