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(A Style called) Crying Chic
George Wu | music | London | 4 min
published 26 Oct 06
       
 average rating from 39 members
When a young woman is found murdered in an abandoned train yard, a suspect is brought in for questioning.
15 Seconds Of Fame
Do'wan Ahmet | comedy | London15 sec
published 01 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 25 members
People believe what they see, and what they see is what the media show them. But what does the media believe?
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.
50 Years and a Few Puss Kittens Wiser
Anastasia Kirillova | documentary | London | 9 min
published 24 Oct 07
       
 average rating from 32 members
A mixed-media documentary about couples who have been married more than 50 years set to the sounds of King Creosote vs Tunng.
A Fitting Tribute
Daniel Cormack | comedy | London | 13 min
published 10 Feb 09
       
 average rating from 19 members
A novice local news reporter gets more than he bargains for from the grieving mother of a teenage boy.
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 Love Supreme
Nilesh Patel | documentary | London | 10 min
published 25 Sep 06
       
 average rating from 17 members
A non-dialogue short that dissects the making of a humble samosa.
A Trail of Pictures
Eva-Marie Elg | documentary | London | 3 min
published 19 Oct 07
       
 average rating from 3 members
A sticky tale of art and of a special kind of folk hero.
A Warm Welcome
Will West | comedy | London | 3 min
published 27 Jan 09
       
 average rating from 7 members
A trip to the country for struggling writer Jeremy may give him slightly more than he anticipated....
Abigail
Tony Comley | animation | London | 6 min
published 30 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 18 members
As the gap between the ground and a burning airplane gets smaller, one passenger has other things on his mind...
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.
All In My Head - Good Shoes
Saam Farahmand | music | London | 3 min
published 23 May 07
       
 average rating from 11 members
The band play out a human zoetrope in attempt to defeat boredom.
AM
Karni & Saul | music | London | 4 min
published 20 Mar 06
       
 average rating from 23 members
An imaginary photo album comes to life via a series of flickering winter snapshots with a touch of fantasy.
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.
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.
Azan: A Call To Prayer
Heena Bukhari | documentary | London | 9 min
published 14 Aug 08
       
 average rating from 4 members
Fazaila is a Shia-Muslim teenager from East London whose mum thinks she's becoming "too English".
Baby Dogs
Dave Anderson | animation | London | 1 min
published 07 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 49 members
What your dog would be talking about if he was down the local with his mates.
Back And Forth
Stéphan Talneau | music | London | 5 min
published 10 Oct 05
       
 average rating from 99 members
A man and a woman are devastated in the streets of London, a child is looking at them and the clock is ticking in reverse.
Bad is as Bad Does
Jonny Madderson | music | London | 5 min
published 24 Oct 07
       
 average rating from 37 members
A satire on what happens behind closed doors at a G8 summit on world poverty.
Bad is as Bad Does (alternate)
Liam Garvo | music | London | 5 min
published 06 Oct 08
       
 average rating from 8 members
An old man comes out of a sleeping child's wardrobe and transports her to an enchanted forest where she is planted and grown into a tree.
Bad Luck for Bob (and other stories)
John Burns | comedy | London15 sec
published 24 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 46 members
Britain and France, 1944. Three tragic stories linked by explosives, a late night and a can of fizzy drink.
Badgered
Sharon Colman | animation | London | 7 min
published 28 Jul 06
       
 average rating from 20 members
The tale of a grumpy badger who just wants the world to let him sleep.
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).
Bang! Bang!
Alex Ryan | comedy | London | 4 min
published 06 Apr 06
       
 average rating from 49 members
Lost in a make-believe world of heroes and villains, a group of imaginative youngsters have their play-time cut short.
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.
BeCountry
Mark Taplin | animation | London | 3 min
published 11 Jan 06
       
 average rating from 9 members
BeGood, BeHealthy, BeCountry.
Beneath The Rose
Karni + Saul | music | London | 2 min
published 18 Apr 06
       
 average rating from 33 members
Something slimy and dark is taking over the house - very very slowly.
Big On Love
Joseph Pierce | animation | London | 1 min
published 14 Nov 07
       
 average rating from 5 members
A bizarre twist on the classic boy-meets-girl story
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!
Bobsboxes
Matt Watt | comedy | London | 2 min
published 15 Nov 06
       
 average rating from 15 members
Two lovers inhabiting television sets on different sides of a TV shop and their attempts to meet in the flesh.
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.
Bows & Arrows
Stephen Irwin | animation | London | 6 min
published 01 Mar 07
       
 average rating from 13 members
A story about mistakes, childhood memories and superheroes. Starring The Caretaker, an Evil Robot and The Amazing Fat Weevil.
Brand Spanking
John-Paul Harney | animation | London | 10 min
published 31 Jul 06
       
