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200 Nanowebbers
Semiconductor | experimental | South West | 2 min
published 09 Mar 07
       
 average rating from 5 members
Generative nanoscale formations.
365
Lee Bamsey | experimental | London | 1 min
published 04 Jul 05
       
 average rating from 26 members
An abstract exploration of the phenomenon of text messaging.
6 Goats
Monika Dutta | animation | Scotland | 1 min
published 17 Nov 05
       
 average rating from 23 members
An ephemeral travelogue tracing outlines of the memory of all things passed.
A Jump From a Platform
Stéphan Talneau | experimental | London | 3 min
published 03 Dec 08
       
 average rating from 19 members
A pause in an untouchable moment...
A Picture Can Say A 1000 Words
Tom Mansfield | experimental | South West | 1 min
published 03 Apr 06
       
 average rating from 22 members
Words can't describe it.
Accordion
George Wu | experimental | London | 4 min
published 07 Nov 08
       
 average rating from 11 members
A young woman uses an unusual ability to prepare for a special evening.
Angel
SamuelChristopher | experimental | London | 1 min
published 20 May 05
       
 average rating from 38 members
Photography, animation and live action converge with haunting results.
Anomaly
Precursor | experimental | London | 2 min
published 26 Nov 04
       
 average rating from 11 members
Lavish and intricate infographics manipulated to convey the graphic representation of a mass of computer data.
Aqua Gym
Simon Warwick Green | experimental | Yorkshire & Humber | 4 min
published 11 Jun 07
       
 average rating from 14 members
A ballet that takes place above and below water.
Arrive
Ed Holdsworth | experimental | London | 6 min
published 25 Nov 04
       
 average rating from 15 members
A Japanese odyssey communicating the explosion of the senses that intoxicates you on your arrival in Tokyo.
Artificial Worlds v3.0
Richard Fenwick | experimental | North East | 7 min
published 19 May 06
       
 average rating from 44 members
A striking vision of the world in apocalyptic freefall conveyed through live action and CGI.
Baghdad Blog
Mat Cook | experimental | | 2 min
published 13 Sep 07
       
 average rating from 8 members
A young Iranian starts a web blog just as events in Iraq begin. Featuring original music by Aphex Twin(Warp Records).
Beauty is the Promise of Happiness
Jon Yeo | experimental | London | 3 min
published 21 Jun 07
       
 average rating from 11 members
A short film of philosophy.
Between the City And The Sea
Jo Barnes | experimental | North East | 5 min
published 26 Nov 04
       
 average rating from 11 members
Ruby wanders from the city to the beach remembering failed romance.
Blue Guru
Foreign Office | experimental | London | 3 min
published 09 Aug 07
       
 average rating from 6 members
The complete animated history of denim and its Indian origin. Based on a true story. Very loosely based!
Borderline
Alex Chandon | experimental | London | 4 min
published 05 May 06
       
 average rating from 51 members
Strange buildings and visual illusions create a trippy and hypnotic short.
Brian's Breakdown
Natalie Kavanagh | experimental | London | 1 min
published 15 Nov 07
       
 average rating from 8 members
It's all too much for Brian.
Collision
Max Hattler | experimental | London | 2 min
published 05 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 16 members
Islamic patterns and American quilts and the colours and geometry of flags as an abstract field of reflection.
Contraction
Christopher Hewitt &
James Cambourne
| experimental | London | 3 min
published 25 Aug 09
       
 average rating from 6 members
Contraction follows the idea of life literally being pushed back into a person and how it effects the immediate surroundings.
Dad's Dead
Chris Shepherd | experimental | London | 7 min
published 09 Feb 06
       
 average rating from 49 members
Through a series of ghostly reminiscences a young man tries to piece together fragmented moments from the past.
Dog Tired
Greg McLeod | animation | West Midlands | 8 min
published 24 Apr 06
       
 average rating from 7 members
Will that dog ever stop barking?
Driving With The Jones
Squint/Opera | experimental | London | 6 min
published 16 Oct 07
       
 average rating from 6 members
Madness in suburbia.
Eulogy For Things Left Unsaid
Rob Chiu | experimental | London | 2 min
published 12 Aug 09
       
