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Tori Kudo takes us on a trip of the past several years of his life through his cellphone's camera roll.

This is Foundation Day as you've never seen it before.

By curtailing a manager’s pompous introduction to a new romantic groups early performance and adding imagery rendered through the almost redundant technology of an e-reader, this video attempts to both renew and repurpose the performer’s original intentions through parody.

Left Unsaid is an experimental animated film about cultural dysphoria and the disconnect between grandfather and grandchild caused by an ever-growing language barrier.

Gallagher weaves together an assemblage of films, creating a narrative through repetition. Documenting her experience caught between Athens and her new home in Northumberland, via a period of ‘uncertain waiting’ in the South East of England. Gallagher explores her sense of dislocation by organising footage from her phone into a visual villanelle, a poetic form with a strict rhyming structure and repeating lines. Footage shifts between presence and absence, movement and stasis. Between the sodium glow of the Athens street lights and the iconic bridges of the Tyne punctuated by sunsets and deluges of rain. Gallagher often draws attention to the overlooked, the ‘hidden in plain view’ aspects of life, questioning what we bear witness to and what we choose to ignore. Within the transitional period between lockdown and the easing of restrictions, Gallagher subtly explores emotional connections to home and place, considering what is outside and what we carry within.

"Brief Loss depicts Lindsay Duncanson’s confinement to home during the Covid-19 lockdown. This piece contrasts with the artist’s other works made in vast rural settings. Her family regularly feature as part of her nomadic practice which explores connections between body and landscape." - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

When the unimaginable happens, 12-year-old Ruby’s world collapses and she is left on her own. Through her encounters, and through the power of her imagination and memory, Ruby begins to navigate her way beyond the confines of her small house and experience the cosmic possibilities of life.

Last Minute: highlights the importance of closure and the moment we spend with each others

Thinking about how future events might feel, 'did you know?' is a piece of speculative fiction, that has been made into a performance and a film. The fiction is set in a not too distant future, in which a collective body is deciding whether to continue to exist physically, or relinquish the pain and pleasure of bodily memories, in favour of other forms of consciousness. 'did you know?' wonders what bodily memories we would keep, when we no longer need or have the bodies that generated them.

A drone inhabited by the mind of a property developer arrives ‘top down’ from above and flies through the newly built residential neighbourhood in East London and gathers data at twilight. During the journey it maps the new utopian space it has built with its mechanical gaze, commenting and interacting with its findings, ‘We want to contain and retain our residents’. This is a place built in a bubble, controlled within the walls of developer’s billboards. Privately owned, East Village is awash with branding and reaffirming smiling faces. Purchase a luxury flat and buy into the services, life style and more. As the drone declares ‘Everything you need is here!’ With Westfield shopping mall on your doorstep, its ever present logo glowing like a beacon of hope, why would you ever want to leave?

Solitary figures using semaphore flags sign “We Are One” out across the ocean. "At a distance" was filmed at Lizard Point, Cornwall on 29th March 2019 (the first date the UK was supposed to leave the EU).

"A Brief History of Rock" takes us back to a starting point in a time before life existed on Earth. Apoint from which to explore growth, change and evolution and consider how these processes are now changed and influenced by human activities. The work consists of a collection of images which transport us through different times, places and processes in a potted history of the planet. We are taken throughchaos and order, mass and matter, clustering and spreading, evolution and transformation, and the merging of the man-made and natural.

Why is it that we place a plant in a pot, confining its ability to grow and occupy physical space? This work is part of "Plantarians" which asks, what does it mean to have a garden? Apportioned into episodes, the film studies the capacity of garden plants to respond to the particularities of their surroundings. At the same time, it tracks the lives of the contemporary men and women who cultivate, enjoy, eat, obsess over, and even grieve with and for these plants. The piece invites audiences to witness the codependent existence of earth’s living organisms, and to reflect on the ways in which this inter-dependence can be characterised by both conflict and intimacy.

