Samaritan Films

The life of an old man, John Cartner Ronson, living alone in a huge block of flats in London since his wife died nine years earlier.

A documentary feature offering a general introduction to the work of the painter J.M.W. Turner.

A documentary feature that attempts to approach the meaning of Francis Bacon's vision of the human predicament, without using words, just solely through it's imaginative and emotional effect.

Birthright, which presents the work of the Family Planning Association, is a valuable record of the organisation of contraception and fertility services before the introduction of the contraceptive pill. But, more than this, in its filmmaking style it conveys much about the social attitudes of this era, and the spirit in which those services were conceived and delivered.

A documentary study of a series of works by Welsh painter, Ceri Richards, inspired by the 1910 piano prelude, La Cathédrale Engloutie, by French impressionist composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

David Thompson’s wordless film from 1963 presents an unsettling montage of images from Bacon’s major mid-period works.