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A man is travelling on a long haul express train journey from Amsterdam to Paris. He shares his sleeper compartment with another man who he engages in conversation. He learns that the man is a cannibal who intends to kill and eat him. The man is unsure of where his life is going and begins to be swayed by the cannibal's assertions that being eaten would give his life meaning and purpose. However, how long can the man stall for, with questions on the finer points of eating someone?

A specially commissioned animation inspired by Barbara Hepworth's art and life.

With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink, thinks, then draws a straight line down the page in front of him, out of which sprout six more quill pens, each held by a hand. The calligrapher moves all the hands and pens in unison, drawing an elaborate feathered wing, which comes to live, peeling off the page, and, now a quill pen, slips in to his hand. He tucks it behind his left ear.

Bonzo is frustrated in his attempt to eat the maid's sausages so he contents himself with drinking the cat's milk.

Short by Vera Neubauer.

Grandad was a romantic. He once saw a picture of Granny and realised that she was the love of his life. One day he decided to go meet her.

A caterpillar tries to impress a suitor with his mating dance.

Stop-motion animation based on the 2000 AD comic series.

In her attempt to escape her past, Huiju relocated to the UK over 11 months ago. However, even after moving to a new country, she found that her nightmares from Korea continued to haunt her. Determined to move forward, she made the decision to confront her memories head-on in a very contemporary way, using dating apps to push the boundaries she had set due to her sexual trauma.

Balanced on a tightrope, Blue must embrace the dance of a stranger to heal the wounds of his past.

ASMR: A feeling that disappears because it’s too subtle to notice, leaving a trace of a soft tingling sensation behind.

A blind man awakes in what may be a forest. (What he touches or hears is in color; the rest of the world, when it is visible to us, is in black and white.) First he explores his surroundings. Then fear takes over, what he hears and touches and imagines, frightens him. He gathers his courage to assert himself, almost with bestial intensity. He realizes that people have gathered to watch him as a policeman tries to coax him out of danger.

As climate change threatens our future, how do we come to terms with the end of our existence?

Some disabled people have no voice or are hard to understand. That doesn't mean they have nothing to say, explains filmmaker Jemima Hughes.

Hurricane Irma is coming. In the calm before the storm on the Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe a little girl is getting excited.

A promotional film for the Cambridge Animation Festival.

An in-depth look at how the short film Monkey Business was created. This was made in 1987 to explain to the clients of MPC what the new digital post production landscape had to offer.

A tornado transports a little girl and her dog to a land of witches, fairies and talking birds in this animated film inspired by "The Wizard of Oz."

By making even the smallest changes in our daily lives we can all make a difference.

A portrayal of Shakespeare's darkest villain Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and his unquenchable thirst for the throne.

Feeling self conscious about his scrawny appearance, Nick lies to his blind date - Joe - about the way he looks. After being attacked by a werewolf he begins to fantasize about the effects it will have on his body. He leaves for the date, assuming he will become “7ft, hairy and handsome”.

Illustrating all the different cuts of beef for benefit of newly-wed women.

“This survey of national symbols was Britain’s first animated feature.” - BFI. Eventually released as six separate short films, only one of which is held by the BFI.

Speak is an 11-minute animated film that was known for its intense flicker/strobe effect when shown in London area psychedelic clubs.

One of Nick Park's earliest works, Archie's Concrete Nightmare was shot on standard 8mm film and submitted to a BBC young animator film competition. The short didn’t win, but it did air on national TV on BBC2 in 1975.

Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a rifle appears and a shot fires. The bullet is visible whirling through space; it caroms and then goes through a pine cone. A long spoon emerges from a drawer in the chair and stretches toward the hand. The bullet is on the spoon. Later, the hand holds the bullet between two fingers; another shot is fired.

Windows demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.

Instructional cartoon for the Admiralty.

Who knows where ideas come from? You or me? Or THEM? The Muses are angry and they want their ideas back! This is a story of thieving and reappropriation, staged on a mythological platform.

Nathan bumps into an old friend. The only complication is that he was supposed to be imaginary...

A string of mishaps, accidents and absurd occurrences pave the way for a luckless down-trodden Selwyn to experience what turns out to be the most fortunate day of his life.

A mustachioed dandy gallops up and scales a high tower to "rescue" a sweet, innocent-looking damsel. She captures him and ties him down, for what he thinks will be a kinky little tryst...

