British Film Institute Production Board Movies

A wasp exterminator travels to a large stately home to deal with a wasp infestation problem. However when he arrives he is greeted by a dysfunctional,...

The words to the Paul McCartney-penned Beatles classic Penny Lane are vividly illustrated in this short montage film, released in the same year as the...

An imaginative examination of the Superman myth, using animated collages of re-tinted photographs and featuring the world’s first superhero who’s par...

Experimental film consisting of two super-imposed (in camera),continuous looping camera movements across a short stretch of the English Channel. A li...

Shot in Turf Lodge, a Catholic estate in West Belfast, this documentary explores the everyday life of the community, particularly its women, and how t...

Captures the peculiar, Python-esque events that follow after a young man gets his hand stuck in a letter box.

Documentary which looks at the history of the welfare state in Britain, from the point of view of women. Using 1940's newsreels to examine the picture...

About animation itself, in which a live-action man's movements are mimicked by means of various animated techniques.

Fantasy about a sailor and a mermaid using an animated paper sculpture.

Capoeira is a Brazilian dance performed to African-based music. In a personal film collaboration between two friends, a part documentary, part docu-dr...

World hunger: this partly animated film points out the connections between surplus and famine. It shows a game of chance being played across continent...

Traces independent filmmaking in 1930s Britain, focused on coverage of political marches and rallies. Essay film, formed from the archives of the Film...

Sunflowers, seen as a life source, with their life cycle visually equated with that of humans.

The world seen as a vast carnival, in which the clowns imitate the greed and avarice of human beings. Experimental animation film, using cut-out figur...

A day in a park, from the gates opening to their closure at dusk.

Sparse chapters from a mysterious, lonely life are witnessed from a passing train.

It’s all me, me, me – this experimental animation on the Self wittily wraps up Jung and old philosophies in a Paul Klee-inspired design.

Gusts of wind on Hampstead Heath give shape to an exploratory film that seeks to present landscape in a different way.

The introspective, existential Sixties distilled into just eight minutes; modish young men look brooding and beautiful as they inwardly reflect on the...

A distinctive animated short inspired by Irish folk tales, made with assistance from the BFI Production Board. Set “long ago when men lived in caves”...