Movies: Royal College Of Art

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....

The classic Shakespeare play in a way you've never seen....

A young boy and his father live in a dull, lonely house with the shadow of mourning hanging over them both. The boy misses his mother but gets no comfort from his father's assertions that she went peacefully. This tragedy is added to by the family do...

Moments of lost self-control....

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 Pa...

A mammoth is defrosted into an unrecognisable future....

When the long-awaited dream dies, the reality begins to circle around us and encage us in the claustrophobic space of our fears and distorting anxiety....

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....

After a woman is responsible for a hit and run, spooky things starts to happen to her. A small thriller about people that are not always the best at making decisions....

A man becomes a social outcast when he refuses to give up breathing...

Night vs. light, music vs. motion, figuration vs. abstraction. Experimental video artist Max Hattler utilises distorted urban imagery and neon glare to create this entrancing short...

A film commissioned and conceived by the artist Eduardo Paolozzi using drawings and photocopies provided by him. A non-narrative film focusing on Paolozzi's themes about modern man....

18 year old Em goes on a journey, with biscuits from her grandmother that she eats and shares with new friends. When down to her last biscuit, Em has to make a choice: eat it, or save it as a final link to her home....

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...

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 jour...

If you repeat the word 'fly' for long enough it sounds like you are saying 'life'. This is of no help to Peter. His answers lie in the brain of the beetle....

An episodic meditation on a woman's breast - from feeding to cancer....

In this short, surreal, painterly comedy, Laura escapes from her superstitious worries by floating out at sea on her bed. On a sunny Friday 13th, all her troubles return....

It all started with a picture taken in 1974 in Lisbon, just after the Portuguese Revolution. She, the Revolution Hunter, tries to enter in that picture as if she could enter into a time she didn't belong and finally understand what it means to be par...

Their last dinner before he leaves to join the Army. The reality of the situation begins to break in through the four surrounding walls....