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In the wake of increased hostility to Muslims post 9/11, more and more people are converting to Islam. One True Path investigates why someone would want to choose a path that rejects the freedoms of Western democracy.

Blonde and beautiful. Cute and curvaceous. This is Jade, Playboy UK's celebrity centrefold, as you've never seen her before. In a series of sexy sequences, Colchester-born Jade displays the natural assets that have made her Britain's favourite glamour model. Talking honestly and openly about her turn ons, she confesses her love of scruffy men, her favourite positions and what drives her wild in bed. And if you're anything like Tarzan, you're in luck as she reveals her dirtiest fantasies about being whisked away into the jungle by a wild and rampant guy! In luscious locations, she gets frisky by the fireside, hot and wet by the pool and erotic astride her motorbike.

When Danny Taylor gives 12 year old Markus Bauer the Action Man known as Sergeant Jeff Muscles, Markus has no idea of the adventures that he is about to be plunged into. Dealing with a couple of bullies is the least of his problems, soon he finds himself being chased by a gang of Chicago crooks and even being shot by one of them! Fortunately as Jeff says »Them bums couldn’t hit a barn if they were stood inside it« and Markus is only »creased« (again as Jeff puts it!). Markus decides that he has had enough of being pushed around (to say nothing of being shot at!) and that it's time "TO KICK SOME BUTT!". Soon he and Jeff have lured the gangsters into their jungle and ALL HELL IS ABOUT TO BREAK LOOSE!

Charles Hayward has performed and recorded innovative work for over 50 years and remains an icon of modern music. Beyond his awe-inspiring ability as a drummer lies broader artistic expression which combines a fascination with songwriting, sonic composition akin to painting and the 'synesthesia' of sound and image.

A short documentary about Jim Noir during the Tower of Love tour.

Perfectly Frank is the moving tale of architect Frank Gehry's desire to design a very special building in memory of a dear friend - the eponymous Maggie's Centre, a Cancer support centre in Dundee, Scotland.

Video artwork by Duncan Marquiss

Madame I is a short film for mobile phones, inspired by a neurological study in the early 20th century, documenting a patients’ loss of proprioception or bodily awareness.

A video artwork by Shimabuku honoring Swansea Jack, the legendary Welsh dog who rescued 27 people and two dogs in the 1930s. Blending historical tribute with playful spectacle, the piece stages a canine swimming “competition,” exploring how heroism and memory are performed, ritualized, and mythologized in contemporary culture.

A documentary about soul musician Willie Hutch

Natasha visits some of the UK's nudist clubs.

Features two complete sets at Fac 51 The Hacienda from July 1983 (supporting Howard Devoto) and a headline slot from January 1984. The promotional video clip for the single Talk About The Past is also included.

Images of the interior of a house and three short handwritten messages.‘Todd’s playful commentary, occupying the space itself, hints that this brief image-diary is more than the sum of its parts: “I looked for you / But only found / Where you had been.” Suggesting not only the possibility of finding presence in absence – that is, locating and even describing a person via the effects that they leave in their wake – but of the difficulty, ultimately, of really finding; of pinning down a person, or a place, or a time, and ascribing to that a sense of the definitive, or indeed finished. And, from here, of really looking, and of really seeing, because, of course, things are in a constant process of becoming, the world in a state of flux.’Adam Pugh. Where You Had Been: Six films by Nick Collins, Peter Todd and Margaret Tait. Screening Notes. 2012.

A Faustian puppeteer tells the story of Mary, a girl who sells her soul for five years worth of happiness. She takes refuge in a convent, unaware that her soul holds the key to the survival or destruction of the deadlights realm, a world that exists between this and the next.

A playground where visual and musical elements merge together for an experience full of movement and harmony.

'Have you ever seen anything in a shop window that you really want??... I borrow, enjoy for a while, then give back....' Ginger, a timid admin worker by day has an unusual hobby. Housespotting! The pioneer of this hobby she resides in opulent houses while their owners are on holiday. This year she breaks into the home of her vacationing boss to impress the man of her dreams - with murderous results!

The smoking of a cigarette: the arm moves to the head, the head turns towards the hand, the cigarette meets the mouth, the chest rises while inhaling, the arm returns to the armrest, the smoke is exhaled into a small cloud which dilutes in the air. And the animation repeats.

A chat between two bilingual Iranian speakers. You have to listen carefully to hear them slip between the colloquialisms of the two languages.

An animated paint on glass film about lost family and the strangeness of Suffolk.

Robin Mitchell finds the 'lost' film that his father produced, uncovering its fascinating story and reuniting his father with the director after sixty years.

In this epistolary film, Todd proposes—through intertitles written in a notebook, drawings, and images—what he would film in a hypothetical movie addressed to the anonymous recipient to whom the film's title is directed.

Two figures, a black female and a white male, get their hair braided together.

British Public Information Film about the importance of eating one's fruits and vegetables.

