Animated / Brief Encounters · Bristol
290 films from 34 countries are recorded in the archive for this edition, with 5 award winners.
2002 was a double-festival year. In April, Animated Encounters 2002 welcomed Matt Groening — creator of The Simpsons and Futurama — as special guest for Desert Island Flicks, hosted by Phill Jupitus. The festival introduced its first competitive submissions and was named the UK's nominated festival for the European Cartoon d'Or. Belgian animation, Cal Arts experimental work, and Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted programme featured alongside a full Brit Pix showcase including the BAFTA-winning Dog by Suzie Templeton. In November, the eighth Brief Encounters introduced the Four Day Film School, a programme of seminars and masterclasses that would become a festival hallmark. Shane Meadows presented a BAFTA Short Film Paradise session showcasing his extensive short film work, and Alan Yentob delivered the inaugural Brief Lecture.
Read the 2002 Brief Encounters programme on the Internet Archive
Read the 2002 Animated Encounters programme on the Internet Archive
Through a chance encounter with a crow a middle-aged man discovers seemingly incredible powers and how much he loves his wife.
Two brothers are asked to go to Zambia to assist an aid project. The trip turns out to be a success: their warts are cured by a witch doctor and they have tea with the guitar-playing President.
A turning point in a young girl's life. A fragile moment of growing up.
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21 July 1969: Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon, taking one giant leap for mankind. In Muskogee, Oklahoma, one man is turning back the evolutionary clock. Based on a true story.
A chilling tale of abuse and deprivation in which a lonely boy finds his only solace in the company of an elderly dog.
Steve has just been made redundant and waits at home for his partner to return from work. As the drinks mount up he starts to unravel, moving freely between past, present and fantasy, and the old male demons come out to play.
Two teenagers share a post-coital moment in a field on a perfect English summer's day.
In a single silent shot this film illustrates a stark fact of life on the streets in India.
A story about an escape and a sad reunion.
Threatened by masked gunmen, the Driver is forced to make a simple choice: do or die.
The streets of Paris are deserted in August. Two boys, Jeremy and Abad, drift through a series of encounters in the city, finally meeting a young girl. A sun-bleached film that reveals the consequences of domestic violence.
Arthur's office romance with Beryl is getting nowhere fast until a colleague persuades him that the way to a girl's heart is through inventions. A comedy about love narrated by Leslie Phillips.
She thinks that if she can steal away in the darkness, before the man awakes, it never will have happened. The man in the tree strongly disagrees. A comic morality tale about an escaping woman meeting a falling man.
A man in a seedy Canadian bar picks a fight with a thug and admits that he is a sensitive man who writes flower poems. But this doesn't mean that he can't outfight his opponent.
An earthy, bittersweet comedy about alienation, despair and the search for meaning in our lives. It deals with the tribalism and cruelty of being a teenager. Who can you trust? Who can you allow yourself to be friends with?
A montage of location shots filmed at ten different places around the world, all connected by their proximity to the sea.
The Driver is hired to drive James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, to a meeting with a man we're led to believe is the Devil himself.
A turning point in a young girl's life. A fragile moment of growing up.
A son finds painful memories among thousands of negatives left behind by his father. He pieces together the story of a man with a frightened expression who hardly dares to look into the camera.
Three people, two hotel rooms, one irresistible urge: desire. An interchangeable cacophony of thirst.
A story of competition, love and determination, set during the half-time break of a European ladies football match. George, the manager, is forced to tell a very personal story in order to motivate his girls for the second half.
Clutch explores the cusp between childhood and adulthood. A teenage girl spends time hanging out with her pony. For pocket money she collects eggs at a battery farm, where she enters the strange and confusing world of men and chickens.
Franck and Manu are on holiday. They are taking their time on the country roads. At two in the morning they decide to camp in the first field they find. Circumstances lead them to an unlikely meeting with the locals.
You've just woken up from an unspeakable nightmare. What do you feel? Relief? How would you feel if when you woke the nightmare had just begun? Guaranteed to leave gaping holes in your subconscious.
Trevor Rogers, a mild-mannered businessman, returns home one evening to discover, to his horror, that he has been murdered and that being dead is no laughing matter.
When Cadillac-obsessed Zeffry Williams sells his soul to the Devil it doesn't look like anything has changed. Until the moment when Zeffry has to commit his first crime.
