Animate Movies

A collection of bizarrely original animated stories from scripts written by young children. Emulating the approach of New York’s 52nd Street...

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

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

A solitary figure emerges out of seclusion to learn an ice-skating dance sequence. Set in a disorientating arena of shifting boundaries, structures...

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

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...

Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno. Well known for being a showman and a keen one...

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

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...

"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....

Built from the filmmaker's archive of newspaper clippings, an ironic look at how the press reports the deaths of children. An animate! commission for...

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

A black father and son discuss the ways in which popular myths have shaped their everyday experiences. Go West Young Man, created on an Amiga home...

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...

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

‘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...

In a traditional London eel and pie shop, lone diners stare into their dinners and each sees a private landscape in the food on the plate. An...

A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our demise, based on Philip Larkin’s poem of the same name.

At the party, humans, animals and other-worldly beings dance the night away.

Time-slice reconstructions of three reported incidents in which people and supposedly friendly animals meet badly: a postman kills a dog, a dog...