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Digging up the present, Callum Mackenzie Allen's "Fieldwalk" is an enactment of history-writing in reverse. Depicting a walk in Southern England's coastal landscape that includes 'excavations', using an archaeologist’s planning frame, of relics belonging to the current century, the film interrogates the possible effect of such artefacts on the area’s future inhabitants.
Echoing the precarious times we live in, a newly commissioned documentary Fire In My Belly (2021) offers a compelling take on questions of home, community and crisis in the metropolitan city of London. (Whitechapel Gallery) HD video, colour, sound
On the cold, mean streets of Sheffield, a transgender superhero is born. Gaining powers unlike any other hero, this documentary examines the ins and outs of what it truly means to be a Spider Transgender Person
Dual narratives presented though poetry and performance, set in the 16th century. A nun has an individual crisis of faith and reflects on her own experience of cloistered life, and the Church funds conquistadors on the hunt for El Dorado in South America.
A mysterious Girl unknowingly hitches a ride with a prolific Serial Killer.
In Northern Ireland, two enterprising young criminals bite the dust when an ATM robbery goes wrong. Undeterred by their untimely demise, they come back as ghosts for one more shot.
Filmmaker Lee Donaldson takes a poignant journey down memory lane with his acclaimed artist father Antony Donaldson about his art, the artwork, and the monumental task of producing a colossal mask of Alfred Hitchcock made from 18 tonnes of solid steel for Gainsborough Studios apartments in London where Hitchcock made his earlier works.
Creatures of the Lines is an artist film and collaboration with anthropologist Heather Anne Swanson. It explores how desires for economic growth and linear progress has produced straightened forms in England’s watery terrains and asks what risks are associated with the conversion of once-curvy and braided worlds into a linearised landscape.
A young artist struggles to reconcile her dreams with reality, in this bricolage exploration of the creative impulse.
A black comedy about free will and white circular benches.
The Path of Remembrance and Comradeship is a long walkway encircling Ljubljana, Slovenia, charting the length of a military perimeter that surrounded the city during its occupation in World War Two. Seventy large stones dot the path at intervals along the way, marking the position of former bunkers erected by the Italian and German armies to quash a burgeoning partisan resistance. Wryly mimicking the leisurely pace of a stroll, Michael Pattison’s Lubiana Laibach inches along the path one boulder at a time. The film is made up of a dazzling montage of static shots, one dissolving seamlessly into the next. The marker of each shot to the other is the fixed outline of the stones themselves, which do not change position on screen. What warps and transforms before our eyes is the space around them, a powerful evocation and metaphorical reanimation of the invisible contours of a history of resistance.
Max Clifford was a powerful media publicist to the stars. But in 2014 he was jailed for historic sex crimes. Now, the survivors of his abuse tell their stories.
A light-hearted love letter to self-expression and the journey of self-discovery every queer person goes through. The internal struggle that latches to fear, and being able to overcome whatever fear that may be.
An extremely personal and vulnerable look into the notorious blacklisted celebrity.... Ted the dog.
11 year old Oscar is on a mission to join a gang. His strategy simple; across the year, keep badgering an older boy, Kush. There's just one major obstacle though. Meet The Gangbuster; when NOT seeing difference makes you different.
Who's watching who?
This film is about a sister who was thought to be long gone.
A writer's final poem becomes his only chance at reclaiming sanity.
When two thieves go to dig up their ill-gotten gains, the presence of a police officer threatens their partnership.
Girls night out is a coming of age comedy drama following two teenage girls who decide to lie to their parents to spend their first night out in Glasgow city center. They have no plan but high expectations for their night of adventure.
A mad old bastard recalls the wild rumours that surround his name.
David Adams, a young man who has decided to partially close his eyes , one day decides to overcome his trauma undergoing a particular exposure therapy in a pool.
Alan, a 43-year-old French man living in Barcelona struggles to overcome an addiction to methamphetamine. Picking up filming himself ten years after his first attempt quitting, he intends to showcase his fight to warn potential addicts of the rough road ahead.