A seven-year-old boy overcomes his fear of diving.
Fifteen-year-old Leah wanders around the London housing estate where she lives with her boyfriend, John. An ordinary day has a shocking and violent conclusion when John is pushed over the edge by an innocuous incident.
A filmic folk-song that explores the coexistence of nature and human industry, combining a poetic overview of the landscape with crisp attention to surface and texture. A dreamlike story which blurs space and time.
Featuring a London uncannily redolent of parts of Asia, either remembered or imagined.
Reetta wants a man. She goes on a 24-hour cruise to find Mr Right but finds herself in a cabin with a couple celebrating their anniversary. *(Winner at the Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland).
Roger, a beleaguered businessman, is waiting at the departure gate about to board a plane for one more business flight. He begins a conversation with the only other passenger, Paul.
Based on original recordings made by Margaret Cunningham in Dublin schoolrooms in the 1960s. Historical fact combined with an imaginary world by means of a fabulously well-executed, funny and precise animation style. *(Winner at Cork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland).
Chapter One: he adored Guildford, he idolised it out of all proportion... er, no, no, make that... he romanticised it out of all proportion... yeah.
A comedy that reveals the savage truth about the identity of the mythical Beast of Bodmin. Starring the director's mum and Hairy Growler as himself.
Deep in the basement of the Grand Hotel, a lone dishwasher attempts to deal with an impossible workload of dirty dishes. His dreary routine is broken when he falls in love with an angel from a TV commercial for washing-up liquid.
A tongue in cheek homage to Jean-Luc Godard.
In the narrow confines of a coffee shop the ceaseless flow of customers weaves a colourful tapestry of motion. The aroma of fresh-brewed coffee dissipates their loneliness and evokes an ephemeral bliss.
In an industrial town of smoke and machines a young girl on the verge of adulthood finds life and death down by the river.
The Driver is hired to deliver the ransom money for a woman who has been kidnapped. When the exchange goes awry the Driver must race against time to find her.
The neighbours are coming round for supper. Geoffrey's making the stroganoff. Tim McInnerny (Notting Hill, Blackadder) stars in this sweetly sick comedy of parenthood, pest control and a dog that won't stop barking.
Carl Köhler was born over a hundred years ago, in 1900. 'Things weren't much different back then, the days would just pass endlessly.' A documentary about one hundred years and a day. *(Winner at the Filmfest Dresden, Dresden, Germany).
By instinct, he covers the flame before him. The fire consumes tears and fever, little by little. Only then the sorrow begins. A cold wind sweeps the ashes from the floor and freezes the room. *(Winner at Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens, Vila do Conde, Portugal).
Brian has lost his 'Glow in the Dark Chatty Cathy' halloween doll. Mum reckons it's up Mike's arse. Brian realises there is only one way to find out.
Two brothers live under the same roof in a small industrial town until their father's death begins an implacable and absurd process in which two is one too many.
Some way into an indistinct future, humankind is held captive by The Factory machines and forced to work day and night. But one man finds hope through a mysterious magic tank-top. Can Mr Gorky knit himself a better life?
Every year at Easter the Spanish celebrate the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. But he is not the only martyr in Spain.
Bodney Brooks, a twelve-year-old master of computer-controlled puppetry, decides to arrange a surprise birthday party for his granny in an attempt to get back into his family's good books.
It's the middle of winter in Paris; two homeless men, Noel and Andre, share a bench and their lives. Andre tries hard to satisfy his friend's last wish: a midnight mass in the middle of February.
A young Chinese waiter bumps into his high-school sweetheart on her way to a date with her French teacher.
Leonard's home is his world. Meticulous and introverted, he is at the mercy of obsessive-compulsive behaviour. When his long-lost son Callum appears on his doorstep it seems impossible that the personality clash will ever be overcome.
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The story of a moment in a child's life.
A little girl cycles in circles, absorbed in a repetitive and solitary game. Suddenly, a man appears in front of her: a fascinating, enigmatic and beautiful stranger. She is drawn towards him, until her mother's panic breaks the spell.
The relationship between Mavroscoufitsa and the Wolf is rocky. She is almost sure that he is cheating on her with her mother. What she doesn't know is the cocaine she delivers daily to her grandmother is stolen by her mother from the Wolf.
