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An unseen narrator tells his experience of wrongful imprisonment in an unnamed country and his random release. Based on a letter sent to Amnesty International, by the filmmaker’s father, and a surreal interview given about it. ‘Prison with Songbirds’ is a documentary and fiction hybrid in which dream-nightmare and digital-celluloid collide.
A film about recovery and familial love. When John walks in on Matty's attempted suicide, the two brothers drive up to the Scottish Highlands with the hope of finding stability in nature, and in the life they have shared.
With a multitude of voices, both human and non-human, this sensorial gem explores the environs of the soon-to-be demolished Fawley Power Station.
Two friends go for a day trip to Glasgow together, one of the friends has decided to document the day with a handheld camera their dad gave them.
The experiences of a young sex worker as she navigates the streets at night.
Wendy Craig is the much-loved star of TV series such as Butterflies and The Royal. This feature-length celebration of her life and career features an exclusive new interview with Wendy, recorded at her home, as she retraces the moments that made her a sitcom superstar. Wendy was born in County Durham in 1934 as Anne Gwendolyn Craig. She reveals that she first set her sights on an acting career at the age of three after seeing a pantomime in Newcastle. At drama school in London in the early 1950s, a performance she gave alongside fellow trainee and future Sherlock Holmes star Jeremy Brett was so impressive that she picked up both her first professional acting job and an agent in the same evening.
A suit makes its way to a job interview and absorbs the interesting world around it.
K wanders through a mysterious forest and finds a secret within water.
Across a two-channel video installation, voice, image, and sound combine to produce a meditative exploration into the story of a man named Cowboy. His background is marked by migration and shaped by his love for the equestrian, as he recounts a lifetime spent in service to horses. On the right channel we see the leaves of a palm tree rustling against a blue sky, alternated with images of the ocean. On the left, we follow the protagonist as he tends to and rides his horse. The strength and autonomy of the animal finds a compliment in the rider - a mutual responsibility develops and each grows to intuit movements of the other. As Cowboy reaches the sea, the two screens sonically coalesce. The cargo ships in the far distance are a reminder of the global economic trade central to Nigeria’s past and its future – as well as darker histories of exploitation, undocumented migration, and the shadow of forced displacement amid the transatlantic slave trade.
Does Spring Hide Its Joy is an immersive audio experience by American composer Kali Malone featuring musicians Stephen O'Malley and Lucy Railton. Manifesting as a 4-day multichannel sound installation, Malone offers a deep listening environment in a hydraulic tower and engine house in Birkenhead Docks. Does Spring Hide Its Joy was created and recorded in the empty Berlin Funkhaus & Monom during the lockdown of spring 2020. The music is a study in long-form, non-linear durational composition, with a heightened focus on septimal just intonation and beating interference patterns.
An ongoing series of short shorts that are all under four minutes long. Each explore a single formal, conceptual or structural idea. The process of realisation can either be loose and improvisatory, or time intensive and heavily edited. Each of the films use footage shot with a DV camera, mini VHS or High 8 video camera. Using cheaper and handheld mediums, instead of 16mm (or a larger, more expensive HD digital camera), allows for a quicker, more intuitive and playful approach to production.
The story came to Scotland last Christmas when a man was arrested at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. He said he was Arthur Knight, but the American authorities were certain he was Nicholas Rossi, wanted for raping a 21-year-old woman in Utah in 2008, and other sex attacks. A judge in Edinburgh has now rejected his claims of mistaken identity, ruling that he is Rossi, and extradition proceedings will follow.
Dame Deborah James was just 35 when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016. With honesty and humour, she documented her journey on social media. In May 2022 Dame Deborah revealed that she was moving to end-of-life care, but it wasn't the end of her story.
Set 10,000 years after the myth of Chang-E’s ascension onto the Moon, ‘The Very Thought of You’ centers around the hallucinatory experience of a Moon refugee who was broken out of his cryo-vacuum stasis by reasons unknown. In his helpless and delirious state, the man began wondering if he was really hearing the voice message of an ex-lover who he had to abandon in a bid for personal survival. The boundaries between freedom and restriction, past and present, individualism and collectivism, will blur and may even dissolve, in this dusky corner of the Moon.
