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A businessman arrives in central London, only to discover it is deserted and lifeless; panicking, he flees to Brighton to meet his girlfriend on the beach. Shot in lockdown London and inspired by 28 Days Later, this quarantine short is based on the fear of discovering you're the last human on Earth...until you suddenly realise things are even worse than that.
The ancient city of Baiae was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire. Over the centuries, it slowly sunk beneath the sea. Amanda Ruggeri meets the archaeologists and engineers developing some surprising new technologies to protect the underwater site for future generations.
A film following the events of March 2001 when 31-year-old Stuart Lubbock was found dead in the pool at TV presenter, Micheal Barrymore's, home in Roydon, Essex.
Take an epic overland train, boat and car journey through New Zealand’s breathtaking landscapes. The voyage begins in Auckland, but the city soon gives way to rolling pastures, volcanic extremes, tranquil waterways, the snowcapped grandeur of the Southern Alps and the beauty of Fiordland.
‘Lamb’ was shot in a farmer’s lambing shed near Skaer’s house on the island of Lewis. The soundtrack was composed by Will Carslake and Olivia Ray in collaboration with Nashashibi.
A young survivor tries to find ways to stay sane after a mysterious catastrophe known only as "The Light" occurs.
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.
A group of friends come together to salvage what would have been their graduation party.
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.
In this film-poem Browzan illustrates his experience living in Berlin between 2016-17. Browzan uses collage, still photography, video and boomerangs to re-imagine this dirty paradise as a throbbing visual mosaic. The evocative imagery is harmonised by a dark music score composed by The KVB.
A making-of documentary of Total Life Forever, the 2010 album by British rock band, Foals. The short film, directed by Dave Ma, marks the 10th anniversary of the album.
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.
Companion is a short stop-motion film that expresses the friendship between a dog and a human. The story follows a dog's life and the interactions he has with his owner and other animals along the way.
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!
The permanence of awareness and the transient nature of ego. An external look into an internal awakening. The stark realization, the sudden death, and the everlasting peace.
Eva Braun. Hitler’s mistress and eventual wife. A woman with a passion for photography and film, documenting the daily ongoings among Hitler’s inner circle. Now, a haunting look behind closed doors, uncovering the Eva Braun tapes.
Embers is a teaser for the feature horror film PATRIARCH - this short film help get the project green lit. At the beginning of the Patriarch script, it mentions 2 of the security team (who were split up from the rest of the team) have gone missing. This is what happened to them. —David A. Roberts
The documentary follows the journey of a camel caravan to the salt plains of the Afar Depression. Traditionally the caravans moved from Afar Depression to other parts of Ethiopia and to the Red Sea coastal regions of modern-day Eritrea and Djibouti. For centuries the control, trade and distribution of salt was of primary importance in the articulation of economic, social, and political life of the nomadic communities living along the caravan trails. Since 2010, trucks have slowly replaced the camel caravans. This has led to a steady decline in the trade. The film, relying on strong visual imagery and traditional Afar music, selected by the participant of this project, documents how the decline of this trade affects the daily life of the communities in Berahle district of North-eastern Ethiopia.
In Daddy’s Boy, Renèe Helèna Browne creates an intimate portrait of their Irish homeland, documenting their father as he undertakes tasks around the house and on a rural farm. Browne’s voice-over draws the viewer in as a confidante, introducing elements of narrative from the 1990 sci-fi Jurassic Park and using the character of T-Rex to explore patriarchal dynamics, gender conformity and societal expectations.
An improvised stop-motion film about a woman exploring her own psyche through its manifestation as a sequence of identical yet progressively smaller rooms, inhabited by multiple selves.
A phenomenon known as ‘Peatlemania’ has recently taken hold of the nation. Fisherman Calum ‘Boydie’ Macleod, electrician Innes Scott, and delivery driver Uilleam ‘Uilly’ Macleod together as Peat & Diesel have taken the Highland music scene by storm capturing the country’s imagination through their infectious music and unique tales of island life.