An exploration of the cowboy mythologies of the American West set in a vivid landscape of drive-in motels and desert skies. Made in collaboration with Javier De Frutos.
Experience the world through the eyes of Lot, a five-year-old girl still free of shame and prejudice, as she helps her grandmother come to terms with getting old. A visual poem.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach; that is why Eleni is cooking 'the very best' for Yiorgos.
A little kid goes to the corner store to buy salt, but in Uruguay even such a short distance can take a lifetime.
An experimental documentary describing a scientific love poem. Science as the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Produced by Giles Lane for Proboscis.
A short black comedy of coincidences and crimes set in Manchester.
It is night. Somewhere in the world a man is videotaping a message to his beloved wife and daughter whom he will never see again. In 12 minutes he is going to blow himself up and with him many innocent people.
A bewildering number of choices and a sinister operator face the would-be patient who calls the switchboard.
A young boy finds an illegal immigrant on a beach and believes she is a mermaid. He decides to stay with her until the sea returns and he can send her back home.
It's half-time at a French–English women's football game. The French team are losing and their morale is at its lowest. Gilou, coach and spiritual guide of the team, must, at all costs, get his girls back on the pitch.
On 22 July 1969, Simon Edelman was interned at Richmond hospital in Dr Arthur Glass's neurology department. His identity was a mystery, the only thing that was certain was that he was French. The nurses named him Monsieur William. *(Winner at Festival Tous Courts, Aix en Provence, France).
Two brothers are asked to go to Zambia to assist an aid project. The trip turns out to be a success: their warts are cured by a witch doctor and they have tea with the guitar-playing President.
A young African is assaulted and hospitalised. Raphael, an intern at a radio station, returns to his home town to report on a rural community confronting racism. But several years have gone by, people's interests have changed and nobody seems to care any more.
Nicholas is a French stand-up comic who comes to the UK on tour, falls in love and ends up in Wales.
A dramatic day in the life of a remote answering machine.
21 July 1969: Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon, taking one giant leap for mankind. In Muskogee, Oklahoma, one man is turning back the evolutionary clock. Based on a true story.
Two kids, Laranjinha and Acerola, live in one of the most violent favelas in Rio de Janeiro. All they want is some pocket money to go to a concert. The easiest way to earn it is to work as runners for a drug dealer. Instead, Acerola comes up with an idea for the perfect crime: Golden Gate.
Noel and Andy are two homeless alcoholics. Andy needs Noel's money to buy his booze. When Noel is diagnosed with TB Andy struggles with his conscience: his friend may be dying but Andy is, as ever, dying for a drink.
Carlo and Marta adopt Vinicio, an eastern European orphan with whom they have exchanged letters. Their two worlds remain too distant for mutual understanding until events lead Vinicio to come face to face with his foster parents. *(Winner at Torino Film Festival, Turin, Italy).
A short documentary investigating the origins of this vegetable.
The Driver must get his photojournalist passenger and an all-important picture beyond the highly dangerous and strongly guarded border.
A Daihatsu Charade is the star of this minimalist but classic road movie. A wrecked car stands outside an old warehouse in Hamburg's docks. The soundtrack of traffic on a motorway is in sharp contrast to the twisted remains of the vehicle.
Set in a near future, where technology owes more to the 1930s than to the 21st century, a mysterious intruder armed with a collection of home-made tools and devices breaks into the bedroom of a sleeping woman.
A mixed salad and a trout meet on death row: the cold store of a restaurant. They decide to unite in a single dish that will lead them to eternal love.
A young businessman has had enough and decides to end it all on the bank of a river. No one notices his action, but it has a tremendous and unexpected effect on the lives of the people on the riverbank, including his own.
In a twisted homage to Hitchcock's Psycho, a man takes a shower and listens to the shipping forecast on the radio.
An imaginary gallery of characters with a surplus of mouths wrestle with their internal babblings.
Behind the scenes at the restaurant. An experimental sound montage of culinary creativity.
A young boy's journey through a picture postcard of a seaside holiday. He senses a more adult undercurrent running through the picturesque rows of beach huts.
Texas. Ricky has heard that drinking sixty cups of coffee will kill you. He goes to a dingy diner on the edge of town to find out the truth.
Emma, 16, is let down by her boyfriend, and her arguing parents leave her holding her baby.
