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Video Streaming

Instructions and links for Video Streaming

About Bloomsbury Video Library

  • The platform provides an international range of content across the visual arts and performing arts, film and media, history and culture, visual and applied arts, and more.
  • exclusive indie films and shorts, avant-garde performances, interviews with renowned writers, artists, choreographers, performers and practitioners.
  • documentaries on an international range of themes, traditions, historical figures, and more.

Collections in the BVL

The Film and Media collection spans feature films, experimental films, documentaries and interviews with film practitioners, and documentaries on sound and lighting, television editing and beyond. Highlights include ground-breaking avant-garde films.

You can access the collection here

The History and Culture collection  features content on a diverse, international range of topics, including Asian, Australasian, Latin American and African Studies, as well as Literature, Anthropology of Art, Politics, History, Gender & Sexuality, and Environment & Sustainability. 

You can access the collection here

The Music collection incorporates a wide range of filmed performances and documentaries on genres from jazz to classical and featuring renowned figures.

You can access the collection here.

The Dance collection  includes a rich international range of video content, spanning European and American contemporary dance to techniques and dance traditions from Australia, Bali, India, Japan, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda and Tunisia. Featuring documentaries, interviews, works and performances from internationally renowned practitioners it encompasses a variety of genres. 

You can access the collection here