Acclaimed dancer Carlos Acosta introduces a new generation of film makers who use b-boying, ballet and contemporary dance to tell their stories. Subjects range from dancing in a bingo hall, acid attacks, body image and wellbeing and the mystical world of baby eels. Each is a remarkable fusion of dance and film. Anatomy of a Crooked Spine; Blast; Elver; Full House; I Am Soldier; I Dance Best with You; Inside; Inside We Break; Manmade; Petals and Pain; Scapelands; We Are Ready Now; We Are Always Here; Do I Have Free Will?
Anna is 'added' to a real life group chat. What starts off as logistics for a birthday meal soon escalates into something more.
Celebrating urban bird song, a blackbird finds its voice in the streets of Manchester.
Alice is invited along to try historical reenactment for the first time, but finds herself caught between a Roundhead and a Cavalier in a battle for her affections.
A short animated mockumentary about a world without Gravity, set in the UK.
"SeDUCKtion" documents a failed attempt by Gibbens to attract some ducks by a pond using a speculum with lipstick as a beak, washing-up gloves as webbed feet and a repetitive dance. Onlookers are confused. In the voice-over, a child reads online discussions comparing the sexiness of Daisy Duck and Minnie Mouse.
Soupalunch Heroes is a film created by Alchemy Film & Arts with Reaching Out, the community-based project of Hawick Congregational Community Church, which coordinates a small team of volunteers to buy, prepare and serve food to 60 people of all ages every Wednesday. The film was made as part of Film Town, Alchemy Film & Arts’ community filmmaking project.
Transfiguration is a reworking of the Universal Everything studio classic from 2011, The Transfiguration. The Transfiguration was first shown at the studio's first major solo exhibition Super-Computer Romantics at La Gaite Lyrique, Paris. Now completely remade using the latest procedural visual effects software, the updated artwork brings new life to the ever-evolving walking figure, with a new foley-based soundtrack by Simon Pyke.
People with different heritages explain what their exotic names mean to them and the society around them.
Stuck in a small town with nothing to do and nowhere to go and only each other to hang out with, the holidays are shaping up to be a slow drag for Jack and Noah until some bullies dare them to go into the creepy haunted house.
Shabazz's portrait of artist Ken McCalla who worked on Time and Judgement.
Bettany returns with another Top Ten Treasures Countdown, this time peeling away the bandages and unearthing the tales of the lives of 10 embalmed bodies, each with a very different and unique story to tell. From Pharaohs, to criminals, to children to priests, Bettany opens up portal into the incredible stories of people from of all different classes and parts of Ancient Egyptian society, their stories and secrets spanning the width of the planes of the Nile Delta to the depths of the Valley of the Kings. Having remained in bandages untouched for thousands of years, we are fed with never before told stories of gruesome revenge, and journeys beyond life on earth.
The official Waterparks concert video of the Fandom Tour. Recorded in Birmingham, England at the O2 Academy. Watch singer and guitarist Awsten Knight, guitarist Geoff Wigington, and drummer Otto Wood as they perform songs from their album “Fandom” as well as mashups from their other albums such as “Double Dare 2019” and “Entertainment 2019” live on the stage with mesmerizing visual effects.
An explosive look at the real lives of seven London drag queens. London drag is different from any drag you’ve seen before. Contrasting the glamour, fun and sharp-tongued humor you’d expect from drag queens with stories of abuse, attacks, past trauma dealt with through unrelenting resilience. This film goes behind the makeup to tell the unfiltered gritty human truth of their lives. Find out why London drag queens are at the forefront of queer culture in Britain.
A close-up portrait of Nigel Farage in the lead up to December 2019's general election.
Actor Danny Dyer sets out on a deeply personal journey to know more about his friend Harold Pinter, exploring Cold War Britain to understand the darkness in his plays.
Violent. Visceral. Anarchic. Some call it music. Others call it a problem. One film asks the big question surrounding the controversial Drill music scene: does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? Go beyond the headlines to unearth the roots and the impact of a divisive form of self-expression. From musicians and gang members to victims of violence and industry professionals, discover a new human narrative on a disaffected generation and understand the origins of the most talked about cultural phenomenon for decades.
158 days after a parasitic virus infected the vast population of the globe, two survivors attempt to scavenge supplies from an abandoned building, unaware of who or what may be lurking inside.
