Our first shorts selection is roughly themed around ‘films-about-film’ - but it’s less navel-gazing than that might sound, and manages to cover coming-of-age comedy, super 8 experiments, nostalgia, slapstick and Bolshevik...

We’ve been meaning to do a programme like this for ages, and the 400th anniversary of Galileo first pointing his telescope at the sky seems as good a time as any. From Georges Melies onwards filmmakers have been looking upwards for inspiration...

A series of short film postcards, with the filmmaker using their camera to get under the skin of a place and explore their own response to it. Green Path Ahead of You Me Him Her Us Them and All (dir: NaoKo Takahashi) has a mouthful of a...

Joy was last seen a few days ago, walking across the park towards the woods in a yellow coat. One of her class-mates at college, Helen, is asked to play the role of Joy in a police reconstruction. As time goes on she develops a strong...

Last year 7 Inch Cinema were invited to come up with something crafty to complement the ‘Fabric of Myth’ exhibition at Compton Verney, and Knitflicks was the result. Traversing the globe, all 15 shorts, animations and music...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in partnership with ScreenWM is proud to present a screening of the nominated short animated films from the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2009. The award is open to entries from the UK only, with hundreds of short...

A programme of experimental film and new media art including work by Lis Rhodes and Guy Sherwin. Curated by Darryl Georgiou, and first shown at the Herbert in Coventry last year...

A special Flatpack edition of Shorts on Walls, an occasional gathering convened by Animation Forum WM where animators from the region have a chance to chinwag and introduce examples of their work. Choice titles include a selection from the recent...

We’ve already had cats and mice, and now here’s a whole herd of animal films...

When not designing things like the Flatpack brochure Dave Gaskarth puts on events as part of the Cyrk collective, exploring the outer reaches of noise and computer music. This programme, exploring the intersection between experimental film...

As with the last Flatpack, we close the lid on our shorts programmes with a round-up of some of the best animation we’ve come across recently...

The end! Watch the weekend gently slide away in the company of live guests July Skies and an unofficial 'best of the fest'. Presented in association with Colour...