Malachite Art Films

Broadcast, Cinema, DVD & Online

Malachite (pronounced malakite) a bright-green mineral taking a high polish. O.E.D.

We’ve always been green!

Malachite makes independent music, arts, documentary, environmental and educational films for broadcast, cinema, DVD and online.

Creating Delight and Insight on Screen

Who we are:

Charles Mapleston

is a filmmaker and works as a writer, director and producer in film, television, video and multimedia. He began his broadcasting career at the BBC where he received extensive technical and production training both in radio and television. He subsequently worked freelance for the BBC, ITV and corporate production companies before setting up his own production company, Malachite Ltd.

Having spent many years shooting award-winning films on 16mm & 35mm filmstock around Britain and the world with crews large and small, Malachite ‘went digital’ for the Millennium, investing in new lightweight and compact equipment. Usually Charles Mapleston now works with just one specialist collaborator. This low profile approach puts film subjects at ease and speeds the production process whilst maintaining that all-important broadcast quality, both technically and editorially.

Libby Horner

is an art historian, researcher, writer, curator, lecturer and designer and has worked on numerous Malachite films.

Major exhibitions have included:

Frank Brangwyn 1867-1956, Leeds, Bruges, Swansea, 2006-2007; Frank Brangwyn, Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, 2010 (presented with award for best researched exhibition by Western Arts Foundation, Japan).

Publications include:

A Flint Seaside Church: St Augustine’s Abbey Church, Ramsgate, Pugin Society, 2000 (with Gill Hunter); Frank Brangwyn. A Mission to Decorate Life, London: The Fine Art Society and Liss Fine Art, 2006. (shortlisted for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2006); Frank Brangwyn 1867-1956, Leeds Museums and Galleries and Groeningemuseum/Arents House, 2006 (edited with Gillian Naylor and nominated for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2007); Patrick Reyntiens. Catalogue of Stained Glass, Sansom & Company, 2013; Brangwyn at War!, Cambridge, 2014

Contact Us by email

Malachite Ltd. East Kirkby House Spilsby Lincolnshire PE23 4BX UK+44 (0)1790 763538

Characters

Some of the people featured in Malachite Art Films:

David Attenborough (broadcaster & naturalist), Gillian Ayres (artist), Ken Baynes (designer), Quentin Bell (art historian & author), David Bellamy (author & botanist), Quentin Blake (illustrator), Pierre Boulez (composer & conductor), Frank Brangwyn (artist), James Burke (science historian), Patrick Caulfield (artist), John Clare (poet), Richard Cork (art critic), Dennis Creffield (artist), Richard Dawkins (author & biologist), Robert Dawson (musician & artist), Fiore de Henriquez (sculptor), Aidan Dun (poet), Margaret Drabble (novelist), Colin Ford (photographic curator), Norman Foster (architect), Christopher Frayling (educationalist), James Galway (musician), Angelica Garnett (writer & artist), Fay Godwin (photographer), Rigby Graham (artist), Maggi Hambling (artist), Richard Hamilton (artist), Richard Ingrams (writer & humourist), George Large (artist), Prue Leith (restaurateur & writer), Alison Lurie (novelist), Ken Matsuzaki (potter), Don McCullin (photographer), Peter Melchett (environmentalist), National Youth Jazz Orchestra (musicians), Jessye Norman (opera singer), John Piper (artist), Alan Plater (playright), Arthur Ransome (author), Patrick Reyntiens (artist), Phil Rogers (potter), Gordon Russell (designer), Carol Shields (author), Clive Sinclair (inventor), Donald Sinden (actor), Reresby Sitwell (head of Sitwell family), Frances Spalding (art historian & writer), Roy Strong (art historian & curator), Alice Temperley (fashion designer), Midge Ure & Ultravox (musicians), Mike Westbrook (composer).