Tony Harrison Movies
- 1999
Prometheus
Prometheus5.61999HD
Tony Harrison's poetic essay on the working class - in particular the British miners -, its struggles, its dreams and its icononography - at the very...
- 1989
The Blasphemers' Banquet
The Blasphemers' Banquet01989HD
A film-poem written in response to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
- 1983
The Oresteia
The Oresteia01983HD
Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan war and is murdered by his wife, setting off a chain of revenge that stretches across this trilogy of play....
- 1987
V.
V.7.71987HD
Visualisation of Tony Harrison's poem "v.". v. is about the multiple meanings of the letter - victory, versus, verses, etc. Starting from an incident...
- 1992
The Gaze of the Gorgon
The Gaze of the Gorgon01992HD
Film poem by Tony Harrison which takes the figure of the Gorgon as a metaphor for the "freedom-fixing politics" which have been responsible for so...
- 1993
Black Daisies For The Bride
Black Daisies For The Bride01993HD
A play written by Tony Harrison as a tribute to sufferers of Alzheimer's disease. Filmed in High Royds Hospital, Menston, Yorkshire, the play...