Arts Council England Movies

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...

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

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

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...

Natural magnetic fields are described by NASA scientists.

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

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 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...

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

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...

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

The poet Hafez, also known as the Teller of Secrets, used the language of human love and the metaphors of wine and drunkenness to describe his desire...

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...

A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.

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

A drawing of a bird passes from person to person through 500 members of the public, changing as it goes, like Chinese whispers in pictures. An...