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An amateur boxer suffers from anxiety and fear in the changing room minutes before a fight.

Dr. Bob Johnson, a psychiatrist, and others who knew the Queen singer best seek to bridge the gap between what people think they know about Freddie and who he truly was. The performance paints a psychological portrait of the guy who began life as Farrokh Bulsara and finished up as Freddie Mercury.

There is only a little boy on the planet. Day after day, even the boy is lonely however he works very hard to keep his daily routine implemented.All the efforts he does is just waiting for the day coming...

A monochromatic exploration of the colour Blue.

An in-depth look at the origins of Covid-19. Did it really start in a food market in Wuhan, China? Or was the global pandemic caused by a lab accident in the same city?

Explore the preservation of ancient cultural performing arts forms via three immigrant performing artists in Colorado.

Doz has woken up in a darkened room, alone. With nothing but a screen, a set of images and a mysterious tele-shopper, Doz must discover what he’s here to do. But all is not so easy, when the digital world is so distracting…

PLAYGROUNDS is a short film that travels back to the early '90s, lost deep in the suburbs, absent parents allow forgotten kids to escape to other worlds where they can't be found.

The film examines a group of second-generation Black British women and their relationship with identity, feelings of cultural displacement, and their shared histories. Informed by contributions of the 1980s Black feminist movement in England and the legacies of first-generation children of African and Caribbean immigrants, the film incorporates archive, VHS and 16mm footage.

'Head In The Clouds' explores my battles with lack of concentration, daydreaming, and feeling as though I am upsetting my friends over not being completely there in conversations. I'm so easily distracted by things, I can look like I am giving my full undivided attention when most of the time I'm zoned out in my own wee world.

A personal expression of transformation, as a mother turns her grief and silence around a miscarriage into an expression of remembrance.

Setting out as a point-of-view video diary of a seed becoming a colourful flower, Claire Davies' "Growing Love" reflects on the promises of relationships with plants and the adventures of speculative gardening. Handheld mobile phone shots paired with an experiential narration negotiates perceptions of beauty together with the life-giving potential of human intervention – which eventually leads to a surprising outcome.

A farmer tends to his cattle on a particularly foggy morning, but something is slightly strange about his herd today.

Examples from a DIY book about Op Art patterns form the basis of this hypnotic film. The images seem to move by themselves in front of our eyes. Their flowing and shimmering is driven by colour changes and cross-fades until the boundaries between actual and imagined movement become blurred. It is not only the soundtrack and title that herald the mischievous spirit of this work.

Ben is a university professor who is struggling with the loss of his wife and child. A match with a student on a dating app leads to possible complications at work, where he is also forced to fight for his job after his grief has led to a downturn in his productivity. Matters are made more complication by the unexpected arrival of his brother-in-law, Dennis, who brings with him Radhika, a homeless woman who has run away from an unhappy marriage. Meanwhile, Latoya tries to balance her studies at Ben’s university with near full-time work, while her sister Dami gets sucked into a world of dealing drugs to students as she tries to realise her ambitions as a musician.

Birdwatchers follows four UK birdwatchers looking to transform the ecology sector by inspiring care and curiosity amongst people and communities who’ve felt unwelcome in the insular world of birding.

Having moved on from the tragedy of his mother's death surprisingly quickly; with the help of neuroscientist, Prof. Adam Zeman, artist, Amy Right and a host of others around the globe; Alex Wheeler finds himself journeying into the depths of his mind to uncover the fascinating roots of his emotional detachment from people and events.

Woodworkers have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. When ordinary forest companies get stuck, the specialists are called. They remove storm damage in the forest, saw at breathtaking heights and cut down giant rotten trees before the dreaded bark beetle can spread uncontrollably. Whether with the help of a harvester, rope crane or 'flying saw' - you are well equipped for all locations.

Choose Your Weapon focuses on an anxious new mother, locked in an horrific battle with her hyper-active imagination. Her terrifying task: a quick trip to the shops with her newborn.

A girl works at her computer and gets treated badly by her supposed "friend".

Their hybrid forms and body parts a patchwork amalgamation of different tree types, this tree is a climate adaptative response, a lifeform born out of resilience and hope. As the spirit inhabiting the tree emerges to converse with the viewer, they share with us their experiences of ecocidal generational trauma, urging us to reflect around the ways all the beings on the planet are deeply interlinked, and to honour our collective responsibility towards one another. Using a blend of 3D animation, found footage, and a musical score based on data sonification, ‘Rainforest Canopy’ uses the speculative to recast the ecological crisis, asking ‘Why is this important?’ from a multispecies and affective gaze.

