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A short film about a girl reminiscing her past whilst composing a message to her ex

A black-and-white, touching and sensual story of a transgender couple who love in themselves and in each other everything that makes them transgender people.

Join Fred Mills inside the £80M restoration of London's Elizabeth Tower, the iconic structure at the heart of the UK's Palace of Westminster.

Digitally animated, amorphous other-than-human narrators are set against backdrops of water, forests, beaches and skies. Interrupted and overlaid with birdsong, pneumatic drills, fluorescent lights and a Carpenters song, these ‘spirits of place’ appropriate Timothy Morton lectures in an unstable, intense and often absurdly hilarious exploration of the nature of being alive. ‘Therefore, blah blah blah blah blah.’

Swanhilda is a happy go lucky Queen Bee. However, motherhood beckons, as an unplanned pregnancy takes her life in a very different direction.

While working on her recent film commission for Kettle’s Yard, Here is Elsewhere , Sarah Wood became curious about what the exhibition of art means at this time. In one part of Kettle’s Yard Alfred Wallis Rediscovered is installed and in another part of the gallery, Wood’s film. How do they relate to one another? How does art enable connection? The answer was Correspondence ­– a short essay film constructed from archive footage taken around the Cornish coastline. Correspondence speaks across time to fellow artist Alfred Wallis about the role the site of art plays in a time of social isolation. The scripted voiceover in the new film takes the form of a letter written by Wood to Wallis.

MARY is a short film co-devised by filmmakers four directors from Royal College of Art and GPT-2, an AI text generator deemed ‘too dangerous’ for full release to the public. When GPT-2 responds to a series of model prompts, it generates dramatically suggestive scenes that are rife with gender biases. But what also emerges is MARY, a character who wrestles GPT-2 for control of her story and the languages used to tell it. ‘Comic, bizarre and (at times) quietly terrifying,’ MARY aims to rewrite the dominant narratives produced by and around emerging technologies like AI.

Farnham wanted to capture the craziness of the last few months of juggling home life, working and home-schooling, whilst staying alert! He 3D-scanned his children taking part in the various banal activities he hadset up for them.

"Akirot (Uprootings)" is a personal account which lays out a complex set of identifications and dis-identifications with the homeland, beginning with childhood memories and ending with the act of departing from the country that was called home. The videos weave together footage shot in two locations in Israel with illustrations from books of local flora. At the centre of the work is an unspoken conflict between mother and daughter considering their Israeli identity. Using hermother, anational nature trail guide, Leshem exploresthe Israeli relation to the land as a site through which identity is constructed. Through the performative and symbolic gesture of uprooting,the work deals with the personal pain of rejecting one’s motherland. As the term “motherland” suggests, land and mother are never distinguished from one another. The political objection to the land is at the same time a separation from the mother.

In "Riddle of Bakuli" Adrus shares personal experience interwoven with South Asian narrative within an East African context. The work is a montage of film, stills and sound with Adrus drawing upon his artistic research and residency with Uganda Arts Trust in Kampala, the city where he was born but forced to leave as a child 40 years ago due to the ‘political situation’. Through retracing his footsteps, Adrus revisits Kampala, and the way in which buildings and places trigger profound memories. Memories appear fragmented at first, however through ‘digitised’ archives and contemporary footage, new perspectives and stories emerge. Being displaced to Switzerland / Europe the issue of mobility, belonging and race are still very much current. This life changing event has been a key influence in much of Adrus’s work, exploring exile, communities, script / language and associations with places.

An attempt at a phone call with mum!

Chris, a young crisp-enthusiast leaves an online complaint. He is extremely delighted by the friendly and understanding attitude of the employee who replies to him. Wishing to talk to her again, he continues to message the page, asking questions and trying to win the compassion of his new online-crush.The quest is not easy, as the uninterested employee just tries to do her job, avoiding any topic besides crisps with every occasion. Watch our hero surf through a wondrous digital world of crisp ads, mobile games and emojis as he tries to confess his love.

A short documentary following two freelance actresses, determined to make it online in the growing voiceover industry.

An animated romp of colourful penises and phallic fantasies as one young man goes on a journey of sexual discovery.

Music video by Simon Nunn for The Cool Greenhouse.

An inventive examination of the legacy of the 1990s: In his experimental short film, Ben Young portrays the figure of the then U.S. president – whom he is said to have met once in person in Louisville, Kentucky – as a foil for the questionable political developments, the beginnings of a globalised world and a society marked by collective amnesia. The director’s intelligent, witty and very personal reckoning with Bill Clinton.

A young woman finds herself caught between her present and past when she receives a letter from home.

Bartholomew Whisper went to the doctor today. There he met administrators keen on experimental surgery and lonely MRI machines. At least the growing hole in his head is becoming quite beautiful.