 average rating from 7 members
Left Unsaid is an emotional and contemplative film exploring themes of loss, regret and facing the future.
Everything Turns
Max Hattler | experimental | London | 1 min
published 26 Jan 09
       
 average rating from 6 members
"Unrelenting bleakness" (Dazed and Confused)
Evol
Chris Vincze | experimental | London | 5 min
published 02 May 06
       
 average rating from 37 members
Love in a backwards world.
Gardens By The Bay
Squint/Opera | experimental | London | 6 min
published 14 Aug 07
       
 average rating from 14 members
A magical pinboard of ideas.
Girl Seeming To Disappear
Zan Lyons | experimental | London | 4 min
published 04 Apr 07
       
 average rating from 15 members
A future noir ballet of shadow and light.
Guilty by Nature
Joseph Barnett | experimental | London | 9 min
published 10 Oct 07
       
 average rating from 9 members
Set on a militant plant nursery, Guilty By Nature follows the lifecycle of a wild and vigorous shrub.
Imagine
Christian Debney | experimental | London | 1 min
published 08 Sep 08
       
 average rating from 8 members
The earth decides that enough is enough and puts an end to humanity
In Passing
Chris Allen & Rob Rainbow | experimental | London | 5 min
published 19 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 7 members
Exploring the psycho-geography of the city through the experiences of a local woman who is partially blind.
Indigo
Kimon Christodoulides | experimental | London | 4 min
published 09 Jul 07
       
 average rating from 9 members
A lusting voyeur gets more than he bargained for at the coin-op peepshow.
Ionisation
Flat-e | experimental | London | 3 min
published 25 May 05
       
 average rating from 42 members
What can be achieved in an unventilated room where superglue fumes outweigh oxygen 6:1?
Jane Lloyd
Happy | experimental | London | 5 min
published 07 Dec 05
       
 average rating from 34 members
The life of a young girl, Jane Lloyd, is examined in a series of snapshot images set to a musical backdrop.
Khoda
Reza Dolatabadi | experimental | Scotland | 4 min
published 29 Apr 09
       
 average rating from 8 members
Even in the mind, is escape ever possible?
Landing Lights
Graham Young | experimental | London | 4 min
published 09 Dec 08
       
 average rating from 5 members
A contemporary haunting.
Mascara
Selina Steward | experimental | London | 1 min
published 07 Jun 07
       
 average rating from 10 members
A look at the female tendency to abandon common sense when targeted by the far-fetched claims of beauty advertisements.
Meaningless 3,4 & 5
Woof Wan-Bau | experimental | London | 8 min
published 06 May 08
       
 average rating from 5 members
Woof Wan-Bau's series of experimental shorts marries scientific images with an unsettling avant-garde score by DJ Empty.
Mr. Theobald
Simon Burrill | experimental | London | 8 min
published 07 Mar 05
       
 average rating from 28 members
Mr. Theobald is just another cog in society's machine until something changes his way of thinking forever.
Music Experiments
Jim Le Fevre | experimental | London | 1 min
published 04 Jan 08
       
 average rating from 3 members
Musicians performing to camera as if they are auditioning for a band, and a zoetrope constructed out of a record deck.
Nachtmaschine
Max Hattler | experimental | London | 4 min
published 06 Nov 08
       
 average rating from 4 members
Night vs. light, music vs. motion, figuration vs. abstraction.
Off The Beaten Track
Leo Bridle | experimental | South West | 2 min
published 20 Apr 05
       
 average rating from 15 members
A boy goes on a magical, animated journey...through paper.
Palingenesia
Yibi Hu | animation | London | 3 min
published 17 Dec 07
       
 average rating from 22 members
After we screw up everything, evolution will give life another chance.
Plan #47
The Sancho Plan | animation | London | 10 min
published 23 Jan 08
       
 average rating from 7 members
A monochrome adventure in surreal abstract animation.
Pulsate
Tom Wall | experimental | London | 2 min
published 07 Mar 07
       
 average rating from 23 members
Pulsating rhythms and melodies are visualised as a slowly revealed cityscape.
Quietus
Precursor | experimental | London | 3 min
published 15 Mar 06
       
 average rating from 13 members
Lush manipulated photography twinned with sound by Si Begg create a microcosmic organo-tech world gone awry.
Raymond
BIF | experimental | London | 5 min
published 17 Sep 07
       
