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  • 1995
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    Hermaphrodite Bikini

    Hermaphrodite Bikini

    1 1995 HD

    Director Clio Barnard, using Harry and Paintbox techniques, intercut with a Hi-8 video diary, presents a non-narrative collage addressing sexual...

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  • 1994
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    Jumping Joan

    Jumping Joan

    1 1994 HD

    With the dark resonance of the nursery rhyme from which it is drawn, this river story probes isolation and imagination, all painted directly onto...

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  • 1994
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    End of Restriction

    End of Restriction

    6.00 1994 HD

    End of Restriction enters into the claustrophobic world of a teenage boy growing up in an English village. The film follows the boy’s cycle...

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  • 2022
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    Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time

    Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time

    1 2022 HD

    A new film made from more than a hundred fragments of archive film, Echoes of the North transports you back to Northern England a century ago, taking...

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  • 1995
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    Night Dances

    Night Dances

    7.00 1995 HD

    "Night Dances is for my mother, who died whilst helping me to make this piano musical. The Dance of Death is bound to life - Lechaim - as we whirl...

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  • 2021
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    Relic 3

    Relic 3

    1 2021 HD

    The fourth film in the series, ‘Relic 3’ forms part of Relic Traveller: Phase 2, a multi-disciplinary project by Larry Achiampong, which...

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  • 2014
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    Hyperlinks or It Didn't Happen

    Hyperlinks or It Didn't Happen

    10.00 2014 HD

    HYPERLINKS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN is narrated by the failed CGI rendering of a recently deceased actor, PHIL, and follows a group of digital...

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  • 2008
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    Cobra Mist

    Cobra Mist

    10.00 2008 HD

    Construed in the time of running clouds, a panoramic and another examination of vacant buildings on the British shore (Orford Ness), a deserted place...

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  • 2019
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    TEETH

    TEETH

    5.00 2019 HD

    An eager couple, Charlotte and Myles, are interrogated by two Home Office agents about their spousal visa application. They endure a series of...

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  • 2019
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    Ouvertures

    Ouvertures

    5.00 2019 HD

    Reflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture, Ouvertures follows a collective’s process of translating...

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  • 2014
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    Merzschmerz: The Flying Fish

    Merzschmerz: The Flying Fish

    1 2014 HD

    Fairy tales are handed down from mothers to daughters, and from fathers to sons. As they are passed on, the tales grow in the telling – or...

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  • 1996
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    White Light

    White Light

    1 1996 HD

    White Light consists of extreme close-up shots of chrome bath taps and their reflections, including the camera lens, which becomes its own subject,...

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  • 2022
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    The Directors: Stephen

    The Directors: Stephen

    1 2022 HD

    The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis....

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  • 2014
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    Merzschmerz: Once Upon a Time There Was a Tiny Mouse

    Merzschmerz: Once Upon a Time There Was a Tiny Mouse

    1 2014 HD

    Fairy tales are handed down from mothers to daughters, and from fathers to sons. As they are passed on, the tales grow in the telling – or...

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  • 2021
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    Not Yet Out of the Wood

    Not Yet Out of the Wood

    1 2021 HD

    It's not the bats' fault. Holed up in lockdown, I made a bat-head mask, I made a skeleton. I made a miniature wood by collecting twigs and moss from...

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  • 2006
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    The J. Street Project 2002-2005

    The J. Street Project 2002-2005

    1 2006 HD

    The J. Street Project 2002–5 is a sixty-seven minute film that consists of a sequence of static camera shots of street signs in Germany that...

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  • 1999
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    Lux et Umbra

    Lux et Umbra

    1 1999 HD

    1999 Nicky Hamlyn experimental short film

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  • 2004
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    Aspect

    Aspect

    1 2004 HD

    Across the surface of the forest, light, colour, shadow shift; rhythmic, kaleidoscopic. Matter and the immaterial in constant counteraction. The...

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  • 2014
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    Merzschmerz: The Good Man

    Merzschmerz: The Good Man

    1 2014 HD

    Fairy tales are handed down from mothers to daughters, and from fathers to sons. As they are passed on, the tales grow in the telling – or...

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  • 2017
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    Civil Rites

    Civil Rites

    1 2017 HD

    A cine-poem, taking as a starting point Martin Luther King's 1967 speech, given on receipt of his honorary doctorate from the University of...

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