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Life throws curveballs, how you react decides if you make it through. We follow an elementary schoolgirl terrified of sports who survives a chaotic ball game by bouncing a ball off her face. By the end of the game, she’s completely transformed.

A trip into a surreal winter garden, a voyage on a stormy sea, a grisly homecoming – there is something for everyone in this “experiment in words, music and paintings”. Four films were made in this series for the BFI’s Telekinema at the Festival of Britain, combining some of the best contemporary illustrators and artists with a diverse range of verse. The readers are also of some pedigree, with Michael Redgrave, Stanley Holloway and Eric Portman adding their names to the bill.

Colin takes his dog Cumberland to the park for a game of fetch but Cumberland has other ideas.

The meeting of Hollywood’s most famous choreographer, and one of it’s most famous quotes “Is that a gun in your pocket?” (Mae West).

After a heavy meal, Bonzo falls asleep and has a nightmare in which he is pursued by large cats and thrust into a sausage machine.

A live action / 3D animation about J03, an 8 bit digital man stuck in our 21st century analogue world searching for the way home.

After years of prosecuting and torturing innocent women, Hopkins (the self-proclaimed Witch Hunter General) is about to get his just desserts at the hands or rather the magical finger of Winny.

Peter Millard is back and he still isn’t finished trying to break all the rules of cinema.

Directed by Phil Mulloy.

The longing for something to finally happen is fulfilled by a kiss. Not the romantic kind, however, but a monstrous one, a kiss the world will talk about. Thus Dodi plods vigilantly through everyday life and parties, in a cloud of other people’s voices. “EXOMOON” follows her confident path: like a kaleidoscope with creative fractures.

In order to understand the works and ideas of Karl Marx, this animation takes an ordinary man through several different periods of history, from the cavemen to the philosophers of the world to better comprehend Marx ideals for the proletarian and why the world is an unfair contradiction of all sorts.

Abstract animated short.

Stranded on a distant planet, a lonely astronaut sends out a signal in search of human contact.

Part of George Moreno's 'The Merry Music Shop' series.

Margaret Thatcher gives the audience a lecture whilst being wooed by a miner in Bob Godfrey's remake of his classic earlier cartoon Polygamous Polonius.

Troubled by his conflicting parents and haunted by the monster that dwells in his bedroom closet - Gregory must confront his demons and defeat the true evil that exists behind closed doors.

A thirty-second long stop-motion animated piece intended to encourage the audience to send matches to British troops fighting the Boer War.

One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship.

Everyone thinks Mildred is the laziest cat in the world – but when the gallery closes for the day, Mildred actually explores the empty galleries and imagines her life as an artist.

Although Mermaids have been traditional symbols of fertility and a sexuality so powerful as to be a danger to shipping, details of their reproductive processes have been scarce. The film reveals the cycle of laying, fertilising and hatching as well as the previously secret role of storm-wrecked sailors.

Home is where you are... First year film made at the Royal College of Art.

Waldeinsamkeit describes the feeling of spiritual loneliness one experiences when enjoying solitude in a forest, a reconnection with self that is often missing in today's busy concrete city environments. An old lady feels alienated from modern city life, but when she embarks on a magical dreamlike journey she finds wonder and a newfound appreciation for the place she lives in.

A girl, Ping, faces conflict with her girlfriend Lala’s homophobic and aggressive father, The Man. As tensions escalate, Ping is forced to take drastic action to save herself and kills The Man.

A quirky and surrealistic action/comedy where a brave heart takes a wild journey inside the body to try to sort out the problems of a hungover morning.

An aspiring artist struggles with negative self-talk and unfair comparisons with his peers. Can his only fan save him from himself?

The third installment in David James Armsby’s dystopia short film series.

Sally is in the digital world. Sally watches, listens and learns. Sally generates through the digital language. Sally wonders, is Sally OHOIOrOI? Maybe Sally is a part of OHOIOrOI. But this film was made with 0% OHOIOrOI.

Rhys narrates the abridged story of 2025 hit film War of the Worlds

A short film about connection, loss and grief.

‘Stella’ is the story of a woman who, when spending Christmas alone, finds friendship in an unlikely place.

In our skin is a film about the beauty of the female body. Through the freckles on the protagonist's back the viewer is taken into a world of morphing figures.

“After falling overboard they spent days in the life-buoy. Their only food was butter; and you soon get tired of only butter." A fish spots Pip, Squeak and Wilfred adrift, and tells his mermaid wife to make a soup from them; she pushes them ashore instead. Landing in Egypt, they take a camel ride to see pyramids and a sphinx, before finding themselves stranded in the desert. There, they find a giant egg and try to cook it, but a crocodile hatches out and chases them away…

It all started with a picture taken in 1974 in Lisbon, just after the Portuguese Revolution. She, the Revolution Hunter, tries to enter in that picture as if she could enter into a time she didn't belong and finally understand what it means to be part of a revolution or what it means to fight for a country. A film that explores the relationship between two generations, two different times and two different fights. As if we could transform a photograph by drawing on it. As if we could transform the present by drawing over the past.