Hawthorn, a quiet teenage boy with all the correlating tender attributes, lives in a villageon the West Coast of Scotland. The mournful landscapes and whistling wind are interrupted by the blasting dystopic industrial rhythms from Glasgow’s The Modern Institute. The score mirrors Hawthorn’s defeated ego in his desperate love for a returning friend, Magnolia. Sorrowful and deeply felt, Hawthorn’s lovesickness is Romanticist in colour. The wilderness is uncaring. The water laps softly against the muddy sand, oblivious. Fat seals continue to lounge on rocks out at sea.

"Traumatic Measuresis" an exploration of Saavedra’s personal trauma when he was stabbed in Bogota, Colombia. The film realises his further search for rational explanations as a result of flashbacks experienced in London whilst encountering stories about knife crime. The project fixes on his mind’s experience, obsessed with an irrational need to understand and assess the event through a series of experiments and re-enactments. Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his 1982 speech about the European obsession with measurement and categorization and the “Studies in Motion” by Muybridge, Saavedra designed specific experiments and grids to recreate the situation, both from the perspectives of the victim and the perpetrator, understanding the feelings from both sides of the crime through repetition. Though photography is used as a documenting mechanism to understand experiences, video is the media that enable Saavedra to travel through time back to the moment when the stabbing occurred.

Elvis Presley is the quintessential rock star icon. Bruce Campbell is the quintessential B-movie horror icon (and once appeared as Elvis in the soul-stealing mummy movie Bubba Ho-Tep). Rob Kemp is not an icon as far as he knows, but he does love Elvis and horror, and has been told that he bears a passing resemblance to Bruce Campbell. The Elvis Dead started as a throwaway comment in a comedy green room, and is the very definition of taking a joke too far. So don your sequinned jumpsuit, strap a camera to a greased-up two-by-four and sing your way through as much of the plot of Evil Dead 2 as you can in an hour. The cult hit of Edinburgh Fringe 2017, this multi-award-winning (and even multier-award-nominated) one-man-horror-comedy-mash-up was recorded for posterity as part of the fourth GoFasterStripe Festival and frankly, Rob couldn’t be happier about it.

Twinned with Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France.

It is here, on this connected Earth, that we re-discovered peace. A youthful Gaia recounts the struggle and determination that made this possible.

Mariam Mola is a self-styled entrepreneur - and a career con artist. In this wild game of cat-and-mouse, she's exposed by her victims as the fraudster she really is.

Kyambogo details the relationship between a Ugandan Grandmother and her grandson and how drug use affected their relationship. A film about the stigma surrounding drug use in African society and a self reflection on mistakes made.

Rob Burrow is a legend of Rugby League. As he battles Motor Neurone Disease, we tell the story of his memorable career.

A young man contemplates a future abroad after becoming disillusioned with his country.

To live is to perform, the world outside our front door a mere stage. But, what happens when a pandemic makes us afraid to cross the threshold.

A doll faces her fears when a spider invades her dollhouse. However, something far more terrifying lies beneath the surface.

An incredible true story of survival and forgiveness. Eva Kor and her twin sister Miriam were captured by Nazis and experimented on in Auschwitz as children. Despite struggling with her traumatic past, Eva decides to forgive her tormentors.

Music video by Jessie Craig for Yola.

'These Sporting Lives' tells the story of three PDRL (physical disability rugby league) players who travel from Yorkshire to the Gold Coast in Australia.

Since 1865, no cab driver in London has been able to omit “The Knowledge”. It requires the memorisation of 320 routes, an achievement that takes years, but has been made into a joke by the robot cars of the future. A flesh-and-blood cabby “interacts with people from all walks of life,” according to a brochure by Transport for London, and that’s “a lot more than just taking people from A to B.” Visually fascinating, Colson traces his interviewees’ mind maps of the city using the mapping technology of robot cars.

Amir is a Bangladeshi studying abroad in London. As he continues to question his faith and upbringing, he makes a decision to confront the matter head-on.

Will you follow Lily into the Forest?

Seven trans and non-binary young people from across the North West area of England discuss their experiences of being transgender in their school.

Jay is trapped in the relentless City until he is forced to confront his relationship with Time and himself.

Inspired by the surreal vision of an animal using a vending machine, Robert Findlay's Change Return portrays a dystopian world where people live underground and are serviced by smiley-faced, urinal-shaped, floating robots.