 average rating from 22 members
A struggling comprehensive school gets a make-over courtesy of the private sector.
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.
Brief Encounters
Alison Edgar | comedy | London15 sec
published 06 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 29 members
A speedy film about speed dating.
Brixton Beach
Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon | documentary | London | 16 min
published 20 Oct 08
       
 average rating from 2 members
Go for a surf, or just sit on the beach.
Burn My Shadow - Unkle
Miguel Saphochnik | music | London | 4 min
published 27 Jun 07
       
 average rating from 13 members
A man awakes from a hard day's night to discover a digital countdown has been implanted into his chest and he only has four minutes left...
Camouflage
Jonathan Hodgson | documentary | London | 8 min
published 12 Jul 07
       
 average rating from 15 members
Most people's mothers are mad, mine's got schizophrenia.
Capoeira Painting
Tom Norman | documentary | London | 5 min
published 29 Oct 07
       
 average rating from 18 members
The spirit of the Capoeira game manifests in a painting.
CaretStik
Tim Redfern | music | London | 3 min
published 16 Dec 05
       
 average rating from 10 members
Consumerism at its most haunting.
Clark - Herr Bar
Finbar Mallon | music | South West | 3 min
published 18 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 5 members
The psychological trauma of water as it evaporates into a cloud.
Clark - Herr Barr
R James Healy | music | London | 3 min
published 17 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 10 members
A flock of birds coalesce to create life in a Clark music promo.
Cloud Cover
Lisbeth Svarling | animation | London | 6 min
published 05 Feb 07
       
 average rating from 11 members
A film about a woman and her cloud.
Coldcut - Sound Mirrors
Up The Resolution | music | London | 5 min
published 06 Dec 06
       
 average rating from 9 members
A microscopic molecular 'thing' transforms, grows & blossoms to the music of Coldcut.
Coldcut - The State We're In
Ne-o | music | London | 3 min
published 15 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 9 members
Salarymen rap their political opinions on American foreign policy.
Coldcut - Whistle And A Prayer
Woof Wan-Bau | music | London | 4 min
published 16 Feb 07
       
 average rating from 7 members
A lonesome journey through the underworlds of fuzzy felt.
Coleen - The Heavy
Tom Edmunds | music | London | 3 min
published 11 Dec 07
       
 average rating from 3 members
When you’ve got nothing except a bunch of total strangers...
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.
Contamination
Carl Stevenson | animation | London | 6 min
published 23 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 55 members
A glimpse of a dystopian future where the cross-contamination of genetic material runs out of control.
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.
Dark Cloak
Just So | comedy | London | 3 min
published 30 Oct 08
       
 average rating from 9 members
A night in the life of a serial killer, brought to you by primetime reality TV show 'Killing Time'.
David The Great
D. Hughes & J. Wright | comedy | London | 3 min
published 21 Jun 06
       
 average rating from 35 members
An exposé of the melancholy beneath the magic.
Dead Flies are No Good
Charles Hendley | comedy | London | 7 min
published 21 Jun 07
       
 average rating from 2 members
One man's attempt to freeze and revive a fly.
Dialog
Stephen Irwin | animation | London | 6 min
published 22 Mar 05
       
 average rating from 21 members
Enter the animated world of miniature humans, mechanical men, and their creators...
Dog
Suzie Templeton | animation | London | 6 min
published 07 Feb 07
       
 average rating from 32 members
A young boy longs for reassurance about how his mother died.
Driving With The Jones
Squint/Opera | experimental | London | 6 min
published 16 Oct 07
       
 average rating from 6 members
Madness in suburbia.
Dry Lips - Lightspeed Champion
Stephen Irwin | music | London | 4 min
published 24 Oct 07
       
 average rating from 19 members
It’s difficult to forget a painful experience when memories appear all over your body, covering you from head to toe...
Dumping Elaine
Peter Lydon | comedy | London | 9 min
published 19 Aug 05
       
 average rating from 39 members
1 café, 2 customers, 2 waitresses, 3 weeks and a lot of coffee. Service is not included and neither is Elaine.
Earth to Earth
Nick Scott | comedy | London | 4 min
published 08 May 07
       
 average rating from 42 members
Documenting the secret roots of the Betamax video.
Eggscape
Marc Hutchings | animation | London15 sec
published 12 Aug 05
       
 average rating from 26 members
A 15 second film about an Egg - simple!
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)
Evo
Chris Gavin | animation | London | 2 min
published 26 Jul 06
       
 average rating from 10 members
From the primordial ocean to the city of data; evolution as a line through time.
Evol
Chris Vincze | experimental | London | 5 min
published 02 May 06
       
 average rating from 37 members
Love in a backwards world.
Exit Strategy
Frederic Casella | comedy | London | 7 min
published 14 Jul 09
       
