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Set in a Northern town in a topsy-turvy world where football is only for girls and ballet is the manliest pursuit there is, one working class boy defies society and his father’s wishes in favour of his repressed fascination with his sisters sport; football.
A companion piece to the film IT’S ALL IN THE MIND commissioned through Channel 4 for their RANDOM ACTS strand. This time however we are not land-locked, we are all-at-sea. Eden Kötting’s drawings and collages are aquatically themed featuring fish, boats and stars. The work is a moving image celebration of the collages that Eden has been making with her father Andrew for the last five years.
In 2016, GRAMMY-nominated trio Above & Beyond left the electronic world behind, risking it all to go acoustic. Their new film Above & Beyond Acoustic - Giving Up The Day Job, follows the group's unlikely journey from the DJ booth to the Hollywood Bowl.
An obsessed filmmaker, George Eastman, in a bizarre and surreal mix of trash, experimental and film noir thriller. On the run from the mafia, Eastman kidnaps actress Sarah Asproon and heads off on a strange and terrifying road trip to the coast. Along the way George and Sarah encounter various weird characters and Mafia henchmen.
Danny Baker mulls over all the attendant hoopla, rigmarole, folderol and palaver that comes with this most mammoth of modern circuses. Mascots! Managers! Fans! Tickets! Endless hours of TV padding! Creepy Kevin Keegan dolls! The tragic death of Pickles the Dog! That sort of thing.
Stranded on a distant planet, a lonely astronaut sends out a signal in search of human contact.
One of Two Evils is a horror stop-motion animation short. The film follows the story of a young boy who is currently witnessing his parents go through a divorce. Due to being lonely, isolated and ignored his imagination takes over and his version of events that happen suddenly take a sinister turn.
GOLD – YOU CAN DO MORE THAN YOU THINK is the emotional story about three outstanding top Athletes. Henry Wanyoike, a blind Marathon runner from Kenya, Kirsten Bruhn, paralyzed Swimmer from Germany and Kurt Fearnley, Australian Wheelchair racer.
A chance to look back on John Motson’s incredible 50 years in broadcasting in the wake of the legendary BBC football commentator’s passing. This special documentary charts his poignant but fun-filled journey around the football grounds that have provided the backdrop for so many remarkable commentaries and football stories from this unique broadcaster, famed for his love of a sheepskin coat. Along the way, the film features the key characters that have played starring roles in those famous Motty commentaries – starting with Hereford legend Ricky George. The programme relives some of Motson's immortal commentary lines, with the stories behind them, from ‘The Crazy Gang have beaten the Culture Club’ at the 1988 FA Cup final to ‘things are getting better and better’ when England won 5-1 in Germany.
Andrew Marr discovers the story of Winston Churchill's passion for painting, travelling to the places he loved to paint and revealing how his private hobby shaped his public life.
Documentary about the Imperial War Museums in the centenary year of its establishment. Celebrity advocates explore ten key objects from the IWM's collection.
Film critic Kim Newman introduces a new series of DVDs and Blu-ray disc releases by BFI showcasing little known British films.
In a YouTube review of his favorite video game, a man tells a story of heartbreak amongst the hints and tips on game-play... The film is a three minute parody of the 'Let's Play...' YouTube video. The film uses 3D CGI to emulate the simple geometry and low resolution textures of a 90's video game as well as representing the narrators interior world as an 8 bit polygonal psychological landscape.
2019 marks the 50th birthday of the Open University. In its five decades, the OU has educated more than two million students. Sir Lenny Henry is one of them. Sir Lenny presents this documentary, which tells the story of the OU from 1969 to 2019, with archive and interviews with past graduates, observers and academics. It is nostalgic, affectionate, funny and a piece of cultural and social history. The story begins with Harold Wilson’s idea of a ‘University of the Air’ through the times of late-night black-and-white TV programmes to modern-day landmark series such as Blue Planet II. Today the OU works with space research and avatars and looks forward to the next 50 years.
In the conclusion of the Three Times Moving trilogy, secrets are revealed and memories unveiled as Adam and Julie face the truth and heartbreak of their relationship. Starring Jane Hogan as “Julie”, Lee Neville as “Adam” and Danielle Little as “Anna”.
When Teddy fears his homosexuality may be revealed by visiting reporters, he takes comfort from the family's black butler, Gerald - leading the two down a path that is either romance - or a gross abuse of power.
A woman tries to give up smoking and takes up a worse habit.
16 minute seamless loop.
Stance... drag queen boxing, drag queen endurance, drag is a non-contact sport, so it's a kind of parody, no pain, no glory... the courage to be yourself and to appropriate typically masculine spaces with cheerfulness and femininity.
