Chicken Wire

A humorous and thought-provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

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.

British animation short from Paul Vester.

A bilious misanthrope finds enlightment via heaven, hell and the kitchen cupboard.

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.

Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.

The last hundred years of Marxism, as seen through the eyes of animator Pavel Koutský.

Animator Pavel Koutský's portrait of the man in the street; just an animal.

An animated film, based on a Rudyard Kipling short story of an Indian holy man’s journey through North East India.

A Four-Mations documentary covering the importance of audial sound in the medium of animation.

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!

A topsy-turvy world.

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.

Animation set in the Middle Ages.

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.

A man made of newspaper waits and waits by the telephone.

A man with a gun for a head and two conjoined twins share a prison cell.

A young man in prison is interviewed and talks about his life, how he got into prison, and what it's like doing time.

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.