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Peter Symes Archive
1987 - 2000
Archive of the director Peter Symes, principally covering his work with Tony Harrison. Symes and Harrison collaborated on several film-poems, including the Loving Memory (1987) series ('Letters in R...
Loving Memory
c.1985 - 2000
Material relating to the development, production and reception of 'Loving Memory', a series of four film / poems broadcast by the BBC in July and August 1987. Individual films were titiled 'Letters in...
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989 - 1999
Material relating to 'The Blasphemers' Banquet' a film poem created in part as a response to the Salman Rushdie controversy surrounding his publication of The Satanic Verses. It was first broadcast on...
Gaze of the Gorgon
c.1992
Material relating to 'Gaze of the Gorgon', first broadcast on BBC2 in October 1992. Material is divided into four folders, with the following contents: 1 - Research material; mostly photocopies of ...
Black Daisies for the Bride 'Rough Daisies'
1993
Material relating to 'Black Daisies for the Bride' first broadcast on Wed 30th Jun 1993 on BBC2. The film would later win the Documentary Special Prize at the Prix Italia in 1994, and the best drama, ...
Unrealised Projects
c. 1989 - 2007
Material relating to preparatory work for various projects on which Symes and Harrison collaborated, but were not realised. Files are grouped by project, although may cross refer.
Mythical Journeys/Metamorpheus
1999
Material relating to 'Mythical Journey' or 'Metamorpheus', first broadcast on BBC2 on 17 December 2000. Folders contain the following: 1 - Research material (mostly photocopies) and press cuttings ...
Tony Harrison
c.1989 - 2007
Postcards, notes and volumes sent to Symes from Tony Harrison. The file includes c.16 postcards, notes and associated material from Harrison, kept together by Symes with occasional post-it notes expla...
Words on Film
c.1992
Material relating to 'Words on Film' (also titled 'Verse on Film'), a series of documentaries in verse, written by contemporary poets. The series was first broadcast in 1992 on BBC2, as part of the Co...
Films
1987 - 2000
Tapes and discs of films. Includes Beta tapes of Loving Memory/Mimmo Perrella..1987 Loving Memory: Letters in the Rock Loving Memory: the Muffled Bells Loving Memory: Cheating the Void Black Da...
Et in Arcadia Ego
c 1989 - 2002
Material relating to an unrealised film described as 'an exploration of the Diamondback Rattlesnake and the role it plays in mankind's psyche.' The file includes: 1) Research material including phot...
Gainesville project
c1995
A typescript proposal, research material and some ephemera relating to a proposed film on Florida and Schizophrenia. The file includes one card addressed to Symes from Harrison with press cutting encl...