A film about estrangement, the absurd, the autistic and the fragility of post-modern acting.
A lover's journey of self-discovery.
When the Driver comes face-to-face with a world-famous and very beautiful rock star a fierce battle of wills ensues.
A stylish comedic tale of sex, power and revenge played out in the Hempel Hotel.
An intimate portrait that reveals not only the physical beauty and power of this creature, but also hints at our obsessions with its innate sexuality.
In Hong Kong slang a 'Tai Tai' is a wife of a rich businessman, a woman who occupies a world of high style and hidden emotions, of secrets understood but never confronted.
Behind the counter in a video shop the shopkeeper is waiting for the day's last customer. Outside, an angel is searching for his wing.
The institutionalised space of the fine art museum forms a theatre of desire incorporating sexual and racial fantasy, with Cleo Sylvestre and Thomas Baptiste.
A musical about an unreal poodle, a missing key, a torn shirt and a man and a woman who decide to stay together.
Sal and Nick are strangers who have woken up in the same bed. Nick is desperate to leave, but Sal will not let him go home. In fact she will do absolutely anything to stop him.
Through a chance encounter with a crow a middle-aged man discovers seemingly incredible powers and how much he loves his wife.
The scariest film about DIY that you'll ever see.
A man lost in an excess of drugs and alcohol gets a chance of redemption through a girl whom he sees in his hallucinations.
Gaynor and Rory have been together for three years. Rory is about to end the relationship and Gaynor knows it. But if she can just keep him talking maybe he will forget about leaving her.
Hot inside and hotter out, Lacey looks for something to do.
It's the summer of 1999 in Novi Sad, Serbia. After NATO air strikes on the city, life is returning to normal. A group of young people are playing football. But is everything really in order?
This extract from a longer film project captures a heated exchange between a Socialist Worker vendor and the people of Devonport. Is he defending their interests or are the redundant nuclear submarines really the local economy's mainstay?
Officer Tilman is always the bearer of bad news. His visits to the homes of victims' families are getting him down, until a loving and ingenious shopkeeper intervenes.
The clinical but ghostly atmosphere of a deserted suburban neighbourhood. The only sign of life is an answering machine message in which an insurance salesman talks about life insurance, the perfect pension scheme and his lost ballpoint pen.
A doctor makes his way through the corridors of a vast medieval hospital. He enters the X-ray room where a patient is anaesthetised and operated upon. The procedure works, but there is something wrong with the methodology.
A chance encounter causes Wendell the trinket maker to question his solitary life.
The Driver is hired to rescue a mysterious man and his briefcase from a vicious car wreck. However, there are quite a few people who want the briefcase before it can be delivered.
All Frank wanted was his money; he's entitled to it, know what I mean? If he gets a little angry, he's entitled. Mind you, the toothache didn't help!
The past comes to life in the form of a vagabond dancer, choreographed by Javier de Frutos.
A small car, a lost mobile phone, a joint and some wild beasts can all lead to a bit of a mess, especially when you're trapped with the one person who knows how to drive you crazy.
Andrew receives a blank email from his girlfriend Sarah. It contains an attachment, which he downloads: a quick-time movie shot from Sarah's web cam. He watches the shocking footage unaware of the fate that awaits him.
With Christmas approaching fast, Wallace invents a card-making machine. Whilst painstakingly posing Gromit into his masterpiece he fails to notice the obvious. Originated and produced by Nick Park.
Wallace believes his guided shopping trolley is the answer to long trips to the supermarket. Under the weight of a giant Edam disaster strikes: can Gromit save the day and the cheese? Originated and produced by Nick Park.
Insomnia is a problem for our cheese-eating inventor, so the Snoozatron is a necessary invention. For Gromit, his part in the machine's cycle is a regular chore he could do without... Originated and produced by Nick Park.
Gromit's goalkeeping prowess is frustrating Wallace's attempts at goal. Even with his penalty-taking machine, Gromit out-masters his master. Originated and produced by Nick Park.
It's Gromit's job to change TV channels; Wallace invents a simple remote control. But when it is called into action the flaw in design is obvious. Originated and produced by Nick Park.
Inspired by cult poet Bill Shields. A melancholic study of the American war machine.
