Arts Council England Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

A solitary figure emerges out of seclusion to learn an ice-skating dance sequence. Set in a disorientating arena of shifting boundaries, structures...

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

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

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

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...

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

Built from the filmmaker's archive of newspaper clippings, an ironic look at how the press reports the deaths of children. An animate! commission for...

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

Miranda July looks back at her Artangel project, an interfaith charity shop that opened up unannounced inside one of the world's most famous...

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...

At the party, humans, animals and other-worldly beings dance the night away.