BFI Experimental Film Fund

When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.

A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist's model - the ANGEL. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot - supposedly to heaven-and reappears to restore Amelia's joy with a pair of wings.

A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as he imagines he is the only person in the world...

The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.

The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London's East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond of friendship.

A montage of the night-life of Piccadilly Circus across the hours, from early evening to the last lingering passers-by.

A film fantasy concerning the adventures of a modern girl whose passion for peaches is eventu­ally replaced by a very different type of passion.

This interpretation of 13 cantos from the first part of Dante's The Divine Comedy is dedicated to Carl Koch and Lotte Reiniger, the husband-and-wife team who pioneered the technique of silhouette animation.

A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes.

Short drama-documentary showing the first day in England of a Hungarian refugee.

An unemployed black student borrows ten shillings from a friend, then lends the money to a musician he has just met.

Sensitive portrait of a boy with Down syndrome, and the small village that includes him.

The story of the evolution of life on Earth in animated form.

Story of a man in prison, condemned to death, and his subsequent execution. Inspired by "Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde.

I now pronounce you... animated! Newlyweds meet a nuisance in an playful mix of cartoon comedy and real-life actors, including Roobarb legend Bob Godfrey.

A BFI production from 1964, directed by David Gladwell, who is best known as an editor of films like Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968) and O Lucky Man! (1973). This short was shot at 200 fps, depicting a series of pastoral scenes from a British farm, edited to produce a suggestion of violence in contrast to its visual beauty.

A musical performed by schoolchildren from a secondary modern (Markfield) in North London, combining lively dance to the sounds from a transistor radio, and the automative actions of a production line to the monotonous music of the sewing machines.

An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.

England of Thomas Rowlandson's day, seen through his drawings and cartoons.

On a summer's day, a group of children improvise a circus at an abandoned farm in Suffolk.