Browse 162 movies from Royal College of Art
In this short film written and directed by Alexis Bisticas, the audience sees through the eyes of a man in the woods, following the distant sound of a saxophone. In a single take, the fluid steadicam shot takes the viewer on a surreal and poetic journey, as the walker comes across everything from family picnics to men in bondage suits.
Jun 1994
A boy plants a microphone in the sitting-room so that he can listen to his parents after going to bed at night.
Sep 1983
BAFTA award winning short animation. In this surrealist stop-motion picture, a sinister force awakens the restful sleep of a band of dead animals. Equipped with mystic weapons, they embark upon a dangerous quest to destroy this new evil.
Mar 1990
A down-to-earth portrait of art school life.
Jan 1988
Short animation by Shynola & Ruth Lingford
Jan 2002
Their last dinner before he leaves to join the Army. The reality of the situation begins to break in through the four surrounding walls.
Nov 2013
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.
Dec 1987
The classic Shakespeare play in a way you've never seen.
Jan 1976
Pariah is chained to a rock on a strip that hangs in space. The rock thinks he's there to help. Pariah thinks otherwise.
Jan 1994
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.
Feb 2023
Four in the morning, crapped out, yawning.
Jan 2013
A satirical film about modern British politics and tactics of distraction.
Jul 2020
An episodic meditation on a woman's breast - from feeding to cancer.
Jan 1992
The surreal story of Amber, a reluctant debutante, and her visits to the city zoo, where she hatches a plot to avoid her coming out ball.
Oct 1993
A young boy gets caught stealing a sheep and is shaved of all his hair and branded with a mark on his forehead so that everyone will know that he is a thief and not to be trusted. Dumped in the desert, the thief covers his marking with a headscarf and goes to the nearest village where he is taken in by a trusting family in return for his work. However, has be actually changed or is he still the same thief at heart?
May 1997
Kafkaesque story of man arrested and imprisoned for no reason, and then – in impressionistic style – forced to reflect on his life.
Jan 1971
An epic one-minute western. Who in the group dared to use the Boss's toothpaste?
Jan 1996
Victor is stuck in a low-budget airliner next to a shamelessly intrusive stranger. The crackling candy wrapper, the smacking of the lips, oh, he thinks, just give me a break. No, he doesn't want candy, thank you very much. Victor isn't hungry. But there's no escape, thirty-five thousand feet in the air. So, just keep breathing.
Aug 2023
A child, a cat, a starry night but, in this world of innocence, dream and magic, obscure forces of evil awaken. This animated short revolves around the adventures of a young, horned boy and a group of six devil-like vermin that can combine themselves to make one large creature.
Jan 1991
A man with a gun for a head and two conjoined twins share a prison cell.
Jan 1993