Creature Comforts
A humorous and thought-provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.
Picnic
British animation short from Paul Vester.
The Plague
Animation set in the Middle Ages.
Angry George Irons
A bilious misanthrope finds enlightment via heaven, hell and the kitchen cupboard.
Body Beautiful
A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest.
The Apple
A man's repeated attempts to retrieve an apple off a high tree branch all prove fruitless. What does he want the apple for? That would be telling.
Tip Top
A topsy-turvy world.
Chicken Wire
During a violent electrical storm, a space-travelling metal cockerel crash-lands in a chicken farmer's field. He brings with him the grand promise of a technical innovation unknown on earth - electric eggs!
The Big Cheese
Darkly humorous variation on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice, looking at the motives for the farmer's wife's murderous assault on the eponymouse heroes.
Screen Play
A narrator relates the Japanese tale of two lovers who defy their families and society to be together. The tale ends happily, until something happens to make this tale truly Japanese in character.
The Sound of Music
A part-time musician gets off his day job as a window washer for a disturbing apartment complex to a gig for a charity event. The rich arrive, and the food runs low. Luckily, there are the homeless and other non-economic contributors around to fit the bill.
In the West Wing
A man with a gun for a head and two conjoined twins share a prison cell.
Oskar Fischinger: Visual Music
Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.
The Insects
Answers questions such as "How many kinds of insects are there?" "Do insects have blood?" "How can a fly walk on the ceiling?"
Burrellesque
The travelogue is mobilised again by animator Lesley Keen in Burrellesque, commissioned for Glasgow’s European Capital of Culture 1990 programme. Drifting through Glasgow’s Pollok Park towards the Burrell Collection as seasons shift, Keen’s 35mm film convenes with the spiritual life of the artefacts held therein. These objects break out as kaleidoscopic visions, ripped from their place of origin; escapees pointing to Scotland’s own history of cultural extraction.
Capital P
A young boy struggles with bed-wetting. He is pleased to awaken one night to a dry bed, but terrors await him on his trip to the bathroom in the middle of a dark and stormy night.
The Last Hundred Years of Marx-Leninism
The last hundred years of Marxism, as seen through the eyes of animator Pavel Koutský.
Going Equipped
A young man in prison is interviewed and talks about his life, how he got into prison, and what it's like doing time.
+1 -1
This humorous animated short offers one possible answer to the philosophical question: what would life be like if I had never lived? The first half of the film follows a man from his conception to his funeral, focusing on the effect his life has on the people and events around him. The second half looks again at the same people and events, except now the man is not there - he had never been born. The differences will surprise you!
Early Bird
The morning shift at a big-city radio station.