Films produced by Arts Council England

A man in mid-life looks back on memory, ambition, disappointment and the teachers he looked up to. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts...

A merman who lives beneath a fairy-tale forest, dying of thirst, seeks out a lonely girl whose tears fill his bathtub with sea water. A dark love...

Patel’s new film Trinity, continues his exploration of language and physical communication, centring on the discovery of a martial language...

Blue Lagoon explores the links between industrial extraction, ecological care, and somatic release through the lens of a post-industrial North East...

A strange, funny and erotic walk through the growing-up of a contemporary male sexuality, from childhood friendship through puberty to a contented...

Who I Am And What I Want is a 7 minute animated short directed by Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley in 2005. Based on the David Shrigley book of the...

In an office world of half light, flickering fluorescent tubing, ringing phones and monotonous paperwork, the residents sit trapped in a state of...

Natural magnetic fields are described by NASA scientists.

A vivid imagination can offer a seductive distraction from life’s duties. Showers of twisted fantasies, associations and flashbacks turn in...

Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.

In a world where water has become a scarce commodity, a young scavenger finds a source to satisfy her thirst.

A time-lapse animation film about the disorientating and unsettling filmic space that occurs on the screen from an upside down view.

When did you last rest? When did you float weightlessly, your aching muscles soothed by lapping water?

Miranda July looks back at her Artangel project, an interfaith charity shop that opened up unannounced inside one of the world's most famous...

An account of the creation of a nine-year-old ‘defective’ animated character. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis...

A fairground barrel ride becomes a human zoetrope showing the cycle of life from birth to death, in one three-minute shot. An animate! commission for...

A fugitive escape path across five interlinked spaces - city, motorway, forest, coast and sea - using pen and ink drawn interventions into a live...

Sarah Turner's film is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember. The stunning imagery comes solely from the window of the...

Don’t Look at the Finger follows a ceremonial ‘fight’ between two protagonists, a man and a woman, in the grand architectural...

A tale of lost innocence, greed and the random justice of nature. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities...

A man in mid-life looks back on memory, ambition, disappointment and the teachers he looked up to. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts...

A merman who lives beneath a fairy-tale forest, dying of thirst, seeks out a lonely girl whose tears fill his bathtub with sea water. A dark love...

Patel’s new film Trinity, continues his exploration of language and physical communication, centring on the discovery of a martial language...

Blue Lagoon explores the links between industrial extraction, ecological care, and somatic release through the lens of a post-industrial North East...