Olympic skating legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean and your favourite Dancing on Ice stars wow audiences in this incredible action-packed ice show. Putting their skates back on are: 2012 Series winner, Emmerdale's Matthew Wolfenden; runner-up and Hollyoaks' hottie Jorgie Porter; Sugababe Heidi Range; Coronation Street's loveable Kirk aka Andy Whyment; star of stage and screen Jennifer Ellison; Olympic skier Chemmy Alcott; pop singer and TV personality Chico; and Dancing on Ice Series 6 winner Sam Attwater. Overseeing the celebrities' performances are the tour judges--head coach Karen Barber, Dancing on Ice favourite Christopher Biggins, and Series 2 winner Kyran Bracken, who also performs a stunning routine.
A man suffering with a severe migraine ventures inside his own head to confront it.
A documentary short film.
The World Stone Skimming Championship is held on the tiny Scottish island of Easdale every year. Two obsessed skimmers show us what it takes to become the world's best.
Extras from the first 'Star Wars' film return to what remains of Elstree Studios.
A son is reunited with his long lost father for the first time. You might imagine it's time to discover everything about where he's come from and where he's going. But he's about to get a surprise...
"In the Line of Fire...Larger Than Live" is the debut video release from metal maestro's DragonForce. Shot during the band's Ultimate Stage headline show at 2014's Loud Park Festival in the Saitama Super Arena, Tokyo, the band used over 10 camera angles to capture the raw energy of their show and instrumental dexterity for which they are rightly celebrated worldwide. The track listing features a mixture of new songs combined with the bands' classic foot stomping anthems and lightning fast shred-fests. "In the Line of Fire...Larger Than Live" also features special insight into the DragonForce "Maximum Overload World Tour" with off tour, behind the scenes, and backstage footage.
The Barbican Estate in the City of London is arguably England's finest example of Brutalist architecture. This film explores the history of the estate from the perspective of its residents
Director Richard Martin looks back at the making of the story.
A haunting tale of loss and regret, blending live action and stunning visual effects that culminate in a dramatic finale.
Two masked women stare each other down. Entry in the Four4 Very Short Horror Film Competition, 2013.
A woman lives her entire life in the confines of a modern art gallery, while she is drawn by her friends and family.
The Sound of Change was a benefit concert held at Twickenham Stadium in London, England, as part of the Chime for Change initiative, founded by Beyoncé with the help of actress Salma Hayek and Gucci creative director Frida Giannini.
Adam Harper is an average man. And on an average day he suddenly finds himself catapulted into the strangest, reality changing game... A game of time and chance, where the stakes are a matter of life and death.
Hosted by Bob Harris, this live studio show features music, special guests and rare archive to mark 30 years since the legendary series was last broadcast. Featuring performances from Peter Frampton, Richard Thompson, and Albert Lee among others. Guests include Dave Stewart, Joan Armatrading, Ian Anderson, Chris Difford and Kiki Dee along with fans such as Danny Baker and Al Murray. A night of reminiscence, great music and fun.
On a trip to the local park for a picnic a couple have an argument when they can't find the sandwiches. Then they encounter a detective who is investigating strange happenings in the park. Will he solve the strange case of the missing sandwiches...
This mini-documentary follows Stewart McPherson's journey to Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited island in the world. We meet the Tristanians and an interview with ex-chief islander Harold Green reveals what life is like in Tristan's only settlement, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.
Animals all-at-sea; a cow’s head struggling to make for shore, an owl floundering in the surf or a reindeer awash in the breakers. Buoys of poetic improbability bobbing up and down in a sea of city-life normality.
Using songs from the album of the same name, Gang Signs & Prayer is loosely based on Stormzy's London upbringing, featuring a young protagonist raised by a single mother.
Strangers In A Bed is a short drama/comedy film. Ali (Jack Howard) is on a trip to the US, but when his connecting flight is cancelled due to a blizzard, he's forced to share a hotel room, and a bed, with Bill (John Christian Bateman). The pair's opposing world views quickly lead to high tension between them, and they stand-off over who will get a good night's sleep.
Former police officer Jesus Vissarion is the soul of Siberia. His 4,000 disciples follow a strict regime of no meat, no eggs, no milk, no fish, no alcohol, no smoking and very little money. Filmmaker George Carey touches down in the obscure Siberian outpost of Minusinsk, just in time to join in the fun and frolics at Vissarion's big festival, taking place in Sun City, the new Promised Land, roughly 200 miles north of Mongolia. George is approached by Vissarion's closest apostle, a former rock singer called Vadim Redkin, who says he can take him to meet the great man...
