Emma Calder

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An experimental film made from the social media data of Richard Wright, an animator grappling with life threatening illness.

Love, sex, desire, trauma, fantasy, spiritual ideas and peace. The power of the brain, the subconscious. An end of life story, to give joy to herself...