All Films

A look at 24 hours in the life of a happy gay couple.

This video looks at the operation of journalistic conventions – and the role of corporations and consumerism – in the context of the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Combining footage and still images from amateur, government and journalistic sources, this powerful work explores the ethics of reportage, the staging and manipulation of images, and the changing role of photojournalists in the era of consumer digital imaging. It focuses on the brands and products that have appeared in news and photojournalism in Afghanistan and Iraq since the mid-1980s, including Osama Bin Laden’s various models of Casio wristwatches, M&Ms in aid convoys, the Sheraton Hotel in Baghdad, and the Taliban’s preference for Toyota utility vehicles. It also relates how increasingly soldiers are replacing journalists as the source of images.

Petrolia takes its name from a redundant oil drilling platform sat in the Cromarty Firth, Scotland. The film looks at the architecture of the oil industry along the Scottish coastline where oil and gas supplies are predicted to run dry in the next forty years. Shooting on 16mm film, using time lapse and long exposure techniques, the film presents a record of industrial phenomena, – the toxic beauty of the refinery at Grangemouth, huge drilling platforms gliding across the water as they come in for maintenance and repair at Nigg and the last dance of the shipbuilding cranes in Glasgow harbour.

Documentary about the bad treatment of migrants in Italy.

A castaway's efforts to make contact with would-be rescuers finally leads to his discovery, but his savior has plans of his own in Dutch director Frodo Kuipers' desert island saga.

Hannah finds herself in a life-threatening situation, in which she steps out of her own body. Both physically and mentally she has hit rock bottom. She loses consciousness. Everything is quiet, everything is black. All that is left is something miniscule that leads a life of its own.

A couple mysteriously vanish after a romantic evening under the stars... A teenager disappears on her way home from school... A university graduate goes missing whilst holidaying in London... From the early 1970s to the mid-80s, scores of ordinary Japanese disappeared without a trace, many of them from beaches and remote villages along the Japan Sea coast, others from Tokyo, London and Madrid. After decades of speculation, it was finally revealed in 2002 that these ordinary Japanese citizens had in fact been abducted by North Korean spies as part of a bizarre and sinister plot of espionage by the hard-line, communist dictatorship of Kim Jong Il. From the last front of the Cold War to the new battle against the 'Axis of Evil', Kidnapped! tells the extraordinary story of the Chimura, Yokota and Arimoto families - some of the unfortunate victims of a terrifying abduction campaign by North Korea, and who are now unwittingly caught up in the eye of a political storm. The story of these.

A prisoner gets a new cellmate, one who is very eager to escape.

Frida, 19, works as a park-keeper, picking up what others leave behind. One day she picks up a video camera. Soon, filming becomes a passion and a way of eying the world around her. With her best friend as companion, and the camera as weapon, a journey through adult society is about to begin.

8 year old Saul is abandoned by his mother at his Grandmother's caravan in a deserted country caravan park. Through stories she tells him with her playing cards, Gran teaches Saul that he has the choice to change the hand that life has dealt him.

Do machines play music? Is there a difference between a dot matrix printer and a record turntable? Optical Sound, Taanila’s 2005 wide-screen interpretation of [The User]’s brutalist sound piece for an array of obsolete printers, depicts the devices ratcheting horizontally together in a stalled symphony, inkjets repeatedly blackening the same area on the page. It is not the blurring of man with machine that lies at the core of this film, but the blurring of the spaces that each has been traditionally obliged to occupy. We disappear into our data streams, which are everywhere and “nowhere” at the same time. (Ken Hollings)

A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."

It tells about the theft of a miraculous iconostasis from the city museum.

Aníbal is a detestable, scolding, annoying and devious character. With nothing else better to do, he settles for limitations in the narrator's house, until you decide to kill him. However, he managed to reappear.

"POINT LINE CLOUD is a collection of audio and video collaborations between Curtis Roads and myself, it has been a ever shifting project over the years which constantly continues to evolve."

Jon returns home after a few months at college to meet his girlfriend for dinner. After Jon encounters some unexpected visitors he eventually arrives at their meeting place only to be stood up. This leads to an evening of events that will change his life and the world forever.

Filmed on location in Ms. Pine's hometown of Chicago and in Scotland, this documentary offers an engaging perspective on her album of Scottish Fantasies, from its early inspiration to a behind-the-scenes look at the recording process.

Healer Alise lives in a world alive with nature - swaying grass, rustling wind, rippling streams, birdsong, blooming flowers, ants, ladybugs and butterflies. Using herbal teas and water she helps people regenerate.

The written languages of birds come to life.

In 2001 the law in the UK for gay porn changed forever. Up until then, the only porn gay men in the UK could enjoy would be illegal, bad quality material mainly from Europe and America. Even up until 2003 certain sexual acts were still illegal in gay porn, whilst their straight counterpart movies still enjoyed greater freedom in sexual expression. Now that has all changed and films can be produced and sold freely in the UK and a new industry is starting to emerge. "The Seven Secrets to Perfect Porn" follows the work of Max Lincoln, who took the opportunity to start his own movie company, Eurocreme, in the UK to make porn to challenge the American and European dominance of hardcore films.

The language of anti-terrorism takes an unexpected form in this seductive propaganda video, which scores George W. Bush's notorious Patriotic Act of 2001 to Celine Dion's Love Theme to Titanic.

A non-linear rumination of catching oneself between the headlights of cowardice and conviction. Subtly confrontational for those who can never seem to stay, nor fully walk away, featuring music by Rae Spoon.

A love story torn between two men. Tragedy is lurking under the surface of deliberately kitschy images: if I can’t hold someone, I must devour him.

Night vs. light, music vs. motion, figuration vs. abstraction. Experimental video artist Max Hattler utilises distorted urban imagery and neon glare to create this entrancing short