Keyword Four Mations

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The morning shift at a big-city radio station.

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

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

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

British animation short from Paul Vester.

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

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

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.

A topsy-turvy world.

Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.

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!

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

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

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.