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A lot of prisoners are also fathers. This short animated film looks at the difficulties facing fathers and stepfathers in prison, and their children. It deals with the effects of imprisonment, and how parents can help children to cope.
Utilising the visual language of portraiture and the techniques of stop-motion animation to explore the ways in which the head and face can be used to construct and reveal the very subtle inflections of human character.
Because he wandered onto 42nd Street one night and met Slacks, a taxi-driver is sentenced to death.
After discovering a squeaky toy, the voiceless rooster Nugget fakes his crow to claim the throne.
Cookie Valentine goes to a mindfulness workshop to find herself...in a Chamber of Horrors.
A man with a secret - on the full moon, all is revealed...
A filmmaker explores a neurological condition she has been diagnosed with and its relationship with an incident in her past.
We meet a young woman on her windowsill in the early hours of the morning, while she is in conversation with her late grandfather, The Coal Man, who lives in the clouds above and communicates through radio waves. Priob is a film about our inner children and the people who raised them, wherever they are.
At home in the north of England, an old woman tunes into the radio. As rain drips into the house, dark manifestations appear in her mind.
Peter Mudie's marvelous look at woman's best friend.
First polygonal rotating object computer animation
A harrowing depiction of a childhood experience of alcoholism and its impact on interfamily relationships and mental health.
A brutal coming-of-age story in the Stone Age, told through the artefacts that remain.
Sinister and strange computer animation that follows the exploits of a very unhelpful robot.
An elderly queer person reminisces on their long-lost friend in this gorgeous semi-animated music video.
The film follows the journey of a poor, low-caste Indian girl who gains a small grant to go to school and then faces many challenges to continue her education.
By making even the smallest changes in our daily lives we can all make a difference.
The following group of films highlights the major environmental problems facing our planet today. In particular they focus on waste, pollution and energy use.
The nocturnal city reveals a machine of desiring forces linked to the spectacle of Capitalism. In the consuming night, the dazzlement of the city as a networked flow of information and surveillance is revealed. Affective forces create and shape the experience of this machinic city, but within this illumination and control, seeking out the liminal, queer spaces of desire becomes more urgent.
This film introduces three new bear families to the Goldilocks tale. The panda baby bear has two Mums, the polar baby bear has two Dads and the brown baby bear has a Mum and a Dad.
Titles for a Channel 4 project that didn't get aired. Released later on YouTube.
Marionette parody of Tom Mix.
This animated documentary explores the experience of telling the world that you are autistic when you also identify as LGBTQ+.
Documentary featuring interviews with several computer scientists and animators.
"Material that has collected me throughout my life, embedded into the pages of a book, using film as a transferring, alchemical tool. The birds fly, the candle is lit, the eyes open and the powers of pixilation brings active the dead." – P. R.
Thaumatrope n°1 is an avant-garde non-narrative animation created physical using the Victorian optical toy. The thaumatropes are made through a combination of illustrations and photographs. It aims to portrait anxiety and explore ways to expand cinematic language.
Short by Vera Neubauer.
Deep in the woods a small creature tries to plant his acorn but is interrupted by his nagging little sister. Out of frustration, he sends her to the top of an oak tree to find her own acorn and take accountability. What she’ll find and learn on her way there will change her forever.
This non-story driven film focuses on 5 unique cats, who behave in their own little world. Each of the cats has a story to tell. For instance, one of them can be sweet and the other pretty odd-looking or can be completely chaotic!
Manipulated film stocks frame a love story in vivid and vibrant abstract greens, purples, pinks and blues. Wei plays with absence and presence, human and landscape, through fragmented images and dialogue exploring the agency of objects and the reliability of the image. Simultaneously inviting and elusive, the film is a beautiful questioning of storytelling, image-making, authorship and perspective.
Ice Ceiling is about the direct manifestations of an unwell mind, producing auditory hallucinations that manipulate the protagonist.
