Arts Council England Movies

A collection of bizarrely original animated stories from scripts written by young children. Emulating the approach of New York’s 52nd Street...

A man in mid-life looks back on memory, ambition, disappointment and the teachers he looked up to. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts...

Blue Lagoon explores the links between industrial extraction, ecological care, and somatic release through the lens of a post-industrial North East...

In a world where water has become a scarce commodity, a young scavenger finds a source to satisfy her thirst.

A tale of lost innocence, greed and the random justice of nature. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities...

A live action/animated short about a boy who’s sitting an exam he desperately doesn’t want to be in. His stream of conscience runs wild...

Time-slice reconstructions of three reported incidents in which people and supposedly friendly animals meet badly: a postman kills a dog, a dog...

In an office world of half light, flickering fluorescent tubing, ringing phones and monotonous paperwork, the residents sit trapped in a state of...

Patel’s new film Trinity, continues his exploration of language and physical communication, centring on the discovery of a martial language...

A vivid imagination can offer a seductive distraction from life’s duties. Showers of twisted fantasies, associations and flashbacks turn in...

Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.

An account of the creation of a nine-year-old ‘defective’ animated character. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis...

A time-lapse animation film about the disorientating and unsettling filmic space that occurs on the screen from an upside down view.

Don’t Look at the Finger follows a ceremonial ‘fight’ between two protagonists, a man and a woman, in the grand architectural...

Flat Earth weaves material found online, taking us on an extraordinary 7-minute journey around the world as seen through the eyes of bloggers.

A merman who lives beneath a fairy-tale forest, dying of thirst, seeks out a lonely girl whose tears fill his bathtub with sea water. A dark love...

Who I Am And What I Want is a 7 minute animated short directed by Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley in 2005. Based on the David Shrigley book of the...

John Berger is one of our most celebrated and respected writers and broadcasters. A former winner of the Booker Prize, he also wrote one of the most...

A strange, funny and erotic walk through the growing-up of a contemporary male sexuality, from childhood friendship through puberty to a contented...

From the lush and green grass of the Kazakh Steppe to the glorifying architecture of its capital, from its giant open-air mines to the traces of...