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Examples from a DIY book about Op Art patterns form the basis of this hypnotic film. The images seem to move by themselves in front of our eyes. Their flowing and shimmering is driven by colour changes and cross-fades until the boundaries between actual and imagined movement become blurred. It is not only the soundtrack and title that herald the mischievous spirit of this work.
Through the story of Oleksa, a young man with undiagnosed autism, the film explores the impact of war on those often overlooked. Oleksa’s defences collapse in the face of unimaginable challenges, leading him to lose everything — only to gradually rediscover trust and human connection.
Surrealist animation involving a nightmarish hairdresser's.
Filmmaker Steven Fraser lives with prosopagnosia, otherwise known as “face blindness,” which means he can’t remember or recognize faces. In this film, he uses stop-motion animation, cassette tapes, sketchbooks, photos, and diary extracts to convey his feelings about this.
A collaboration between artist Edwin Rostron and musician Supreme Vagabond Craftsman.
Graduation film from the RCA animation course, animated with paint on glass
Part 1 of the Operavox series.
Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.
Bonzo's theft of a duck brings him into conflict with the law.
Theatre director Steve Pearl talks about his chance meetings with artist Lindsay Seers' Auntie Barbara, a female ventriloquist, and her Uncle Patrick, a stage performer with alternative personas, and explains their influence on Seers' subsequent deployment of ventriloquism and theatrical performance in her work.
donald and daffy talking to eachother.
The animator is making his first film in his basement, when he discovers that the character is becoming more real than he is, and has a mind of its own!
This fierce collaboration with ilovedust saw us merging cel animation and motion graphics, acting as a warning to humanity to stop drinking from plastic bottles or face the wrath of the Lords of Water.
An isolated soldier holds his position and prisoner during the downfall of a Nuclear War.
Ivor's life is turned upside down after a falling plant pot sparks a series of paranoid reactions.
Hello Hulk Hogan, don't worry we will be ok in the end.
It's all about the title.
Staff at an office crèche fight to protect their children during a zombie outbreak.
When you kicked that stone against my house I got a we fright and dropped a plate sorry it was an accident and you've marked my wall.
Stop motion claymation short featuring a family of cavemen.
Some people will do anything to get attention.
Through meticulous cut-up, collaging and stop motion, Nico Vassilakis makes words dance across the screen, moving our eyes in all different directions. This video poem is dynamic and colourful, and brings into question what happens when we 'see' a word - where do we distinguish between the image a word forms in our minds, and the image it forms on a page or screen?
This is a picture that paints a picture, in appealing colour, of the life and times of the children of late '50s London.
Based on archival interview audio from the 1960's/70's, Children Talking introduces characters such as Hymn Girls, Spaceship Kids and Cheese Pie Boy.
Using large-scale projection in a remarkable new space, David Hockney takes us on a personal journey through sixty years of his art. Lightroom’s vast walls and revolutionary sound system enable us to experience the world through Hockney’s eyes. His life-long fascination with the possibilities of new media is given vibrant expression in a show that invites us to look more closely, more truly and more joyously.
A boat navigates a tumultuous sea of mushrooms whilst searching for her lost sister ship.
A boy conjures the stars out of yogurt.
The film is inspired by Shakespeare's Othello and is a dark surreal take on the relationship between the deceived Othello, the innocent Desdemona and the mendacious Iago.
After the Rains is about a woman survivor who builds a flying machine from debris. Her vision is a contemporary myth on environmental destruction caused by society ignoring the consequences of its actions. The global effects of Climate Change show that After the Rains is just as relevant now.
Squeak is still missing. Pip looks for her at London Zoo, Wilfred at the British Museum. Popski has Squeak in chains and will blow her up if she does not join the anarchists. Pip saves Squeak and Popski himself is blown up.
On a barren rock off the west coast of Scotland, a solitary lighthouse keeper's whiskey supply attracts an uninvited guest.
A man cannot get any sleep. A Liquid Television animated short.
Cartoon on the fly nuisance, showing the dangers of food contamination and how the dangers can be minimised by food-protection and cleanliness that was produced in the UK for the Ministry of Health.
About the estranged relationship between a father and his gay daughter, now a young mother.
Lonely Souls is a 2-minute stop-motion short film set in a fantastical forest, exploring themes of Loneliness and Love. It won Best Animation and Best British Entry at the British International Amateur Film Festival (BIAFF), has been nominated for Best Animated Short in the Roma Prima Film Festival in Rome, and has had festival selections in all corners of the globe!
During a violent electrical storm, a space-travelling metal cockerel crash-lands in a chicken farmer's field. He brings with him the grand promise of a technical innovation unknown on earth - electric eggs!
Cartoon featuring Bonzo the dog; possibly a lost film.
THE WORLD CUP IS HERE.
An answer phone message
"Chosen" is a short animated film about growing up, acceptance, and the power of faith.
A traveller searches for meaning in a vast uninspiring tundra.
A castaway, Tofu, is found ashore by a group of musicians. The band welcomes their newcomer. Meanwhile, at the other side of sea, something is calling upon Tofu in reminiscence of a past storm.
Doug - a couch-based, self taught 'electrical engineer' - passes on some of his painfully won knowledge regarding the mystery of electricity. This is the filmmaker's Royal College of Art first-year film.
A tale about Jack who becomes possessed.
Loneliness and crushing solitude are diminished by two neighbours who see each other from across the street.
Tired of her life, a young girl plans to leave Earth.
An intimate portrayal of grief after the loss of a friend.
Got your holidays booked yet? Take a look at what Terminal Tours have to offer in this consciously coarse comic cartoon.
Directed by Anthony Gross.
After a small dog realises the power her sweet appearance gives her over humans, she dives headfirst into a life of crime and social deviance without consequence. That is, until she flies a little too close to the sun and her brazenness catches up to her. Luckily, cuteness is on her side and she clears her name.
A group of creatures are researching and creating a world. It encourages the question why the world is ordered in the way that it is. And that creating something can be terribly hard work, even for the Creators.
A young man comes to terms with his sexuality and confronts his bully in his home neighbourhood of Merton (London). Specially commissioned for the Southbank Festival of Neighbourhood 2013, adapted from the poem by Richard Scott.
An animated documentary about a life devoted to the dead.
A film in two segments – the first part a dying woman recalls events from her life, and the second an ambiguous and surreal journey about a man lost in the cosmos.
When COVID-19 struck in 2020, Alyssa – an Australian healthcare professional living in the UK with her partner – wanted to do everything she could to help. What happened next changed her outlook on life forever.
Bits is a short experimental animation exploring the surreal beauty of nature.
A collaboration between BAFTA award-winning animator Cat Bruce and Breabach.
Companion is a short stop-motion film that expresses the friendship between a dog and a human. The story follows a dog's life and the interactions he has with his owner and other animals along the way.