This two image comparative film celebrates a Beech Tree through changes in light, space and time, represented in the film in transitions between light and shade (LS) and visibility and obscurity (RS). The film is silent and made handheld over a period of 10 years from 2010-20
Dubai – the Middle East’s land of the future. “Higher, faster, XXL” is the motto of the desert emirate in the Gulf popular with tourists. One of the highlights is the Atlantis Resort at the top of the artificial island “The Palm Jumeirah”. The Aquaventure water theme park is also part of the complex. It was the largest of its kind in the Middle East even before now. But the makers of the Atlantis are stepping things up a gear! A new section of the park is being built on an area of almost six hectares in size, including a 34-meter-high slide tower. The opening date is fast approaching, but there are still frequent delays on the construction site. The documentary accompanies the construction work and the opening of the amusement park.
She is the flagship of the German deep-sea fishing fleet: the Maartje Theadora. Built for ocean-going service, the trawler is out in the fishing grounds of the Pacific for more than 300 days a year. This ship can process and transport around 6,000 tons of fresh fish. The fish is sorted and frozen in the factory below deck. The trawler's fishing areas are in the English Channel, but also in the North Atlantic and the Pacific. The week-long journeys are a great physical challenge for the committed crew. Our documentary gives insights into the tough everyday life at a fishing expedition on a board the giant ship.
'Faces' is a short documentary in which several young people discuss the joys and challenges of being mixed race against visuals of an interracial couple in the throes of embrace.
Andrew Pettigrew presents a light-hearted look at how people should interact with others with disabilities.
Uol short film
As humans, we have been fighting against each other for millions of years. But now, we should stop fighting each other and all fight together for humanity.
Alan Fishpaste and his new alien friend, Veronica Vongasuuelbuckett, escape to the grassy planet Toodu, whilst the devious Darren and his bountiful assistant Binky undertake a quest to capture them.
A minimal observation of an everyday object. Through framing and duration, the ordinary is displaced, revealing subtle shifts in perception and attention.
23 year old Kiss FM host Maskell has lived with insomnia most of her adult life, living on little sleep and frequently being awake until the early hours of the morning.
A group of actors are invited to a cast dinner where they discover the dead body of their director. As the situation escalates they soon forget about the murder and become focused only on their own personal agendas and problems.
An old man catches the attention of the wildlife at the seaside after buying Good Gully’s irresistible chips. These chips are desired by all, but only one can eat them. Will the chips end up in a pair of claws, a seagull’s stomach, or in a wibbly wobbly belly?
While war was raging on land a whole new breed of war was being waged in the oceans of the world. The German submarine U-Boat threat was a dangerous game of sink or swim against British and American forces. From convoys to merchants the battle saw over 100,000 lives lost at sea in a brutal and terrifying new kind of warfare.
Two lifelong friends from a small town graduated high school and are about to start a new chapter in their lives. Lucy will leave the town to attend her dream university. Stella will stay in the town to work on her father's farm. In their last night together they have to come to terms with their separation.
This film puts the late Prince Philip's own words front and centre. Drawing on rare archive recordings, he touches upon a range of topics including the role of the monarchy.
From its sweeping soundtracks and iconic themes to its ludicrous tropes, the silver screen is fertile ground for this acclaimed pair of pop academics. They’ve rigorously examined the inner workings of truly great films, such as Mrs Doubtfire, Strictly Ballroom, and Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride to name but a few. They’ve explored ideas that directors may not have considered (Scarface is, in fact, much snappier as a musical, FYI). So, this riotous double act are fully prepared to rip apart and redefine cinema as we know it. Part-movie, part-live show, part-parody, part-love letter to cinema - PopCorn is the digital realisation of everything audiences and critics have come to love about Frisky & Mannish.
