Most Viewed From BFI Experimental Film Fund

The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.

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...

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...

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...

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

Animation. Part of Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days", depicting scenes in the Reform Club and Phineas Fogg's adventures in India.

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

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

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

The story of the evolution of life on Earth in animated form.

A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes.

An unemployed black student borrows ten shillings from a friend, then lends the money to a musician he has just met.

An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.

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...

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

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

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

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

A child discovers her ambition on her first day at a new school. First act of a three-act ballet, "The Choice", with music by Tchaikovsky.

A BFI production from 1964, directed by David Gladwell, who is best known as an editor of films like Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968) and O Lucky...