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Short animation made in the Lockdown 2020 by Ged Haney. Selected for the Ottawa short animation film fest 2021.

In Handel's oratorio Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (1707), the desire to live is at odds with the realisation of one's own mortality. In his early masterpiece, the composer was able to open up clear emotional spaces to the simultaneity of the incompatible. What does it mean to be alive - and what does it mean to demand to be fulfilled with this life? And who am I when the mirror only gazes at me in silence? In Handel's music the questions begin to float.

For ten years I pretended I wanted to get my grandfather to share his memories of the Algerian War. Today, I'm not sure I want to hear what he has to say, or whether I want to make this film at all.

Facing a screen / all day / every day

It is essential to know in order to belong. Il Ponte Rotto is an anthropological animated documentary infiltrating Sardinian's Culture and Identity. Using Carnaval, a ritual specific to the heart of the Barbaricinian's island of Sardinia as a metaphor, the project questions the evolution of this land's culture.

Short by Ménine Beaugrand Collot.

Karl goes from room to room and tries to fit in. First he visits the business people, then the sports people and after them the party people. Will he find the place where he belongs?

A tribute to a special place – Kunstquartier Bethanien

What goes moo moo. Study #4.

In the popular imagination, Africa still requires help from Westeners to overcome its various humanitarian, health and even climatic crises. Yet, Africa is strong enough to find solutions to their problems.

Charles Ponzi, was an Italian born con artist based out of the United States and Canada. Born and raised in Lugo Italy, he became internationally famous in the early 1920s as a con man for his money-making scheme. This history channel style documentary tells the full story of Charles Ponzi, from his childhood in Italy, through to the heights of his fame in Boston Massachusetts, through to his prison sentence, deportation, and his life after the scheme collapsed. The film is written and narrated by Patrick Boyle, a fund manager and finance professor at King's College London.

On the 18th May 2015, Peter Hook & the Light preformed a special Joy Division show live at Christ Church, Ian Curtis’s boyhood church in Macclesfield, England. This concert premiered 40 years after Curtis' death to celebrate the life of Curtis. The set list contains the entire Joy Division/Warsaw discography played in full.

Excited by the illusion of political and historical change, three filmmakers join the protests of the Chilean social explosion of 2019. There they meet Ettiene, a 7 year old boy, who is more afraid of fire and protests than of the police. Surprised, they meet him again to understand how he lives apart from what is happening. The next morning and after all the euphoria, the city becomes hostile showing the deep cracks that separate the country.

A Palermo head-off-legend about love and hate.

The Vatican opened once-secret records on Pope Pius XII on March 2020. This gave researchers a brand new insight into the Catholic Church during the Nazi era. What did the Pope know about the Holocaust?

A day in the life of a girl literally addicted to her cellphone.

Arthur, junior employee in an authoritarian company, has forever been in conflict with his shadow. Up until the day their opposition would lead them towards an unknown world.

Lady Midday watches over the midday calm and, at the same time, the cycle of nature: growth and decay.

Employs protest art, of modes of representation /chanting (NO BODY SHAME, NO BODY SHAME) within ACT UP and queer movements, of political campaign, including my own drawings of my own body, and visual techniques used throughout Marlon Riggs' Voices United (1989).

Made by Andrea Fomasi, in Lierna (LC).

Hocine was born a boy and raised in a conservative family in Algeria. Today her name is Yasmine. Adil and Albéric were born in countries where homosexuality is punishable by prison, lynching, persecution, and death… They fled to Belgium and France seeking asylum. Thomas’ Spanish father dreamt of seeing his son married in a church. Ariane, a young feminist queer, refuses to submit to men’s diktats. They all share the same ambition: to no longer be invisible. Together, they try to overcome their fear and conquer places where they’ve never felt welcome before.

During lockdown the UK has seen a significant increase in the number of domestic abuse related calls to helplines, with some charities reporting over 200% increase at a time when there was over 70% reduction in service delivery as a result of the pandemic. How did the domestic abuse services sector cope with the pandemic? What were the experiences of the frontline workers of the domestic abuse sector? With a range of interviews recorded on Zoom during and at the end the lockdown period, this film offers for the first time, first-hand accounts of keyworkers and key players of the domestic abuse services from their own voices and images. The interviews offer exclusive stories of keyworkers reflecting on their experiences of vicarious trauma, how they worked selflessly while dealing with the implications of the pandemic themselves.

