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A surreal fantasy adventure set in a chess world high above the skies. The gluttony of the royal rulers has caused crops to fail, and the leaders blame a poor pawn and send him on a journey beneath the clouds to find more. Here he encounters his old enemy, only to discover that perhaps he is not the real enemy.
On the beach, Pip, Squeak and Wilfred have their photo taken. Afterwards they climb a clifftop but drop their lunch over the top. Wilfred goes to rescue it, but is dropped into the sea by a seagull before being rescued. The trio decide to build a car to return to London. After it breaks down, they tie the remainder to a horse and continue the journey.
It's OK being the tallest tree in the forest. But, when the wind blows, how solid is the ground you're standing on? An impatient acorn with grand ambitions reaches for the sky. But at what cost to its environment?
Flower and The Girl is an animated short film that tells the story of a little shadow girl learning to become real.
Shakespeare's witty battle of the sexes is given a fresh airing in puppet animation. The unlikely bonding of a headstrong Kate and domineering Petruchio is only one aspect of a play about change and the magical transformations that theatre can produce.
Audrey and her friends must find her mum a new boyfriend before her dad's Christmas party.
A hand-drawn animation about everyday experience and the passage through time.
Food being prepared on a quiet, rainy night in a futuristic city.
School boys' football game is the focus of a boy's erotic game.
An animated film based on the painting about Max Ernst of the same title, he said that a “fevervision” he had experienced when he was sick with measles as a child inspired him to compose the haunting scene that unfolds in Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale. Merging collage and painting, he affixed a wooden gate, parts of a toy house, and a knob to a dreamlike painted landscape. A blue sky dominates the composition, and in it a small nightingale hovers above two young girls. The painting features what would come to be identified as the defining preoccupations of Surrealism, a movement in which Ernst was a central figure: dreams and the unconscious; sexuality (as represented, for example, by the girl’s phallic knife); and incongruous juxtapositions.
"Far Out Man is a green, leopard-spotted, cheeky chappie who lives on Planet MTV, slightly to the left of the other side of the universe. These are three stings I wrote, animated, and directed for MTV in the mid-nineties."
Hannah’s mum is busy but her best friend is the moon and she has a magic storybook that comes to life every time she opens it.
Phil Mulloy uses his comedic timing and simply animation style to tell the tale of the Christie family's talking dog.
Building, front view. A pot of paint is falling down. We don’t know where it fell from or how, but it will have repercussions for the whole neighbourhood…
As part of our long-running short films initiative, we pitched the question to our team "Can you visualise the frustrations of the creative process?" So we organised some brainstorming sessions on the problems with brainstorming sessions, had committee meetings on the pains of design by committee, and bounced ideas around about how we bounce ideas around. Embracing a minimal design language to focus on the characterisation, we created a short film which is a montage of relatable scenarios for the creative professional.
An intimate autobiographical film documenting the filmmaker' battle with the anxiety disorder body dysmorphia.
First impressions are so important.
The film explores the life of a transgender man, his experiences of growing up, feeling different, as well as his story of coming out
In a gloomy city square, a talented artist struggles to make a living through his chalk drawings. He finds himself unable to captivate the bustling businessmen and women around him, who barely give him or his work a passing glance. With no money coming in, his motivation to pursue his passion begins to dwindle, until he forms an unlikely friendship with a pigeon who appears inspired by his work.
A comical observational stop motion animation following a drunken woman in her endeavour to sneak a drag from her precious last cigarette.
In a dull, organised world, a curious girl longs for some colour and joy — against the wishes of her rule-obeying mother. When the girl follows a strange cat that doesn’t fully fit into society’s black and white standards, she discovers a boisterous underground filled with life. She decides to introduce it to the surface and shake up the dreariness of the world around her.
Squirrel Ginger Nutt is annoyed by a crow, a rabbit and a mole as he attempts to go fishing.
Knowing she will die, the last survivor of a Zombie apocalypse and her dog travel to her resting place.
A haunting and brutal depiction of animal cruelty. Fast paced cut up art brut collage film.
A tongue-in-cheek look at the lifelong attempts of twin brothers Orville and Willbur Wrong - contemporaries of those other famous brothers - to become pioneers of aviation.
Short film.
A slow, thoughtful and meditative animation with no spoken word by the internationally renowned sculptor Rachel Ara. The film uses leaves as a metaphor for the cycles and rhythms of life. The rake and/or leaf blower symbolise our chosen approach. The film asks us to slow down. It is a time to think for ourselves and reflect on women’s roles, the environment and our approach to life
Three women. Three voices. A striking landscape.
Something has gone wrong. Horribly wrong. The world has fallen apart. Buried in debris, alone and injured, one man is torn between what's trapping him and what could release him.
Chronicles of Humanity: Redemption
Jasper Jackson is a 13 year old boy from a fishing village in the Kingdom of Stoneland. When he discovers that Princess Sophie has been possessed by a cruel witch, he must embark on a quest to save both her and his kingdom.
An enchanting tale from Africa about five children made of wax. They are industrious, loving, and they feel no pain. But because they are wax, they can only go outside in the cool of darkness. One child, however, determines to see the world by day.
Moth follows 8-year old Mabil as she escapes the troubles of her family with her vivid daydreams and imaginary moth friend. However, her fantasy is interrupted when she is forced to face her family past and put an end to her fantasies.
An imaginative examination of the Superman myth, using animated collages of re-tinted photographs and featuring the world’s first superhero who’s part-man, part-butterfly!
