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Kwang-Ja Lee, a counsellor at ‘Lifeline Korea’ has been listening to anonymous people’s stories for 45 years. Every day, she is all ears to stories that cannot be shared anywhere else. Image and sound react to it and creates new reflective space that seems to be the bottom of one’s heart.
In the late 1930s, a boarding school bully schemes and dreams her way from the gloom of England to the promises of colonial India.
"Wake is the result of an experimental project. The resulting animation is a playful voyage through the vibrant dreamscapes of the imagination, imbued with spontaneity, nostalgia, and the love of light. Entirely hand-painted, it’s a celebration of the ever-transforming nature of our vision and the joy of creation."—Mark Boston
When Olive calls the emergency plumber out, the pipes are the least of her worries.
Shot during the lock down in the spring of 2020, Missing Commas combines images of our daily family life confined to the small garden and the empty train station with the sounds from 50’s Sci-Fi film and songs from old nursery rhymes that resonate other pandemics in human history. A capsule of worries and concerns about humans and animal kingdom inferences, power of nature, an extinction looming closer and parenting in times when force of nature challenges the sense of safety you are supposed to create.
In a fabric society, a young figure diverges from rigid gender binaries to explore where their identity lies.
What happens when you are left alone with nothing to be remembered for? A man tries to keep his sanity in tact by writing a letter to get help, but keeps getting memories of his fears and what was lost, will he manage to get out alive or he is left to rot with what remains inside with him?
After encountering the alien Vongashuuelbuckett. Alan Fishpaste becomes embroiled in an intergalactic feud and embarks upon a quest across the stars.
Three scientists give the go-ahead for their new invention - an ultra-secret rocket made of confetti.
An intimate portrayal of grief after the loss of a friend.
Anne has been living on Cora’s family farm for over a year and the two have become incredibly close. Cora is becoming increasingly stressed about the farm’s deteriorating financial situation. Anne tries to be supportive and find ways to help Cora but her efforts are futile against Cora’s stubbornness.
Two women find each other time and time again, loving each other through all their life times. Made entirely during lockdown by student artists, this animated film is a collective piece of art, dedicated to one of the most famous lyrical fragments that remain from the lesbian poet Sappho: fragment 147.
After a distracted day at work, Suzy is pursued and controlled by an ominous periscope.
Meeting an old friend in a coffee shop, we follow Nezumi's internal and external battle of emotions and feelings and how she get consumed by them as she’s being triggered by the words of her interlocutor.
"Gaps in the Persistent Hiss" is a journey through a landscape both sonically and visually. Through the combination of experimental music and a microscopic lens, the video plays with a radically discontinuous almost hallucinogenic image which reveals a primordial awareness of the world around us.
The Equilibrists of the film are patient and surprising exemplars of the lessons to be learnt from scrutinizing the elementary principles of physics. Here familiar feats of balance and curious games combine with the didactic serving as a reminder of the patience, delicacy and balance essential for stability.
Never meet your heroes. An Elvis fan goes to new lengths to meet her idol, with unfortunate consequences.
"In Vivo" is an assemblage of found footage. Doing doesn't provide much in the way of conventional context as to how these varied sources interrelate or how they should be read. But in editing them together at all, he asserts a radical subjectivity, an authorial presence that is autobiographical even when the images themselves are clearly borrowed from another vault. Doing positions himself, and the histories through which he has lived, within a much vaster narrative, implied through the other-realm textures of analogue footage as much as the actual content of his archival excerpts.
A man in love with the Sun prepares for a transformation to prove his undying loyalty and dedication.
Fragilities of time and perception are captured in macro in Kamila Kuc's "uchronia, no.1". Seductively textured images contrast against intimate and claustrophobic sounds, forming an eerily demanding observational experience.
Sensory is an animated short about sensory memories. It is about how your body remembers what your mind can’t, what your mind doesn’t want to, and in ways your mind can’t.
What is a dog? Loyal, obedient, submissive, owned. Or violent, instinctual, vigilant and wild. Whatever it is, it’s waiting.
Former glamour model Jess Davies uncovers the hidden trade in nude photographs.
A glance through LGBTQ+ history through the mirrors of a drag queen.
Prior to the 'Black Fields' film storyline, we follow our barbarian, Bjorn of Clan Mountain Black on the hunt for Frida. Crossing rivers and valleys, trudging through the bitter forest of Frenmir, will our weary warrior succeed? For Frida. For vengeance. For blood.
A letter to a younger self.
A pixelated figure embarks on a cosmic adventure. Accompanying film to 'We're Finally Landing" by HOME.