 average rating from 8 members
A husband organises a surprise for his wife: her funeral.
Eye For An Eye
Shynola + Ruth Lingford | music | London | 7 min
published 13 Dec 07
       
 average rating from 11 members
Insects attack and destroy a peaceful utopia for this epic music video from Unkle.
Family Vilakati
Xanthe Hamilton | documentary | London | 10 min
published 16 Feb 07
       
 average rating from 12 members
Find out what it's really like to be an orphaned family in Africa.
Father and Daughter
Michael Dudok de Wit | animation | London | 8 min
published 29 Oct 07
       
 average rating from 24 members
A father says goodbye to his young daughter and leaves. She awaits his return for days, seasons, years...
Felix's Machines
Tom Mansfield | music | London | 2 min
published 01 Sep 09
       
 average rating from 2 members
What do you get if you cross a robotic orchestra with audio-visual film making?
Fester! Fester!
Alex Ryan | comedy | London | 3 min
published 13 Jul 05
       
 average rating from 36 members
Fast paced comedy of serious head-to-head shopping trolley racing.
Fish Never Sleep
Gaëlle Denis | animation | London | 6 min
published 05 Feb 07
       
 average rating from 18 members
Naoko is a complete insomniac. She tried everything to sleep.
Five O'Clock Shadow
Malcolm Lamont | animation | London | 8 min
published 15 May 07
       
 average rating from 10 members
A stop motion animated short film about a bearded lady.
Floating over Kolkata
Paramita Guha | documentary | London | 10 min
published 07 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 24 members
A journey into the mind of a young girl as she becomes one of the street kids of Kolkata, India.
Flutter
Conkerco | music | London | 4 min
published 10 Jul 06
       
 average rating from 5 members
Music promo for Bonobo's 'Flutter'.
For All The Tea In England
Kerry McLeod | documentary | London | 13 min
published 21 Jan 08
       
 average rating from 19 members
A tea break-sized glimpse into the many and varied ways that Britain’s favourite brew is enjoyed today – and it’s not always a simple case of tea bag and milk.
For Your Blossom
Gaku Kinoshita | animation | London | 5 min
published 16 Aug 06
       
 average rating from 41 members
A boy finds his own path.
Four Tet - A Joy
Paul Clements | music | London | 3 min
published 17 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 7 members
A dark, futuristic portrayal of a man's journey across a city to meet an old friend who awaits him.
Four Tet- A Joy
Jonathan Hopkins | music | London | 3 min
published 17 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 5 members
A man is chased by a mutated Teddy Bear through London in an high-octane comedy rampage.
Gardens By The Bay
Squint/Opera | experimental | London | 6 min
published 14 Aug 07
       
 average rating from 14 members
A magical pinboard of ideas.
Ghana's Roosting Bird
Miriam Rowe & Jemma Gander | documentary | | 3 min
published 25 Sep 07
       
 average rating from 23 members
A look at the troubles faced by Ghana's rice farmers.
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.
Gone In 15 Seconds
Jason Robbins | animation | London15 sec
published 26 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 37 members
A man has 15 seconds to rescue his kidnapped wife from an explosives-laden chair.
Goodbye to the Normals
Jim Field Smith | comedy | London | 4 min
published 06 Sep 07
       
 average rating from 37 members
6-year-old Magnus has decided to run away to America. But is this just another of his little games?
Grizzly Bear - Knife
Alexander Turvey | music | London | 5 min
published 26 Oct 06
       
 average rating from 32 members
A surreal journey through a landscape of submerged bodies, fabric cities, wishbones with hands and tiny dancing women.
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.
Guy 101
Ian W Gouldstone | animation | London | 8 min
published 30 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 30 members
A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the internet.
Happy Birthday Granddad
Alex Garcia & Wayne Yip | comedy | London | 1 min
published 10 Jan 08
       
 average rating from 14 members
Three Generations get together to celebrate the birthday of their Granddad.
Harry, Henry and the Prostitute
Theo Davies | comedy | London | 16 min
published 19 Dec 08
       
 average rating from 15 members
2 boys, 1 prostitute, 1 pimp and 600 reasons why staying in is never a good idea.
Have I Passed?
Jason Fairley | comedy | London15 sec
published 21 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 48 members
A short comedy about a driving exam.
Hide
Nigel Bristow | comedy | London | 3 min
published 26 Sep 06
       
 average rating from 31 members
A stag weekend with a difference.
High Fives
Ed Holdsworth | music | London | 6 min
published 01 Jun 06
       
 average rating from 12 members
The hypnotic story of a snowflake’s journey down to earth set to a Four Tet track.
Hitchcock
Reuben Sutherland | music | London | 3 min
published 13 May 05
       
 average rating from 52 members
Flying electric cars set to a Phoenix Foundation track.
Holly-Bolly
Dishad Husain | comedy | London | 12 min
published 03 Dec 04
       
