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.
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.
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.
Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.
A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends are being sued by a former SS Kommandant, who denies their accusation that he was responsible for the genocide of 300 Belgians. Documentary interviews and archive footage merge with dramatised scenes to create a new way of representing history and memory.
A girl takes her camera along to a rocky beach, but quickly becomes fascinated with a far stranger mechanical contraption that she finds there.
Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.
A young man (Aidan Gillan) arrives in the midst of London's Soho. He's from Belfast, he's anxious and he looks like he's running away from something. Then, by chance, he meets Grace, a prostitute who happens to come from Belfast too. A connection is made and, for a brief time, she seems to offer the chance of a new future.
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.
Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair.
An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.
The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.
A woman encounters her memories, explored through dance. Featuring Marguerite Porter, former Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet.
Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.
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.
A Kafkaesque story of the bureaucracy which governs our lives. A young man leaves his passport on a train and loses his identity in a mire of forms, documents and officialdom.
The words to the Paul McCartney-penned Beatles classic Penny Lane are vividly illustrated in this short montage film, released in the same year as the track, which juxtaposes characters inspired by the song with suburban street scenes and St. George's Square statuary.
Vinko Globakar, a virtuoso trombonist, plays on a stage, alone, Luciano Berio's Sequenza for Trombone.
A series of non-dramatic tableaux representing scenes from De Sade's novel.
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.