During lockdown Imara made regular window appearances to post as looped videos on Instagram. Imitating the theatre that we couldn’t perform in or attend, these works express the inherent trapped-ness of lockdown. Here the appearances are combined, their natural soundtracks making a jerky music, and imitating a gig that couldn’t happen live.
Alone in the dark, Freya encounters a terrifying presence, but what did she see? and who's going to believe her?
A short film about the Argentine electroacoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra, an original pioneer of early musique concrète alongside Pierre Schaeffer during the ‘50s and ‘60s. Here she discusses her ‘sound hunting’ recording techniques, and other thoughts on sound montage and spatialization. Featuring creaking doors, barking dogs and rainbow hands. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020
An intimate portrait of a community of bronze artisans in Foumban, the 'City of Arts'.
Bringing the viewer into the bedrooms of four 15-year-old girls with a behind-the-scenes view of the selfie, Heart Eyes and a World, raises questions about the normalisation of self-objectification.
Edgar Combrink, a perpetual re-offender, is released back to the gang troubled Cape Flats to a family he hardly knows. To a forgotten suburb rife with unemployment and social decay in one of the most unequal cities in the world; Cape Town.
Kevin Magee investigates the true story behind rumours of a Nazi spy in Donegal in 1937. Investigative journalist Kevin Magee uncovers the work of Nazi party member and Irish scholar Dr Ludwig Mühlhausen. Mühlhausen spent six weeks in the Gaeltacht hamlet of Teileann in South Donegal in 1937, collecting folklore and improving his Ulster Irish, but that was not the only work he carried out while he was there. As Kevin reveals, in reality he was working as a Nazi spy, gathering information and passing it on to the Third Reich.
A warped genesis begins in a paradoxical underwater firestorm, birthing a primal jungle where emergent life hangs suspended in tangles of dripping, vibrant green.
There is a sound echoing across the forest of Talamanca. It triggers the extraordinary in the ordinary universe of Justo, a BriBri farmer, father and adventurer. It is the blow of the here and now, the quintessence of what is alive that expands a story made by imaginative materialities enshrined amidst Earth's liveliness and indigenous worldly epic. A film on the BriBri present in Talamanca, on its restless awakening and its companion wonders.
Building, front view. A pot of paint is falling down. We don’t know where it fell from or how, but it will have repercussions for the whole neighbourhood…
A short artists' film about the dark and earthy material of charcoal and its transformation from wood, a process that has changed little in 30,000 years.
First impressions are so important.
A man observes the sea. Inspired by the true story of Miss R L Halverson.
A man living in the rural west of Ireland builds the means to escape the pains of his existence.
Camille Gibut’s yellow gingham portrays a house emerging from an elusive memory to express a fascination for patterns, both in the textures of the image and on the soundtrack, and to evoke a sense of holiday and leisure.
A young woman finds herself on the precipice of change and reflects upon her past.
The worldʼs most valuable fashion brand LK stages the largest ever fashion show, a redefined season that will drift aboard an archive of the traditions of the endangered Indian Ajrakhpur block printing, unfolding a spectacle at a container port once in a decade. The very industrial mechanisms that have created disposable fashion seasons have been reengineered to celebrate and value traditional handcraft. Once a decade, people chase after it like the Northern Lights.
Short animation made in the Lockdown 2020 by Ged Haney. Selected for the Ottawa short animation film fest 2021.
Annie Nightingale, Radio 1's first female DJ, has compiled a stellar playlist of some of the finest punk and new wave moments from the 70s and early 80s. This handpicked compilation features rare archive footage from The Slits, The Raincoats and Rhoda Dakar, as well as fantastic concert footage from Blondie and The Clash. Sprinkled throughout are live studio performances from The Old Grey Whistle Test, including a haunting performance of Ghosts by Japan, a classic Ramones clip and a rare John Foxx offering. The Teardrop Explodes and Tom Tom Club also feature, as do Adam Ant and Siouxsie Sioux. Annie’s eclectic picks ensure a highly entertaining mix of popular punk and new wave favourites interwoven with some forgotten archive gems.
A little animation about a world without human touch, made during lockdown.