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Interview with James McLeod, animated by Holly Summerson, for ECA Animation 'Issues of Representation in Animation'.

A bewitching celebration of menstruation which uses a variety of animation techniques from pixilation to scratch on film. An antidote to the vacuous sanitised view of menstruation promoted by advertising. A dream life of angels. What wings really mean. The wise wound and its belly music. Desire is vulvic and creativity claims the calendar of bodies.

The Flower reflects the director's experience of living in a totalitarian communist state and pays homage to Trnka’s film Ruka, The Hand, made 3 years before the Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968.

The fourth cartoon in the Bubble and Squeek series by British Animation Production.

Contains studio versions of tracks accompanied by 'psychedelic' visual effects. The band appears in live cuts, but no actual live music is played.

A playful short animation which celebrates desire and pleasure using sticky, fleshy plasticine. It invites the audience to take a look from a plants eye view and explore the wonderful queerness within nature.

There is only a little boy on the planet. Day after day, even the boy is lonely however he works very hard to keep his daily routine implemented.All the efforts he does is just waiting for the day coming...

A filmmaker evaluates his role while making an animation about nightclubs and men.

Take a trip into the fantastic cyber-world of Dr Devious with the third in the highly acclaimed series, featuring a kicking dance track and the very latest in computer graphics and animations.

Hamid, aged ten, lives in Great Britain. He tells how he has fled from Eritrea, about his grief and how difficult it can be to arrive in a new life.

Steve and his master hire an empty old sea fort for a holiday but cause chaos when they begin to mess around with the old cannons.

‘Films to Break Projectors’ glues, scrapes and splices 35mm, 16mm and 8mm film to create unprojectable celluloid collages. Reanimating the material reveals the colour music within and traces of ambiguous narratives that emerge from the complex loops.

Trang follows the eponymous protagonist and uplifting story accompanied by her pet duck Bim Bim.

FLIPPED explores the absurdity of a world where the roles of kids and adults are switched. The story follows a day full of bizarrely reversed interactions, unravelling the dynamics of this relationship, tackling topics about maturity and parenting in a comic way.

A hand-scratched film on light, dark, insects and cinema.

Anubis, God of the underworld, judges the souls of the dead but disaster ensues when a lever breaks.

In the middle of woods inhabited by wolves, an astrologist imagines what it would be like to be a werewolf, running and howling through the woods in a schizophrenic blur instead of sitting in his home watching videos. Then the moon calls to calls to him.

A captivating, upside-down version of George and the Dragon and the history of Wales. Steely George is no match for a fiery Welsh ‘mam’.

Follows different character’s adventures as they all happen simultaneously across the universe.

Inspired by the writings of Jean Baudrillard, this film - shot entirely within the videogame Red Dead Redemption 2 - examines people's perception of history, in this case the Wild West period, and how it has been influenced by media representation and recreation, or perhaps how it has been entirely replaced by it.

The life of a South Indian man whose love for flowers goes unnoticed.

Physical labour creates the world around us – constructing buildings, manufacturing goods, cooking, cleaning… Yet, all too often this work remains unrecognised and invisible.

A diverse cross section of tired, drunk, disgruntled, joyous and riotous strangers, pushed together within the confines of the last train home.

A jaded nobleman voraciously feeds off the spiritual energy of planet Earth, endangering the very fabric of space and time.

Hypermascoids have been banished to an exoplanet in Andromeda. What do they get up to there?

A Mothman Mockumentary

After rediscovering a lost bond with a memory from his past, heartbroken Orestes attempts to lead his love back into his present. Anchored to it, he stretches the past to its limits and faces a choice of preserving the memory as it was or altering it beyond recognition.

A stalwart of Cardiff Amateur Cine Society tries his hand at the sort of cut-out craziness Terry Gilliam created for Monty Python.

A relentless workaholic, constantly chasing the minutes of each day, is forced to evaluate the true worth of his pursuit.

Two guys try to pick up a girl on the dance floor of the Tosserz Club.

A healing animation that explores the hidden feelings of people affected by self-harm, fostering compassion, understanding, and self-reconciliation while reminding us that pain and healing are universal human experiences.

Love, sex, desire, trauma, fantasy, spiritual ideas and peace. The power of the brain, the subconscious. An end of life story, to give joy to herself and those she loves.

When an abandoned painting comes to life to haunt its owner, can the two reconcile?. A story exploring identity.

Cats, poo, Range Rovers. A true-life documentary that playfully critiques class entitlement and praises the resilience of local artistic communities — feline and human alike.

Follow the lives of LEGO people around the world

Claymation short film.

