Directing

Bob Bentley

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Known for

No artwork available
NR

A mercenary art dealer and his beguiling young assistant pay a visit to a once-famous artist. In his isolated house, they discover disturbing paintings depicting the course of a passionate love affair. But the paintings also seem to reveal startling evidence of a murder. The visitors begin to fear for their lives.

Available Light

1990

Recluse poster
6.2

A reconstruction of the possible events that might have led up to the real-life tragic case of the Luxton family who lived at West Chapple Farm, Winkleigh, Devon. Brothers and sister Robert, Alan and Frances Luxton had lived in the farm for many years. On 23 September 1975 their bodies were found with shotgun wounds outside their farmhouse.

Recluse

1981

Maze poster
NR

Bob Bentley's Royal College of Art degree film, produced in 1969/70. It explores aspects of his life in a deliberately puzzling manner, influenced by French New Wave cinema.

Maze

1969

Janet Baker: Full Circle poster
9.0

This is an intimate look at one year in the life of an international star - the final year in Dame Janet Baker's operatic career.

Janet Baker: Full Circle

1982

No artwork available
NR

A short film made for BBC2, it features insight into the inspiration that Christ Church, Spitalfields gave the composer/performer, John Harle, in the composition of the piece 'Terror and Magnificence'. Writer Iain Sinclair and Professor of Architecture Keith Critchlow contribute with fascinating detail about the structure of the building, the neighbourhood and the overwhelming presence of this huge-scale Hawksmoor church, built after The Great Fire of London.

Terror and Magnificence

1996

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Woman's Place: The Image Makers

1985

Behind the camera

No artwork available
NR

A mercenary art dealer and his beguiling young assistant pay a visit to a once-famous artist. In his isolated house, they discover disturbing paintings depicting the course of a passionate love affair. But the paintings also seem to reveal startling evidence of a murder. The visitors begin to fear for their lives.

Available Light

1990

Recluse poster
6.2

A reconstruction of the possible events that might have led up to the real-life tragic case of the Luxton family who lived at West Chapple Farm, Winkleigh, Devon. Brothers and sister Robert, Alan and Frances Luxton had lived in the farm for many years. On 23 September 1975 their bodies were found with shotgun wounds outside their farmhouse.

Recluse

1981

Maze poster
NR

Bob Bentley's Royal College of Art degree film, produced in 1969/70. It explores aspects of his life in a deliberately puzzling manner, influenced by French New Wave cinema.

Maze

1969

Maze poster
NR

Bob Bentley's Royal College of Art degree film, produced in 1969/70. It explores aspects of his life in a deliberately puzzling manner, influenced by French New Wave cinema.

Maze

1969

Janet Baker: Full Circle poster
9.0

This is an intimate look at one year in the life of an international star - the final year in Dame Janet Baker's operatic career.

Janet Baker: Full Circle

1982

No artwork available
NR

A short film made for BBC2, it features insight into the inspiration that Christ Church, Spitalfields gave the composer/performer, John Harle, in the composition of the piece 'Terror and Magnificence'. Writer Iain Sinclair and Professor of Architecture Keith Critchlow contribute with fascinating detail about the structure of the building, the neighbourhood and the overwhelming presence of this huge-scale Hawksmoor church, built after The Great Fire of London.

Terror and Magnificence

1996

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Woman's Place: The Image Makers

1985