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Joe has a nightmare experience as he struggles to write his exam paper. Will he be able to finish his paper on time? Or will his nightmare last forever…

Landscapes gave way, a bird flew by.

Meet Pascal the Llama! They spend most of their time climbing high places, being fluffy, eating grass and- well- doing other llama things.

A reflection and re-creation of the years that shaped who I am. A time when protest and resistance were part of everyday life. What was personal - politicized when people came together to fight for their rights. The actions of Students, the Women’s Movement, Gay Liberation, Squatters and Claimants Unions, provide a documentary framework for what are in essence personal memories, a child’s POV.

The story of a single parent and her only daughter, who after migrating to another country, is forced into creating a new sense of affection with her mother back home.

What happens when you are left alone with nothing to be remembered for? A man tries to keep his sanity in tact by writing a letter to get help, but keeps getting memories of his fears and what was lost, will he manage to get out alive or he is left to rot with what remains inside with him?

Two women find each other time and time again, loving each other through all their life times. Made entirely during lockdown by student artists, this animated film is a collective piece of art, dedicated to one of the most famous lyrical fragments that remain from the lesbian poet Sappho: fragment 147.

Richard Forbes-Hamilton's "(third study for) Swedge of Heaven" explores themes of liminality, transition and reanimation around locations of ritual gatherings in Essex. Starting in an edgelands underpass, we come across a Neolithic fertility figure and a rave mascot beating a drum with glowsticks. Employing 3D models of real-world sites alongside computer-generated actors, the film hovers between neon and natural worlds.

"In Vivo" is an assemblage of found footage. Doing doesn't provide much in the way of conventional context as to how these varied sources interrelate or how they should be read. But in editing them together at all, he asserts a radical subjectivity, an authorial presence that is autobiographical even when the images themselves are clearly borrowed from another vault. Doing positions himself, and the histories through which he has lived, within a much vaster narrative, implied through the other-realm textures of analogue footage as much as the actual content of his archival excerpts.

In a haunting encounter, the film captures our fragmented perception of time during the pandemic while exploring the dynamics of mutual support. We are made aware of earthly transience (mono no aware) in a time when the Earth seems to stand still. Before We Collide is a short film shot on a Nishika N8000 analog lenticular camera consisting of over 800 photographs pieced together. The film does not give the impression that it is made for me, you, or anyone for that matter. It simply exists as an artefact that can be witnessed, like found footage of a ghostly apparition.

Through simple details, without a single master shot, garptwo represents the way that connected memories present themselves in our mind. Through feelings. The same actor has been used for all the characters, to reinforce the idea that every memory comes from the same brain.

The glossary of a book about breeding and owning Collies.

Using real world locations in Essex, "(study for) Swedge of Heaven" explores liminal, transitional, and peripheral spaces and realms, navigated by a reanimated rave mascot and a wooden Neolithic fertility figure. Although from distant moments in history, the protagonists are both figures indicative of ritual gathering created by Essex communities. Within the work the figures hover in cultural/historical flux, a state of simultaneous belonging and alienation as they pass through and around places seemingly suspended on the edge of conventional time and space.

"Our voices are not our own" explores the concept of voice as a physical and immaterial presence or absence, in relation to broken vocal cycles. Invisible figures wear drawn costumes, created for the film using a chemical-reflective, light-fibre fabric. Soft-pastels and fabric changes in the different light conditions and under flash everything becomes monochrome. The figures wearing these drawings are rendered ghosts, or ghosts of voices, only their shapes visible underneath. The film’s audio is created from distorting frequencies of various digital noises taken from text, email and messaging notifications in addition to breath and heartbeats.

A drone inhabited by the mind of a property developer arrives ‘top down’ from above and flies through the newly built residential neighbourhood in East London and gathers data at twilight. During the journey it maps the new utopian space it has built with its mechanical gaze, commenting and interacting with its findings, ‘We want to contain and retain our residents’. This is a place built in a bubble, controlled within the walls of developer’s billboards. Privately owned, East Village is awash with branding and reaffirming smiling faces. Purchase a luxury flat and buy into the services, life style and more. As the drone declares ‘Everything you need is here!’ With Westfield shopping mall on your doorstep, its ever present logo glowing like a beacon of hope, why would you ever want to leave?

An overprotective robot learns the importance of letting go, for the sake of the bird he loves.

Totem is a small, family owned Parisian style cafe where Nina, a young waitress is enlightened to the internal conflict going on inside everybody by a mysterious patron, who visualizes this internal struggle in the form of spirit animals – one that represents the “good” in each person, and one that represents the “bad”.

Animation about Merlin inventing a toothbrush and toothpaste to stop the decay affecting King Arthur's knights due to their consumption of sweet food.

Fragments is a short film which documents a young girl’s journey to understanding her biracial identity, broken home and the effects this has on her.

A young dinosaur enthusiast is thrilled to discover her favourite show has announced a feature film to be released in April! But when the day comes for her to see the film, Clíodhna learns that the UK has entered lockdown. How will Clíodhna overcome this huge disappointment?

Wastopia explories the issues surrounding global attitudes to waste disposal and the environment pollution that inevitably follows. The film indicates a visual journey based on an otherworldly place inhibited by strange creatures and the products of what humans discard.

Inspired by the surreal vision of an animal using a vending machine, Robert Findlay's Change Return portrays a dystopian world where people live underground and are serviced by smiley-faced, urinal-shaped, floating robots.

An elegant vase inhabits the body of a young girl, and re-stages an event from her childhood using living tissue.

