The Big Cheese

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

British animation short from Paul Vester.

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

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.

A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest.

Animation set in the Middle Ages.

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.

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.

Answers questions such as "How many kinds of insects are there?" "Do insects have blood?" "How can a fly walk on the ceiling?"

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

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.