Follow a runner through a stressfully average shift as she waits for not so average news that could lead her away from a life of dirty tables, shellfish platters and noisy patrons.
This experimental film presents a kaleidoscopic and psychedelic composition of digitally modified images thematizing mainly nature, the human body, and machines. Silberstein draws his inspiration from video games and cybernetics theory resulting in futuristic meditation. The sci-fi atmosphere is made complete with electronic music by sound artist Łukasz Szałankiewicz.
A plus size woman addresses her body in a mirror and asks for forgiveness for the hate, anger and disgust she's shown it in the past.
The process from knowing yourself to accepting yourself can be a long journey and one that loops around and around and around.
A surreptitiously filmed conversation between my Dad and my Nana in Ashington, Northumberland, about the age-old British tradition of breaking into royal residences. The conversation is overlaid with Super 8 footage shot by my Grandad in the 1960s and scanned by me after my grandparent's deaths, shots I filmed on an iPhone while retracing the steps of their family visit to London, and a 16mm reel with views of the city centre and Buckingham Palace in the '30s, found in a junk shop I don't even remember when. The contrasting eras of film, as well as relatively recent footage of my family (one of whom is no longer with us), spliced with shots of their much younger selves turn the piece into a short meditation on expectant youth, and the locked gates that most of us meet as we quickly age.
In order to complete his coming out journey, Adam must tell his childhood best friend, Tyler, that he is gay. Slight problem: Adam is in love with Tyler, and Tyler has a girlfriend.
A short film that follows a girl trying to confess her love, but her fears turn out to be much more large and intimidating than she thought. Will fighting a dragon be easier than admitting her feelings?
The story follows a father and his friend finding out his son is gay and must come to terms with this latest discovery.
British Jews from across the faith celebrate life’s big milestones, from birth and coming of age to marriage and the end of life. 12-year-old Ethan is preparing for his bar mitzvah, a ceremony that marks his transition into Jewish adulthood. He has chosen to twin his big day with a young boy who died in the Holocaust, to honour his memory. Jolanda converted to Reform Judaism after meeting Jack. Now they are tying the knot in Spain, in a modern ceremony they have adapted according to their beliefs. At Bushey cemetery in Hertfordshire, Hilary describes her role as a volunteer who does the tahara, the ritual washing of the deceased before burial. And in London, David reflects on his late father’s life as he prepares to permanently mark his grave. Rabbi Yanky and his wife Rochel are marking the birth of their third child, a baby boy, with a circumcision ceremony at eight days old, called a brit milah. It’s the first of many milestones in the baby’s Jewish journey.
Join Jill and Jack, two young shad as they journey up river for a shadventure on the River Severn! Learn all about the problems that weirs cause for this rare migratory fish and how a fish pass can be the solution to get them back up river to spawn!
In this haunting stop motion animated black comedy a man attends a séance but is sceptical about such nonsense. Will they really contact spirits from the other side? Or will they find other skeletons in the closet in this harrowing tale of terror and mystery?
A period of life is shown through flickers of moments.
Adam enters a house, lit by a single candle. Catching a glimpse of a shadowed figure, he becomes a victim to curiosity. Following her, he explores a series of rooms, leading to face-to-face encounters with the being. Truths and lessons to be learnt, Adam's journey leads him 'Halfway'.
Highlighting the unique challenges faced by non-binary parents in the UK’s outdated adoption process, KINDRED tells the incredible true story of the brave non-binary parent who helped redefine the meaning of family in this country.
A student's 'American Psycho' spoof about a murderous chef goes wrong!
The work aims to provide a space for people who have suffered under the UK’s border regime to speak about their experiences, whilst also celebrating the rich contribution that people who’ve moved to the UK from overseas have made to our shared social and cultural life. The work comprises 26 sections, each made in collaboration with a partner who has first-hand experience of the issues at hand. Each section is developed, and then collaboratively made, together. The Hostile Environment is the name given by then-Home Secretary Theresa May to a basket of government policies which aimed to co-opt large parts of UK society into policing the UK’s borders — from doctors to landlords, employers, homeless services and more.
Drive explores the career and life of elite sprinting coach Christine Bloomfield, understanding her love and connection to the track.
