Bloomsbury Video Library - Arts and Humanities Collection

Arts and Humanities Collection

The Arts and Humanities Collection houses an international range of content across the visual and performing arts, covering subjects including: Visual and Applied Arts, Film and Media, Music, Dance, and History and Culture.

Discover exclusive indie films and shorts, avant-garde performances and interviews with renowned writers, artists, choreographers, performers and practitioners. Offering documentaries on an international range of themes, traditions and historical figures plus instructional videos

To support libraries of all sizes and specialisms, smaller thematic subsets of the Arts and Humanities Collection are also available.

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Fine Wind, Clear Morning by Katsushika Hokusai

Visual and Applied Arts Video

Discover documentaries, interviews, and instructional videos which together cover fine art, the history of art, performance art, new media art, architecture, fashion, design, craft, decorative arts, antiques and luxury goods.

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Movie Director Richard Lester on Film Set in Telluride Colorado

Film and Media Video

Watch feature and experimental film including ground-breaking avant-garde films by Fluxus and Chris Petit, as well as interviews with film practitioners, and documentaries on topics including sound and lighting, television editing and more.

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coloured piano keys

Find filmed performances and documentaries on genres from jazz to classical and discover renowned figures such as Arvo Pärt, Pierre Boulez, Stephen Sondheim and many others.

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Explore a rich range of international content from ballet, flamenco, contemporary and hip-hop, to dance traditions from Bali, India, Japan, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tunisia and indigenous Australia.

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Young Asian women holding candles

History and Culture Video

Delve into international content that will support Asian, Australasian, Latin American and African Studies, as well as Literature, Anthropology of Art, Politics, History, Gender and Sexuality and Environment and Sustainability.

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Film by Sue Maslin

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