 average rating from 16 members
The story of a lowly swimming instructor from Douche les Mines and his quest to swim with whales.
Ripe for the Devil
R. Chandler & D. Okuniev | experimental | London | 5 min
published 20 Sep 06
       
 average rating from 21 members
A reaction to the loss of innocence of today's children.
Risk
Andrew Sidorczuk | experimental | North West | 3 min
published 14 Jun 05
       
 average rating from 22 members
The sweet call of temptation.
RM159
Kevin Dolan | experimental | London | 2 min
published 08 Aug 07
       
 average rating from 7 members
An elegiac poem to the enduring form of the iconic Routemaster Bus
Seed
Ed Holdsworth | experimental | London | 3 min
published 24 May 06
       
 average rating from 22 members
A dreamlike, halcyon illusion of the cycle of an acorn becoming a tree.
Shadowplay
Flat-e | drama | Yorkshire & Humber | 7 min
published 06 Dec 07
       
 average rating from 12 members
A group of children get more than they bargained for when watching a peculiar shadow play in a circus tent.
Spring
Mary Webster | experimental | Yorkshire & Humber | 2 min
published 07 Mar 07
       
 average rating from 7 members
Scratchy black and white hand-drawn animation marinated in crispy beats and dirty bass lines.
Survey
Joe King | experimental | Wales | 4 min
published 25 Aug 06
       
 average rating from 6 members
An animated film that is the result of a photographic tour of South Wales.
Sweet Salt
Katerina Athanasopoulou | experimental | London | 7 min
published 23 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 15 members
A richly layered fairy tale where hungry woman meets thirsty man
Tea Leaves
Matthew Grinter | experimental | West Midlands | 2 min
published 14 Jul 08
       
 average rating from 6 members
A man is destined to receive a cup of tea.
The City Speaks - 6 Short Films
Various directors (see below) | drama | London | 41 min
published 10 Mar 08
       
 average rating from 7 members
A short story by Peter Ackroyd has inspired a series of six films and corresponding radio plays for BBC Radio 4. The 'play now' links no longer work as Film Network's rights to show the films have lapsed.
The Commuter
Martin Pickles | experimental | London | 2 min
published 20 Jul 05
       
 average rating from 35 members
A Surrealist film in which an office-worker shaves off his face in order to blend in with other commuters on their way to work.
The Computer Virus
Jesse Chambers | experimental | London | 12 min
published 22 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 19 members
The Computer Virus is an all-singing, all-dancing romp through the complexities of communication in the modern world.
The Eel
Dominic Hailstone | experimental | South East | 5 min
published 05 May 05
       
 average rating from 46 members
An eel thrashing about in an undersized tank grows and mutates into monstrous proportions.
The Eye Of The Pilot
Addictive TV | experimental | London | 6 min
published 07 Mar 07
       
 average rating from 5 members
A live cinema project remixing the incredible personal 8mm archive of French airline pilot Raymond Lamy filmed in the 1950's.
The Life Size Zoetrope
Mark Simon Hewis | experimental | South West | 6 min
published 15 Jan 09
       
 average rating from 7 members
One man's life story told through a giant zoetrope.
The Study Of Luma
Arran Bowyn | experimental | London | 3 min
published 09 May 05
       
 average rating from 34 members
A small study of a young girl that has the gift of Telepathy.
The Time Travellers Of 1908
Martin Pickles | experimental | London | 8 min
published 08 Aug 08
       
 average rating from 5 members
'The Time Travellers Of 1908' is a home-movie about London in the 21st Century made by two explorers from 1908.
The Train
Archie Ticktin | experimental | London | 2 min
published 01 Feb 06
       
 average rating from 52 members
A single moment on the tube and a short film in time.
Tiny Dancer
Stefan Georgiou | experimental | London | 4 min
published 17 Aug 05
       
 average rating from 47 members
How do you deal with not doing what you love? You do it.
Type
Cameron Duguid | experimental | Scotland | 6 min
published 09 Aug 06
       
 average rating from 8 members
A deceptive journey through a world of animated diagrams and language.
When I Found The Knife Again
Amy Engles | experimental | London | 5 min
published 05 Apr 07
       
 average rating from 11 members
Four friends set out into the unknown to find music one of them had heard a long time ago to the tunes of The Knife.
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