Ivy, a maid of the Manor, is caught up in the turmoil's of three aristocratic siblings. She uncovers a plot to kill the youngest Adelaide, with pressure from the lady of the manor, Ivy is determined to protect her closest companion. Adelaide convinces Ivy to poison her two brothers, without much luck but as time passes by, we learn all is not as it seems in their relationship. Glimpses into the past reveal dark secrets about the family.
Media’s Influence on the Mind is a short film focused on exploring the case of Callum Ford and how an obsession with the movie American Psycho placed him down a dark path. Along with a psychoanalytical view on the situation as a whole.
The disturbance of a noisy neighbour leads to the discovery of a haunted boombox and a terrifyingly possessed dancer.
A documentary about squatting in London.
Slyly integrating audio descriptions and captions, visual artist Angela Charles shares her story of ‘coming out’ as a blind artist after years of hiding it.
A student leaves early on his last day of school to spend some time alone, only to be questioned by a younger student who is curious about his apprehensive state.
This film is about a hedgehog that is trying to hunt a worm but is finding it hard to catch.
Resistance Sahara, a haunting yet playful exploration of the liminal space between experimental, documentary, and fictive filmmaking, presents an artistic response to the Sahrawi refugee crisis from the frozen war in Western Sahara. Bringing international artists from a mix of disciplines to the Sahara Desert, and with them will create something new, a response to what they encounter. The film mix testimony from the mouths of the people who live in each zone of crisis with music; image; and symbolism. The audience is invited to reconsider their view of the nature of human suffering, and to build a new bridge of empathy with the people in these remote and sometimes forgotten places..
A post-apocalyptic sci-fi feminist horror. Set many hundreds of years in the future when the water levels are at their highest. Some humans have begun to adapt and morph into creatures as a means for survival. They reject the species hierarchies and embrace the way of the organism. They live in harmony with nature immersing themselves deeper into the complex webs of relations between different life forms.
Jack is a year 11 student who has totally cut himself off from his friends to the extent they don’t even try to talk to him. Except one: Oscar. Oscar’s had a hard go of it himself. But what happens when Jack gives in and talks to him?
There's something wrong in the woods. British horror short.
A man goes for a walk and speaks his mind to a camera
Two boys get locked out of their car after a hookup goes wrong.
Red hill sits hidden, atop a steep climb on the West Face of Easby Moor, North Yorkshire. If you look on a map of the North York Moors, it is unmarked – invisible to the stranger unless face-to-face with its bloodied earth. Animated short film printed on soil, examining a collective rural consciousness historically dominated by exploitation and violence.
Houdini's windfall. Tuppance wants it. Spanners is chasing it. Aki is flying away with it...Yoshe plans to spend it...Yet...there's more to life than money when turbulence intervenes.
"Cremantique" is a supernatural short film exploring isolation, sleep paralysis, and that haunting carnival of late-night anxious thoughts, ringing like an operatic chorus line of evil puppets in your head.
As Liv gets ready for a night out her thoughts jump from reality to a fight club in her mind. Through an outpouring of physical expression and embodied vivid movement, she imagines a world where she can walk down the street freely without fear.
A boy's desperate search for his bouncy ball leads to disastrous consequences.
Gold-rush atmosphere in the recycling industry, waste as an economic engine. Every year, 40 million metric tons of waste end up in the trash cans of German households. Thanks to strict regulations and precise specifications for waste separation, this waste is turned into new raw materials.
A single parent nurse and her two daughters each find their own way to navigate the first lock-down. The film uniquely integrates audio description into the script and soundtrack.
A playful short animation which celebrates desire and pleasure using sticky, fleshy plasticine. It invites the audience to take a look from a plants eye view and explore the wonderful queerness within nature.
A short documentary about the fear of blood and the importance of giving it. Winner of the Falitzer Award for Film.
An LGBT+ coming of age drama telling the story of Eli, an ambitious teenager who is befriended by a group of misfits.
Thaumatrope n°1 is an avant-garde non-narrative animation created physical using the Victorian optical toy. The thaumatropes are made through a combination of illustrations and photographs. It aims to portrait anxiety and explore ways to expand cinematic language.
The film, made by award-winning Liverpool film-makers Phil Maxwell and Hazuan Hashim, interviews left activists hit by the smear campaign and the purge the smears were used to justify – and the towering hypocrisy on the part of the Labour leadership that lies behind it.