On the perfectly tidy island of “Here”, no one questions the blackness that surrounds them. But when humble map-maker, Dave, makes a shocking discovery, his attempt to raise the alarm is ignored. His curiosity stifled, Dave’s body rebels, and he sprouts a wild beard with a life of its own. With the unstoppable beard threatening to swamp the entire island, the residents mobilise in an effort to tame it. Chaos ensues, standards slip, but a new curiosity starts to take hold. As the blinkered corporation that runs the island desperately battles to regain control, Dave realises the beard is a force for good and works with it to open people’s minds and free Here from the tyranny of conformity.
A look at the censorship of queer art through the eyes of a lost and lonely chameleon.
The poet Hafez, also known as the Teller of Secrets, used the language of human love and the metaphors of wine and drunkenness to describe his desire for the Divine and intoxication with the mysteries of the Universe. Contrast the current, often narrow, view of the media on Iran with the profundity and sophistication of Persian (Iranian) culture and its influence. The landscapes and characters from the film are all constructed of Persian calligraphy.
Christopher, an advent calendar tries to protect his beloved chocolates over the period of Christmas.
Linh is a Vietnamese single mother who's successfully forged a life for herself and her son in America. But when her father visits from Vietnam and insists on cooking the family a traditional Vietnamese meal, Linh is confronted with the past and culture she left behind and the question of where it belongs in her family's new life.
Short animation made in the Lockdown 2020 by Ged Haney. Selected for the Ottawa short animation film fest 2021.
Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
An experimental-immersive project. Jedda is an anonymous 51-year-old woman interviewee, whose story is about dealing with childhood trauma and maternal deprivation, discovering empathy as an adult and the joy and acceptance of having a daughter who is married to a woman. The film uses creative visuals to explore an imaginary world of comfort, distracting from negative experiences.
An AI computer-vision system reconstructs footage of humanity in different contexts - business, love, city, joy, protest. The next-frame-prediction technology is trying to predict the future based on just a couple of seconds from each clip, producing surprisingly hallucinatory video outputs, engaging with surrealist and expressionist painting tradition. The AI-produced material is arranged by the human artist in a narrative reflecting on the tenderness of the human body, the implications of AI interacting with it, and the politics of its usage. We are a viral breath, one embodiment, connected to each other physically, socially and psychologically. Now it's becoming mediated by machines, controlled by corporations and governments. The work explores senses of touch and body as seen by algorithmic processes.
Inspired by the tape recordings of Raymond Cass, a hearing-aid specialist from Hull and one of the UK’s foremost researchers into ‘Electronic Voice Phenomenon’.
In Survivor we follow 12-year-old Ivor Perl from a small town in Hungary to the gates of Auschwitz, Kaufering, Allach, and Dachau, witnessing the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust. From being herded onto a cattle truck and narrowly avoiding the gas chambers and ovens, to enduring hunger, typhus, and unimaginable loss, we ultimately see the unbreakable bond between two brothers and their miraculous survival.
Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren.
Series depicting life, loves, trials and tribulations of a typical English family. ‘And now we can lock you away for the rest of your life’.
Foxes lurk in the quiet suburbs of London.
A little animation about a world without human touch, made during lockdown.
At 29 Acacia Road, lives Eric Wimp, an ordinary schoolboy who leads an exciting double life. For when Eric eats a banana, an amazing transformation occurs - Eric becomes Bananaman - ever alert for the call to action!
A sentient robot is sent to leave the Earth to find a new home for humanity - finding its place as it prepares to leave the planet. This short film tackles themes of finding your place of belonging and purpose. Among the Stars: Terra Firma is a collaboration between trumpeter and media composer Ethan McInerney and animator Dean de Barros, reflecting on their pursuits to find their place in the world.
Join Monster Class teacher extraordinaire Count Dracula as he goes batty for cryptozoology, the amazing science behind the study of monsters! What? Go on! In the world of cryptids - that's a fancy word for monsters - two mythical beasts stand head and shoulders above the rest... You've no doubt heard their names... Seen the evidence and wondered to yourself, could such fantastical beasts actually exist? What if they did? Leave it to professor Dracula to line up the facts and take you on the cryptozoology adventure of the century - Werewolf Vs The Lochness Monster! We have a lot to discover about these two legends before the sun comes up, so let's get haunting in Monster Class: Werewolf Vs The Lochness Monster!
A noir-ish tale centred around a packet of menthol vogue cigarettes, moving between Sri Lanka and the UK. Intrigued by the allure of this woman’s identity, our narrator finds herself enticed into an addiction
A series of fictional advertisements for products branded with Phil Mulloy's crude and lewd Cowboys.
Lee is a young man determined to win the heart of Claire, a young woman determined to make life difficult for him. Dancing playfully on her crutches, Claire frustrates Lee’s romantic advances, transporting him away to daunting environments where he’ll need to think on his feet if he’s to win her affections. Director Simon McKeown worked with actor Lee Soar and choreographer Claire Cunningham to create this colourful motion-capture animation which was first broadcast on BBC Big Screens across Britain in 2010. Mckeown explores themes of power, control and rejection in the work and originally created two versions with different endings for festival audiences to choose from – ‘win’ or ‘lose’?
A black comedy about free will and white circular benches.
Literal and figurative worlds collide but only one can survive... You decide, do your idioms live or die in this animated poem?
In a society that tells us to pursue our dreams above all else, and that nothing is out of reach, the desire for “the good life” becomes individual and private rather than in community. But where does that leave us?
A little bear goes on an adventure with a giant dog on a rainy night's drive through the mountains.