Five contrasting characters, an ageing Lothario, a disillusioned yuppie, a movie-obsessed kid, a tense commuter and an 80-year-old distance runner, escape reality and find solace and reassurance in their fantasies.
Two Japanese people, a man and a woman, meet by chance in Vienna for the first time in many years. He is a businessman, she a musician. Their meeting forces them to seek and define their cultural and personal home.
Abstract animation using natural objects placed directly on film.
Jeff embarks on escapades with his motley crew of mild-mannered midgets.
On a dark and stormy night Mr Punch, a faded music hall legend, commits dark deeds.
On the sensitive topic of relationships.
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, until the day when a newcomer comes along and turns everything upside-down.
Inspired by Puccini's opera, Madame Butterfly is a marionette living alone on an island until the handsome young sailor Pinkerton arrives.
Arthur, who is not a very good boxer, firmly believes in his own prowess. When a shady manager offers to take his career in hand, he falls for it hook, line and sinker.
Ten exhausted geese cause problems for a military reconnaissance plane on autopilot.
There's nothing worse than bad phone sex. Features the voice talent of Chris Rock.
A detailed look at her rise from ditzy, white trash tottie to ditzy, white trash tottie.
This episode is all about Eminem, who's "all about" his daughter Haillie.
Realities of everyday life in la-la land.
One man's struggle through a giant snowstorm in search of sanctuary.
A little boy thinks that when he shuts his eyes things disappear, including his parents.
Watch this film and learn what birds are saying.
A young girl in the land of the body beautiful longs for large bosoms.
A short film about the strange and, in a way, humorous jokes of John and his sister Jane.
A nice guy gives a bunch of flies a treat. He seems to be very fond of the little creatures. But nothing could be further from the truth.
A study of what it's like to grow up with a schizophrenic parent, based on personal experiences and extensive research.
A little boy's attempt to cross a room is hampered by his own imagination.
A terrifying tale about a cat who, legend has it, wants to become human.
A man and a woman flirt on a train.
A magic tree causes conflict between two men.
A fork is put to violent use.
The familiar primer teaches kids basic social skills, such as meeting new people, gun etiquette, how to give head, using illegal narcotics and surviving bestiality.
Chump and Rat perform pointless experiments on each other in a rusty old can orbiting a polluted planet.
An epic, almost operatic account of an ordinary relationship falling apart.
Evoking the sense of movement felt when travelling about the city each day, this film won many awards, including the student Oscar®.
Three varieties of chocolate represent different races; different on the outside, but the same on the inside.
A series of interviews with animals in a zoo. Two polar bears, an armadillo, a jaguar, a hippo, terrapins, a gorilla and other assorted creatures comment candidly on their living conditions.
Scared of the dark? A Bogeyman finds his career in jeopardy as some new technology threatens his way of life.
Three animators struggle to make a film as the deadline looms.
Cows relaxing on a beach are disturbed by a bossy little girl with her own idea of relaxation.
Bernie Bradbury is a repo-man for Bio Medical, an organ and limb leasing company. When clients fail to pay up he repossesses company goods.
A glimpse through the lens of a camera possessed by psychosis.
What starts out as an elegant French dining experience turns into regurgitated mayhem.
Based on Jez Alborough's best-selling books. Eddy makes friends with a real ten-foot talking bear. We follow their adventures in the woods as well as the weird and wonderful world of their imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte's last moments on the island of St Helena.
Sergeant wakes up alone, with only a wide screen TV for company, in a place designed for him to relax in peace for all eternity.
Inspired by avant-garde artist Stan Brakhage, images of nature are seen through the materiality of film. Darnell went on to work in computer animation, and co-directed *Antz*.
Five hundred thousand years after the destruction of the world life goes on.
A film in 24 glasses per second, showing the fierce struggle between a wine glass and a beer glass.
A small army hungry for destruction bursts out from inside Earth.
Watching television in the year 2001.
Two old men in a boat both somehow manage to lose their false teeth.
Pop video featuring the Nation's favourite animated band.
The scene is a bathroom where an old razor and an electric shaver are competing for the attentions of the author. Jealousy soon degenerates into open conflict.
A moral tale about a big, fat, hairy ballerina.
In a send-up of the popular children's books, we discover the real reason all those kids are into Harry Potter's potions and hallucinations.
Two bandits on the run cross paths with the most bizarre characters.
