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A six-part spoof of seventies cop shows starring two hardboiled clergymen, was serialised as part of Channel 4's Hot Reels Animation Grand Prix 2001.

Malcolm Fetcher is a neurotic, middle-aged teacher lost in a dull marriage with his wife of twenty years, Beverly. As he faces an all-consuming identity crisis, their marriage disintegrates and he is forced to express a deep, hidden desire...

A silhouette film of acrobatic mice.

With the world exploding all around him and gunfire ringing in his ears, a soldier lies bleeding from a critical wound. In his hand is a picture of his mother. As he slips away, he sees all of life in front of him, slipping into oceans and through forests as he heads back to his home and the breaking hearts of his family.

In an artificial world caught in the cycle of obsessive productivity, one human struggling to keep up is faced with a choice.

The birds of Nark Zug’s magical realm are trapped in an eternal cycle of sensation, exploring both pleasure and pain.

'Spurred on by his girlfriend, Bingo the dog decides to enter for a £500 challenge boxing match with prizefighter Samson.' (British Film Institute)

The intersex narrator of this animation talks about his changing experiences of his body.

Short by Vera Neubauer.

A woman’s boyfriend is missing but he returns as a vampire and then things get weird.

Urges in the undergrowth, erupting fungal fantasies, bursting botanicals. The dust and desires of a tiny alternative universe.

Sammy and Sausage animation - the characters lift a maid's skirt with the aid of some bellows.

A massage chair offers three different programs: "Pure relaxation", "Far relaxation" and "Endless relaxation".

Out with the old and in with the new – one of Britain’s leading animation companies pitches its new image with great humour.

An improvised stop-motion film about a woman exploring her own psyche through its manifestation as a sequence of identical yet progressively smaller rooms, inhabited by multiple selves.

Mercury's Retrograde is an inner dialogue about seeking answers, presented in a comic and lighthearted way, concealing a deeper, tragic truth of our generation.

A humorous introduction to problem analysis and programming.

When an origami kiwi dreams of flying in the clouds, his friends decide to help him.

Celebrating urban bird song, a blackbird finds its voice in the streets of Manchester.

A child, a cat, a starry night but, in this world of innocence, dream and magic, obscure forces of evil awaken. This animated short revolves around the adventures of a young, horned boy and a group of six devil-like vermin that can combine themselves to make one large creature.

In a paper puppet animation film The Traveling Tune shows a composer writing a melody. Thanks to radio and Philips music carriers, his music goes around the world.

A short animated mockumentary about a world without Gravity, set in the UK.

An animated short film by Phil Mulloy.

Autobiographical film in which the film-maker’s mother recalls incidents from her daughter's childhood in a Somerset mining village, and the three imaginary friends, two with red hair and one with dark hair, who ‘came down from the stars’.

The story of our was inspired by William Caxton, the first English printer, who published Reynard the Fox in 1481. Caxton reminds us that people from different countries have been sharing animal fables with each other for centuries. Caxton worked for more than 30 years in Flanders and became a fluent speaker of Dutch; he translated the beast epic of Reynard the Fox, from Dutch into English, and thanks to this translation this animal story became hugely popular in England too. Today not everyone is familiar with the wily fox Reynard and his mortal enemy, Ysengrim the Fox, with Bruin the Bear and King Noble the Lion, but once upon these were household names.

From Channel 4's 'Fourmations' series from the early 90s. This is an early computer animation from 1991. Don Quichotte fights a hoard of "giants."

Animated film that turns the viewer into a floating voyeur, snatching brief but compelling glimpses of peoples' private worlds beyond the window frame.

Computer animation.

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

The feature length animated movie of the YouTube animated hit CANNAMAN. Follow CANNAMAN as he delves into his mysterious past in this nail-biting, THC-friendly adventure!

Transfiguration is a reworking of the Universal Everything studio classic from 2011, The Transfiguration. The Transfiguration was first shown at the studio's first major solo exhibition Super-Computer Romantics at La Gaite Lyrique, Paris. Now completely remade using the latest procedural visual effects software, the updated artwork brings new life to the ever-evolving walking figure, with a new foley-based soundtrack by Simon Pyke.