 average rating from 30 members
Two young filmmakers are forced to go cross-genre.
Homer's Odyssey
Greg & Myles McLeod | comedy | London15 sec
published 27 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 31 members
A mini epic telling the tale of Odysseus’ 10 year journey home in 10 seconds.
How Mermaids Breed
Joan Ashworth | animation | London | 10 min
published 15 Feb 06
       
 average rating from 26 members
Exploring the secret reproductive cycle of the mermaid.
How To Tell When A Relationship Is Over..
Tony Roche | comedy | London | 2 min
published 13 Feb 06
       
 average rating from 115 members
Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Girl gets sick of boy. Boy gets sick of girl. Big Fight. The End.
I Remember Lebanon
Zeina Aboul Hosn | documentary | London | 6 min
published 04 Apr 07
       
 average rating from 17 members
This film is a journey through my memories of Lebanon, just before the bombs started falling.
I Turn My Face To The Forest Floor
Thomas Hicks | music | London | 4 min
published 07 Nov 05
       
 average rating from 12 members
A film about a dark and twisted filmmaking community.
Illuminating Small Dark Places
Christopher Lee Ball | documentary | London | 20 min
published 27 Nov 08
       
 average rating from 2 members
A short documentary illuminating the filmmaking process.
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
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.
Insomniac Olympics
Sam Arthur | music | London | 4 min
published 30 Aug 06
       
 average rating from 8 members
An insomniac attempts to trick himself to sleep, soundtrack by Blockhead.
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?
Is This A Real City
Ben Dawkins | music | London | 3 min
published 29 Nov 05
       
 average rating from 13 members
Examining the strains of an imaginary friendship set to the electronic sounds of Jimmy Edgar.
It Fell From The Sky
Jason Ruddy | animation | London | 4 min
published 04 Oct 06
       
 average rating from 17 members
A lonely man finds a fallen angel in the middle of nowhere.
JAM
Stefanie Brockhaus | documentary | London | 7 min
published 19 Oct 06
       
 average rating from 8 members
A film observing people who are stuck in a long traffic jam on the Autobahn on the way to their summer holidays.
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.
Just A Song About Ping Pong / Operator Please
Price James | music | London | 2 min
published 25 Jul 07
       
 average rating from 6 members
Neon young things get down in this hyper coloured Escher-inspired pop video.
Just Passing Through
Ruth Nicklin | documentary | London | 7 min
published 16 Aug 05
       
 average rating from 85 members
Exploring the unique relationship between Waterloo Station and all who pass through it on their personal journeys.
Kamiya’s Correspondence
Sumito Sakakibara | animation | London | 7 min
published 02 Feb 07
       
 average rating from 11 members
A girl sets out to write a letter about her family members, the Kamiyas.
Landing Lights
Graham Young | experimental | London | 4 min
published 09 Dec 08
       
 average rating from 5 members
A contemporary haunting.
Launch Yourself
Robert Chandler | music | London | 4 min
published 30 Aug 06
       
 average rating from 18 members
A 60's sci-fi styled music video for Adem's 'Launch Yourself'.
Leap of Faith
Steve Smith | animation | London | 1 min
published 22 May 06
       
 average rating from 24 members
A tiny robot loses his head playing death-bridge bungee over a post-apocalyptic city.
Life Inside
Tim Metzger | documentary | London | 12 min
published 05 Oct 06
       
 average rating from 9 members
A documentary following two retired soldiers who go to live at The Royal Hospital in Chelsea.
Little Clumps Of Hair
Jim Hosking | comedy | London | 11 min
published 15 Aug 05
       
 average rating from 21 members
An innocent afternoon drink in the pub with friends soon turns quite hairy.
Love Sport Series
Grant Orchard | animation | London | 10 min
published 01 May 08
       
 average rating from 14 members
For all you Hoppers, Skippers, Jumpers, Kickers, Throwers, Shooters, Divers and Climbers, this is the series for you.
M Craft - Dragonfly
Gemma Burditt | music | London | 3 min
published 26 Oct 06
       
 average rating from 38 members
A man leaves his house in North West London to find a rowing boat parked in his street. Curious, he climbs in and rows.
M Craft - Dragonfly
Simon Burrill | music | London | 6 min
published 26 Oct 06
       
 average rating from 23 members
An absurd night-time story, set to M. Craft's 'Dragonfly'.
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.
Metalstasis
Matthew Hood | animation | London | 8 min
published 09 Aug 07
       
 average rating from 11 members
A mechanical man finds his routine of life disturbed by illness from an unusual source.
Money From London
Miriam Rowe & Jemma Gander | documentary | London | 9 min
published 27 Jan 09
       