Can the power of Christ cure blindness? What is the secret to turning water into wine? Ruthless talk show host Mary Malone interviews the one and only Jesus of Nazareth (if that is even his real name) to cut through centuries of misunderstandings, debunking the miraculous stories we all know and love (but understand so little of). A mini-mythbuster of biblical proportions, Scripture Screw-Up is a comic cautionary tale for believers, unbelievers and everyone in between.
Two-channel HD video with sound and color
Thought Broadcasting is a film about psychosis and surveillance. A hybrid documentary, the film draws upon real-life accounts of a schizophrenic disorder: the belief that one's thoughts are being transmitted and heard by others.
Snow is precarious, unstable, elusive. Its aesthetic and symbolic register often refer to notions of the romantic. Snow reduces the colour palette drastically, often turning environments into near black and white. As a material that surrounds other materials it has its own sonic spectrum: fresh snow muffling sounds, cold snow and wet snow creating distinctly different tones. Village (Veil) is a single shot video filmed during a two-week period of intense continuous snowfall in January 2019.
A group of young factory workers are drifting through Detroit in a driverless taxi. They are part of an underground community that adorn themselves in digital camouflage to enact their escapist fantasies in the hidden spaces of the city.
On 13 April 1919, British troops shot hundreds of peaceful protesters dead in India. Writer Sathnam Sanghera retraces the build-up to the massacre and examines its legacy.
Dr James Fox takes a journey through six different landscapes across Britain, meeting artists whose work explores our relationship to the natural world. From Andy Goldsworthy's beautiful stone sculptures to James Turrell's extraordinary sky spaces, this is a film about art made out of nature itself. Featuring spectacular images of landscape and art, James travels from the furthest reaches of the Scottish coast and the farmlands of Cumbria to woods of north Wales. In each location he marvels at how artists' interactions with the landscape have created a very different kind of modern art - and make us look again at the world around us.
Alastair Sooke takes us on an exclusive personal tour of the Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective at Tate Modern. Offering an in-depth look at one of the year's most talked about exhibitions, Alastair and guests explore the enduring appeal of Lichtenstein's imagery, debate the controversies around his work and his influence on today's generation of artists and tackle the big question - was Lichtenstein a Pop Art genius and one of the defining image-makers of the 20th century, or a one-trick wonder whose big idea was so powerful he could never let it go?
Balfron Tower, an example of the abandoned Futurist path of architecture that haunts the area surrounding the cold, gaping maw of Blackwall Tunnel, offers romantically dystopian views of Poplar’s social housing ghetto, with the silhouette of the imperial seat of power, wrapped in a glass-and-concrete shell of our debts, on the horizon. Our future is not determined by what we have managed to create, but first and foremost by our failed dreams and fantasies. We should pay more attention to them.
Debut show from the Malawian-born Britain's Got Talent breakthrough act, Dalisio delivers his cheekily charming take on recent news, old news, fake news, and stories that were never quite but ALMOST news. Having lived in countries where it is forbidden to criticise the the status quo, Daliso is the disarming comic making the most of his freedom to be very, very funny.
'Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine' concerns affective relations and community building. The film is like a spell or a promise for a new and more liberating type of family structure. The film has a non-linear narrative that weaves various intimate settings, some within shared domestic spaces, others in outdoor environments. Shot in Lithuania, London, and Edinburgh, the film features the artist and her children, as well as close friends, which she considers extended family.
A riveting portrayal of crime in the inner city of York. Big Dave, the local village idiot, takes his revenge after souring relations in the locale.
Same-sex behaviour has been reported in more than 1500 species and was observed by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. But traditional evolutionary theory can't explain the purpose of being gay, or why it might be an advantage. So what are the animals up to? This frank documentary shows pets and animals on farms in zoos, and in the wild, caught on camera indulging in same-sex behaviour.
Security Services officer Christian, confused and unsure of who he really is anymore, must come to terms with his own identity while on the hunt for a Russian agent.
Jim and Loz Beck are brothers from Chipping Norton. They play rock'n'roll together since they're 8 years old. At 18, they leave the boring british countryside to live and work on their music in London. Jim starts working in a Cultural association while Loz discovers the pleasures of the student life. The film is driven by the raw punk music and the deeply political and emotional lyrics from their two piece band Cassels. In this intimate portrait, Jim and Loz will confront their strong artistic point of view and their DIY approach to the reality of the music industry and the social and economical London's life.
Emma and Jess are at an after school drama lesson prepping for exams. Emma finds out Jess has thrown their plans for next year after they leave school out the window. The friction between them takes a dark turn to see if their friendship survives.
Frank has a date with Cindy. But during the mechanical sex, strange things start to happen thanks to Cindy’s surprising additional features. Absurd comedy about a man and an upgraded version of a sex doll keeps things short and breezy.