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Mark Simmons: Quip Off the Mark

I loved touring 'Quip Off The Mark' around the world and chuffed everyone can now see it here for free. This show is for people who love jokes, one-liners, word-play, puns and good old fashioned switcheroos. There are also some of my trademark improvised gags on random topics and a couple of heckle put-downs too. If you haven't see me before but you love Milton Jones, Gary Delaney, Tim vine, Stewart Francis, Jimmy Carr or Mitch Hedberg then you'll like this show.

Mark Simmons: Quip Off the Mark

8.0 2025
Lunar Visions II

During lockdown I started an experiment, filming each full moon for a year. I also tried to ‘understand’ lunar science but whatever books I read I couldn’t seem to hold the facts in my head. Instead, each month I was surprised by the things I observed directly – a fingernail sliver moon, a punch hole in the sky. Because the repetition of that act of filming meant I noticed both consistency and changes – clear nights, cloudy nights, masked moons, moving moons. Filming made me stop and look. A vital reminder: it’s the looking that matters.

Lunar Visions II

NR 2025
Afternoon Hearsay

8.75mm film - a celluloid format unique to China and never circulated elsewhere, was a film format where no camera was made for. This print film stock was primarily used for mobile projection... What is a film without a camera? This question was explored through cameraless filmmaking techniques such as photogramming 8.75 archival prints onto 16mm. Here, the images and sounds of resistance are folded into the tales of the cinematic invention. Reimagining a format that once resisted circulation as a medium through which other forms of narrative appear...

Afternoon Hearsay

NR 2025
Rick on the Roof

In the mid-2000s, Rick Canty lost his mother and their home in Barry, Wales. Evicted, he climbed onto his roof in protest, remaining there for years. Rick on the Roof uses candid interviews and archive to reveal how his quiet neighbourhood transformed into a thriving community. Neighbours threw street parties and rallied around Rick through storms, until he was injured under mysterious circumstances. Amidst the backdrop of today’s cost of living crisis, the town reflects on Rick’s extraordinary defiance. This bittersweet documentary tells the peculiar story of one man on a roof who inspired and united a working-class Welsh community.

Rick on the Roof

NR 2025
Trees Emerge

Unexpected encounters on the coast of Wales weave the ancient tale of changing boundaries between forest and sea. Could these strange stories be a clue to what might happen to life today and in the future? The film shifts in time and scale. It shows the deep past of tree cells splitting while reproducing and the prehistory of forest, last alive 4,500 years ago in Cardigan Bay. It draws on Welsh archaeology, ancient forest and questions the past and future of communities, territory and trees. Do the uncanny scenes of the past with their tantalising sounds reflect the strangeness associated with our times of local and global heating and ecological breakdown?

Trees Emerge

NR 2025
3,000 Feet

This is the remarkable story of the origins of Scottish mountaineering and of Hugh Thomas Munro, the man whose name has become synonymous with Scotland's highest mountains. While modern-day athletes test themselves against these timeless mountain summits, Munro's enduring list of "Mountains Exceeding 3,000 Feet in Height" has evolved into a cultural cornerstone of modern-day Scotland, building a legacy that Munro himself could never have imagined. Scottish mountaineering as we know it originated in the sciences, academia and the arts. But these hill-going pioneers came across a society in the Highland glens that had only just undergone immense upheaval with far-reaching consequences. Their journeys bridged societies, language, class and culture in pursuit of the very summits we still climb to this day.

3,000 Feet

5.0 2025