 average rating from 5 members
The human story behind money transfers from London to Ghana.
Mother
Christoph Steger | animation | London | 6 min
published 03 Apr 09
       
 average rating from 7 members
An animated documentary about a life devoted to the dead.
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.
My First Crush
Julia Pott | animation | London | 3 min
published 10 Feb 09
       
 average rating from 3 members
Using interviews with people about their first encounters with love, their animal counterparts tell their tales of humour and heartache.
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.
Night Haunts
Sebastian Godwin | documentary | London | 12 min
published 12 Aug 09
       
 average rating from 1 member
The people who work at night while most of us are sleeping.
Nine And A Half Minutes
Appignanesi & Manson-Smith | comedy | London | 10 min
published 10 Feb 06
       
 average rating from 38 members
Two busy Londoners on a blind date end up fantasizing a whole relationship – meeting, sex, the split – in only nine and a half minutes.
Non-Fat
Oliver Manzi | comedy | London | 1 min
published 22 Nov 05
       
 average rating from 39 members
Exploring the cult of slimness, the perils of too much customer choice, and the clash of coffee cultures.
Not Long Now
Joe Berger | animation | London15 sec
published 01 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 23 members
Ever been on a boring train journey?
Nurse Ajax
Ed Fraiman | comedy | London | 14 min
published 13 Jul 06
       
 average rating from 26 members
When a Hospital Cleaner takes on basic nursing duties she starts to practise her own brand of alternative medicine.
One Of Those Days
Hattie Dalton | comedy | London | 15 min
published 30 Jul 09
       
 average rating from 15 members
We’ve all had 'one of those days' – when nothing seems to go right, when life just seems to be dealing you one poor hand after another. Unfortunately for Howard Whittam, that day is Judgement Day.
Orders of Love
Jes Benstock | documentary | London | 10 min
published 21 Mar 05
       
 average rating from 43 members
An examination of the hidden influences that past generations exert on our personality. Heart of Darkness meets Steptoe and Son - in Weymouth!
Out of Time
Suzanne Cohen | documentary | London | 9 min
published 05 Dec 08
       
 average rating from 9 members
A personal journey from Highbury to Emirates and beyond.
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.
Parasite
Ben Hibon | animation | London | 5 min
published 25 Nov 04
       
 average rating from 15 members
A flower-power plague of love that spreads from mice to cats, with twisted romantic results.
Park Foot Ball
Grant Orchard | animation | London | 2 min
published 20 May 05
       
 average rating from 36 members
A short film on a small scale about the beautiful game.
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.
Please Do Not Put Any Ducks Into This Chute
John Burns | comedy | London15 sec
published 20 Aug 05
       
 average rating from 33 members
A man, a chute, a duck and the future of the world...Based on a true story.
Pocket
James Pilkington | comedy | London | 9 min
published 19 Jul 06
       
 average rating from 31 members
Spoiled by his parents, Bryan's curious obsession leads to an unnatural infatuation with other people's pockets.
Prada & Prejudice
Tom Edmunds | comedy | London | 5 min
published 04 Nov 08
       
 average rating from 14 members
All she wants to do is pick up her black Prada heels. Surely there has been some mistake?
Press *
Tim Doubleday | comedy | London | 2 min
published 05 Aug 09
       
 average rating from 8 members
If you want to re-record your message, press * at any time...
Pripyat: City of the Future
David Bickerstaff | documentary | London | 10 min
published 04 Apr 07
       
 average rating from 10 members
Built next to Chernobyl Power Plant, Pripyat stands as a ghostly monument to the devastation caused by nuclear accidents.
Push
Steven Hore | comedy | London | 1 min
published 26 Nov 04
       
 average rating from 26 members
The miracle of birth (not actual size).
Pushkin
Trevor Hardy | animation | South East | 5 min
published 03 Sep 07
       
 average rating from 20 members
If you have ever lost your cat, you know the horror and worry that follows.
Quasi - Peace and Love
Alex & Wayne | music | London | 2 min
published 17 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 9 members
To the sounds of Quasi, an unsuspecting Casanova runs for his life when caught with another man’s wife.
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.
Rabbit
Run Wrake | animation | London | 9 min
published 16 May 06
       
 average rating from 54 members
A dreamlike but dark story of lost innocence and the random justice of nature, told with curious images from a distant childhood.
Rare Books And Manuscripts
Bruce Webb | comedy | London | 12 min
published 17 Feb 06
       
 average rating from 77 members
Book titles spell out declarations of love from a shy young woman to a gorgeous reader in the British Library.
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.
Reasons To Be Cheerful
Stephen Irwin | animation | London15 sec
published 22 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 21 members
An old man discovers ten reasons to be cheerful as the end of the world approaches.
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.
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
Roots Manuva - C. R. U. F. F.
Jessica Lux | music | London | 5 min
published 13 Nov 08
       
