A docu-fiction follows 2 young Egyptian women’s journeys exploring past memories from the 60s-80s through archival home videos, audio recordings, and recreation of movie scenes.
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A docu-fiction follows 2 young Egyptian women’s journeys exploring past memories from the 60s-80s through archival home videos, audio recordings, and recreation of movie scenes.
After the patriarch's passing, the off-beat, dysfunctional Lee family reunite, where past conflicts and current disputes collide over the course of one dinner.
For more than half a century, rumours have circulated of the Krays' relationship with the American Mafia. Featuring brand new interviews and sensational revelations, including an exclusive interview with a former American mobster. Also featured is the late Dave Courtney in what would be his final recorded interview.
A rebellious university student's journey to self-discovery is tested when her strict mother visits, forcing them to try and work through their different expectations
'The Verdant District' is an experimental tone poem exploring the history of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh’s relationship to the district of Chiswick, and its relationship to the present day.
In August 2023, news broke that the British Museum had been the victim of theft. Headlines around the world reported that thousands of items in its collection were missing. But how could this happen to one of Britain’s most revered institutions, and who was responsible? Katie Razzall investigates the story behind the thefts and the hunt to recover the ancient treasures that were taken.
From their iconic house and studio in London’s Brick Lane, Gilbert & George have been at the forefront of British art for over half a century. Their unmistakable art is stark, urban, poetic, profoundly romantic, brutally realistic, and wholly visionary. It has captivated mainstream audiences around the globe. By unpacking their long and literal walk through life – repeatedly likened to a Pilgrimage – substantially with their voices, and few other commentators, the film offers a rare, deep, and captivating insight into their personal philosophy.
Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex and personal portrait of Margaret’s life, from the perspective of a fellow artist sensitive to the potential Margaret envisaged for film as a poetic medium.
A personal attempt at a documentary, on the impact of art on the artist and the life cycle of inspiration told through the perspective of young filmmaker Regina Denston
Am I? is the first feature film by acclaimed concept and AI artist Kevin Abosch. The completely synthetic film (every frame of the film is made with artificial intelligence) is a musical wrapped in a documentary wrapped in a sci-fi movie.
A woman has to face her demons and overcome her grief of her recent tragic loss.
A dying man wakes up on a beach. The image of his younger self causes him to look back on his adolescence.
Lucas is a blind freelance artist, struggling with his mental health due to his mother’s dementia. One day, he notices a girl in a café, Sophie, and from that moment on he can’t get her out of his head. But when he's gone, how far will she go to be with him?
Spring. Summer. Autumn. Winter. One mother's year grappling with her grief.
An interview with a Scarecrow takes an unexpected turn when the birds arrive to prove that her fear of birds, isn't so irrational... With comedy at its core, Scaredy Crow explores the feeling of not belonging where you “should” and finding your own groove to make it work.
A digital transfer and rework of footage shot in 1998 and previously edited into the Super 8 film SUBMISSION. SUBMISSION is a study of light falling on the human subject. RE-SUBMISSION is a recut and more abstract transformation of the original, the revised rhythm and style of the images creating the appearance of the subject formed in emulsion and floating in viscous fluid.
A one-minute short film about the struggle of making plans over the course of a summer.
Brad has an irrational fear of tea. When house sitting for his parents someone or something begins to taunt him, he is given the sense that it is a foreboding teaspoon!
In 2009, a dorky high school teacher is tasked to film the annual Wisconsin deer hunt. But when he gets to the property, he soon realizes he’s the one being hunted.
After a small dog realises the power her sweet appearance gives her over humans, she dives headfirst into a life of crime and social deviance without consequence. That is, until she flies a little too close to the sun and her brazenness catches up to her. Luckily, cuteness is on her side and she clears her name.
With a knock at the door Joe, not realising, allows a strange toy clown into the house. All the Clown wants to do is have a bit of fun. The clowns mischief leads Jake to believe his older brother Joe is playing tricks on him. The Clowns shenanigans soon escalate will the brothers pay the price?
