Song tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of still photographs and acted reconstructions to show that this story has been rewritten/written-over many times before.
An anti-short short. On three occassions a man overhears a car accident while relaxing in his room. He reacts with less and less concern to each crash.
The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.
A series of non-dramatic tableaux representing scenes from De Sade's novel.
An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.
Anna follows her absent Mother on her nightly ritual, as she walks round the family house, turning the house lamps on one by one. In the course of the lamp walk, Anna talks about being afraid of the dark and of the secrets that all families and lovers keep from one another.
Captures a moment in 1970s Britain's immigration debate, focusing on new arrivals at Heathrow as they wrestle with immigration law.
A wasp exterminator travels to a large stately home to deal with a wasp infestation problem. However when he arrives he is greeted by a dysfunctional, hate filled family that attacks each other with spite and hurtful remarks. He reassesses his feelings towards the wasps that only sting in self defence.
An elegant film about one man's fears and fantasies regarding HIV testing.
Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.
A girl takes her camera along to a rocky beach, but quickly becomes fascinated with a far stranger mechanical contraption that she finds there.
An elderly man takes a hypnotic journey through his memories in the moments before his death.
This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film. Bicât and scriptwriter Howard Brenton explore the consequences and co-option of political violence with hard, grubby directness and a pre-punk, semi-nihilistic attack on bourgeois values.
A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern cannon fire. His loaded gun is left pointing precariously at him and he is faced with imminent death.
Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.
In and around the tenement blocks and rubbish tips of the Glasgow slums, this short film depicts a young boy’s perspective of his family, his friends and the local ‘bad man’.
An Englishwoman travels to a Normandy village to investigate her husband's disappearance.
Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.
Horror story using stills. Based on the short story by Richard Davis.
A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband, the lawyer, the couple’s parents and their “home help”, a picture emerges of the transactional nature and economic fall-out of marriage, along with issues of class and gender politics affecting single mothers.