The peasant girl Giselle discovers the true, high-born identity of her lover Albrecht – and that he is promised to another. In despair at the revelation of Albrecht’s infidelity, Giselle kills herself. Her soul enters the ranks of the Wilis – shades of young women who died before their wedding day. All men that come across their path are compelled to dance themselves to death, and Albrecht falls into their trap. Through Giselle’s love from beyond the grave her intercession saves him and also releases her soul from the Wilis’ power.
After Morgan Foley is arrested on suspicion of murder. He must use all he knows to survive with his freedom.
A personal essay film which explores a street in London called The Cut where the director herself lives.
The film centres around the work of Cathy McCormack, a housing and anti-poverty activist from Easthall in Easterhouse. A collaboration between residents, architects and technical surveyors saw an innovative method to cut the dampness and hi fuel costs that were plaguing the residents.
An experimental short film about a street fair in St Margaret’s.
British horror short from 2021.
Andrew, a uni undergrad, tries to open up to his mates about his sexuality, but there is an aura of dislike that inevitably springs in from his homophobic friends just before he tells them. This motivates him to indulge in self-sexual pleasure in the hope that he will be reversed to be heterosexual again, but there's a weird transition that happens afterwards.
Jake Winter goes through any means to go back to a reality that once was...
Some of the most expensive and unusual items ever sold in Harrods are shared.
A Short Film focusing on the urge to escape from the rabbit hole of depression
A torrent of alien lights pours through a rupture in a darkening, terminal world.
A short film merging performance and traditional 16mm abstract animation, exploring the psychogeographical & ephemeral links between contemporary queers in Wales and their familial and cultural roots.
An anonymous Russian analyst paid to gather materials for the Trump-Russia dossier becomes the political target of an international scandal that threatens his life.
Commissioned by the Raymond Williams Foundation, the film focuses on ways that culture is interpreted and practiced by groups of young people in contemporary Wales.
Eight thousand kilometres from the United Kingdom, in the middle of the South Atlantic, is the remote British Overseas Territory of St Helena. Four thousand people live on the Island. Extraordinarily the only way to get there is on the Royal Mail Ship, which sails from Cape Town once a month. But 350 years of isolation, since the island was first settled, are about to come to an end. In a few months' time St Helena's newly-constructed airport will receive its first flights. As they prepare for a very different future Our World has been to meet St Helenians to discover how they feel about the end to their isolation.
A short animated music video celebrating trans joy, trans love, and trans existence. It's made using a combination of analogue and digital animation techniques, including 35mm film photography, rotoscoping, and traditional frame by frame animation.
An ode to London, the beauty of the city and a love for urban life. The film explores the relationship between clothes and identity.
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
Coming to terms with the stress and depression caused by COVID-19 and the lockdowns thereafter; a young man attempts to find escapism in walking his canine companion
A short film by Jasper Kirkpatrick-Navarre. Follows an aspiring writer called Jean-Luc.
This film attends to the tricks and techniques that mole catchers use to access the underground world of the mole.
“Symbols” is a short animation for introducing the LIAF Abstract Showcase program. It's about text, symbols, language, and communication, trying to explore the concept of abstract through the conversion between natural language and constructed language in a more relaxed and simple way. When text symbols are isolated from their linguistic contexts, how could they be understood and communicated in a chaotic contemporary context?
Animated short film
A grieving woman comes to terms with the loss of her baby by welcoming wild animals into her garden.
A short film about the impact of loneliness and a lack of control.
Depicts the childhood memory of Blyth trying on his father’s boxers at age eight, before leaving for Brownies still wearing them under his uniform. This memory is one of many that have contributed to Blyth understanding that his gender identity did not align with the sex he was assigned at birth, leading to the artist coming out as transgender at eighteen.
A personal essay--predominantly using found footage of everything from John Wayne’s home movies to ASMR videos--about memory, family and (perhaps most of all) how the cinema has indelibly shaped my life.
The first combined army consisting of British and US troops banding together to push their enemy from North Africa for good. One of the most famous campaigns of the entire second world war. A harsh, physical environment tested the strength of all men on both sides of the war. The war in Tunisia.
A selection of Sondheim's finest songs performed by some of the world's greatest stars at the BBC, including Shirley Bassey, Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Ball and Liza Minnelli.
"Soft Rio" plays between erotic and erratic productions of layered movement and sound. Inspired by Audre Lorde's 1978 essay "Uses of the Erotic", the film was shot on the stage of the Rio Cinema in London (once a striptease stage) featuring dancer Astrid Sweeney and sound by @xcrswx.
Visual short film accompanying dodie's album of the same name.