Set around London’s Northern Line tube stations, four stories re-tell some of the most famous greek myths adapted to our world. With dark british humour, it follows the mis-adventures of the great Olympian Gods getting to grips with modern life.
The analytic film projector is a machine for learning that allows you to pause the 16mm image, but can also be hand-wound to produce variable pitch audio. Here, two such projectors face-off in an attempt to harvest information about the world from each other and from the educational films they convey. Projectors and projection interact to produce the kind of figural possibilities that are likely to befuddle and bemuse the artificial mind, if not the human kind too.
Dan Snow embarks on a journey to China, delving into the remarkable story of the Terracotta Army, a vast archaeological treasure lost for over 2,000 years. In 1974, a group of local farmers serendipitously unearthed this ancient wonder, revealing thousands of life-size soldiers prepared for battle even in the afterlife. Beyond the warriors, the discovery also encompasses painted figures, stone armor, and the bones of the Emperor’s mistresses, who met their end alongside their ruler. Dan Snow’s exploration uncovers new insights into the First Emperor of China, a ruler who unified the nation through fear and domination. At the heart of the burial complex lies a giant earth pyramid, serving as the final resting place for the Emperor’s body, guarded for eternity by his formidable Terracotta Army.
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Liam Payne’s rise as a boy band star, his reinvention as a solo artist and the pressures of fame.
Former Love Islander Chloe Burrows explores what life is like for some of our most well-known reality couples living out their romances in the public eye
Developed out of workshops with staff at the advanced biosciences research facility National Horizons Centre, Forms of Circulation explores the wider impact of routine machine processes on their human and non-human recipients. Captured on 16mm colour film, and also shot on location at Teesmouth National Nature Reserve, the film mediates on the labour involved including investigating deadly mouth rot in seal pups and fruit flies’ role in modelling for Parkinson’s disease cures.
A documentary exploring the life of Bill Robinson, a football player who was murdered in 1950's Manchester, and the impact of his death had on his family.
Split between the safety of her 'happy place' and a hard to navigate reality, River tries to communicate the darker side of her mind.
Bits is a short experimental animation exploring the surreal beauty of nature.
A mini documentary made by moi for my final year project on benthic macroinvertebrates.
This is the extraordinary story of Britain’s postwar atomic weapons programme and its devastating legacy. The film reveals the full extent of the British government’s nuclear tests in Australia and the South Pacific in the 1950s and 1960s. 39,000 British and Commonwealth servicemen witnessed 45 atomic and hydrogen bombs and hundreds of radioactive experiments. The documentary exposes the debilitating health conditions that have blighted the lives of veterans, descendants and indigenous communities ever since.
On the morning of January 27 2023, mortgage adviser and mother-of-two Nicola Bulley was walking her dog along the River Wyre in the quiet Lancashire village of St Michael's on Wyre, when she disappeared without trace.
This is a found footage horror film about 3 young urban explorers exploring an abandoned school and nursery home where a supernatural force is at play. Sean Darragh's SDflix never publically released this film.
The Cure play an intimate performance with a selection of classics, fan favourites and tracks from the album Songs of a Lost World. Recorded in front of a small audience at the BBC Radio Theatre in London’s Broadcasting House.
A rumour starts to affect the life of a ballet student.
Follow as Sam and Carys rely on AI technology to overcome first date nerves and tackle the awkwardness that comes with... What could possibly go wrong? You’re in for a wild ride!
On the outskirts of the “Portas de Ródão”, an exceptional natural monument in Portugal, a paper factory can no longer cope with its condition. She wants to blend into the landscape, she wants to disappear. Through the sensitive eyes of a “disproportionate pile of gears” the film questions the notion of romantic landscape and questions the human impact on what we consider to be part of nature.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump fight each other for the election for 2024, no matter how dirty their fight is. Who will take over the White House after the election?
As a family revisits diaries and cassettes recounting invasion and refugeehood, this film asks how history is mediated across generations.
Naomi Berry discusses her experiences living with misophonia, a condition that affects how she perceives and reacts to sounds.
In an artificial world caught in the cycle of obsessive productivity, one human struggling to keep up is faced with a choice.