The 7th chapter

Lancia Integrale - The Full Story tells you all you need to know about the world's most successful rally car; a car that won six world titles in six years. To understand why the Integrale was so successful, it is necessary to check out its pedigree. This included the famous Stratos and Monte Carlo 037, both forerunners to the ultimate Group B supercar, the 600bhp Delta S4. Group B cars eventually proved too fast for the rally stages and were banned by the motorsports authorities. This meant a move to production-based cars and so the Integrale was born. In 1987, the Delta HF Integrale won the World Championship at the first time of asking and carried on winning titles for another five years. With superb World Championship rally footage Lancia Integrale - The Full Story follows the action season by season through those glory years, featuring legendary Lancia drivers such as Markku Alen, Juha Kankunnen, Miki Biasion, and Didier Auriol.

A series of true stories about people who have experience supernatural events narrated by Ian McShane.

In a synthetic shopping mall surveillance and unsuspecting body language combine to create their own theatre.

Little Terry starts smoking to boost his career.

Tommy Cooper was a national comedy institution whose catchphrases still remain in the language today. This bumbling giant with outsized feet and hands, whose mere entrance on stage had audiences erupting with uncontrollable laughter, was born in Caerphilly in 1921, where a statue is now erected in his honour - unveiled by Sir Anthony Hopkins. This programme looks at the life and art of the man in the fez, whose clumsy, fumbling stage magic tricks hid a real talent as a magician. His private life was complicated and often difficult, but as far as his audiences were concerned, he was first and foremost a clown whose confusion with the mechanisms of everyday life made for hilarious viewing.

At the end of 2001, the LIPS lassies put together one of their biggest group projects: a series of short films called ‘Dykes in the City’. In collaboration with GMAC, the Glasgow Media Access Centre, LIPS members took on almost every role – as scriptwriters, editors, actors, directors and cinematographers. The films they produced are mostly light-hearted depictions of lesbian and bisexual teenage life – coming out, school, crushes, safe sex. They capture a specific moment in Glasgow’s queer history, where the shadow of the AIDS crisis and tentative openness of a new post-Section 28 era merge.

Audrey and her friends must find her mum a new boyfriend before her dad's Christmas party.

A mysterious girl visits an old man's garden at the edge of a forest and offers him a glowing flower.

Had enough of hearing how great Man U are? Then join foul-mouthed northern comic Bernard Manning as he takes the club's fans to task with this live performance at the Embassy Club, Manchester. Aided by Talk Radio's James H. Reeve, Bernard gives the club - and late-coming guests 'Posh' and 'Becks' - what for, in his own inimitable fashion.

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

Fatima is a young British Muslim woman of Moroccan origin who ran away from her family and now shares a house with two girlfriends in Tottenham. One morning, she receives a call from someone claiming to be police. He tells her that there will be a visit later that day to her house to interview her, but refuses to tell her why.

Power Hub is a site-specific time lapse film shot over 24 hours in a disused bus factory in Maidstone, Kent, UK. The film was projected onto the window through which it was shot.

While visiting a Freak Show, a doll finds herself caught up in a series of events that reveals to her the secrets of her true nature. Sexual twists and turns take a simple “coming out” story into the magical realm of stop-frame animation.

A performance for two projectionists using two 16mm projectors with freeze-frame. This performance version further animates the newspaper text by using intermittent projection, pausing and re-starting the film on its way through the projector. The pauses allow us to read chance fragments of the newspaper. In performing the work two identical prints are shown superimposed with a slight difference in image size, which varies throughout the performance. The projectionists attempt to bring the two films into synchronisation with each other by alternately freezing and running the films. During these brief periods of synchronisation something unexpected happens as a result of the slight misregistration of the two identical images and of their accompanying sounds.

Several years ago Bawren Tavaziva was an unemployed teenager dancing on the streets of Zimbabwe's townships to earn enough money to eat. Today, his UK-based contemporary dance company, Tavaziva Dance, performs at London's premier dance venues.

A short experimental drama that follows a journey of transformation by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) who wore a series of orthopaedic corsets. This film from artist-activist Liz Crow draws on Kahlo’s own words and characteristically bold painting style, refuting the picture of Kahlo’s life as one of tragedy and suffering.

Part intimate portrait and part observational documentary, this film looks at how a Dartmoor farming family relate to the land and their animals. Closely observed and beautifully captured over a period of 6 months in 2003, it gives a privileged insight into the world of farmers' perceptions, their knowledge and skills accumulated over generations and their sensitivity to working with nature.

A straight 8 film by Aleysa Young

"What makes an us? Roddy Buchanan’s Gobstopper (2000), recipient of the inaugural Beck’s Futures prize, is deceptively simple. Children sitting in the back of a van are recorded taking an exaggerated inhale before attempting to hold their breath for the duration that it takes to travel through Glasgow’s Clyde Tunnel. Practice for the tunnel’s hypothetical, watery collapse, the game has entered local folklore as something of a ritual born of the project of post-war regeneration." - Marcus Jack

A man, no horse, no gun.

A deaf party animal who has always felt out of place in hearing clubs travels to Holland to discover an amazing rave where deaf people can enjoy music.

