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Writing in the Sand DVD
Constructed almost entirely from Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s black and white photographs, the film evokes the magic of an urban family’s day out on the windswept beaches of North East England. It is packed with action, invention...£15.00 -
Seacoal DVD
Betty and her daughter are introduced to the seacoaling way of life by Ray, the offer of a caravan on a cliff top and its Klondyke promises preferable to the violent marriage she has left...£15.00 -
The Bamboozler DVD
THE BAMBOOZLER 47 mins, 2007 When Tyneside percussionist Bruce Arthur died in 2002, he left behind an Aladdin’s Cave of instruments, gathered from the four corners of the Earth – drums, gongs, wood blocks, marimbas,...£15.00 -
The Tyne Documentaries DVD
Amber’s new Special Edition DVD of The Tyne Documentaries – Launch (10 mins,1973), Bowes Line (28 mins,1975), Last Shift (17 mins,1976) and Glassworks (20 mins,1977) Special Features also included - Making The Tyne Documentaries (29...£15.00 -
Shooting Magpies DVD
The third in Amber’s coalfield trilogy of free-standing feature dramas exploring post-industrial experience in East Durham, it looks at the impacts of heroin and the economically marginalised lives of a generation that emerged after coal...£18.00 -
In Fading Light DVD
A feature drama set in the declining fishing industry in North Shields, the actors auditioned and trained by local fishermen and filmed on the 63 foot seine netter bought by Amber. 103 mins, 16mm Colour/optical...£15.00 -
Bowes Line VHS
The Bowes Railway linked Kibblesworth Colliery with Jarrow Staithes. Full sets of coal were hauled up the steep hills until they reached Springwell where they were set free to run down the incline towards the...£10.00 -
Byker VHS
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, a Finn and a founder member of the newly formed Amber Associates, came with the group to the North East of England in 1969 and set up home in the old Byker area...£10.00 -
Dream On VHS
When she arrives from Donegal on her ramshackle motor bike and sidecar Peggy O’Rourke certainly puts the cat among the pigeons in North Shields. Her son, Bert, the loan shark who runs the pub and...£10.00 -
In Fading Light VHS
In Fading Light centres on the upheaval caused in a traditional fishing community by the unexpected arrival of a young woman. A tale of epic proportions, life and death, emotional conflict, told with a documentary...£10.00 -
Keeping Time VHS
North Shields, a small town in Tyneside, with a once thriving fishing industry, now has one of the highest rates of unemployment in the country. Children get asked by their teachers: “You will never work,...£10.00 -
Launch VHS
The gradual emergence of a ship at the end of the street and its sudden subsequent disappearance was part of the annual cycle in Wallsend. To the unsuspecting visitor, the first encounter with a ship...£10.00 -
Letters to Katja VHS
“Perhaps the freedom I wanted most, was the freedom not to know which journeys I might embark on in my life, and where they might take me. And like so many others, perhaps I had...£10.00 -
Like Father VHS
Like Father portrays a family in crisis, focusing on the dislocations of grandfather, father and son. Pigeon man Arthur Elliott, a seventy-year-old whose working life in the pit gave him a strong sense of identity...£10.00 -
Mai VHS
Born in India around 1890 from Irish-Persian parents, Mai Finglass as a young woman taught on the Himalayan mountains, and was influenced by such radical educationalists as Annie Bessant, Madame Blavatsky, Madame Montessouri and Gandhi,...£10.00 -
Quayside VHS
Quayside was the old commercial centre of Newcastle with an image to match its importance. Its solid Victorian architecture, designed and built with wealth and skill, emanates permanence and faith in the future. Yet it...£10.00 -
Seacoal VHS
The inspiration for Seacoal undoubtedly came from the staggering visual location in which it is filmed; the industrial landscape of power station and pit framing the blackened beach of Lynemouth where, for generations, local people...£10.00 -
The Filleting Machine VHS
The Filleting Machine was Amber’s first wholly fictional film, and was scripted by Tom Hadaway. The story which is set in North Shields concerns domestic conflict between a husband and wife. The family who live...£10.00 -
The Scar VHS
Like many women who were active during the miner’s strike, it is May Murton (Charlie Hardwick) who has been left to clean up the mess. The failure of her marriage and the disintegration of her...£10.00 -
The Writing in the Sand VHS
THE WRITING IN THE SAND evokes the magic of an urban family’s day out on the windswept beaches of north East England. It is packed with action, invention and surprise: bodiless heads sticking out of...£10.00