A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends are being sued by a former SS Kommandant, who denies their accusation that he was responsible for the genocide of 300 Belgians. Documentary interviews and archive footage merge with dramatised scenes to create a new way of representing history and memory.
A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them collapsing, and tragedy subsequently striking.
A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern cannon fire. His loaded gun is left pointing precariously at him and he is faced with imminent death.
The pressures of her job in a hospital forces a young doctor to abandon a colleague suffering from depression to treat another patient.
Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.
The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.
Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.
Faulty plumbing in the home of a painter causes an old woman to be covered in red paint while she showers. The painter's neighbours engineer his fate in a bathtub of aubergines.
This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film. Bicât and scriptwriter Howard Brenton explore the consequences and co-option of political violence with hard, grubby directness and a pre-punk, semi-nihilistic attack on bourgeois values.
Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.
An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.
Anna follows her absent Mother on her nightly ritual, as she walks round the family house, turning the house lamps on one by one. In the course of the lamp walk, Anna talks about being afraid of the dark and of the secrets that all families and lovers keep from one another.
Song tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of still photographs and acted reconstructions to show that this story has been rewritten/written-over many times before.
The words to the Paul McCartney-penned Beatles classic Penny Lane are vividly illustrated in this short montage film, released in the same year as the track, which juxtaposes characters inspired by the song with suburban street scenes and St. George's Square statuary.
A series of non-dramatic tableaux representing scenes from De Sade's novel.
A woman encounters her memories, explored through dance. Featuring Marguerite Porter, former Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet.
Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair.
A wasp exterminator travels to a large stately home to deal with a wasp infestation problem. However when he arrives he is greeted by a dysfunctional, hate filled family that attacks each other with spite and hurtful remarks. He reassesses his feelings towards the wasps that only sting in self defence.
Discover the unrealised visions and passion projects of revered British filmmaker Michael Powell, in this fascinating documentary featuring Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
An anti-short short. On three occassions a man overhears a car accident while relaxing in his room. He reacts with less and less concern to each crash.
