Royal College of Art

The fear of being overwhelmed by the outside world can literally make you lose your head.

The bizarre rituals and disturbing characters found in Liverpool's Casablanca Nightclub.

Nestor, a man with several obsessive-compulsive behaviours lives in an unstable houseboat which never stops oscillating.

Joe is preparing to leave home, triggering flashbacks to his time with childhood friend Neill, through fun times, adventures, divisions when a girl comes on the scene and also the bad path that Neill goes down.

Made when the director was at the Royal College of Art, an animated film illustrating that life is made up of a succession of meeting and partings.

A short film based on the true story of Nigel, the lonely gannet of Mana Island who hopelessly fell in love with a concrete statue. His tragic tale of idealisation and delusion shows us a reflection of our own misconceptions in love. MA Graduation film from Royal College of Art, London.

Prey is a short story about a love-hate relationship. A young girl in her early twenties is faced with her mother’s sickness and impending death, which appears in the shape of a black lion. The girl goes through dramatic emotional transformations throughout the film – from loving care to frustration, unwanted feeling of hate and, finally, acceptance and peace.

A woman is erotically charged by a man’s chain necklace, but is she just crazy?

This BAFTA nominated short depicts a serendipitous journey in which a lone fisher is united with a form of estranged matter.

My mother recalls her parents' uniquely long relationship -- one made strong by their daily habit of playing cribbage together.

How do mermaids give birth and where are the lines between creature and human?

Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

Alternating Super-8, digital footage and the correspondence with her brother, the filmmaker evokes their deceased mother and the Portuguese revolution, which she only gets to know through these diffracted memories.

Ostia is a fascinating short film directed by Julian Cole and produced for the Royal College of Art, which reconstructs the events leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Ostia relocates the proceedings to London and stars Derek Jarman as Pasolini. The film features an evocative dream sequence which is accompanied by poignant excerpts from Pasolini’s own poetry, as read by Jarman.

A mixed-media biography of a fictional animation tycoon.

Do you remember when we met? You were brilliant, witty, gorgeous to look at...something's changed. Julia Pott's animated short from the Royal College of Art 2010

Hurricane Irma is coming. In the calm before the storm on the Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe a little girl is getting excited.

In the future, technology may change, but the patterns and routines of daily life stay constant, until we disrupt them. A short animation by Matthias Hoegg.

Moments of lost self-control.

A young lad is wracked with guilt after believing that he has killed his friend.