Films produced by Animate

A man in mid-life looks back on memory, ambition, disappointment and the teachers he looked up to. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts...

A maid and her mistress in an Edward Hopper hotel, in a jazz-inflected piece about women's solitude and swapped identities, mixing live action and...

A merman who lives beneath a fairy-tale forest, dying of thirst, seeks out a lonely girl whose tears fill his bathtub with sea water. A dark love...

Mixed animation and live action techniques tell the stories of those with a schizophrenic parent, childhood scenes in which everyday events gradually...

Algren and no De Beauvoir makes Nelson a sad boy in these letters from America. An affair to remember, with distance – initially – no...

Construed in the time of running clouds, a panoramic and another examination of vacant buildings on the British shore (Orford Ness), a deserted place...

Created through a process of close collaboration between director, performer and crew, this thoroughly eccentric and stylistically original film does...

A strange, funny and erotic walk through the growing-up of a contemporary male sexuality, from childhood friendship through puberty to a contented...

Who I Am And What I Want is a 7 minute animated short directed by Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley in 2005. Based on the David Shrigley book of the...

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

A vivid imagination can offer a seductive distraction from life’s duties. Showers of twisted fantasies, associations and flashbacks turn in...

Sam Moore's Doubled Up tells of the shock and awe of finding out she was expecting twins. The film is an opulent and multi-faceted song of love,...

The tale of a quest to free Napoleon Bonaparte from exile on the island of St Helena, including fresh insight into the mystery of The Emperor's...

A time-lapse animation film about the disorientating and unsettling filmic space that occurs on the screen from an upside down view.

Short stop motion animation Directed by Paul Bush

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

"An Anatomy of Melancholy" is a cinematic meditation on mortality which takes the form of a special anatomy book - one in the process of being made....

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...

‘A few drops of pond water rich in bottom sediments, seen under a microscope can quickly confirm the existence of another world. This is the...

A display at the strange and wonderful artifacts in a collection of medical curiosities.

A man in mid-life looks back on memory, ambition, disappointment and the teachers he looked up to. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts...

A maid and her mistress in an Edward Hopper hotel, in a jazz-inflected piece about women's solitude and swapped identities, mixing live action and...

A merman who lives beneath a fairy-tale forest, dying of thirst, seeks out a lonely girl whose tears fill his bathtub with sea water. A dark love...

Mixed animation and live action techniques tell the stories of those with a schizophrenic parent, childhood scenes in which everyday events gradually...