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.
Faulty plumbing in the home of a painter causes an old woman to be covered in red paint while she showers. The painter's neighbours engineer his fate in a bathtub of aubergines.
A series of non-dramatic tableaux representing scenes from De Sade's novel.
A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them collapsing, and tragedy subsequently striking.
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.
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.
The pressures of her job in a hospital forces a young doctor to abandon a colleague suffering from depression to treat another patient.
Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.
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.
Dolly, an elderly widow who lives alone, has been hoarding coal since the deaths of her husband and son years ago in mining accidents. When Dolly realises that everyone in the village wants a bit of her 50ft high coal mountain, including her niece Winny, Dolly is forced to take drastic measures...
Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.
The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.
An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.
Vinko Globakar, a virtuoso trombonist, plays on a stage, alone, Luciano Berio's Sequenza for Trombone.
Horror story using stills. Based on the short story by Richard Davis.
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.
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.
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 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.
Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair.
