Ice Merchants

Ice Merchants 2023

7.70

Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

2023

The Eagleman Stag

The Eagleman Stag 2010

6.00

If you repeat the word 'fly' for long enough it sounds like you are saying 'life'. This is of no help to Peter. His answers lie in the brain of the beetle.

2010

Thursday

Thursday 2010

7.00

In the future, technology may change, but the patterns and routines of daily life stay constant, until we disrupt them. A short animation by Matthias Hoegg.

2010

Hamlet

Hamlet 1976

4.80

The classic Shakespeare play in a way you've never seen.

1976

Just Keep Breathing

Just Keep Breathing 2023

1

Victor is stuck in a low-budget airliner next to a shamelessly intrusive stranger. The crackling candy wrapper, the smacking of the lips, oh, he thinks, just give me a break. No, he doesn't want candy, thank you very much. Victor isn't hungry. But there's no escape, thirty-five thousand feet in the air. So, just keep breathing.

2023

Matter Fisher

Matter Fisher 2010

6.00

This BAFTA nominated short depicts a serendipitous journey in which a lone fisher is united with a form of estranged matter.

2010

All at Sea

All at Sea 1993

1

In this short, surreal, painterly comedy, Laura escapes from her superstitious worries by floating out at sea on her bed. On a sunny Friday 13th, all her troubles return.

1993

Dog

Dog 2001

6.30

A young boy and his father live in a dull, lonely house with the shadow of mourning hanging over them both. The boy misses his mother but gets no comfort from his father's assertions that she went peacefully. This tragedy is added to by the family dog which is looking increasingly unhealthy.

2001

The Sheep Thief

The Sheep Thief 1997

5.10

A young boy gets caught stealing a sheep and is shaved of all his hair and branded with a mark on his forehead so that everyone will know that he is a thief and not to be trusted. Dumped in the desert, the thief covers his marking with a headscarf and goes to the nearest village where he is taken in by a trusting family in return for his work. However, has be actually changed or is he still the same thief at heart?

1997

The Clearing

The Clearing 1994

5.20

In this short film written and directed by Alexis Bisticas, the audience sees through the eyes of a man in the woods, following the distant sound of a saxophone. In a single take, the fluid steadicam shot takes the viewer on a surreal and poetic journey, as the walker comes across everything from family picnics to men in bondage suits.

1994

Hey Dad

Hey Dad 2024

1

I’ve practiced these words for 20 years now, but maybe being candid isn’t the best idea. I’m starting my countdown again, another 20 years. Maybe the time will be right by then.

2024

Tusk

Tusk 2014

1

A mammoth is defrosted into an unrecognisable future.

2014

Dolphins

Dolphins 1987

1

Animated film of the beautiful sea creatures.

1987

Happy Ending

Happy Ending 2019

1

Happy Ending is a poetic documentary animation based on an anonymous online testimony of a Korean prostitute. She is forced to feel pleasure as her job is believed to have to feel and enjoy it regardless of her will. She has suffered for her stigma. However, she explores her body and desire to abolish social prejudices against prostitutes.

2019

Madame Potatoe

Madame Potatoe 1983

1

A film about the pressure which society puts upon people to project different images, particularly the image of success. Through the medium of potato printing the film shows how Madame Potatoe struggles to cope within the world in which she is placed. She retreats into the earth leaving her image to continue along its own increasingly exploitative path. Madame Potatoe was first shown as part of Emma Calder's MA show at the RCA, which comprised a life-sized, motorised Madame Potatoe eating crisps and watching the film on telly. She was sat in a room papered with Madame Potatoe print wall paper. Shown at the Tate Gallery, animation festivals, CH4 TV and world wide TV. Madame Potatoe print bought by the V&A for the prints and drawings collection. Many press clippings and associated articles are available.

1983

Baraa

Baraa 2019

1

When the long-awaited dream dies, the reality begins to circle around us and encage us in the claustrophobic space of our fears and distorting anxiety.

2019

The Girl Chewing Gum

The Girl Chewing Gum 1976

6.60

At Stamford Road in Dalston Junction of east London, the camera follows pedestrians, cars and birds while a narrator, who appears to be the director behind the camera, seems to instruct the objects.

1976

Wandaland

Wandaland 2020

1

A mixed-media biography of a fictional animation tycoon.

2020

Last Breath

Last Breath 2013

6.00

A man becomes a social outcast when he refuses to give up breathing

2013

Breast

Breast 1992

1

An episodic meditation on a woman's breast - from feeding to cancer.

1992