Royal College of Art, School of Film & Television

Stop-motion animation made in the Royal College of Art.

An allegorical tale, using cut-out animation of two people, male and female; their expulsion from Eden, their journey through life, and their ultimate fate in hell.

Revelers mingle, drink, and dance at a street carnival.

Short animated student film from the Royal College of Art. The Nativity story is retold using the format of a western. Santa kidnaps the baby sheriff and the three brothers Wise set off to get him back.

Heartless? Not old Ramsey Chadwick. He's befriended his own talking blood pump.

In a city seemingly full of happy people, one young woman walks about with a small dark cloud directly over her head. It follows her up the stairs and into her apartment. She tries slamming the door on it, getting rid of it with a vacuum cleaner, and dumping it in someone else's shopping cart. But the cloud doesn't leave her, until she meets a young man who has his own sunshine. Is love the way she's going to get rid of her cloud? Or will change have to happen from within?

A animated mixed-media music video of a prisioner who is in a chest of drawers breaks out of his cell.

Strange short animation.

An animated short film that follows a man and his struggle with his identity, projected anxieties and relationships over the course of an evening. He has to contend with his insecurities with being seen with another man and his fear as feathers start to grow from his body.

Stop-motion animated film produced on the first year of the animation course at the RCA.

An epicene angel flutters its wings and smokes a cigarette in this ejaculatory study of frustration, torment, stupidity and insolence. With Cerith Wyn Evans as the angel and music by Michael Nyman. Made at the Royal College of Art.

Bob Bentley's Royal College of Art degree film, produced in 1969/70. It explores aspects of his life in a deliberately puzzling manner, influenced by French New Wave cinema.

A SHORT FILM ABOUT MEMORY, EMIGRATION, LONGING, JESUS KITSCH, COCKTAIL SAUSAGES AND CHILDREN’S TELEVISION