Selected films for international television

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THE ARTS

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STATE OF THE ART. A much-praised and much-pilloried six-part series on ideas and images in the nineteen eighties. Illuminations  Channel 4 /WDR Cologne. 6 x 1 mins

BFI Grierson award nomination.

SHOOTING STAR, a celebrated posthumous portrait of the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Illuminations for Channel 4. 1 x 60mins

SHOCK OF THE NEO, a playful exploration on questions of originality in art. 1hr. Channel 4.

L’OBJET D’ART A L’AGE ELECTRONIQUE, a playful exploration on the status and value of art, made for the opening  night of the French cultural network La Sept. 1hr.

THE VANISHING REMBRANDTS.   An exploration of questions of authenticity, focusing on the Rembrandt Research Project, based in Amsterdam. 1hr. BBC / Arts Council of Great Britain coproduction.

Winner grand prize, Bratislava Film Festival.

IVANOV GOES TO MOSCOW  A study of actors under pressure, starring Ralph Fiennes, Harriet Walter and Bill Paterson. A journey with the company of Almeida Theatre to Moscow, where they performed Chekhov’s first complete play, IVANOV. 1 hr. Channel 4/National Video Corporation.

Indy nomination.

THE MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRAVELOGUE. A portrait in movement of the great choreographer. 1hr. LWT.

DANCING, an eight-part series  for  PBS in America in coproduction with the BBC and RM International . Filmed on six continents, the most ambitious presentation of dance in its social, cultural and historical context ever produced for television. 1hrx8. 

Malta Prize at the International Festival for Films on Dance, Paris. 

Dunlop’s episode Dance Centrestage final nomination Primetime Emmy.

THE BIG READ: GREAT EXPECTATIONS

David Dimbleby entertainingly puts the case for Dickens’ masterpiece. 30 mins. BBC.

LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY.  Three of  five films for an innovative series with the renowned historian SIMON SCHAMA. 5x40mins. BBC.

MASKS OF ARCADIA. An intimate portrait of a Japanese community under the pressures of change. BBC/A&E. 1 x 60mins

ONCE IN A LIFETIME. A video entertainment with the cult band Talking Heads. Illuminations for Channel 4. 1 x 80mins. 

BFI Grierson award nomination.

THE MAGICAL INDIAN ROADSHOW. The struggle by travelling entertainers to survive in modern India. BBC 

1 x 60 mins

DESERT DREAMERS. The story of the translation of spirtual imagery into the dot painting movement in central Australia. BBC. 1 x 60mins

THE WORLD

THE SHADOW OF THE WEST. A collaboration with the Palestinian writer and intellectual EDWARD SAID. One of four films Dunlop made for the series THE ARABS. Video Arts/Kufic for Channel 4. 4 x 60mins

THE RIDDLE OF  MIDNIGHT. A documentary study of the generation of Midnight’s Children, written and presented by SALMAN RUSHDIE.  Antelope Productions for 

Channel 4/RM Arts. 1 x 75 mins.

OUT OF THE SHADOWS   JOHN McCARTHY returns to Lebanon for the first time since he spent five years in captivity there, as the hostage of Shia gunmen. ORTV for ITV Network. 

1 x 60mins

PALESTINE STREET  A two-part film to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba - the "catastrophe', as Palestinians describe the creation of Israel. This intimate and personal film focusses on a street in the ancient city of Jaffa, now a suburb of Tel Aviv. Al-Jazeera English. 2 x 60 mins.

FACES OF ISLAM  Personal portraits of prominent Muslims.

4x20 mins. OR Media for BBC 1.

FAULTLINES  An exploration of the complex relationship between religion and politics in six contrasting societies – USA, Iran, India, Brazil, Russia, Israel/Palestine. A collaboration with the writer/presenter JOHN McCARTHY.  CTVC for ITV Network. 6x40mins 

CHINA UTOPIA  An exploration of the renaissance in China a thousand years ago, and its relationship with the newly-awakening China of the twenty-first century. Illuminations/Muse Films, NY for Christiansen Foundation. 1x30mins.

THE WELL OF SACRIFICE, a dramatised film for the Discovery Channel, set in Mexico. It tells the extraordinary story of Edward Thompson, who discovered treasures in the Mayan city of Chichen Itza and smuggled them to the United States at the turn of the century. Atlantic Films for DISCOVERY  1hr. 

BARRICADES. The attempts of three young women in Lebanon to live “ordinary” lives through ten years of civil war. Thames, ITV  1 x 60mins 

THE GROWING PAINS OF EDEN and THE GARDENERS OF EDEN  Two films for BBC 2 on this extraordinary environmental organisation. Denham Films for BBC. 2 x 60 mins

NEW YORK CLEANS UP, LONDON PRIDE,  NETWORK CITY. Three episodes for a series on the changing face of modern cities. Open University Production Centre for BBC2. 2 x 30mins.

ARE YOU CAPTAIN CORELLI?  The extraordinary true story of Captain Amos Pampaloni, the survivor of a massacre on the Greek island of Cephalonia sixty years ago. Made to coincide with the release of the feature film "Captain Corelli's Mandolin". The year's most watched arts programme on BBC  2 in the year of production   BBC Knowledge/ET-1 Greece. 

1 x 60mins

TO THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, an intimate film about a pilgrimage from a community in western Nepal to Mt. Kailash in Tibet. Vafe Productions for  FR3, NDR, BSkyB, UFA Non-fiction.

1 x 60mins  Prizewinner Teluride Festival, Colorado and International Festival of Mountain and Explorations Films, Toulouse. 

BANKING ON THE FUTURE An extraordinary enterprise conducted by street children in India's capita, Delhi.  Al-Jazeera English / ORTV. 1 x 30 mins.

EDUCATION IN CONFLICT  A study of children and young adults struggling to gain an education in Gaza, Afghanistan and Iraq. Qatar Foundation /Al-Jazeera English. 2 x 60 mins.

GOD’S BUSINESS  An investigation of the relationship between money and power in the oldest of the great multinational enterprises, religious institutions around the world. Reporter John McCarthy. Al-Jazeera English / ORTV. 6 x 30 mins.

RADIO

LEBANON: The Next Generation

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KURDISTAN: A State of Uncertainty

Primetime documentaries for BBC Radio 4 which I co-wrote and produced with my longterm collaborator John McCarthy.