 average rating from 4 members
A boy's journey through a nightmare toy war.
Round
Kirk Hendry | music | London | 5 min
published 13 Nov 08
       
 average rating from 2 members
A tale of death and rebirth rages in a jungle world of shadowy hands
Screen Kiss
Steven Sander | comedy | London | 1 min
published 15 Nov 06
       
 average rating from 15 members
Behind the scenes of a movie snog.
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.
Shantell Town
Paulette James | comedy | London | 10 min
published 11 Sep 07
       
 average rating from 10 members
Shantell must step up and find her feet on the street, in the battle to find out who’s "Super Bad".
She Moves She
Ed Holdsworth | music | London | 4 min
published 08 Aug 06
       
 average rating from 9 members
Elements of a single journey dismantled creating an abstract floating city in a Four Tet promo.
Shelf Life
Charles Hendley | comedy | London | 3 min
published 23 Oct 08
       
 average rating from 4 members
A mysterious assailant has a deathwish...
Shiny Prophet
Barry Gene Murphy | music | London | 4 min
published 16 Dec 05
       
 average rating from 5 members
Little naked people, ravaged by a giant, seek revenge with help from the kind birds.
Shooting Blanks
Liam Gavin | comedy | London | 11 min
published 07 Nov 06
       
 average rating from 27 members
Why has love fallen apart? Because Cupid's an alcoholic.
Skoda Mluvit
Nils Porrmann & James Medcraft | music | London | 3 min
published 25 Sep 07
       
 average rating from 9 members
A falling level of a black liquid reveals a human figure only lit by colourful neon tubes set to a Schneider TM track.
Sleep With The Fishes
Belle Mellor | animation | London | 4 min
published 04 Jul 06
       
 average rating from 11 members
A flotilla of intricately imagined vessels glide across a bright blue sea, struggling to stay afloat.
Slippin'
Jason Nwansi | music | London | 5 min
published 24 Oct 07
       
 average rating from 17 members
Kids on a schooltrip to a museum have a paranormal encounter, set to a Wiley track.
Slow West Vultures
Adam Aiken & Shelley Revill | music | London | 2 min
published 15 Feb 05
       
 average rating from 17 members
In a dark industrial world, human slaves work for vultures.
Smile Around The Face
Dan Wilde | music | London | 4 min
published 05 Jul 06
       
 average rating from 18 members
A day in the life of a man for whom smiles are hard to come by in a FOUR TET promo.
Sold
Nadia Attia | comedy | London | 7 min
published 19 Dec 05
       
 average rating from 27 members
Through a strange shopping channel, one man finally buys into the notion of happiness.
Souvenir- There Is Only One Thing Left Now
Kim Albright | music | London | 3 min
published 15 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 7 members
A bit of fun, suspense and surprise.
Stalk
Leigh Hodgkinson | animation | London | 8 min
published 03 Mar 06
       
 average rating from 22 members
A dark fairy tale about Lonely Bunny who is intrigued by her unusual admirer's desperate attempts to get her attention.
Sticks & Balls
Jacqueline Wright | comedy | London | 3 min
published 05 Nov 08
       
 average rating from 14 members
Changing the face of golf forever...
Stiffy
Jacqueline Wright | comedy | London | 3 min
published 25 Apr 06
       
 average rating from 68 members
Who said romance is dead?
Sucking is a Fine Quality...
...IN WOMEN AND VACUUM CLEANERS
Nina Bradley
| comedy | London | 9 min
published 12 Feb 09
       
 average rating from 8 members
Sometimes a marriage can survive a little indiscretion but one husband's obsession with his mistress causes the wife to reassess her marriage, to deadly effect.
Sun in the Night Time
Anne Wilkins | animation | London | 3 min
published 18 Sep 08
       
 average rating from 5 members
Dreams and reality merge to reunite a lost family.
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
Alex Tanner | comedy | London | 15 min
published 29 Jul 05
       
 average rating from 23 members
There's more to work than crunching numbers.
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
Tashtastic
Tessa Morgan | documentary | London | 3 min
published 06 Mar 09
       
 average rating from 7 members
An insight into the mind of a debut competitor at the 2007 Biannual World Beard and Moustache Championships.
Terra 2050
Shroom Studio | documentary | London | 4 min
published 17 May 07
       
 average rating from 12 members
A non-stop animated journey through the collective imagination towards a not-so-distant future. Terra 2050 is a 4-part series. Watch out for the last episode, "Fears & Hopes" coming soon...
The Amazing Trousers
William Felix Clark | comedy | London | 11 min
published 31 Oct 07
       
 average rating from 11 members
Terror comes tailor made!
The Banker
Hattie Dalton | comedy | London | 12 min
published 06 Dec 05
       
