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Hand-drawn animation in ink and pencil-crayon of the poem Jupiter by Diana Syder

A television actress is delighted when her producer tells her that the camera loves her. But is it true love, or just an unhealthy infatuation? This surreal animated short film is set in London’s iconic Television Centre during the late 1960’s.

Animated paper cut-outs. An amusing interpretation of the traditional Yorkshire circular song. A man goes courting on Ilkla Moor without his hat, catches his death of cold, dies, is buried, gets eaten by worms, the worms are eaten by ducks, and the ducks are, finally, eaten by the man's friends.

One of several short films. Claymation that follows the misadventures of a mad anthropomorphic frog chef, often facing mishaps and disaster in his kitchen.

A bird acts as an alchemist in an enchanted forest, selecting different kinds of wood to combine them in a parquet floor.

Dani recounts life growing up in an Oxford greasy spoon caff. From 'At The Kitchen Table; Stories of Migration and Resilience', an animated installation commissioned by the Migration Museum for their immersive exhibition Room To Breathe.

A visual poem.

Cartoon featuring Bonzo the dog; possibly a lost film.

Directed by Michael Hughes.

A young woman grows body parts in her garden and sells them to people in her town. Though mostly content with life, loneliness tends to creep up on her. Then, one day, she realizes something peculiar may be lurking beneath the soil.

By turns comic and scary, the film documents activities in a floating globe filled with doors, keys, and a bickering couple whose actions appear to lead to what Hoban's narrator calls "the end of snivvelyzashuns" (civilisation). The film is a companion piece to another Anderson / Hoban collaboration, Deadsy, collectively entitled Deadtime Stories For Big Folk.

Cardiff, 2009. The Abzorbaloff returns to avenge the Doctor... with a little help from the deadly Krakanord. The Krakanord, designed by Hugh Brown, was the winning entry of the #DoctorWhoLockdown Design-a-Monster competition. The competition was judged by Will Grantham (aka ‪@ChannelPup‬), who won the Blue Peter Design-a-Monster competition with his Abzorbaloff in 2006. This video was specially created for #LINDAunited, the tweetalong of the Doctor Who episode 'Love & Monsters' on Sunday 14 February 2021. It was home-produced remotely during the 'lockdown' period of the COVID-19 outbreak in February 2021.

As the years go by / our friendship will never die / you’re gonna see it’s our destiny / you’ve got a friend in me

It's the golden age of piracy. A lone sailor enters an occupied harbour in the heart of the Caribbean. Can he rescue his friends?

Silhouette film – a version of Offenbach’s opera, “La belle Helene”.

The most important thing in a relationship is space.

A circus juggler falls for a trapeze artist in this short animation.

A man is imprisoned for life on a remote Pacific island for a crime he didn’t commit…is there any way out?

Marital ping-pong.

A twist of the classic 18th century English nursery rhyme where a Bullfrog Landlord threatens to evict a Washerwoman Mouse and her children when she's unwilling to marry him. One of three striking cel-animated hand-drawn cartoons Pal made for Lever Brothers' Rinso soap powder.

After the local MP/Mayor of a british town goes missing, 7 teens are invited to Lawton Estate, the location where, 162 years earlier, author Cooper Lawton died in a housefire after killing his cowriter, James Logan. However, as the night progresses, the guests are roped into a new story with the same man, back from the dead.

A short film about ping pong.

Two shoplifters recount the day they were caught and held in supermarket prison, and the lifelong ban which followed.

A BAFTA award nominated animation about the development and achievements in telecommunications by the Philips Company.

A film that reminds us there is no such thing as a neutral perspective and that everyone sees the world through a lens, or mix of lenses.

A gut reaction to the Coronavirus apocalypse, made in the first months of isolation and confusion in March-June 2020, echoing the shocking, eerie and surreal experience of the pandemic. Reworking the classic Zombie public-domain film from 1968 'Night of the Living Dead' by a mix of AI colorization technology, datamosh techniques, re-cutting and sound work. Visions of the invisible virus were found in the horror film images, got broken apart and reassembled to become a haunting kaleidoscopic nightmare. A post-horror experimental film/series in three acts. This is Act III - Hell.

A family of foxes raid a farm to get a turkey for Christmas dinner and survive the winter. However, the farmer and his domineering wife are aware of their presence and are intent on shooting them down.

Dive into the bold blue world of How to Build a Sandcastle and find yourself swept up in an inky journey of discovery. Themes of queer exploration and self-identity make this a liberating watch, which ends in a joyful freeing feeling you won’t want to forget.