4 idealistic Nigerian students kidnap a Nigerian politician to recover stolen millions.

An expression and examination of the social problem of black-hearted vaccines that are spreading in China.

In Yoni Bentovim’s Snow, nothing is ever still. Text from a book is photocopied, wall-projected then filmed on 16mm. The physicality of the formats focuses our attention, searching for movement.

A priest must overcome many obstacles to reach his first Sunday sermon.

Delivered in poker-faced monotone, Maryam Jafri examines ownership in our age of image circulation. Step by step, with humour and persistence, she walks us through the licensing conundrum of her ready-made sculpture that transforms from object-for-sale into artwork-for-sale, photo-for-sale and finally a video-for-sale with superimposed watermarks.

In a homage to The Deer Hunter, a war veteran in 1980's Yorkshire is plagued by the torture he suffered fighting in Japan.

Follows the life of a Neapolitan Femminiello in the back alleys and narrow streets of the Quartieri Spagnoli (Spanish neighbourhood in Naples). It ends with the traditional Matrimonio dei Femminielli, the annual street parade to celebrate the fictional wedding of a Femminiello.

This film tells the story of our beloved cashier Shura’s summer vacation on the shores of the Black Sea with her family

A stop-motion mockumentary about toys and the children they "work" with. Made loosely in response to Brexit, TOYHOOD combines stop-motion and toy-like puppets with unscripted interviews from internationals living in Britain today.

Documentary presents the long history Cliff Richard has had with Christmas, from TV spectaculars and memorable guest appearances with the greats to Pantomime at the London Palladium.

The untold story of 13-year-old Hazel Hill - and her crucial role in the design of the famous Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes - in the run-up to the Battle of Britain.

The ICE operated by Deutsche Bahn is Germany's fastest train at 330 kilometers per hour. Every year, the ICE brings millions of travelers to their destinations in the shortest possible time and has been even faster since the end of 2017: Since then, the high-speed trains have been racing on the newly built Berlin-Munich high-speed axis from the federal capital to the state capital in just under four hours. Our documentary accompanies an ICE train driver in his daily work and shows the training of new ICE train drivers in the simulator.

Life, love, long distance, identity and the pieces in between. This is a love letter to resilience and about people who choose each other no matter what.

A young girl struggles with the loss of her mother.

A three-part poetic study of Cressingham Gardens, an early-1970s social housing estate in South London.

A mundane meal turns monsterish in this homage to 80s horror

Heart of Brass is a surreal account of events surrounding a determined passion for brass music when your teeth are standing in the way. This autobiographical film reflects the bitter-sweet love of finding joy from an outside perspective.

Two characters give a wonky and comedic insight into trendsetting in the world of the industrial rave culture of the UK in a warm nod to rave culture of the '90s.

Standing in the dim light, in a void of blue, dwarfed by a presence as strong as it is vulnerable–instincts are restricted by glass. This short film is a meditation on cross species relationships in a world of increasingly manufactured landscapes.

"Notes from the subsurface" interrogates deep subsurface environments and the extremophiles that live within them. The film considershow they can function at extreme depths and pressure within challenging conditions such as highly acidic, high temperature, high radiation, low oxygen and methane heavy environments. Through sci-fi narratives, the film exposes non-human and multi-species perspectives, hidden networks and unheard voices. Beginning with birds-eye-view footage of the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies, the second part of the film takes a science fiction approach. The narrators develop proposals for adapting humans to livein these extreme.

Lin Li's waterscapes in I am so tired reject any notion of safety or comfort in their stormy aggression, with excerpts from BBC news recordings creating a thick and fearful sensory nightmare of displacement.

In Duncan Marquiss’ Mirror Test – named after the behavioural experiment in which animals are shown their own reflection – the disruptive movements of a curious jackdaw are juxtaposed with voice testimonies of its owners, a German couple who lived under the GDR.

Julia Parks' The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk offers up precise descriptions – and the poems of Cumbrian writer Kate Davis, which diligently recount the process of learning to walk following a childhood diagnosis of polio.

A man's evening turns sour after the introduction of hallucinogenics to his nightly routine.

Long before the invention of YouTube and smartphones, Video 125 cameras were out and about filming the London Underground for our Driver’s eye view videos. Although mainly filmed in standard definition, the sound was a different matter. 100% of the time we were using full broadcast television standard microphones and recording equipment. This means that long-since scrapped 1959, 1962 and 1967 tube stock on the Central, Northern and Victoria lines can still be heard in full stereo sound. The long-since scrapped A, C and D sub-surface stock on the Hammersmith & City, Circle, District and Metropolitan, lines also heavily feature in this unique video production filmed between 1988 and 2014.