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Bodney Brooks, a twelve year old master of computer controlled puppetry, decides to arrange a surprise birthday party for his Gran in an attempt to get back into his family’s good books. But, as ever in Bodney’s world, things don’t quite go to plan.
A brief journey through the human experience as seen by the eyes of an Artificial Intelligence.
Awel Jones unexpectedly loses her gravity. At first she is embarrassed by her amazing gift and becomes isolated at school - until one day, she has to confront the bullies.
Short by the creator of "The Cramp Twins"
Despite their hardships, Ljubica and the few remaining other village residents find peace, connection and freedom in a remote Macedonian village.
January 1899 saw the worst storm at sea in living memory and the most astonishing lifeboat rescue attempt of the century. The coxswain of the Louisa lifeboat and his daughter struggle with nature, personal loyalty, and their duty to save the lives of strangers. Told via animation, Louisa: An Amazing Adventure is an exciting and uplifting story certain to entertain and charm the entire family.
The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This artistic technique, often used in the 16th- and 17th centuries, utilizes a method of visual distortion with which paintings, when viewed from different angles, mischievously revealed hidden symbols.
Tourists hunch under their Union Jack umbrella in the greenery of central London, while a composited flag in an array of red, white and blue Ankara fabrics ripples against the coastal waves of sunset-lit Margate Beach.
A film that imitates nature in its manner of operation, depicting animated cycles in a world entirely based on sound frequency and vibration.
This CGI animation follows a self-driving police car in a desolate landscape. In dialogue with a built-in therapist, they contemplate the meaning of freedom and lament their uselessness. As their conversation ensues, it becomes increasingly clear in what kind of world our protagonist is living. Theta is part of Lawrence Lek's Sinofuturist cinematic universe, in which he explores the psychological impact of technology on emerging forms of non-human life.
This animated film presents the journey of a queer person, exploring sexuality and the queer community. It illustrates an observation of the modern queer society and fantasies toward the freedom of gender fluidity, reflecting the real situation of the community where discriminations, freedom, and love coexist.
Apple Gatherers follows two workers in an apple cider factory, the Peeler and the Shoveller. The film explores the loneliness and dissatisfaction of their labour-intensive world and the brief reprieve they find in moments of real human connection.
Intercutting live action footage with animation, a depiction of the possible memories, repressions and fears of the leading character. The animated sections are monologues by a male figure drawn to highlight the tension between rigid and fluid body structures, skeleton and flesh.
A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the Internet.
An experiment in collective ownership of intellectual property.
A piece of toast who “wears” butter every single day becomes bored of their mundane life, they long for something different. Until one day they are visited by a myriad of different breads and pastries dressed up in different spreads in various ways who encourage Toast to find their own individuality by expressing themselves through stylish fashion.
Hedi is experiencing strange things. While her granddaughter is visiting, she suddenly embarks on a hiking journey, to the deepest parts of the Alps, revealing the reason for her devoted attachment to her hiking shoes.
Together Again is a three-minute film featuring a husband trying to reach his wife, who has dementia, by navigating a stormy sea. With him is another person who represents Admiral Nurses, whose specialist knowledge and skills are used to help keep families that are affected by dementia closer.
Marjorie the cow lives in a run-down stable in the middle of Bethlehem. Nothing exciting ever happens in Bethlehem until now… there’s a census or something and there’s going to be some sort of street party – that’s what Marje has heard, anyway!
This highly entertaining animated film begins as a young girl settles down into bed to sleep after coming home from a party. One of her feet protrudes from under the bed cover and the toes come alive and discuss how painful they are after being cramped into ill-fitting shoes all day. The toes show in a series of flash-backs how they have been maltreated, and a dream shows how they would like to be treated - feet measured, shoes fitted and lots of time spent out of shoes and stockings.
Joy Batchelor directed, produced, wrote and designed this short film for Brook Bond Tea: two girls compete for the affections of a Teddy Bear.
A man in a decaying room looks at an old photograph of himself and tries to recreate the happiness he once felt.
This work is a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the style of a Greek vase. When his wife Eurydice dies, Orpheus descends into Hell and by charming the gods of the Underworld with his singing wins Eurydice back, only to lose her again at the threshold of the Overworld'.
Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.
Timmy and his friends get snowed in at daycare on Christmas Eve.
