Emma Calder Movies

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

The story of married animators, John Halas and Joy Batchelor. A Jewish emigre from Hungary and a working class woman from Watford, England, John and...

A film commissioned and conceived by the artist Eduardo Paolozzi using drawings and photocopies provided by him. A non-narrative film focusing on...

Despite a gap of nearly two thousand years, Boudica remains at the forefront of the public imagination. Her story has been passed down the...

The parody of the famous agent thriller is a production of The Japanese American Toy Theatre of London. The cast was recruited solely from a toy...

Inspired by Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta, The Queen's Monastery is about a woman whose lover, a former acrobat, has returned to her from war a changed...

Using powerful imagery, black humour, and a liberal helping of appalling bad taste, the directors set out to draw people's attention to the state of...

A film about the pressure which society puts upon people to project different images, particularly the image of success. Through the medium of potato...

A pair of Siamese Twins live and work as part of a travelling fair. One dreams of being a rock and roll star, while the other dreams of scoring the...

A woman with extreme anxiety is devoured by four major preoccupations - the man she met by chance on a train, her dying father, her daughter's...

An animated theatre of dismembered people, beasts and ghosts, dance, tumble, make love and tear themselves apart, a nightmarish subconscious world,...

A range of drawing techniques are used to explore themes of domestic alienation and romantic fantasy about housewives, hoovering, bingo halls and a...

Animated paper cut-outs. An amusing interpretation of the traditional Yorkshire circular song. A man goes courting on Ilkla Moor without his hat,...

An itinerant drummer boy is visited in his sleep by a beautiful princess. She requests his help in escaping from an evil witch who has entrapped her...