"July Days" is a mixed media installation / moving image work that revolves around a single, blurry image taken around 1917. Purportedly representing the Red Army carrying Malevich’s ‘Black Square’, the photo allows for varying narratives, interpretations and hopes. Mingling archival footage with digital renders, "July Days" brings together a chorus of voices that explore what such a photo can represent in an age of fake news and virality. In the process, "July Days" invites its viewers along a hopeful and intimate reading of (art) history that celebrates the potential of radical imagination.
An autobiographical poetical story reflecting on the city and myself through 3 emotional chapters: excitement, frustration and hope.
Below every surface is another world with its own rules, rulers and inhabitants all looking to find their way and to understand.
Quitting time it may be, but the commute home tonight has turned the surreal up to 11…or 12!
“Animate” is a film, which combines stop-motion and cut-out animation, using surrealism and imagination to reveal the working process of an animator and how she creates her character. In the process of creating an animated world, the animator and the character enter into each other’s universe.
A musical directly animated on film where the leitmotiv is the circle and its variations.
Meanwhile follows four characters traversing a city, each lost in their own separate worlds, trapped in their memories, regrets and frustrations. Meanwhile uses bold colour schemes and fragments of narratives to examine empathy in urban insularity.
Hand drawn abstract film, looking at seductive marks on the surface. Circle, Square, Triangle.
A journey through the beauty and chaos of Kampala city taxi park.
A humorous look at relationships and sex.
An elderly couple and their experience with dementia; one living with the condition and the other witnessing its effects and learning how to accept it.
Developed from research into early Japanese autopsies, particularly the striking water colours of Aoki Shukuya. The abstract, celebratory depiction of the human figure and its place within physical space forms the basis of this animation.
No artefact found in the anthropology section of a museum was ever created to lie locked in a glass case, gazed on by people lacking any cultural connection with it. Using 2D, model and photo animation, Chris Elliott questions what the display of such artefacts, far from their home and context (in this case the rainforest), is all about and suggests that we are wilfully blind to the kind of cultural and religious violence that is at the root of such misappropriation.
Captain Beany must save the Earth from a giant meatball before a recipe for disaster ensues.
Inspired by surreal folklore and shadow puppet theatre, The Crooked Chorus presents a tale of loss and regrowth.
Chrissie, a dear little lady who loves gardening, goes to tend to her beloved plants when she realises they're under attack by pests!
An origami dog interprets real people's unique and universal experiences of dog ownership and loss.
An animated meditation on wide-open water-logged lands as imagined from an urban interior: a property-guardian tower-block flat in east London.
Aluminium Love is a short story with a strong emphasis on the human impact of the environment and how our consumerism can have a detrimental effect. Caroline uses a playful narrative of two aluminium cans that meet in a fridge and instantly fall in love, Only recycling can continue their love story.
Voiced by three generations of one family, WildKind is a poem painted to awaken the senses, a fluid journey of hope and healing across our shared watercolour motherland. A universal bedtime story, a call to nurture a life wild and kind.
A female protagonist – a version of the artist herself – leaves the human sphere to enter the animal mind, trying to understand the world viewed from non-human perspectives.
A disgraced detective finds himself fixated on an old television found at the scene of a crime.
A woman is awoken by strange bumps in the night.
A previously unreleased experimental short film, by the international award winning Fine Art Animation artist, Clive Walley. An 'artist's eye view' illustrating the randomness, chaos and activity of energy at the atomic level and below. All the stills are brushed ink on Bockinfords paper.
Alex and Sam have been best friends their whole lives; going on adventures, having fun and trying to find proof of the legendary creature in the woods. But, when Alex finds out she's moving away, she knows this is their last chance to find the creature together.
A young man feels lost in the modern, digital world before finding himself in a piece of clickbait.
Claymation short film.
In his last few breaths, a man drifts between vivid memories of the world he's leaving behind and haunting visions of what it might yet become