 average rating from 47 members
A black comedy about a quirky loner who works in a sperm bank and is obsessed with a fertility clinic's nurse.
The Clap
Geoff Lindsey | comedy | London | 13 min
published 01 Dec 05
       
 average rating from 62 members
An obsessive music fan stalks his pianist idol with intrusive applause. The tormented virtuoso fights back - with music.
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 Crouch End Negotiator
Thomas Stark Holland | comedy | London | 5 min
published 30 Apr 08
       
 average rating from 6 members
Penelope is unhappy because her dog was hit by a bin lorry. Runner-Up in the Smoke & Mirrors 48hr Film Challenge 2007
The Drum Machine
Tokyoplastic & The Sancho Plan | animation | London | 1 min
published 26 Nov 04
       
 average rating from 31 members
Japanese kodo drummers, in bright 3D, beat out a hefty tune, using their heads in place of sticks.
The Electric Bull Riding Contest
Ben Slotover | comedy | London | 5 min
published 10 Jan 07
       
 average rating from 12 members
A story of two friends, a dead scientist, a time machine that sort of works, and the importance of beating Matador 'the kid' Jiminez in an Electric Bull riding contest.
The Elephant In The Room
Sarah Wickens | animation | London | 4 min
published 29 Nov 07
       
 average rating from 19 members
On thursday the fourth of june, my grandad died. a month later he came back to visit us.
The End
Tim Clayton & Rob Crowther | comedy | London | 1 min
published 19 Aug 05
       
 average rating from 76 members
You have 90 seconds to live... all of you!
The Holocaust Tourist
Jes Benstock | documentary | London | 10 min
published 10 May 06
       
 average rating from 42 members
A whistle-stop tour from hot dogs in Auschwitz to Jewish kitsch in Krakow - is tourism changing our view of history?
The Little Fella
Tokyoplastic | animation | London | 1 min
published 12 Mar 07
       
 average rating from 29 members
My father's family name being Fella, and my Christian name Little, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Grrrrrr.
The Music Box
Tokyoplastic | animation | London | 4 min
published 03 Apr 07
       
 average rating from 7 members
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
The Orange Tree
Simon Kent | comedy | London | 5 min
published 26 Nov 04
       
 average rating from 20 members
A man finds new friends with a potted plant.
The Periwig Maker
Steffen Schäffler | animation | London | 15 min
published 11 Jul 07
       
 average rating from 21 members
A man seals himself off in medieval plague-infested London to escape the danger of infection. When a little girl seeks his help his life is turned upside down.
The Shock Doctrine
A & J Cuaron + Foreign Office | documentary | London | 7 min
published 14 Nov 07
       
 average rating from 11 members
Hard hitting short film centering on 'disaster capitalism' and based on Naomi Klein's book of the same name.
The Silent Treatment
Peter Lydon | comedy | London | 9 min
published 09 Aug 05
       
 average rating from 30 members
One talks the other doesn’t.
The Sofa
Marcus Shepherd | comedy | London | 11 min
published 19 Dec 08
       
 average rating from 7 members
It's seven days before Christmas and eight-year-old Barry Harris is about to do something very, very bad indeed.
The Sound of Silence
James Appleton | comedy | South East | 6 min
published 27 Oct 05
       
 average rating from 62 members
A restless writer's concentration seems lost forever - until he finds an old vinyl record with magical powers.
The Static Dolls
Chris Waitt | comedy | London | 5 min
published 04 Dec 07
       
 average rating from 12 members
‘The Static Dolls’ is a band comprised entirely of mannequins who set out to prove that music is better live.
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 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.
The Trinket Maker
Paul Daley | animation | London | 8 min
published 04 Aug 06
       
 average rating from 22 members
A chance encounter causes Wendell the Trinket-Maker to question his solitary way of life.
The Velvet Cell
Thomas Hicks | music | London | 3 min
published 04 Jul 07
       
 average rating from 6 members
Business Men run to and from work and swim in the sewers and a chef chops meat in the kitchen.
The Zebras of Jack Tizard
Christopher Lee Ball | documentary | London | 5 min
published 18 Mar 09
       
 average rating from 1 member
Meet the extraordinary children of the Jack Tizard School in West London.
These Are Your Friends
TRUNK | music | London | 3 min
published 11 May 06
       
 average rating from 17 members
A lonely man creates tiny mechanical birds for company in a music promo for Adem.
This Way Up
Smith & Foulkes | animation | London | 8 min
published 18 Nov 08
       
 average rating from 31 members
Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble. An Oscar®-nominated film for 2009!
Thoughts of a Falling Glass Man
Adam Aiken & Shelley Revill | animation | London | 3 min
published 14 Nov 05
       
 average rating from 10 members
Clockwork creatures living in harmony in an organic world, survive attack to mend their ailing master.
Throw Me To The Rats
Alasdair Brotherston | music | London | 4 min
published 10 Mar 09
       
