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Episode guide
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Camouflage
Camouflage by Jonathan Hodgson explores the experience of the child growing up with a schizophrenic parent. Based on extensive research it compares a personal account with the experience of…
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The Old Fools
The Old Fools directed by Ruth Lingford is based on the poem of the same name by Philip Larkin. Written when the poet's mother was in a nursing home. Like the poem, the film explores the am…
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Dad's Dead
Through a series of ghostly reminiscences, a young man tries to piece together fragmented moments from the past, memories being triggered by admiration for his best friend Johnno. As the st…
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Rotting Artist
People try it on in the Croxley bunkers, and when the head of the household shoves his bendy cane brush right up the chimney we would do well to run to the other side of the road and watch…
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Tulips at Dawn
Diagrams of chemistry apparatus and educational film footage react and combine in this quirky interpretation of the poem Modes of Representation by Nobel Laureate chemist Roald Hoffmann. Th…
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The Phantom Museum- Random Forays into Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) amassed one of the world's largest museum collections, capturing human culture and history through medical eyes. The Phantom Museum uses animation to imaginat…
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Black, White & Green
In this world of marble tables, etched glass and tiles the humble London dish of pie, mashed potato and thick green liquor acts as a catalyst for excursions into memory, fantasy or to place…
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Exposure
Exposed to the elements on an isolated stretch of beach, an assembly of material fragments face seawards in a small commercial station, testing the rates of decay of an array of constructio…
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Safety Tips For Kids
An ironic look at the way newspapers report children's deaths: accidents, bad mothers, angry fathers and the bogeyman. With an inventive mix of still photography and live action, the film s…
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Sucked Up
Evolution of male sexuality through puberty to adulthood. A boy and a girl play together under a flyover. Fallopian moths fly from her skirt and chase him into a swimming pool. He emerges w…
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The Nuclear Train
James and his family live by the railway tracks used to transport nuclear waste through the middle of London. Already disturbed, James begins to feel all his problems are related to the nuc…
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Animal Tragic
An unsettling take on the 'natural history' of our contemporary urban environment, recreating three reported incidents where humans and 'friendly' animals interact badly- a postman kills a…
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Minema Cinema
A collection of bizarrely original animated stories from scripts written by young children. Emulating the approach of New York's 52nd Street Project and London's Scene and Heard theatre gro…
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doubled up
A short autobiographical animated film about the chaos that a multiple pregnancy and birth can bring. Using multiple layers and perspectives from mother, artist, children and medical profes…
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Half Life
Set against a haunting score and visceral soundtrack, isolated office workers perform grueling, pointless and surrealistic routines in this intense, neurotic study of the desk-bound being.…
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Mr Price
A reflection on life from mid-life. Memory, expectation, disappointment, education, hero worship, all human failings. Mr. Price is about illusions and representation- how we understand the…
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Perpetual Motion In The Land Of Milk And Honey
AL + AL's grandfather James Brown is a retired engineer and inventor living in the north of England. The film re-fabricates his lifelong endeavors to break the law of physics and create a p…
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Proximity
An upside-down time-lapse camera is moved frame by frame on a track along a beach inverting the ground and the sky. The camera moves through four shots recorded in different weather conditi…
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Careful
A story about a 7-year-old girl sent on a mission to post a letter by her overprotective mother. Accidentally forced off course, the girl finds herself in a surreal landscape, full of foreb…
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Flight
A fugitive escape path across five interlinked spaces. Flight becomes a subjective physical exit journey with multiple possible psychological readings where we are propelled from overcrowde…
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Rabbit
A selection of 1950s educational stickers, discovered in a provincial junk shop 20 years ago, provide the ingredients for this adult fairy tale. Once, they were new, delivering a simple mes…
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Sweet Salt
Beneath the fairy tale forest lives a merman who loves his loneliness. Above him is a little girl lost, an unsuspecting savior filling his bathtub with the sea of her tears. When his haven…
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13
A melancholy journey through a strangely dissolving and pixilated landscape. Created from Palm Pilot drawings made whilst walking along the A13 trunk road- the film presents the journey in…
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As The Crow Flies
An image of a bird migrates across drawings from 500 members of the public. In a visual version of Chinese Whispers, the participants briefly observed and then redrew a simple line drawing…
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Who I Am And What I Want
A scribbled, strangely funny but highly unsettling examination of the human condition. The story of a man who bares his emotions, history, hang ups and desires in all of their dysfunctional…
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We Believe In Happy Endings
At the party, humans, animals and 'other-worldly' beings dance the night away. She's a monster, she is gorgeous, He is well fit, my fur is wet. I'm so happy I'm going to throw up, I'm going…
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Purple Grey
A vivid imagination can be a seductive but debilitating distraction from life. Twisted fantasies, associations and flashbacks offer an enticing escape, and even a mundane room may be made m…
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Yours Truly
"Found" images from magazines to movie clips are cut up, manipulated and reconstructed to create unexpected and gripping story strands that fuse into a multi-layered film- beginning as a pa…
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From Nose To Mouth
A solitary figure emerges out of seclusion to learn an ice-skating dance sequence. Set in a disorientating arena of shifting boundaries, structures and languages, the lessons are not going…
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Fact
A vivid imagination can be a seductive but debilitating distraction from life. Twisted fantasies, associations and flashbacks offer an enticing escape, and even a mundane room may be made m…
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End Of The Street
An incremental chain of events, a street-level response to the Beaufort Wind Scale in which an unseen visitor whips up all kinds of chaos on the unsuspecting inhabitants of a street. A brea…
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Flat Earth
A desktop expedition and documentary, woven from satellite imagery found online to make an extraordinary five-minute journey around the world, encountering the splintered voices of bloggers…
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Francis
An account of the creation of a 10-year old 'disturbed' boy through drawings and video. As the draughtsman's hand goes to work and Francis attains animated consciousness, he is subjected to…
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Magnetic Movie
The remarkable secret life of invisible interplanetary magnetic fields, revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries in man's visible environment. All action takes place around the NASA Spa…
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Round-Up
Fairground ride becomes human Zoetrope as we marvel at the joy and pain of the cycle of life, from birth to death and everything in-between. All displayed within a real giant spinning barre…
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The Tongue Of The Hidde
Characters and environment created entirely from the letters and the written words of the 13th century Persian metaphysical poet Hafez. An original and kinetic meditation offering insight i…