A unique look at three of the greatest builders of the African Savannah: weaver birds, aardvarks and termites. In their spectacular buildings they do not live alone! Many roommates from other species, from small insects, reptiles and birds to large mammals, not only live together — they also benefit from sharing the same roof.

First impressions are so important.

In the north of France, the Ascoval steel plant is threatened. The 300 employees have one year to find a buyer. The lives of these men, women and their families are at stake. Their tenacity and their union will be their strength.

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

The Casa de Campo is one of the largest public parks in the world, a real forest. In the images, its 2019: the green of the earth shining anew for us or the children's unexpected use of bridges and ponds. In the sounds, its 1936, the forest torn in two, the defence of Madrid: "buzzes and explosions, clattering of machine guns, dry crackling of rifles" or the words of those who invented a revolution and a taste for good life in the midst of that turmoil.

A film portrait of Argentinian pianist Margarita Fernández. Medium makes her visible as a mediator, building bridges between past and present, different generations, scores and music, sounds and images, her own art and that of cinema.

The Penan people fight for the preservation of the rainforest, that is threatened by companies seeking to profit from the destruction of their environment.

In 1999 in a high school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a teenage girl casts a spell to make her best friend fall in love with her.

“Recurring Nightmare” At the beginning of the COVID pandemic, people in the US expressed their anxiety through mass buying of toilet paper where stores could not keep it in stock. People even fought for it in stores and parking lots. In addition to this, the incompetence, dishonesty and narcissism of President Trump made it all worse. In observing my native country from the other side of the Atlantic, I felt the inadequate leadership of the President was more suffocating than the physical quarantine. This performance represents my take on this recurring nightmare for my country.

Drinking at his local boozer, Billy, an English football hooligan picks a fight with queer outcast, Roswell. But Billy has picked a fight with the wrong person. In fact, Roswell is not even human! He’s an intergalactic Kung Fu Queer Alien with a vengeance!

Salvo is turning 40. He lives on a hill with his parents and looks after his goldfinches. Through fragments of silence, the film composes the portrait of a solitude.

White fog is slowly moving from left to right. A man cleans his workwear from a vanishing distance with an air hose. Three trembling steel cables emerge from a grey metal building. A large dump truck with a full load passes by. In a deeply green forest landscape there is a dark monolith. You can hear jingling metal noises from the off, which cause a spreading echo. A white cargo helicopter is slowly approaching for landing. A dredger moves in a circle on the surface of the water. In "Objects and Artifacts", various pictorial elements come into contact with each other in a situational manner and create a friction surface that deals with forms of a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Photojournalist David Pratt has spent almost forty years capturing indelible images of global conflicts. His career has taken him from Somalia and Syria to Colombia and Croatia. He has retained a special affection for Afghanistan, a country he has visited through decades of changing fortunes stretching from the height of the Soviet invasion in the 1980s through the years of the mujahideen and the rise of the Taliban. Now, he returns to the places and people that have meant so much to him, providing a uniquely personal then and now document of Afghanistan life.

How to create history through the denial of it, the process of decommunisation in Ukraine has created different types of wounds, art and architecture have been the first to suffer these changes and become objects of oblivion, the animation expresses this discrepancy between modern society and the pieces of forgotten history.

Catfish and the Bottlemen performing at Manchester Arena during The Balance Tour

Deer in the Windsor garden are attacked by a jaguar. This animal, called “Affums”, was brought back from Patagonia by Lady Florence Dixie, a nineteenth century explorer, journalist and feminist. The film unfolds this anecdote through a variety of different narrative strategies and reconstitutions.

After a night out, Luna wakes up in her car without remembering how she got there. She finds a mysterious pen-drive with a file called "Pandemonium". Soon, strange things will start to happen and Luna will try to keep her sanity while trying to solve the mystery.