An animated film of the adventures of Wee Rob Roy.

Inspired by an Andrew Marvell poem, George Dunning sketched short phrases of animated movement on index cards, which were then stuck to a table top and filmed. Animation bared to the bone, and still extraordinary.

It's party time in Greendale! Everyone in Greendale is helping to arrange a surprise party for a special someone's birthday... Postman Pat! The preparations are underway with kids, adults and even Ted's machines helping out. But all the while Pat thinks friends and family have forgotten his special day. Will everything go to plan and be ready in time for the big surprise? Five more episodes of animated fun with Postman Pat are: 'Postman Pat's Great Big Party', 'Postman Pat the Magician', 'Postman Pat and the Surprise Present', 'Postman Pat and the Flying Post' and 'Postman Pat and the Pot Luck Picnic'.

Unless we put an end to the thoughtless exploitation of our natural resources there will be nothing left for anyone…

A hiker wanders into the forest and discovers a goat. However this goat has plans for him...

Some puppets demonstrate road safety to school children. (A public information film)

Bonzo the dog's adventures in a zoo.

What am I? Who am I? Why am I here?

The Dirt Inside uses the medium of clay in various unusual ways to tell the story of a young girl who is a victim of date rape. It attempts to communicate the loss of something very precious and irreplaceable.

Precocious middle-schooler Lilah has misplaced her jacket. The story of how she lost it will take her and her two sisters on an epic adventure across the high seas, to the bottom of the ocean, and even out of this world…

When my dad was just nine years old, he conceived the narrative of his very own horror film. Little did he know that decades later his terrifying vision would finally be brought to life...

Kandinsky-inspired painted abstract shapes convey the joy of thrilling movement, as Jemima tells us not to see her as “wheelchair-bound”.

Short by Vera Neubauer.

In our turbulent times, silence seems like a necessary escape. 'The art of reducing noise' evaluates this concept looking in-particular at one important figure in history who used this in an astonishing way to evaluate the world we live in.

An unlucky dachshund goes about a normal working day.

Discussing the trope Magical Negro and the effect of performative representation.

At least 1 in 100 children have Tourette Syndrome. Many of these are unable to access medical care. Imagine your child being in physical pain, yet you are unable to get support for them, as there is no service for Tourettes locally.

An intimate conversation between two student girls during a group dance between classes, talking about body changes and the experience of UFO sightings.

After being shot and left for dead, Rio finds himself in a dream of revenge where, as an old man, he must confront his own Shadowside in order to find peace.

Experimental animation, via multiple screens.

Mr Christie's mind begins to wander while he is having sex.

In a city seemingly full of happy people, one young woman walks about with a small dark cloud directly over her head. It follows her up the stairs and into her apartment. She tries slamming the door on it, getting rid of it with a vacuum cleaner, and dumping it in someone else's shopping cart. But the cloud doesn't leave her, until she meets a young man who has his own sunshine. Is love the way she's going to get rid of her cloud? Or will change have to happen from within?

Rendered in PS1-style 3D, Todo: Beneath the Flower follows a masked wanderer travelling through a surreal, low-poly world in search of the secret that blooms beneath a single flower.

Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.

A Film by Phil Mulloy

A humorous look at the day in the life of two women. A man embarks on a journey, his destination a woman living in a tower block on the other side of town. Naked begins with his departure and ends with his arrival at the close of the day. Following him on his journey is a mythical window cleaner, whose flying gantry takes us through the city to a tower block where he spies on a woman preparing for her guest and observes her neurotic next-door neighbours. Naked, which refers to the women’s vulnerability as well as their state of undress, uses model, drawn and photo animation within three dimensional sets.

In Pied Piper's Voyage, Lebohang Kganye constructs a visual narrative of animation from black-and-white photographs arranged on wooden panels. Positioned between performance and installation, the work revisits her family history during Apartheid.

Crude Poetry is a film about language. It is a film about a deep wish to be understood. Set in the ruins of biblical Babel, a long-lost city which housed speakers of a so called ‘universal language’, two characters come together to make meaning, in this stop motion, live puppetry hybrid.

An animated paint on glass film about lost family and the strangeness of Suffolk.