A working iteration of the project "business as usual : hostile environment". Originally co-commissioned with Glasgow Sculpture Studios as part of Event Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters, the project was conceived to explore Glasgow’s Forth and Clyde Canal as both a literal and poetic route through which to reflect on the role of waterways in the voluntary and involuntary movement of people. Reworking aspects of the new film at speed and in light of the Covid-19 outbreak, Whittle powerfully incorporates archival footage relating to the UK’s Windrush scandal as well as material highlighting the role of immigrants in the NHS as they tackle the virus, foregrounding how political and ecological climates intersect and shape one another.

A semi-autobiographical film about the writer/director's experiences of being in a closeted relationship. And of using fishing as a way to avoid sex.

Clown work. Features a noise soundtrack by Dead Bait, Anthony Boobier.

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

The video takes the viewer on a journey of visual enjoyment and self-reflection, one of re-connection with the elements of nature through various carefully composed land art pieces.

When two friends go Christmas shopping, things don't go exactly to plan.

A drug addict who no longer can get high finds a new dealer that procures him an incredible new drug like nothing he has seen before. But, in time, the highest high becomes the lowest low.

A woman is stuck in an abusive marriage and uses drugs as a form of escapism, but will she be controlled by the marriage or finally be free.

All the news from the Modern Traction Scene during 2019.

When a stubborn and introverted young man goes on a walk in the countryside, he must learn to listen to what a deaf woman has to say as he finds her with a twisted ankle.

A brief look behind the scenes of Robert Morgan's Tomorrow I Will Be Dirt, animated short film sequel to Schramm.

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

In Raised Voices, there are two competing and intersecting forms within the horizontal projection; an incomplete ellipse that varies in its diameter, and a straight diagonal line that splinters in two as it turns through 180 degrees. The forms develop according to a precise durational structure, shifting at a pace that can sometimes be indiscernible, yet presenting itself continuously within the conical field of light.

Abandon Fear 2 continues to follow Janus and Jackie on their mission to abolish all fear in a post apocalyptic world. They have planned the next test, but who will be their latest victim? And will this break their evil bond?

The Vision Machine was filmed at the factory of SIGMA Corporation, a renowned global brand of lenses for photography and cinema production. Like most such manufacturers, it is based in Japan. Using lenses manufactured by the factory, Young filmed their female employees as they performed their usual tasks on the production, assembly and testing process. No men are featured, and while the piece alludes to the genres of documentary or corporate video, it was filmed and edited to suggest a speculative fiction: a lensmaking factory run (and perhaps owned) by women.

A group encounters an extraordinary situation, navigating trials and revelations. Secrets surface, twists occur, culminating in a pivotal resolution that shifts their perspectives on their predicament.

With abstract physical expressions and non-linear narrative experimental moving images, this short film presents the emotional processing of two queers with different personalities between intimate relationships. In this airtight room, toys and animations played on monitors metaphor their distinct childhood experiences. The film explores the subconscious influences of childhood memories on intimate relationships through the parallel and intersected spatial relationship between the past and reality.

A hand-made reflection on the underconscious and on the illustration of ideas on plastic.

Rationale brings political comedy with articulately crafted observational gags which explore the emotional roots of our rational thoughts. Expect smart takes, smashing one-liners and brilliant analogies from this swiftly rising star.

Doctor Frankenstein is busy in his lab working on his latest creation, bringing life to what he has made before the lightning strikes. But everything may not be what it seems. With the classical music of Camille Saint-Saëns following the action, we are brought into a new world of both familiarity and intrigue...

Untitled (moon) is a film made from blue frames and black leader. It was edited using input data from Melty Blood: Actress Again

I walk through the park holding him tight. When in the dark, that's when he starts to bite.

Follow Lewis Hamilton’s journey from 22-year-old F1 debutant in 2007 to seven-time World Champion in 2020.

After agreeing to move away from his childhood home in an attempt to repair his fractured life, Mark starts to experience memories relating to an old, deceased friend. He realises that he must come to terms with his sexual identity.

A poetic dance and animation film in which a dancer realises their digital self feels truer than their real world self.