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has released a film addressing the romantic stereotypes of what some people think the Paralympics represent versus the brutal reality of high-performance sport.

Delivering a special message turns out to be harder than anticipated.

He's wild, he's wicked, he's Little Rabbit Foo Foo! The bully-boy bunny likes nothing better than to ride through the forest bopping everyone on the head. Wriggly worms, tigers, no one is safe. But here comes the Good Fairy – and she is not amused!

A man watches a hypnotic movie on a television while holding a gun in his hand and the atmosphere becomes increasingly rarefied.

Plasticine figures come to life and wreak terror on a not-so-friendly ghost.

Autodale's detective presence 'Friendly Shadow' makes an effort to keep the monsters lurking outside from entering the city, one such attack however gets very gruesome very fast.

Two kids in detention are made to watch a cheesy PSA about an often-overlooked aspect of everyday life.

A BAFTA award nominated animated fable in which the audience, while being entertained, may also learn eight Chinese characters.

This film, set to Ponta de Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma) by Jorge Ben, was created to accompany Beleza Tropical: Brazil Classics 1, the first in a series of albums compiled by David Byrne to promote the unique music published by Brazilian artists during a repressive period of military rule in the 1970’s-1980’s. The aim was to visually invoke the album’s sensual and lyrical breadth and depth, and to subtly reflect the underlying social and political issues of that time.

By making even the smallest changes in our daily lives we can all make a difference.

James cannot process the loss of his wife and is lost in an isolated, oppressive and dissonant world. His son, Theo, plays the songs he needs to hear to overcome his emotional and musical block, and put their world back in harmony.

In this film Charley demystifies the new state-funded National Health Service, detailing the benefits a free-at-point-of-delivery health service will offer to everyone in England.

An occult stop-motion puppet ritual of murky origin and questionable aims.

A animated mixed-media music video of a prisioner who is in a chest of drawers breaks out of his cell.

Bonzo steals a pot of paint and turns his hand to being an artist. The Royal Academy exhibits one of his works but throws him out when he paints some harem trousers on a nude statue.

The story of Alice in Wonderland, explored in the stop-motion world of the Quay brothers.

Will Bishop-Stephens has been working on kinetic sculptures he calls “Thrum” since 2020. Version IX links a bicycle wheel to a guitar. Butterfly wings, snail shells, poppy seed capsules and feathers grow and shrink on the spokes, the guitar strings produce a vibrating drone. The animation and sound machine takes us to a state of floating.

A boy begins to transform and leaves the house to feed.

Remote Life Drawings is an animated collage of abstract images that illustrate the neighbourhood of Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan. TAV is located at the centre of four distinct districts that exist in harmony in central Taipei. The film connects the four districts by using morphing animation, presenting the vague and complex atmosphere around the village.

The story of the evolution of life on Earth in animated form.

For Henry, the community garden is his escape from the daily toil in the city. However, the day has come for it to be demolished, Henry and his community can't agree on how to save it.

The coastguard finds an egg, and Wilfred takes an interest in it. An ostrich hatches out, and grows rapidly. "WILFRED'S DREAM" - Wilfred falls asleep on the beach, and dreams of carrots and Cupid. He falls in love with a fairy, and they fly on a magic carpet to an enchanted castle, where there are strange creatures. They are to be married. The BFI have added the following note: “this may be two incomplete episodes edited together.”

An introduction to the life and work of Joy Batchelor on the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Joy was a director, animator, producer and designer and one half of the Halas & Batchelor Cartoons Studio, which made the UKs first animated feature film, Animal Farm, in 1954. Although a crucial figure in British animation, she has for years been unfairly passed over for recognition. This short film made in her honour seeks to redress that balance and to introduce Joy's work to a wider audience. The film was produced by her daughter, Vivien Halas.

My wicked, smart, lovely niece Molly, 10 years old, imagines the life and death of the virus Covidou.

Dave is on a mission to find the last gammon in London for his bird's brekkie, and nothing — not even the impending apocalypse - can stop him.

Taking its cue from Scooby-Doo, this taxonomy of queer bad guys throughout history shows how their bogeyman identities were constructed.

Agony Aunt Margery Boobs (based on real life newspaper correspondent Margery Proops) has heard it all when it comes to sexual fantasies. Still, she finds her match in the unlikely “worried Streatham” when his sex life and weird obsessions call for expert advice.