Arts Council England Movies

Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.

A tale of lost innocence, greed and the random justice of nature. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities l...

The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of CIA mind control experiments during the Cold War,...

In a world where water has become a scarce commodity, a young scavenger finds a source to satisfy her thirst.

“It can take years to get over the loss of a loved one, but it can take a few heartbeats to lose yourself.” Inspired by a childhood memory, artist and...

At home, an old woman tunes into the radio. As rain drips into the house, dark manifestations appear in her mind.

An art film about the campaign to save the Joiners Arms, the iconic queer pub in East London. Working directly with members of ‘Friends of the Joiner’...

From the lush and green grass of the Kazakh Steppe to the glorifying architecture of its capital, from its giant open-air mines to the traces of invis...

Miranda July looks back at her Artangel project, an interfaith charity shop that opened up unannounced inside one of the world's most famous departmen...

Filmmaker Tegan Pearce combines autobiographical spoken word and expressive visual direction to present a cinematic interpretation of autism.

Don’t Look at the Finger follows a ceremonial ‘fight’ between two protagonists, a man and a woman, in the grand architectural setting of a church. The...

A fugitive escape path across five interlinked spaces - city, motorway, forest, coast and sea - using pen and ink drawn interventions into a live acti...

This visually striking short film from director Kate Morrison combines exquisite production design, precise cinematography and committed performances...

John Berger is one of our most celebrated and respected writers and broadcasters. A former winner of the Booker Prize, he also wrote one of the most i...

'London Market eXcess' is a term used in the Lloyds insurance industry to describe the practice of re-insuring a policy over and over again, increasin...

In an office world of half light, flickering fluorescent tubing, ringing phones and monotonous paperwork, the residents sit trapped in a state of frus...

‘Wendy’ is a film response to the work of composer, electronic music innovator and polymath, Wendy Carlos. The work orbits a duet rehearsal for four h...

Njafweniko is a tender and tense short film about caring for a loved one suffering from mental health issues by First Acts filmmaker Emma Taonga Sayer...

Two figures wander the desolate Yorkshire Moors building colourful worlds around themselves. Absurdity ensues when their paths cross.

The Jump connects the widely recognised fantasy of Hollywood action and superhero films with the domestic setting of the artist’s British Indian famil...