Incredible footage brings you the full story of more than 3,200 miles of racing at the classic Circuit de la Sarthe as the Porsches, Jaguars and Mercedes-powered Saubers battled with each other. Among the major motorsport names which competed at the 1989 Le Mans were legends like Jochen Mass, Hans Joachim Stuck, Derek Bell and Bob Wollek, plus British stars like James Weaver and Tiff Needell. In addition to the race action, this review brings viewers all the colour and atmosphere that surrounds this amazing event.

Jaguar lined up five of the awesome Tom Walkinshaw-prepared XJR-9s in the determined hope of taking the British marque's first Le Mans victory in more than 30 years. However, the V12 Jags would have to overcome the trio of works Porsche 962Cs, as well as a huge number of privately-entered machines. Overheating, reliability problems and fuel consumption issues dented the challenges of both Porsche and Jaguar, leaving just one car from each marque battling for the win. With the end in sight, and the XJR-9 of Johnny Dumfries, Andy Wallace and Jan Lammers out in front, a sudden rain shower allowed the second-place Porsche of Derek Bell, Klaus Ludwig and Hans-Joachim Stuck to catch up. As the dramatic footage of this amazing duel shows, it was too little, too late. Nothing could stop Jaguar at last claiming victory.

Tells the story of the world's worst industrial disaster with a drama reconstruction through the eyes of five survivors.

A documentary that explores the experience of dance in the free party community of Sheffield.

Swimming with dolphins has long been proved to be beneficial to those with longterm illnesses. However if you are English and on a budget, Hartcliff Community Centre has an alternative approach: swimming with pigs.

Double Negative offers a reflexive take on the rather spurious effect of 'video negative'. The piece was made by re-videoing the live output from the camera as it was displayed on a monitor, creating feedback. In using the negative video effect, a flicker of alternating positive and negative imagery is produced and various fluctuating microtonal elements in the picture plane are revealed.

Why shouldn't a young girl walk home alone? This dark little tale plays on our anxieties about girls walking through the countryside alone but this little girl has a powerful secret.

1. Amelia 2. Hands Across The Ocean 3. Into The Blue 4. Paradise (Will Shine Like The Moon Tonight) 5. Butterfly On A Wheel 6. Sea Of Love 7. Grapes Of Wrath/Lovely 8. Bird Of Passage 9. Belief 10. Hungry As The Hunter 11. Deliverance 12. Like A Child Again 13. Mr. Pleasant 14. Like A Hurricane 15. Over The Hills And Far Away 16. Bridges Burning 17. Dance On Glass 18. Stay With Me 19. Island In A Stream 20. Love Me To Death 21. Dream On 22. Afterglow 23. Fabienne 24. Severina 25. Wake (RSV) 26. Forevermore 27. 1969 28. Shelter From The Storm 29. Tower Of Strength

The film is composed from thirty-second long time-lapse sequences, filmed in Northwest Umbria. Condensing days into seconds, Hamlyn makes use of lap dissolves and time-lapse photography to compress the temporal duration of the Italian landscape. The film invokes some pre-cinematic technologies mainly in the shadow plays where light and shadow manifest as the movement of trees, clouds, and other objects cast by the sun project and dance onto white walls and other surfaces, emulating and interacting with the film’s grain

Originally shot as part of Finnegan’s Chin, this sequence is re-edited as a portrait of performer Jack Murray. It continues the fascination of the forever repeating folk round “I knew a man called Michael Finnegan....”.

The direct line from Swindon, via Bristol Parkway, was built to reduce the journey time from South Wales in conjunction with the Severn Tunnel. In 2002, one service a day continued to Fishguard in connection with the ferry to the Emerald Isle. These are now history but Video 125 cameras managed to ride aboard a First Great Western 125 High Speed Train (HST) before the through services were abandoned. For most of our journey in the cab, we are travelling through Wales on the country's major main line - the South Wales. Engineered by I.K.Brunel, it was the last main line to be built to the 7ft broad gauge. The double line eventually gives way to a single track at Clarbeston Road. The 3/4 mile Fishguard branch is worked by electric token. The train calls at Bristol Parkway, Newport, Cardiff, Bridgend, Port Talbot, Neath, Swansea, and Whitland.

Paul Gauguin was thirty-five when he made the momentous decision to abandon his lucrative career as a Paris stockbroker and devote himself full-time to painting. Gauguin's bold use of flat, unmixed color gave his paintings a strong sense of personal expression, but his work struggled to find acceptance at the time. Poverty and obscurity dominated Gauguin's years as an artist. Not even a move to Tahiti could bring him happiness. Yet the paintings that he created there are now recognized as masterpieces of the Post-Impressionist age.

Paul Cézanne sought a method of capturing the underlying structure of any subject matter. His eventual triumph derived from a revolutionary new approach to color and to perspective. His paintings were often derided by the critics, but by the end of his life, his genius was beginning to be appreciated. Cézanne's influence on 20th century artists was so great that he is now referred to as the "Father of Modern Painting."