Student film entered into Channel 4's Time Piece competition in 1987. Third prize winner.

The smoking of a cigarette: the arm moves to the head, the head turns towards the hand, the cigarette meets the mouth, the chest rises while inhaling, the arm returns to the armrest, the smoke is exhaled into a small cloud which dilutes in the air. And the animation repeats.

A small fly is blamed for vicious cannibal attacks in Insect City. Can he untangle the web of deceit that has fallen over the city?

Bonzo steals aniseed from a man outside a sweetshop, is caught and punished. He is then pursued by a fox, whom he in turn saves from a pack of hounds.

A short story about Baz - an ageing and unfit Sunday League football player who lives for the weekend.

A special film based on the poem “For Ezra” about the real life experience of non-binary author Libro Levi Bridgeman and their love letter to their grandson, Ezra. The film follows the playful and tender moments of their daily routines as a queer grandparent with their grandson.

Two hens are wooed by a new resident

Annie's dream of running a business becomes increasingly feasible after a visit to her Aunt Mildred's butchery store takes a sinister turn.

An animated short resulting from a cross-disciplinary, arts-based research project at Sheffield Hallam University exploring the toilet as a place of exclusion and belonging. Toilet access is an important social and political issue and we need to fight for change. Through the stories of trans, Muslim, and disabled people, it shows how current toilet provisions prioritize some people’s needs at the expense of others.

Feral Child teamed up with agency Jung Von Matt Donau and live action director Ross Cooper to direct this "Roger Rabbit" inspired spot for the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Protection.

Are you dangerously addicted to boring old movies? The BFI was nearing its fortieth year of curing such an affliction when this animated promotional film was made to sell its virtues.

50 people, children and adults, talk about their fears and doubts. What are you scared of?

The mother accompanies her son to school, but she can't stop worrying about him.

A coming of age short animated film, based on what it means to grow up in Cumbria if you are not white.

Audio clips from Pirate, a vintage television show, are re-edited for comedic effect.

A mysterious girl visits an old man's garden at the edge of a forest and offers him a glowing flower.

George Pal's third and final cel-animated commercial story film made for Lever Brothers product Rinso Soap. It's wash day, Grandmother Bear is coming for lunch and there's no soap. Mother Bear sends her two boys, one good, one mischievous, to the shop.

What would you do during one of the long summer days, when you are left alone to play in the courtyard? Of course run races with a cat, make toys out of everything you could find and chase pigeons. Only children have days like these.

Circa 1999 surrealist mixed media 16mm film noir based on script written using cutup methods.

Ascending a staircase in the centre of Athens makes room for reflection on everyday life, as both otherworldly and mundane. On a planet lit by neon and on a beach powered by cicadas, we twirl into a void measured by walking – one step at a time.

The Great LEGO Train Crash Disaster is a 1975 brickfilm about a collision between a train and a car. It was shared online in 2007 by YouTube user "f1lby", and was filmed by his father, with story input from himself at age 8. It is the earliest known brickfilm filmed in the UK, as well as one of the very earliest known brickfilms in general. It prominently features the 1972 LEGO set 171 Train Set without Motor.

A 1 hour sell-through Rave Video. Featuring computer graphix so intense you may require shades to watch it! Soundtrax mixed by Coldcut. Global Chaos revolves around the story of the Alien Sphinx's trip to Earth to steal our resources for his own dead planet. On experiencing the Chaos which reigns on Earth and seeing how we have already nearly trashed our World, he realises that the only hope is to combine his psychic powers with the energy of Rave music in an attempt to prevent all-out destruction of everything by malignant Infoviruses and Fascist control freaks.

The world seen as a vast carnival, in which the clowns imitate the greed and avarice of human beings. Experimental animation film, using cut-out figures to reflect and symbolise human traits.

Admiral Flipside is one crazy sea-dog. Driven by a darker than black alter-ego he embarks upon a bizarre voyage of destruction and self discovery. Haunted by his subconscious he is driven by ghostly manifestations into a surreal world of circus and theatre inspired by Sebastian Brant’s 1494 book ‘Das Narrenschyff’ (The Ship of Fools). Unbeknown to him he is the leading actor in a stage play based on the ship of fools. He leads the witless fools on a disastrous voyage to find ‘Narragonia’ (Fools Utopia). Flipside finds himself the sole survivor after the ship is set upon by fire breathing monsters from the deep. He is washed up on the very beach that he left many years ago, only to discover his innocence waiting for him. Here at last, after so many long years searching, he is forced to confront the grim reality that is himself. These short films combine computer animation, traditional animation, video and concepts of theatre to produce a bizarre visual story.