 average rating from 4 members
Grotesque vaudevillian puppetry.
Thrush
Gabriel Bisset-Smith
and Graham Turner
| comedy | London | 4 min
published 04 Sep 09
       
 average rating from 1 member
An entire relationship told through photos in four minutes.
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.
To The Music
UVA | music | London | 3 min
published 08 Jun 06
       
 average rating from 11 members
Singer, band and subject are revealed as fragile, paper-thin digital facsimiles set to a Colder track.
Tokyo Jim
Jamie Rafn | comedy | London | 6 min
published 16 Oct 06
       
 average rating from 33 members
A businessman finds a potential Japanese deal going down the pan.
Trimming The Fat
Matt Huntley | comedy | London | 16 min
published 06 May 09
       
 average rating from 15 members
When a hotel barman discovers a guest is an old school friend he becomes determined that they hang out for the night.
True Skool
Clay Lipsky | music | London | 4 min
published 14 Jun 06
       
 average rating from 13 members
Spreading groove all over the world in this Coldcut music promo featuring Roots Manuva.
Tube Mice
Dan Chambers | animation | London | 10 min
published 25 Nov 04
       
 average rating from 18 members
All is not right on the underground. But there is a dark vigilante on hand...
Umbra/Penumbra
Liam O' Connor | music | London | 6 min
published 23 Jan 06
       
 average rating from 11 members
An anatomical forest and its inhabitants undergo an insectoid metamorphosis.
Unpossible
Robin King | comedy | London | 4 min
published 26 Sep 07
       
 average rating from 20 members
An imbelievable sci-fi conundrum...
Urban Animal
12Foot6 | experimental | London | 3 min
published 07 Jun 06
       
 average rating from 36 members
Pigeons and squirrels may not be the only urban animals prowling London streets.
Violence
Rex Crowle | animation | London | 2 min
published 27 Feb 06
       
 average rating from 15 members
A tongue-in-cheek examination of the darker side of human existence, using Quasimoto’s track "Welcome to Violence".
Water Baby
Shane Davey | comedy | London15 sec
published 06 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 9 members
The morning ritual interrupted.
What Barry Says
Simon Robson | documentary | London | 2 min
published 25 Nov 04
       
 average rating from 47 members
An uncompromising examination and criticism of US foreign policy, according to Barry from down the pub.
What Goes Up (Must Come Down)
Adam Smith | music | London | 9 min
published 17 Jul 06
       
 average rating from 37 members
A Cockney rap-narrative revolving arond the successive passengers of a world-weary taxi driver.
What To Do With An Irritating Wasp...
Jon Davis | comedy | London15 sec
published 26 Sep 05
       
 average rating from 22 members
What To Do With An Irritating Wasp That’s Buzzing You When You’re At The Seaside Trying To Have A Drink Of Fizzy Orange.
What's Virgin Mean?
Michael Davies | comedy | London | 2 min
published 26 Mar 09
       
 average rating from 17 members
Sometimes little questions need big answers...
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.
Where Have I Been All Your Life?
Jim Field Smith | comedy | London | 20 min
published 14 Nov 07
       
 average rating from 54 members
Liam's innocent quest uncovers a series of dark secrets in an otherwise quiet suburban household.
White Corolla - Casiotone For the Painfully Alone
Julia Pott | music | London | 2 min
published 23 Mar 09
       
 average rating from 2 members
Official video for White Corolla by Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, from the album Advance Base Battery Life on Tomlab Records.
Will The Summer Make Good For All Of Our Sins
Marc Craste | music | London | 4 min
published 20 May 05
       
 average rating from 25 members
Haunting music promo to the sinister sounds of Múm.
Witness
Mat Kirkby | music | London | 3 min
published 30 Jun 06
       
 average rating from 9 members
Going back to school with Roots Manuva.
Yoga Noga Reyoga
Kengo Kurimoto | animation | London | 5 min
published 01 Jun 07
       
 average rating from 24 members
Two young monks meditate, searching for greater Cosmic Unity. In their quest they become embroiled in an all-out Enlightenment Competition.
You Raised Me
Teddy Nygh | music | London | 5 min
published 22 May 09
       
 average rating from 1 member
A heart-felt mother and son story told through the art of rhyme, by BET hip hop award winner Giggs.
You're In There Ltd.
Juliet Gale | comedy | London | 9 min
published 17 Jan 08
       
 average rating from 7 members
Kevin is searching for his ideal woman - he should never have hired "You're In There Ltd."
ZerodB - Bongos, Bleeps and Basslines
Joe Tunmer | music | London | 7 min
published 26 Oct 06
       
 average rating from 23 members
A bored laundrette customer has his mind spun as he is forced inside a tumble dryer to visit the place where odd socks disappear to.
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