Inspired by the different landscapes and environments of Scotland and Indonesia’s renewable energy sources. The film was created through a digital art residency between Marc Brew and Mariska Febriyani exploring the concept of space and restrictions, reflecting on the pandemic.

A short film examining Cristina Zenato’s close relationship diving with reef sharks, doing ‘relaxed state', petting of them and removing their fishing hooks, a relationship based on love and passion.

Filmmaker Steven Fraser lives with prosopagnosia, otherwise known as “face blindness,” which means he can’t remember or recognize faces. In this film, he uses stop-motion animation, cassette tapes, sketchbooks, photos, and diary extracts to convey his feelings about this.

Meet Atlas: a two-tonne hunk of metal programmed solely to chop trees. The year is 2090: most labour-intensive jobs have been efficiently mechanized by robots, and in Atlas’ case, wood logging. However, being a robot tasked solely as a lumberjack is no easy feat. Being one of the first of its kind, there are a few bumps in the system; despite his seemingly large build and powerful tools, he still finds himself in unfortunate scenarios that lead to his death. Never fear though as luckily for Atlas, his programming is uploaded to The Cloud, snapping back to normal in an instant. Until there is a problem with the system...

The world's first horror movie for and by machines. An emergent Network Organism scans and breathes in the world for the first time through millions of virally abused CCTV cameras. Zoom. Enhance. Rekognise. Fear. Nothing makes sense. Data cannot be (p)arsed. Machine Learning Nothing. Hallucinogenic and locked down, vulnerable and oscillating between instability, lust and aggression the Monster strains to define its own existence and distributed agency. Birth of a nation and auto-requiem. And you are, Uninvited.

Since 2018, Forensic Architecture has been working with ‘synthetic images’-photorealistic digital renderings of 3D models-to train machine learning classifiers. Model Zoo includes a growing collection of 3D models of munitions and weapons, as well as the different classifiers trained to identify them making a catalogue of some of the most horrific weapons used in conflict today.

Short film based on the novel The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen.

(2021) 17/04/2021 (GB) Documentary 61m

An Anglo Saxon Horror Story

In this poetic portrait of a Ugandan tradition, Masaka’s grasshopper catchers light up the sky.

An exercise in capturing the mundane over a period of 21 days.

Inspired by the original works of H.P. Lovecraft, This is a story of a man who has been brought to the edge where stable sanity and chaotic madness collide. Will he be able to save himself or has he found some kind of 'light' in the void?

Santa's been particularly hard-working this year, finding the naughty amongst you - in fact maybe he's trying too hard.

How does Hebridean shellfish get from the wild seas and onto people's plates in Spain?

What beer is to Germans, vodka is to Russians. The Russians consume around 60 liters of their national drink per capita per year - as cheap liquor, fine drink and home-distilled. But the high alcohol consumption has consequences: every year around 30,000 people in Russia die of alcohol poisoning. WELT reporter Christoph Wanner has taken a closer look at the production and sales of Vodka - a lucrative business in which not everything is right.

The film is a reflection on exposure, of skin to sun and of film to light and the environmental, ecological, social and hereditary factors that impact the aging process. Textures of the skin filmed in extreme close up appear in single or short frame bursts and, accompanied by percussive sounds, create a fast paced rhythmic journey around the surface of the body. This film is then seen at a later stage, as a filmstrip manually reexamined on a light box, alongside spoken analysis of the exposure times. Then, old photos of my mother, and her mother, on the beach, are seen in close-up. The DIY analogue film processing method gives this material a burnt brown look while the inclusion of “mistakes,” such as fogged and scratched sections, emphasize the sense of exposure and damage to skin and to film material.

A psychological suspense film shot entirely on Zoom with an international cast. Starring Michael Lake, Bella Duve, Neil Ovenell, Edward Osredkar, and more.

The work is a visual and sonic hypnotic journey that has 'experience at the centre of it'; It consists of a combination of synthetic and digital elements blended seamlessly into each other: CGI landscapes blend with real-life drone footage, as well as macro shots of rock surfaces carved by water blends with simulated geological erosions; real-life camera motion blends with dazzling digitally captured live camera motion, stroboscopic real-time lighting is responsive to the music and overlayed on top of real-life footage.

