BFI Experimental Film Fund

The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London's East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond of friendship.

A documentary feature with Basil Spence explaining, with the aid of a model, the concepts behind the design of the new Coventry Cathedral to replace the one destroyed during WWII.

A montage of the night-life of Piccadilly Circus across the hours, from early evening to the last lingering passers-by.

Short drama-documentary showing the first day in England of a Hungarian refugee.

When a young poet hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass-media spectacle, he finds that his subversive intentions are quickly diluted into a reactionary gesture.

Experimental gothic short, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'.

In Separation - of what from what? Sound, image; cause, consequence; people? The breaking apart of a relationship is exteriorised far beyond the taut emotional inner worlds of a young Brighton couple in this highly concentrated, sharp 60s short.

A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as he imagines he is the only person in the world...

A documentary feature looking at examples of Barbara Hepworth's sculpture set against the Cornish settings that inspired them.

On a summer's day, a group of children improvise a circus at an abandoned farm in Suffolk.

Story of a man in prison, condemned to death, and his subsequent execution. Inspired by "Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde.

Sensitive portrait of a boy with Down syndrome, and the small village that includes him.

Focuses on the drawings by Marguerite Bonnevay who lived in a village outside Paris at the turn of the century.

A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and follows the angel into a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist's model - the ANGEL. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot - supposedly to heaven-and reappears to restore Amelia's joy with a pair of wings.

A film fantasy concerning the adventures of a modern girl whose passion for peaches is eventu­ally replaced by a very different type of passion.

This is a picture that paints a picture, in appealing colour, of the life and times of the children of late '50s London.

England of Thomas Rowlandson's day, seen through his drawings and cartoons.

A musical performed by schoolchildren from a secondary modern (Markfield) in North London, combining lively dance to the sounds from a transistor radio, and the automative actions of a production line to the monotonous music of the sewing machines.

A group of art-school students hold a party.

I now pronounce you... animated! Newlyweds meet a nuisance in an playful mix of cartoon comedy and real-life actors, including Roobarb legend Bob Godfrey.