“In the past, masks were used as protection to ward off evil spirits." On Halloween, a psychic medium relays a vision of a maskless young boy pursued by a malevolent force. Is it too late to help?
Feeling disgruntled, a group of punks start a litter picking group to counter the amount of litter their community faces.
Beyond personal stories, such as Maisha sumah the documentary shines a light on the critical role of community intervention in supporting women and girls in crisis. Interviews with specialist charities working to raise awareness. Sisterhood and community. Highlighting the power of collective action and the importance of prevention. Now an inspiring advocate for ending violence against women and girls (VAWG), Sharing insights on how the police, government, and communities can better protect young women. The Power of Response calls for systemic change while highlighting the courage and strength of survivors and those who fight for them.
“Woven into the film are attempts to understand the docklands as a meeting place between different ecologies, enclosures and epochs, as a point of entanglement of the city and world. The film looks at ways to describe and embody these enmeshed histories from the legacy of police persecution of seaman boarding houses and Indian dockworkers known as lascars to the traces of early Chinatown in Limehouse and the experiences of London by Ayahs and Amahs, predominantly Chinese or Indian nannies brought back from the colonies and abandoned in the city after the voyage.” (George Clark)
The 22-year-old Xinyi believed she had developed a masturbation addiction and claimed she had begun to feel indescribable feelings. As she struggled, she could not avoid constantly falling into the vicious cycle of pleasure-seeking and suffering. In a world where everyone is ashamed of sexual satisfaction, she set out on a journey to collect masturbation stories alone to find someone similar. As the collection grew, Xinyi realized that masturbation had gradually become a mirror that reflected everyone's true self.
The childhood home of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and playground for her daughter Elizabeth, the future queen, is one of the oldest royal residences in Britain. This pink-painted fairy-tale fortress has been the family home to the Lyons, one of Britain's oldest aristocratic families. Experts including Paul Burrell and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen reveal the secrets of a house that helped shape the world views and personal convictions of Elizabeth II and her mother.
April has a nasty surprise as her creepy ex turns up to her boyfriend's game night. Will she be able to stop the voices?
Einstein proposed that time might not flow linearly, suggesting that spacetime bends and warps under powerful matter, seen as gravity's fluctuations. During the pandemic, people experienced this concept firsthand: shrinking horizons made time seem to both stand still and race forward. Daniel Cockburn’s video Ahead of the Curve reflects this surreal period when norms vanished, and internet rabbit holes drew people in—either as black holes for doomscrolling or wormholes to discovery. Through a darkly comic narrative, Cockburn spins a tale full of unexpected twists, linking past and present with disorienting shifts in tone, setting, and tempo, offering hints of what might lie ahead.
A story of patience or the lack there of. Will K.D make it to her interview? Does our perception of people correlate with the reality of them? Stoicism is an enduring characteristic that K.D needs to pass her interview.
Just how good can a neighbour really be?
Documentary following singer Olly Alexander as he prepares to represent the United Kingdom at the long-running celebration of music, the Eurovision Song Contest. Cameras follow the Years and Years singer on the promotional circuit as he releases his song Dizzy, juggles press attention, performs at European parties in Madrid and London and prepares for the event itself
A ritual evocation set on Dartmoor, through stone and water, the senses unfolding, drawing inward, and creating. The inner life embodied and manifesting as divine play, the Lila of Hindu philosophy, the Lila who was my teacher, now reaching down through the ancestral line in father and daughter.
A woman finds herself in a derelict cellar with only one item in it... a table. She cannot help but satisfy her curiosity, and so approaches the table to inspect it. As she looks over the table’s every detail, she quickly learns that this is not just any table, but a living table! She is caught by surprise and whisked up in an adventure that takes her to a place she did not know she needed to be.
In early-1980s Portsmouth, the Calvario family is reigning over the crime-ridden city. After a long-desired promotion, Russ must hope that luck is on his side in dealing with his new responsibilities, his ex-wife, and a loose cannon partner.
Dedicated to and inspired by the art of Wong Kar-Wai. Made on a budget of £0 by a 17 year old. This is 15 months in the making.