A collaboration between BAFTA award-winning animator Cat Bruce and Breabach.

Once a legend, hero, and leader of the pack, Rudoph now lives alone in a trailer on the outskirts of the North Pole. After watching a documentary charting his fall from grace, a fired up Red decides to make the ultimate comeback and reclaim his spot as the King of Deers.

A sad and sexy meditation on how it feels to live through this extinction event - through the lens of a shark. In this film, Ella Frost, Aisha Mirza & Soha Salem queer ecological grief, creating space for curiosity, resilience-building and joy in nature, all while honouring the relentless grief of being alive on a dying planet.

A weekend away turns bloody for a social media influencer and her friends after one of them reads passages from a satanic tome. Possession, hack job amputations, and demonic entities, it's all content as far as she's concerned.

Ascent is a short film exploring the marks we leave on each other's lives, and the desire to access something out of reach. The narrative follows the intertwining stories of characters Adam, a young man feeling the pressures of his work; Laura, an artist struggling to formulate her ideas onto the page; and Emma, a postgraduate undergoing counseling.

How does language influence our perception of the world? Internet slang is gradually replacing what we actually wanted to say.

50 meters long, 6.5 meters wide and 4.5 meters high - a 130-ton giant, consisting of a drive station for conveyor belts and transport vehicles, has to be brought to the site 13 kilometers away. The route: an obstacle course! Power lines lead to a forced stop. Tight curves and steep descents require filigree work. A real tough job for heavy haulage professional Randolf Peters. Schleenhain in Saxony, around 40 kilometers south of Leipzig. Here, lignite is mined in open-cast mining on a large scale. If a digging point is exhausted, the heavy equipment must be relocated to the next excavation site. Since the drive station with its enormous dimensions does not simply fit on a normal low-loader, Randolf Peters relies on two SPMT (Self Propelled Modular Transporter), so-called self-propelled vehicles, which are driven by radio remote control for the transport.

A representation through colour reflecting weather and mood, depicted over the course of 365 days.

Like the water we swim in, The Water Holds Me/The Water Binds Us animates, holds and binds together our experiences of wild swimming.

Penn-ar-Bed, a moving image piece, is based on the loss of culture that comes with the loss of language. Focusing on the insular Celtic language Breton, the work is a reflection of the deprivation of heritage that happens when an orally transmitted culture is heavily discouraged, almost to the point of extinction, by the government. In part a fictional collective memory, in part an attempt to reconnect with my family history, the film is Brittany as I have come to know it as an adult.

Usually, we don't stop and analyze the landscape that is around us, we forget that we are constantly a character in different scenarios. The landscape that surrounds us always has a story to tell and we might depend on it.

A descent into the worlds of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung and the analysis of dreams.

Captured just before and during the coronavirus outbreak and in the lead-up to Brexit, Divided by Law bears witness to binational families and couples trying to cope with the UK’s hostile immigration environment.

A sexy, queer, lesbian music video for Trouble Wanted full of high drag and John Waters-style weirdness. Within this western-themed utopia Lonely Cowgirl and her love interest, a Dyke trucker, share more than lusty looks. The night is young, so pull up a bar stool and enjoy the ride!

Plastic Pioneers follows scientists, campaigners, innovators and designers working on solutions to solve this global crisis that politicians and governments are largely ignoring. The film takes audiences on a journey to deep-sea coral reefs, basking shark hotspots and huge seabird colonies, to discover first-hand the extreme danger of the scourge of plastic that’s engulfing every aspect of their lives. The film is an urgent wake-up call and inspires action.

Exploring non-binary identity and queerness, the film follows Richard Energy, a provocative digital drag king born at the start of the pandemic, who manages to get their job back on stage just as the second lockdown threatens. This timely and moving film examines what it means to be an artist, driven by creativity and a desperate need to perform, at a time when live venues across the UK on the brink.

Conversations explores the colors of the landscape through the palette of digital color, and is a reconnection with my past narrative films. A mix of home videos, captured sounds, and unpublished films are assembled here to make a digital mural. As the date suggests, I have no plan yet to end the work.

Drawn on themes of horror and body horror the film explores physical and mental expulsion and monstrous thoughts.