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Left Unsaid is an experimental animated film about cultural dysphoria and the disconnect between grandfather and grandchild caused by an ever-growing language barrier.

What is a dog? Loyal, obedient, submissive, owned. Or violent, instinctual, vigilant and wild. Whatever it is, it’s waiting.

A glance through LGBTQ+ history through the mirrors of a drag queen.

Told from a daughter’s perspective, seen through her father’s eyes. One Last Dance explores how it felt watching her father slowly forget everything he knew.

"In Search of The Real: Glitches" (a simultaneous work, shown at Towner in the East Sussex Open 2014) was a response to a disenchantment with the current global social/political environment. A glitch is also referred to as a spike of electrical current. A spike seems more hopeful than a glitch. This video is one of a series which make use of found videos that originally imparted a philosophical or spiritual argument. It explores a state of continual flux, dissolving realities and poses questions of possibility. Does art facilitate a liberation of the mind? I am finding that the more liberated my thinking becomes the more is revealed that was previously un-seen/heard. "In Search of The Real: Spikes" is one of those oddities where effort and serendipity meet, colliding at 2min46 when the audio states of its own accord that it is an artist.

People try it on in the Croxley bunkers, and when the head of the household shoves his bendy cane brush right up the chimney we would do well to run to the other side of the road and watch it appear out the top for the lucky sight of it.

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?

Made as one of a four part series exploring different aspects of women and the law, on which all the women animators involved researched and worked as a group, before then making individual films, each quite different in content, tone and style. Based on the real life experiences of Josie O Dwyer, the film uses her voice as commentary, taken from hours of taped conversation with the filmmaker. Different styles of drawing convey her emotions and the devastating effects detention and imprisonment have on young girls put away 'for their own protection'.

Girls and eels compelled to revisit, re-experience and return.

It is here, on this connected Earth, that we re-discovered peace. A youthful Gaia recounts the struggle and determination that made this possible.

Kyambogo details the relationship between a Ugandan Grandmother and her grandson and how drug use affected their relationship. A film about the stigma surrounding drug use in African society and a self reflection on mistakes made.

A doll faces her fears when a spider invades her dollhouse. However, something far more terrifying lies beneath the surface.

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”.

An incredible true story of survival and forgiveness. Eva Kor and her twin sister Miriam were captured by Nazis and experimented on in Auschwitz as children. Despite struggling with her traumatic past, Eva decides to forgive her tormentors.

Since 1865, no cab driver in London has been able to omit “The Knowledge”. It requires the memorisation of 320 routes, an achievement that takes years, but has been made into a joke by the robot cars of the future. A flesh-and-blood cabby “interacts with people from all walks of life,” according to a brochure by Transport for London, and that’s “a lot more than just taking people from A to B.” Visually fascinating, Colson traces his interviewees’ mind maps of the city using the mapping technology of robot cars.

Jay is trapped in the relentless City until he is forced to confront his relationship with Time and himself.

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.

Craft-based animated film about sex, religion and the weather. The proprietor of fish and chip shop "Joe's Plaice" is married to Mary. For ages they have been trying for a baby. When they conceive in the middle of a thunderstorm, Joe suspects it is not really his. However the identify of the real Father is of some concern to Joe when he finds out.

Voices in a crowd stir violent emotions, microaggressions bring up past traumas. Then a turning shifts the emotional landscape...

The Fractal Experience will introduce you to a new dimension of entertainment combining the awesome power of computers, ambient music and the fantastic world where chaos and order co-exist. There are two different versions of this film; both the UK and USA editions feature entirely different soundtracks from one another.

Swimming with dolphins has long been proved to be beneficial to those with longterm illnesses. However if you are English and on a budget, Hartcliff Community Centre has an alternative approach: swimming with pigs.

Self sabotage. Obstruction of narrative. A film behind a horse.

If you have ever felt stuck on a hamster wheel at work, you will probably be able to relate to these lovable little robots. Watch their repetitive functions spiral out of control in this delightful animated short by Michael Marczewski.

