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

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

In Separation - of what from what? Sound, image; cause, consequence; people? The breaking apart of a relationship is exteriorised far beyond the taut emotional inner worlds of a young Brighton couple in this highly concentrated, sharp 60s short.

A documentary feature with Basil Spence explaining, with the aid of a model, the concepts behind the design of the new Coventry Cathedral to replace the one destroyed during WWII.

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.

Experimental gothic short, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'.

Taking the lid off the creative process with a group of theatrically-minded 11-year-olds as they stage the nativity.

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

A child discovers her ambition on her first day at a new school. First act of a three-act ballet, "The Choice", with music by Tchaikovsky.

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

Animation. Part of Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days", depicting scenes in the Reform Club and Phineas Fogg's adventures in India.