Four Mations Movies

A humorous and thought-provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.

Animation set in the Middle Ages.

British animation short from Paul Vester.

A bilious misanthrope finds enlightment via heaven, hell and the kitchen cupboard.

A man's repeated attempts to retrieve an apple off a high tree branch all prove fruitless. What does he want the apple for? That would be telling.

A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest.

A topsy-turvy world.

A narrator relates the Japanese tale of two lovers who defy their families and society to be together. The tale ends happily, until something happens...

Darkly humorous variation on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice, looking at the motives for the farmer's wife's murderous assault on the eponymouse he...

The travelogue is mobilised again by animator Lesley Keen in Burrellesque, commissioned for Glasgow’s European Capital of Culture 1990 programme. Drif...

Answers questions such as "How many kinds of insects are there?" "Do insects have blood?" "How can a fly walk on the ceiling?"

A man with a gun for a head and two conjoined twins share a prison cell.

During a violent electrical storm, a space-travelling metal cockerel crash-lands in a chicken farmer's field. He brings with him the grand promise of...

Documentary about the abstract filmmaker.

A part-time musician gets off his day job as a window washer for a disturbing apartment complex to a gig for a charity event. The rich arrive, and the...

A young boy struggles with bed-wetting. He is pleased to awaken one night to a dry bed, but terrors await him on his trip to the bathroom in the middl...

The last hundred years of Marxism, as seen through the eyes of animator Pavel Koutský.

A young man in prison is interviewed and talks about his life, how he got into prison, and what it's like doing time.

Animator Pavel Koutský's portrait of the man in the street; just an animal.

The morning shift at a big-city radio station.