A modern cautionary tale about desire and control. The audience is sucked in to the power play between two characters who are using their internet anonymity for different agendas. Their dangerous game is compromised after one of them loses grip on reality.

Photographs of performers in a disabled and non-disabled dance company come to life.The individual artists dance out of the photos and across table tops until the whole company meets to perform in unison.

Filmed version of Irving A. Leitner and Bernice Myers' children's book.

Boys buy an aeroplane and fly to the United States.

Views of a landscape engraved directly into the emulsion of 16mm film leader using the blade of a surgical scalpel. The length of each filmstrip is determined by the distance between points on the artist’s body, such as from fingertip to fingertip between outstretched arms, and bisecting the body along a posterior/anterior axis. During our experience of these moving images, the length of a strip of film becomes a measurement of time as the static marks incised into the black 16mm frames are perceived to be lines of light in motion.

Visual artist Eleanor Edwards explores Seasonal Affective Disorder and their effects on creativity in this stylish, unsettling 3D animation.

The Queen Witch is plotting to stop time and rule the world forever with the help of a magic potion, containing 13 newts, 13 toads and 13 kittens. But she only has 12 kittens and with the help of her army of Karate Witches she sets out to capture the 13th kitten and complete the spell.

A remixing of Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe prints.

She Farted And Created The World is an animation about a dog who farts and creates a world... and follow a sort-of evolution cycle within it.

A robbery is foiled by a deaf shopkeeper.

Crystal World is inspired by J.G Ballard’s apocalyptic science fiction novel of the same name where a viral crystal metamorphoses trees, animals, humans and architecture into frozen jewels forever suspended in time and space. The novel is a haunting portrait of a world in which everything is illuminated by prismatic light, a ‘leaking’ of time that causes humans to experience individual moments endlessly looped, repeated and prolonged. My film adapts this concept of crystallization and applies it to fragments from the 1955 film. I reconstruct scenes from Charles Laughton’s iconic film with underwater puppets, which I then crystallize using ammonium phosphate crystals, time-lapse photography, mirrors, prisms, and projectors. (http://piaborg.com)

We are all born as wet as a banana. 75% water. By the time we reach adulthood, that amount decreases to 54%. Aging is death by evaporation, thinks Gus. Gus is seeking solitude on a deserted beach, when he is interrupted by Tiny Eyes at dusk, on the eve of his 25th birthday.

An animated UK public information film which explains what to do if you see somebody in trouble on a visit to coastal areas.

yellow bellow can you get me to orange so i can see green but that won't do because i still need to smell blue and that can't be too far from red.

Animated short created by children.

Awesome, Beguiling and Creative: a simple but stunningly imaginative English alphabet drawn by a stalwart member of Cardiff’s cine club.

End of the Street takes the original 19th century Beaufort wind force scale and conjures a response, incrementally turning up the strangeness.

An unusual love story about a man who falls in love with a cat after the murder of the woman he adored. But is the cat all it seems?

Al and Al's grandfather is a retired engineer and inventor. The film simulates his lifelong endeavour to create a perpetual motion device and supply free power for the people. During a telephone call with the Lamb of God, Britney Spears sabotages the project and sets in motion her own drive for infinity. The conflict produces a series of alchemical events which have only one consequence, a land flowing with milk and honey.

A puppet animation film about road safety.

When a bird of prey gets ran over, a teen girl's insistence to give it a funeral ignites conflict within her family. Dark, twisted, and yet still light-hearted, this animated horror drama plays on the extremes of childhood emotions.

A young girl's life is changed by a gift that develops a special love for her, a love she only sees when it is destroyed by the jealousy of another.

An ancient Aboriginal myth tells the story of how one culture tried to safeguard its way of life.

John Hegley's poetry animated.

I never knew how to answer the question, "what is your name," because if truth be told, I do not have a name, I have five names... Using family album and hand drawn animation, How I Got My Names tells a personal story about dealing with a traumatic childhood while navigating the ever-confusing young adulthood.

Two Canadians come to the small village of Barvas on the Isle of Lewis to track their long-lost relatives. One of a series of ten animation films made by children in small village primary schools in Scotland, also involving the local community. The series was broadcast on Scottish Television and Grampian Television, and distributed on video through schools and libraries.

Director William Hanekom invites you into a new tale of childhood terror. Join the child on their journey as they are separated from mother, left at the hands of whatever strangers they meet. But there is something that the child sees that the adults don't...

A biographical 2D animation following the realisation of a missed opportunity to make a connection with a relative after attending their funeral digitally during the pandemic.

A romantic animation about the love of the moon goddess for her soul mate; the sun goddess.

Heartwood follows Midge, a bratty girl of about twelve years old. Bored and frustrated by her overbearing father, she decides to leave the monotony of the hiking trail to set off on her own adventure into the woods, in which she makes a magical discovery.

A farmer tends to his cattle on a particularly foggy morning, but something is slightly strange about his herd today.

Farnham wanted to capture the craziness of the last few months of juggling home life, working and home-schooling, whilst staying alert! He 3D-scanned his children taking part in the various banal activities he hadset up for them.

A simple bus ride can be a highly stressful experience.

A montage following the key stages of a woman's life with her dog always by her side.

ЮНАК [juˈnʌk] is a word often used in the Bulgarian folklore to describe a brave and intrepid youth. This work depicts a series of “unnecessary memories” from the director’s childhood. Reminiscences, not related to a significant event, unnecessarily stored in his mind. All shots in the film are abstract depictions of the director’s personal “unnecessary memories”.