The headless horseman is an ordinary resident in the Grand Canyon, except he has no head. Suffering from a serious and violent inferiority complex he seeks a new face.
It could happen to any of us.
The real-life story of a shy, awkward father and his devotion to the family car.
The story of a boy who, after watching a documentary about astronauts, decides to carry out various tests on his dog before lift-off.
One of the wackier "How To" films ever, showing all the violent and bizarre pitfalls of the art of kissing.
Hubert's Brain* is a story about an imaginative little boy who doesn't quite fit in, and a brain looking for the perfect fit.
The rituals of shoppers in a mall, as observed by security cameras. But is this surveillance or voyeurism?
Based on a New Yorker magazine cover by Saul Steinberg, twenty American icons morph from one to another.
A man chasing the scarf of a woman who is running after the man, who is running after…they meet…below the moon…in a kiss.
Ten-year-old John wakes up to find a big invisible something sitting on his bed. He becomes friends with the giant, whom he calls Ivor, and discovers that Ivor is full of mischief, but lots of fun.
Robbery and romance combine in a surreal animated mini-thriller.
A story of desire, love and longing.
Le Slag* is a tale of flying chests, brocolli-powered bullets and divine intervention.
A story about two children, their dreams and one bulb.
A little girl gets fed up with her rigid, authoritarian parents and runs off into the forest to find the wolf they're always threatening her with.
After eight months without sex, Vibeke decides to find Mr. Right through five blind dates all in one evening. But what kind of man is she really looking for?
A modern-day narcissus? A humorous exploration of male vanity? A cheap gag.
Nobody loves their pussy more than Nanna.
Puppet animation advertising film for 'Horlicks Malted Milk'.
Abstract animated publicity film for Empire Airmail.
A small girl encounters the dark world of the Amusement Arcade.
Drinky Crow and his friend Uncle Gabby sail about the world. They attempt to cope with the horror of being alive through the use of alcohol, self-deception and pistols.
A woman lives with her childhood. Is it time to grow up?
A monk tries to catch a fish in an increasingly surreal chase.
A little sailor is cast upon an island of monkeys and finds his true love. *Monkey Love* was created solely on the strength of this infectious Tahitian chant song.
About borders between countries, rich and poor, life and death.
Silkworms, beauty products and a meteorite. Three sisters celebrate their mum's 39th birthday.
A child's innocent view of his rough neighbourhood.
Neighbours is the story of the inhabitants of a Moscow communal apartment in the 1930s.
A brief but compelling glimpse into people's private worlds beyond the window frame.
Pencil-drawn animation by the multi-Oscar® winning director of *Toy Story* and Executive Producer of *Monsters Inc*.
Sets the record straight on how the world was created, post-modern architecture, cheese, feminism, and the life of Mama Cass.
A short moment in an old story of an old couple.
When Horse bakes a cake, Cowboy and Indian will do anything to get their hands on it.
After a splendid concert, the hysterical fans tear off the arms of a virtuoso trumpet player. Only one girl is still loyal to her idol and asks him to marry her.
Four adventures of Pic Pic André:.
Toivo is a shy, lonely man. In his dreams, however, he is Mr. Perfect, the hero, whom women adore and admire.
A small dog about to be squashed flat by a huge lorry sees his life flash before his eyes.
A Freudian interpretation of the sexual complexities of the brain.
An examination of the mental and physical effects of long-term pain, based on personal experience.
A sand puppet leaves his sandy home in order to look for water and makes a journey through worlds made of paper, stone and iron.
Raoul and Jocelyne were just friends before their relationship turned into an affair one afternoon in a hotel. But how will they find out if it is real love?
A chilling interpretation of an old European folk tale.
A visual poem about women and water in summertime.
Alienated characters lounge by the pool in some future time. From the director of *The Nightmare Before Christmas* and *James and the Giant Peach*.
A fetish frolic featuring a lady in search of "What lies beneath!"
A little girl has a tantrum and turns into a terrible giant, taking out her anger on her teddy bear.
Dylan, a hippy priest-killer meets Cornelius, 'The Dog Who Fell To Earth'.
Roger and Doris's comfortable life is interrupted by the arrival of a child. The answer to their prayers, or the beginning of a nightmare?
Og longs for love, but he is thwarted by his rapidly growing beard.
