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A film about the musical career of Jon McLoughlin AKA Kid Krupa, member ofThe Revillos and Del Amitri.

A selection of the nation's best-loved toys and games, through the years beginning with countdown of the favourites of the 1970s, featuring a cast of experts, toymakers and manufacturers, as well as a smattering of famous faces and comedians. Including crazes from America such as Pet Rock, the skateboard, and Evel Knievel, as well as British classics Sindy, Action Man, Katie Copycat and Striker.

A video 'note to self' sent during lockdown.

A meditation on the dissolution of boundaries between the human form and its surrounding environment.

An abstract video-poem on the mystical power of nature and the forces that govern our universe.

In a world where the only from of communication is with musical instruments, or creating sounds with their body, it is difficult to make connections. Following through a luscious green and mossy landscape, a small man attempts to play his rhythmic tunes in order to create a loving bond with someone special.

In a presurizing world where Ed wants to live more freely, thus ending up being ostracized by society. One day, whilst walking in line to work, Ed hears a sound, turns around, and sees a hole in his own shadow; revealing a mystical world below. Ed embraces the difference, and decides to jump into the unknown.

"Outsourcing (My Desires to Avatars)" is a machinima and experimental video created by video artist Jamie Janković and writer, poet and director Deborah Findlater. The work is part of an ongoing project addressing the intersectionality of responses to female characters in video games; formally speaking, the work is presented as an audio-visual poem, accompanied by voice over. According to Janković, this work is meant as a response to found footage material of the character Christie from the popular fighting game series "Dead or Alive" (1996 – ongoing). Moreover, the examination of the role of female characters in "Outsourcing (My Desires to Avatars)" is part of a larger project titled "The identity quest series," in which the artist addresses a multiplicity of responses to female video game characters, following engagement in interviews with queer people within the gaming industry and exploring their own views on gender in game design.

300 metres long, 85,000 tonnes, 6,200 containers of cargo. The Kinloss is one of the largest ships in the Danish Maersk Line's fleet of tankers, which traverses the world's oceans and handles the global circulation of goods. The filmmaker shot the tons of steel moving between Busan and Shenzhen as both a wasteland inhabited by a few human beings and an industrial monument to the cold beauty and helplessness of the advanced phase of consumer capitalism. Fragments of cabins, decks, engines, massive ropes and breathtaking views of the sea complement the depersonalised narratives of a cosmopolitan line-up of employees of the world's largest transport corporations.

A seemingly perfect wife is driven to the point of murder after her husband sneaks out for the night.

A promotional vehicle with lane-changing tendencies, but both hands kept on the wheel at all times.

The Magentalman lives an ordinary life in his empty world, every day is the same. Life is boringly black and white, until there's green. Mint green. A gay love story about how it feels to find your soulmate.

Protagonist Elizabeth May finds a mysterious book about a shadow that has been gone for 100 years…being a mysterious teenager Elizabeth has an interest in reading the book to discover the disappearances close to her only to find the shadow is more closer than she thought…

Film by Seema Mattu

Film by Seema Mattu

Film by Seema Mattu

Alternative Economies was made in conversation with herbalist Rasheeq Ahmad and financial services regulator Rachel Bardiger. The film discusses the imperialist exploits of the Disney character Scrooge McDuck, and the apparently radical yet deeply compromised promises of crypto­currency. Between these two strands, possibilities for an alternative network of exchange and subsistence are sought.

When hosts of "The Loudmouth Podcast" Ryan Perry, Luke Hearne Brown & Alfie Akers gather to present a live version of their award nominated podcast, their production crew pulls out and have to resort to shooting a live special from a Nissan Micra. The special features deep discussions on Biscuits, The Meg (2018) and various other mildly funny anecdotes. As well as featuring a Special Guest and a trip to the golden arches.

A film made by Borders Additional Needs Group's Branching Out Youth Group as part of Film Town, Alchemy's year-round community filmmaking project.

'Far from our true nature', "ID Babylon" peels off the blindfold and speaks to a reconnection with one's roots and finding home inside oneself. Bringing together the voices of young people, Khevyn Ibrahim foregrounds the search for space outside of existing structures, exploring issues of extremism, nationalism, migration and the movement of people.

In "My Grandmother Sits in the Garden", Jack Guariento delightfully employs a VHS tape format to mimic the feel of old home movies, in a warm and wise essayistic rumination on the relative nature of time, the cosmic interrelatedness of people, places and things, and the making of pasta sauce.

Billie, overwhelmed and intimidated by the outside world, has confined herself to existence within her box. Can she be convinced the world isn't so scary if she's prepared to step into it?

A stuffed teddy bear upsets the status-quo. A one-minute short film by John Ross Galloway.

John Wilson returns to the Proms with a programme celebrating one of the greatest song-writing duos of all time: George and Ira Gershwin.

Crypto art is a thing now!

Looped and layered video of a burst water pipe at five o'clock in the morning.

Daniel Kinahan has been named in court as the head of one of Europe's biggest drug cartels. So how has he been allowed to be involved in setting up the World Heavyweight Championship fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua?

the gospel according to them, is an experimental film that explores the phenomenology of faith and its relationship to the Black body.