An experimental avant-garde film where the character battles with herself, struggling to understand and embrace her true identity. Blending dream-like and reality sequences together, the film connotes inside the character’s mind. Escaping to different parts of her subconscious, she is met with confrontation, fear & desire. This piece of work highlights themes of identity, surrealism & subjectivity, where the instability of the self is at the forefront of the film. The film uses elements of mixed media montage to portray the character’s inner thoughts.

Bonzo the dog visits a golf course.

This short animation follows a real testimony during the "No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs" period in UK History where men, women and children of all ages took a chance at a better life here in UK only to receive harsh welcoming from a big proportion of the locals. In this short we follow Delphine who has come to London to work when her child unexpectedly falls ill one night.

West Ham Utd were once a team famous for their attacking style of football and World Cup heroes, including charismatic captain Bobby Moore. In this warm and nostalgic comic-book style documentary, John Lyall's key acquisitions reminisce to tell the tale of how West Ham United moved into a new era - leaving the desperation of the late seventies, and into the hope and ambition of the eighties.

An animated cartoon of drawings by young children, who imagine the motor car of today and of the future.

An animated recreation of the sinking of the Lusitania is the centrepiece of this pioneering mix of comedy, satire and outrage in cartoon propaganda.

Rioting spreads as social inequality causes tempers in a struggling community to flare, but the oppressive environment takes on a life of its own as the shadows of the housing estate close in.

A woman who lives with her childhood.

Hello darkness my old friend. The four-part “experiment in word, music and paintings” that was made by the BFI for the 1951 Festival of Britain did have more shade than light. But the mood in this episode is positively black. Thomas Nashe’s “In Time of Pestilence” is illustrated by Michael Ayrton, but star billing goes to Henry Moore who created some remarkable illustrations for Kathleen Raine’s The Pythoness.

A splendid 10-minute animated film by Sharon Smith. It is an adaptation of a tale by Frank Key. Narrated by Key himself, it has been screened at film festivals and competitions all over the world, including Annecy, Edinburgh, Brazil and last month’s Raindance in London.

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.

An AniJam protest against the devastating cuts to pip and disability benefits. Animators from across the UK created a 5-15 second piece each responding to the theme kindness against cuts.

Jack can't sent out his letter to Father Christmas...will the Mr. Men and Little Miss help him?

A shorted animated film by Molly Brown

Short film by Chris Shepherd

A girl in a brothel reminisces and questionins the advice her mother gave her as a child.

A musical exploration into the simple joys of fishing.

The police’s consistent harassment of a popular gay bar heralds the UK’s first national Gay Pride March, taking place in the textiles town of Huddersfield, 1981.

The second instalment.

Live a Little is a visual poem about the anxieties and struggles of fitting in and acting in accordance with the social norms of how a young.

Deep in the heart of Autodale lives their Mayor. As old as the town itself, a once great inventor, now a gangly and decaying but undying thing which the townsfolk have long forgotten, but continue to echo his machine-obsessed beliefs.

A waxwing conducts a ritual on a satellite dish to achieve a spiritual experience. He succeeds. Official video for 'Shadow of the Bird (feat. Waxwing)' by Zuhair Mehrali.

Ruth Lingford's interpretation of women's everlasting burden of fertility.

A surrealistic montage set in motion by a tidal wave and incorporating a samurai battle.

Short by Vera Neubauer.

A behind the scenes look at how CG animated short films are made.

In this whimsical short animated musical, Fellinda Cauldron is inspired by the moon to make a magical dancing potion. Can she over come her doubts and complete her bubbling brew? Broomsticks on Broadway celebrates the joyful aspects of the creative process; paying homage to MGM musicals and old Hollywood glamour with a spooky twist.

Gold Mine Music presents the greatest hits of the world’s most legendary country star: Johnny Spittoon.

The stars of CBeebies sing, dance and dress up for a magical Christmas adventure in the enchanting world of Storyland, with funny elves, musical sea creatures and a yodelling yeti.

A fully digitized computer-animated film which shows the question whether man will use his inventive abilities for destruction or as the key to progressive creation.

'When' discusses the filmmaker's experience with mental illness and how it has impacted her perception of the world around her. It mainly focuses on Anorexia Nervosa, Anxiety, and Depression. It aims to represent these ideas in an abstract but honest way - using CGI as a medium to create an impactful experience that will make the audience think about mental illness in a way they might not have before.