Boys horsing around get playground kicks.
Somewhere in a gloomy suburb, a man and a woman live their solitary lives. The nearby forest is forbidden territory.
Surface Dive* was inspired by an experience the director had whilst diving in an underground river in the Yucatan, Mexico.
Parents that fight between themselves and direct harsh words at each other are usually not aware of the effect it has on their children.
A film about the terrifying revenge of crash test dummies.
Grateful townspeople force so much thanks on the Mask Man that he becomes a thank-you junkie.
Can Superhero Thunder Pig triumph in this pizza-fuelled tale of doughnuts and disaster?
Timmy is a moron. In one disaster after another he unwittingly demonstrates some basic rules for survival.
In the lawless Wild West, our hero faces all kinds of dangers, but there's a romantic twist in store.
Strange and magical events unfold in a small town somewhere in America.
A parrot and an artificial cuckoo beget an offspring — a weird hybrid of wood, metal and feathers — an aggressive and obstinate personage.
Cows form part of an organised production process.
A gruesome murder story of the 1930s retold in the style of an illustration of the period, glamorising LA's violent and corrupt underbelly.
Vinny Gusto, teenage lard-ass goes on a quest to turn fat boy into fat fame.
Bill Johnson shows Bobby some great jokes to play on his parents.
If you thought of barnyard fowl as harmless, unassuming creatures, then think again. This shocking video exposes chickens as the clever killing machines they really are.
Vern and Vera make a wrong turn in the desert. A story with a twist.
A colourful excursion among the planets, propelled by the gentle pop of Smiled.
Procrastination can be dangerous.
A fly attempts to land on a watch in 'relativityland', from the creator of the hugely popular Nickelodeon series *Sponge Bob Squarepants*.
A film about the birth of the director's daughter Eden, who has a rare genetic disorder, Joubert syndrome, and an attempt to spiritualise her predicament, but ostensibly stuff of nonsense.
A slightly bonkers look at what it might be like to travel up the river Thames, from Southend-on-Sea to the Houses of Parliament. A nautical dérive and psychogeographical jolly-up.
Digital animation for Channel 4's animate! scheme. Under the microscope we find a realm of life so diverse that you have to just sit and wonder. This is the Kingdom of Protista and like many living things it needs to try to suck itself off.
Within all of us lies the invalid and so what do we do from morning to night? We endure ourselves: 'God knows we don't like to complain but God, you in your well-lighted sky.'
The Driver meets a ship carrying an eight-year-old Tibetan boy at a dark, deserted New York shipyard, but he's not the only one waiting.
A revenge film in which the protagonists' greatest destruction is ultimately their own.
A rare screening of the poetic film essay which began Julien's career. The film combines archival material and fiction to depict Black British life and imagination.
A businessman takes time out from his hectic schedule to relax.
A comedy thriller. Tony is a has-been DJ for a seaside local radio station. He uses his job to plot the perfect crime.
A disturbed woman sits alone in her flat dreading a doctor's visit. She casts a spell on him to keep him away.
In a land without water men become fish hunters. Armed with nets, they terrorize the desert's inhabitants.
Feast your eyes as stunt acrobats attempt the High Jump of Doom.
A game of top trumps with some explosive results.
Pavlatova visualizes words that people use lavishly in their everyday life.
An irritating fly interrupts Yoko, Jakamoto and Toto's peaceful slumbers.
Des the Donkey tells amazing stories of his daring adventures to impress his friends. When the truth is revealed — that Des has been lying — he is too embarrassed to face his friends.
Bill and Ben fall out with one another while playing "Chase the Carrot". It is only when Slowcoach trips over it that they are reconciled.
Set in Bob's hometown and a 1930's style dance hall, featuring all the Bob regulars and a few extra surprises too!
Angelina dances with a rag doll but has to decide if it is too babyish to keep.
Pig sets up a sweet shop with Arnold as his assistant and a game of conkers is not all that it seems.
Bing and Bong are dressed for freezing weather on the Tiny Planet of Nature. The furry friends discover some chilly locals shivering in the cold and do their best to help them warm up.
Engie Benjy and the team have to get Spaceship Engie Benjy down from the sky, after Astronaut Al falls out. But Spaceship is being naughty and won't land until he's had a bit of fun.
Romantic comedy without the romance.