Bfi Experimental Film Fund Movies

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

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

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...

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...

A documentary feature with Basil Spence explaining, with the aid of a model, the concepts behind the design of the new Coventry Cathedral to replace...

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

In Separation - of what from what? Sound, image; cause, consequence; people? The breaking apart of a relationship is exteriorised far beyond the taut...

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...

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

Sensitive portrait of a boy with Down syndrome, and the small village that includes him.

A documentary feature looking at examples of Barbara Hepworth's sculpture set against the Cornish settings that inspired them.

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

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

Focuses on the drawings by Marguerite Bonnevay who lived in a village outside Paris at the turn of the century.

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.

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

A musical performed by schoolchildren from a secondary modern (Markfield) in North London, combining lively dance to the sounds from a transistor...

This is a picture that paints a picture, in appealing colour, of the life and times of the children of late '50s London.

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...