A radio recording of the transition from 2020 to 2021 captures the zeitgeist of an unprecedented year; questioning the notion of starting anew. The position of the frequency dial is mirrored to the exact time at which the recording was made, the fifteen minutes leading up to the end of 2020, and the first fifteen of 2021, creating an all encompassing and varied soundscape that includes snippets of music, dialogue and static between.

Dermot Murnaghan examines the crimes of Scottish serial killer and sex offender Peter Tobin, who had a killing history that stretched from Glasgow to Brighton.

Using a unique mix of drone cinematography and Cambodian poetry, Sean Gallagher's latest film explores the changes in Cambodia's landscapes, brought about by deforestation and forest fires, and the emotional impact it has had on Cambodian people.

Myra is dead; long live Myra! Realising she stands to miss out on the most attention she'll ever receive, the 'acid-tongued and funny to the bone' (Time Out) Myra brings forward her funeral to make sure people get it right! An irreverently sardonic and 'incredibly quick-witted' **** (Scotsman) side-eye at death, dying and the theatrics of grief, direct from sell-out runs at Edinburgh Fringe and Sydney Opera House. Get ready to RIPee your pants! As seen on Britain's Got Talent and in upcoming feature film Everybody's Talking About Jamie.

A man in a gas mask leaves an underground bunker.

In this speculative fiction, all the world’s photographs have suddenly turned into the objects they represent. The video depicts a vertiginous architecture, so devastating that it created new uncontrollable borders and isolated people. Piles of selfies, cats, and meals are scattered everywhere. Text messages evoke a new society living with limitations and suffering from media saturation, sensory overload, and crushing ecological impact. A world where images have taken over, invading and transforming space. They become the only reality that is still visible, as the whole world is turning inwards.

Trapped in a room a criminal is given 2 minutes to escape otherwise he will die.

Grieving after an early miscarriage, Faye preserves the embryo in a jar of oil, and sleeps with it under her pillow. She shows her husband, expecting him to feel the same connection. Isolated when he questions her sanity instead, Faye must act to keep the embryo safe.

A short film that takes us on a journey both back in time and into the future, addressing a subject still controversial in our modern society and even taboo in many cultures (including the ones of the two dancers featured). A personification of the late Vera Lynn encourages two young sailors to not be afraid of who they are and the love they share for each other.

Choirmaster Gareth Malone travels to Blackburn, one of the areas hardest hit by Covid-19, to stage a concert with local musical talent that brings the whole town together.

A girl relives what had occurred on August 31st at Prince Edward station, Hong Kong.

There are eyes in the dark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1cYUYJFEiE

A mockumentary that follows a delusional young director as he attempts to become the next great American filmmaker.

"Animal Antics" is an absurdist take on the effects of the Anthropocene, from the perspective of a woman and her talking dog Whoopsie on a trip to the zoo. The film is set a few years into the future, when 'The Wild' is no more, its last animal remnants confined to safari parks and zoos. As Sarah and Whoopsie do the rounds of the cages and pens, the dog leaves a trail of increasingly off-beam, off-colour comments, revealing itself as both absurdly precocious and deeply prejudiced. Whoopsie's remarks reflect less on man's best friend than humankind itself, our preoccupation with supremacy and dominance at the expense of the world in which we exist. A hybrid of Desmond Morris, Johnny Morris and Chris Morris, Goddard's film is a surreal, black-comic tour de force in which the anthropomorphic antics of man’s best friend offer up a deathly accurate mirror of mankind's very worst traits.

Film by Seema Mattu

In suspiration!, Taylor brings false promises made by the United Kingdom to the surface with pieces of news footage and a spoken testimony describing racism in the UK. Amongst this bleakness, moments of beauty shine through, indicating the possibility for reassurance and hope.

After humans have destroyed the world (again) an unnamed beast swims up from a forgotten swamp and rebuilds the world from zilch. CASTOROCENE, shifting between essay and semi-fictionalised nature documentary, is a ‘film pome’ dedicated to one of nature’s great architects. Depicting wetlands as the living entity that they are, the camera dwells on a landscape of viscous textures, organic debris and nonhuman sculptures, considering parities between acts of borrowing, rewilding and animal world building. Filmed by artist Alexander Hetherington on 16mm film in the wetlands at Bamff in East Perthshire, Scotland.

"Who are you?" is an audiovisual work made up of images and sounds that surface after haptic and scopic experiments have taken place. I find myself stitching hums, vibrations, colours, shapes, repetition and rhythms that invoke an inquiry inward.

A couple argues, a lethal twist of past and future plays out in ordinary lives. Adapted from Arthur Rimbaud’s enigmatic poems War and Fragments of Folio 12, this new interpretation of the poems offers a stark warning to an age where time – fragmented, decontextualised and stored as optical or auditory data – accumulates, while memory fades.

A group of barbaric raiders, relishing in the glory of their latest bloody venture, traverse ancient and unknown lands looking for their way home. Unfortunately, this will be no simple task as there is something, in the darkness, that even these seasoned warriors should fear.