Documentary about learning stand-up comedy. Starring the author as the brave/stupid guinea pig, how much could he improve in two gigs? It features interviews with some of Britain’s best-loved comedians… Lee Mack, Micky Flanagan, Milton Jones, Jo Brand, Ed Byrne, Tim Vine, Arthur Smith, Hugh Dennis, Rhod Gilbert, Greg Davies, Russell Kane, Russell Howard, Stephen [...]

Statesmen is a portrait of three American men and their relationship with the world around them. Donny is a 60-year old paper boy, Mike makes his living fishing for crabs, and Don Mike whiles away his time in a trailer shooting squirrels. Three different backgrounds, three different states; each narrative reveals embers of the old [...]

Both funny and illuminating, this documentary short gives a voice to people who feel that they are at the sharp end of modern Britain. Take a trip to the seaside town of Southsea, an area steeped in both history and tradition. There we meet life-long residents and attraction owners who battle against the erosion of [...]

Fun, emotive and engaging, All About Dad is an autobiographical and thought provoking short film by director Ben Thompson. The film focuses on three unconventional fathers who reveal their own personal journeys into fatherhood. The film features testimonials from Mike Armitage who becomes a father for the fifth time at the age of 71, Johnny [...]

The most intelligent serial murderers can be the most dangerous. Edmund Kemper, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, and Randy Kraft all showed genius-level IQs, and their extraordinary intellect allowed them to kill for years-sometimes decades-without getting caught. Where do the lines of evil and intelligence intersect? Armed with new scientific discoveries on early brain development, Dr. Stone [...]

Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn some time ago. The best accounts agree that he emerged on Earth as Herman Blount, born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914, although Sun Ra himself always denied that Blount was his surname. He returned to Saturn in 1993 after creating a stunningly variegated and beautiful assemblage of [...]

Talks and Q&A Meetings at Brockwood Park, 1982. Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in Madanapalle, a small town in south India. He and his brother were adopted in their youth by Dr Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society. Dr Besant and others proclaimed that Krishnamurti was to be a world [...]

Rule Britannia scours the UK to partake of all the sordid offerings of this green, pleasant and messed-up land. Under the surface of Swansea, things are a little different than it initially looks. Here they befriend a gang of young addicts caught up in South Wales’ largely ignored heroin epidemic. We find topless fire-breathing dance [...]

Chronos is an abstract film made in 1985 and directed by Ron Fricke, created with custom-built time-lapse cameras. Chronos has no actors or dialog. The soundtrack consists of a single continuous piece by composer Michael Stearns. Filmed in dozens of locations on five continents, the film relates to the concept of time passing on different [...]