What was David Bowie's biggest moment of his career?

An experimental animated short film, highlighting Austin's struggle with substance abuse and ongoing mental health issues whilst showcasing the effect this can have on those closest to him.

A collage of diverse voices emerge as people are interviewed about Alex, unravelling door-sized quirks, swamp-dwelling aspirations, and mud-rolling weekends. As each memory unfolds, the film becomes a poignant exploration of identity.

Puppet animation. Pseudo docu-soap of a day in the life of four suffering robots.

Charley, a mechanic, inherits a half-share in a farm run by his cousin and he soon has his dream of an idyllic country life rudely shattered by hard realities.

The memory cheats - do you recall watching Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit during the 1980s/1990s? This hoax title sequence plays on childhood recollections.

A girl who lost something important meets a rabbit.

A Lilly pad/cacti hybrid struggles to deal with her intrusive thoughts. She found herself wanting to run over a family of tissues and squeeze a taxi’s driver belly. Furthermore, killing a Baby.

An animated theatre of dismembered people, beasts and ghosts, dance, tumble, make love and tear themselves apart, a nightmarish subconscious world, in black and white.

A song sets the tone, followed by an animated collage in which Super 8-film, photographs, drawings, slides, detritus and fragments from music and popular culture are used and processed. A mobileand intense portrayal of a changing country, America, America was Åsa Sjöström’s exam film at Royal College of Art in London in 1972. (Filmform)

What goes around comes around: the daily cycle of home-work-home illuminated in collage, Hi-8 and paint. Layered and luminous with in-sight. An account of a journey from home to work as seen through the filter of the conscious and subconscious mind. Through the use of moving collages and painterly animation laid over Hi-8 footage, the viewer is able to share the traveller’s experiences and his mental reactions to the trials and triviality of urban existence. An animated account of a two mile journey made from home to work on foot. Hi-8 video footage digitized and printed out using an inkjet printer is combined with drawings, text and paint. A subjective representation of how visual information is filtered and processed by the conscious and subconscious mind. We share the traveller’s experiences: his idle thoughts and repetitive neuroses and see his mental reactions to the trials and triviality of daily life.

In a prison for bad writers a group of cons manage to get their hands on a legit script to the goings-on within the prison and figure it needs a rewrite - one that sees them busting out of jail to freedom.

‘Wilfred's Nightmare’: Pip, Squeak and Wilfred take a piece of floating ice to reach the boat, and Wilfred falls asleep. He dreams of floating up to the moon, where he has trouble with moon creatures, before waking. ‘Home Again’: The trio have been picked up by an ocean liner, and telegram Uncle Dick. They get off at Marseilles and take a train, jumping out in Paris. They cross the channel and walk to London, and are then reunited with Uncle Dick.

A brand new CBeebies Prom from the Royal Albert Hall. Join Andy, Chantelle, Jen, Maddie, Rhys and conductor Kwamé, with lots of CBeebies friends. But has Dodge invited the animals?

A short, sharp, shock of a documentary detailing treatments for hysteria in Victorian Britain including clitoridectomy and genital massage. Not for the faint-hearted!

All of the Dead is a 2000 zombie horror brickfilm by Tim Drage and Tony Mines of Spite Your Face Productions. It is about the dead rising after the tomb of Anubis is disturbed. Though it is often stated as having being released in 1999, a making-of written by Tim Drage mentions finishing the film in August 2000, and the copyright in the film is dated 2000. It was among the first brickfilms available on the internet and was originally released under the duo's original production name, Underpendent Films.

A job seeker gets ready to attend a scheduled interview. On the subway, a man in a suit stares for a bit too long. Suddenly thrown into the office, the job seeker must now endure the bizarre events that await him.

A short self-portrait introduces Pavlatova's interest in combining animation and documentary live-action work.

A Rohingya man is stranded in the Andaman Sea on a fishing boat loaded with men, women and children fleeing for their lives. He is haunted by the song his mother sang him. Why did he have to escape?

Oscar nominated animated short from 1972. An animated short from British comedian Bob Godfrey.

Presenting a woman, a female statue, a breathing tree, and a fish out of water, an unorthodox love story unfolds with the growth of limbs and expressive gestures. Accompanied by desire discovered and lost, erotic femininity disfigured in a domestic space, and physical forms fragmented, two women steep in their reticent intimacy.

please let me in. i want more! i need more! let me in!

A window opens on a child who lives in a war torn area where he longs for his past peaceful life.

At first everything in this music video by the London duo Sculpture is two-dimensional. But better duck down while watching! On intricately composed levels of space, graphic elements whiz wildly past your eyes and broken beats whistle violently past your ears. Zyprazol is medicinal, a mind-expanding drug – just like the animation records made by Sculpture.

An animated prequel to 28 Days Later, adapted from the graphic novel.

Sophia the squirrel embarks on a journey of self-discovery, helping her navigate emotions of grief after the loss of a close friend.