A young woman named Anna lives in a stable, perfect house, anchored in space, locked safely away from the chaotic Tornado that rages outside. Only when her house keys are blown away, is she forced to confront the chaos that she works so hard to avoid. As she navigates her way through the tornado to retrieve her keys, she encounters a variety of people, living their normal lives, embracing the chaos. Anna's perspective on life is challenged as she must decide whether to join the unpredictable world of the tornado, or go back to the safety of her tethered house.
Two drunk friends accidentally walk into a crime scene.
Animated history of the River Thames.
Two boys prepare to make a short film, but struggle to agree on a plot, or genre, or anything for that matter.
A little boy and a strange duck discover that sometimes you have to be cruel to stay kind.
An intimate portrait of personal thoughts and limiting beliefs seen through the inner workings of the mind.
Nikolina Kulidžan was twelve years old when she fell in love for the first time. Not long after, the Bosnian War changed her life forever.
Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
It follows Merlyn, a transgender wizard who really wants a beard to fit in and match his idols. Him and his trusty companion a Main coon Merp, as he is trying new and creative ways to make beards, as they go wrong and he starts to lose hope Merp breaks him out of his spiral and helps him realise he is awesome just the way he is.
Fabergé animals in a Russian influenced Easter tale.
A nutty professor meets a very hungry caterpillar in this animated chase cartoon brimming with swinging 60s backdrops.
Year 1985. Tehran. Iran-Iraq war. It’s just an ordinary evening at the grandparents’; Grandad is listening to Voice of America on the radio. The glamorous popstar is showing off her strapless, red dress on a poster. Granny is making her little granddaughter a dress. The granddaughter is eagerly waiting for her dress to be made; a dress exactly the same as the popstar’s. Red. With no straps.
A poem of unrequited love: the studio's first puppet production. Based on a poem by Cosbie Garstin, the film tells the story of a carved wooden saint who is painted to look like a soldier and used as a figurehead on a sailing ship. The ship sinks and the figurehead is saved by a beautiful mermaid who falls in love with him. Her love is not returned because despite his dashing looks he has the wooden heart of a saint.
If you repeat the word 'fly' for long enough it sounds like you are saying 'life'. This is of no help to Peter. His answers lie in the brain of the beetle.
A young writer feels the pressure of running out of time.
Run Wrake short film from 2001
A vertical habitat that takes us from daily survival to the unhinged dystopia of late capitalism.
A child dreams of the Bible tale, reenacted by toys.
Bernard is annoyed and flabbergasted at being called the black sheep of the family for nothing more than his lifestyle choices and drinking habits. Not happy with being labelled a boozer and a liability he is seizing this moment to unload his outrage on anyone who will listen, if it takes him all day.
Experimental stop-motion film by Dave Borthwick.
A very brief history of time, and how it has been measured from the dawn of time to the dawn of digital watches.
Neil Allcock's animated tale of a group of Madonna fans camping outside a hotel to get a glimpse of their idol.
An investigative and exploratory hands-on gloves-off study into the practice of putting things 'off". Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first.
A man undresses and takes to flight, while another man and his dog witness him.
Santa Claus threatens to go on strike, as a result of people posting mail too late!
Kemi lives and works in the murky slipstream of a North London pub. As the booze flows the line between who belongs behind and in front of the bar becomes increasingly blurred.
A discarded cartoon character and some spilt ink combine and interact as if the cartoonist had drawn their actions. Discovering them, the cartoonist then joins in the interaction.
Examines in detail Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting, 'Netherlandish Proverbs', which illustrates over 100 proverbs and allegorises a whole world of sin and folly as relevant today as in the 16th century.
Len Lye’s camera-less film animates “swing” versions of the popular Lambeth Walk—featuring Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stéphane Grappelli on violin—through scratched and painted imagery directly on celluloid. Sponsored by the Tourist and Industrial Development Association after Lye and his family fell into hardship, the film blends vibrant visual rhythms with music, free of advertising slogans, and stands out as one of Lye’s most playful experiments in direct cinema.
After a decade of isolation in psychiatric institutions, Jon, a paranoid schizophrenic, finds his salvation in online video games.
A short film about the game of dominoes.
The Marshalls seem like they live an idyllic life, but all is not what it seems. Mrs Marshall is hiding a dark secret in the depths of the house
Timeless, made entirely with stop motion to music from Poppy Ackroyd's album Feathers
Bingo, a cartoon dog, joins the circus.
First film in the Blind Justice documentary animation series about women and the law. The film traces the Aristotelian concept of all men being created equal and the exclusion of women from this concept.