Overnight on 24th June 2020, graffiti reading ‘RIP SENI’ appeared on a public artwork outside Bethlem Royal Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in South London. The red spray-painted letters called attention to Seni Lewis, a 23-year-old black man who died at the hands of 11 police officers while in the care of the hospital in 2010. The artwork had been created by Turner-prize nominee Mark Titchner. It was made up of eight placards asking questions about mental capacity and assessment, creating a powerful resonance between the artwork and the new graffiti. This film reflects multiple perspectives, from mental health professionals to families who have lost loved ones in police custody, prisons and psychiatric hospitals. It explores Seni’s story, the crisis of mental health and racism in the UK, the long fight for justice and what happens when members of the public take art into their own hands.
Filmed predominantly in Tunbridge Wells and surrounding areas including London from mid February - December 24 but some footage was filmed earlier
A remote control becomes sentient and starts messing with someone who just wants to watch TV.
Documentary exploring the king’s life and reign, looking at the relationships with the women in his life and considering the remarkable period in history he presided over – an era when the arts, culture, technology and architecture flourished in Britain.
A collaboration with a machine-learning based AI technology of next-frame prediction. The computerised synthesis of images by a neural network learns video clips and then guesses how they will continue, recreating them in the process. The reborn video images are then woven together into an audio-visual poem, revealing both computer and human cognition processes and raising reflections regarding the implications and future of this new technology.
A filthy love letter to Essex, like you’ve never seen before. In a village at the end of the road, teenage boys smothered in black mud, run wild through the vast salt marshes in a bizarre tradition hundreds of years old – ‘creek-jumping’.
'Ai - Below the Surface' is a surrealistic short movie. The main premise was to create a document of a dream of the fictional character 'Ai'. The result of this experiment is the movie - an approach of documenting the undocumentable.
The experimental stop motion story of a London boy in World War 2, we witness war drawing inexorably closer as he comes of age. 14 when war begins, our young hero lives through bombings, the evacuation of his siblings, the privations of wartime. Yet he survives and even thrives. He sets out to search for his friend in the East End during those turbulent and frightening times, and with his own voice tells his story with a wit and verve few would believe today. Finally we leave him at the brink on D-Day, a hero already in the making.
A Lynchian depiction of self-transformation in the social media age. Steeped in saturated colour, unnerving cinematography and bold sound design, this chamber piece depicts a young woman’s confrontation with impostor syndrome and racialised beauty standards.
Suki, a student in an unfamiliar city, happens upon a living statue who seems to be as lonely as she is. Slowly, they start to become friends - but will it last?
Always an outsider (of place, gender and sexuality) Lucy is much more than just her appearance, and your projection. Hidden complex emotions emerge after a life spent fulfilling other people’s fantasies. A love letter to all the brave Queens the director knew in the 90’s. Lucy is much more than just her appearance, and the projection of others. Hidden complex emotions emerge after a life spent fulfilling other people’s fantasies.
Through training GANs (generative adversarial networks) on thousands of photographic portraits of pulled, intentionally marked and distorted faces, algorithms were lured into creating the unexpected. The result; a series of uncanny faces, familiar, yet distant. A homogenisation of the face, some adhering to and some transcending social and cultural norms. Many of the generated faces are unnerving, complete with lacerations and scarring, a result of original disrupted images going through the digitised learning process within virtual space.
Self Portrait
Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont host a festive knees-up for their comedy pals Roisin Conaty, Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett, reflecting on 2021 as they eat, drink and get very merry.
This is a film about control in gay male relationships. A discovery of betrayal leads to revenge climaxing in an attack and the avenger announcing the most controlling of statements to his lover victim in the final shot.
Something has gone wrong. Horribly wrong. The world has fallen apart. Buried in debris, alone and injured, one man is torn between what's trapping him and what could release him.
Letitia is a singer/songwriter diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She has stopped her bipolar medication, intending to manage her mental health using alternative methods. She talks about her struggles and her spirituality as she follows her new life.
It's the golden age of piracy. A lone sailor enters an occupied harbour in the heart of the Caribbean. Can he rescue his friends?
Animal behaviour.
A hybrid-documentary film that follows a queer Urdu poet as she traces the connections between quantum physics and political movements in South Asia.