A male cat, with prominent testicles, approaches a sleeping woman and begins pawing and licking at her. The woman awakes and, smiling, allows the cat to dive between her breasts as though her cleavage was a body of water.

An animated short offering small glimpses into the life of a British Soldier (Tommy) serving in the trenches.

Ed and his friends have a night out. While they are out his cartoon creations come to life causing mayhem.

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

Independent animation visualising the experience of language confusion and misunderstanding while people living in their second language.

Through a series of enchanting encounters, Fern discovers how to see the world from a different perspective.

An animation based on personal experiences and actual events that have been put through the filter of the mind, fully hand drawn and painted.

Sometimes if you wish hard enough....

A complex, beguiling inquisition of geometry’s relationship to various types of space.

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

Got your holidays booked yet? Take a look at what Terminal Tours have to offer in this consciously coarse comic cartoon.

Charlie Chaplin visits the realms of fantasy, going to Mars and other planets as he journeys through the Milky Way.

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

A dream-like short that blends animation with reality on a late journey home.

A surreal animation of erotic images.

A lone detectorist on a beach in Norfolk uncovers much more than he prepared for.

Soft pastels give way to frantic stop-motion when a girl and her imaginary friend confront puberty.

Break out the mango chutney, because everyone wants a piece of him! The gingerbread man story re-imagined with a bollywood twist.

Dreaming hero wakes up and sees the Dreamer himself. Is he? Time dissolve and we are seeing things as they are. Are we? Narrated by British-born American philosopher Alan Watts.

“My name is Klementhro. Without my paddle, I have nowhere to go”. Klementhro may not have it all, but at least he has his paddle to direct him through the world. What happens if he loses his dear paddle? It is not easy to navigate with empty hands.

A tale of individual courage and sacrifice that contributed to the cracking of the Enigma Code during WWII.

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)

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

A camera straight out of a video game hovers through artificial landscapes and portals. In a ghostly house, a fantasy video game is being played on a computer screen: how are virtual space, toxic masculinity, gaming and fantasy connected?

The film draws on an archive of audio recordings collected since 2016, featuring conversations with friends, partners, and acquaintances, originally created as a practical response to the filmmaker's amnesia. While it explores reconstructing memory through artificial intelligence, the film remains grounded in a deeply human experience.

"This video was copied from an animated cartoon film which I shot on standard 8mm ciné film. The project was started in 1961 (when I was 12) but, because of exams and girlfriends, I only managed to finish it in 1969. I was not able to add sound to the 8mm film. The soundtrack was added to this video in 2013, using the 1960 Owen Brannigan recording with my own voice overdubbed. In the 1960s I could not find a supplier of proper Celluloid "cels" so I had to paint each character image on sheets of thin cellophane bought from the local butcher. These sheets often became distorted and difficult to register accurately. There are many unwanted reflections due to the ripples in the cheap cellophane sheets."

The Terrance Higgins Trust released this strange animated PIF to cinemas in 1990 to promote safer sex.

There is a photograph of a child left on the moon, a golf ball, flags, a lost glove. When the glamour of space exploration fades, what remains?

Quirky animation predicting all sorts of bizarre hat contraptions that will exist by 1950.

Cartoonist Joe Noble has fun suggesting different shapes and uses for barrage balloons.

A speculative journey through a wormhole loop.

Counting's as easy as 1-2-3 with this fun video specially designed by expert animators and educationalists. With cartoons and humourous verses, numbers come to life from One Fat Hen to Ten Green Bottles.

A specially created tape devised to make learning the alphabet fun and entertaining. Contains over 400 words to help children develop their early vocabulary.

Dutty Juice showcases Caroline's love of cartoons that have a satirical critique on advertisements with a tongue in cheek narrative. Dutty Juice aims to make a fun colourful ad that would make people laugh, be disgusted and yet still look appealing.

Aliens abduct a man off the beach and try to befriend what they find.

A guide, responsible for sending fallen stars back up to the sky, encounters a fallen star that cannot return. That star changes into a creature doomed to remain on the ground. Angry and confused, it lashes out, chasing the memory of what it once was. With the help of the guide, it is able to accept its fate, and together they can guide the stars back up, brighter than before.