Eric Wareheim presents the best creative shorts, from pupil-dilating claymation to Jake and Dinos Chapman's apocalyptic history of the world and Hollie McNish's acerbic film on public breastfeeding
More of the world's best creative shorts. Hollyoaks star Calvin Demba spits amusing lyrics about the morning after the night before. Plus: a beautiful performance from Beck and more.
More of the world's best creative shorts, including fantastical animations, an evocative snapshot of life in Huddersfield in a music video for Darkstar, and a scintillating art film from the Balkans
More of the world's best creative short films, including a music video that creates drama from an emoticon and creative editing. Filmmaker Rosa Fisher discusses her animation Conformity Juice.
More of the world's best creative shorts. Aerial photography explores the boundaries of art, science and technology. A striking creative short captures the beauty of the human body.
More of the world's best creative shorts. This episode showcases a music video premiere for James Righton's new project, Shock Machine, directed by Simon Amstell.
This episode takes viewers on a journey from futuristic folk grime and zombies to a very dramatic trip to the carwash with Shia LaBeouf
More of the world's best creative short films, from a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story shot entirely by drones, to the world premiere of Roadkill, a gripping drama from Reggie Yates
More of the world's best creative films, from a supersaturated satire on the future of data storage to a deliciously noir comedy about a downtrodden husband who has an epiphany when he orders takeaway
More of the world's best creative films, from a paranormal dark comedy inspired by a woman who thought her toaster was haunted, to a beautiful quasi-documentary about living for well over 100 years
An indigenous Australian man comes face to face with a horrifying spectacle in an exhibition in Victorian London. Plus: a powerful animation about Greek fishermen rescuing refugees, and much more.
More creative films, including the video for the track Zayn Malik, by Riz Ahmed's rap group Swet Shop Boys, and Jam!, which takes the concept of food porn to a beyond-logical conclusion
The first episode in the new series features balloon art battles on the Yorkshire Moors, a kinky oil slick in a pristine art gallery, and pole dancing reinvented. Plus new work from acclaimed visual artist Hannah Perry.
Including voyeurism in Kiev, funky modern soul from musician Kwaye and animation about two friends experiencing life differently due to the shade of their skin. Plus: a fashion film by... Zawe Ashton.
Goldie makes his directorial debut. The city's dark corners come to life. A nibble on forbidden fruit unlocks the dawning of consciousness. Plus: supermarket awkwardness from cartoonist Babak Ganjei.
Zawe Ashton hosts the third series of Channel 4's late-night, post-pub home for the world's craziest and most creative short films, from brand new talent and more established names, and from music to animation, dance, visual art, spoken word and uncategorisable creative brilliance. A panda does unspeakable things to our brains, a pair of swimming champs are seriously in sync, and life flashes before our eyes in Vienna. Plus: a new Jarman Award shortlisted film from Welsh visual artist Bedwyr Williams.
Zawe Ashton hosts the third series of Channel 4's late-night, post-pub home for the world's craziest and most creative short films, from brand new talent and from more established names, and from music to animation, dance, visual art, spoken word and uncategorisable creative brilliance. This episode features crashing toga parties. Plus: reimagining Shakespeare with Selma's David Oyelowo, submerging random objects in the deep blue sea, and a cheeky Blade Runner riff in Like Teardrops in the Rain.
Zawe Ashton hosts the third series of Channel 4's late-night, post-pub home for the world's craziest and most creative short films, from brand new talent and from more established names, and from music to animation, dance, visual art, spoken word and uncategorisable creative brilliance. This episode features rabbit assassins, the underground world of gangster dentistry in a Miami housing project, a nightmare direct from an artist's dream journal, and an anthropomorphic vagina.
Bafta Award-winning actor Monica Dolan battles a killer houseplant, and poet Simon Armitage shares his final words.
Young people's laureate Caleb Femi smashes preconceptions. Dancing meets architecture at the Barbican. Plus: a kids-only dystopia. And trees fight back in a trippy animation.
Musician Laura Marling catches comedian Tim Key's eye. A performance poet has a stern word with her pelvis pal in Ode to a Fuckboi. And find out exactly how to be rad.
Misfits charmer Robert Sheehan is down and out in LA, Bafta Award-winner Duncan Cowles flogs stock footage for cold hard cash. And, in a single-take experiment, a Chelsea supporter enters frame left.
Modern philosopher Alain de Botton explains how to recount your dreams. Plus: the greatest library you've never seen, a gruesome waking nightmare set in a circus, and more.
Including Jarman prize-winner Heather Phillipson's love letter to her pet pooch. A teenager finger-swipes her way into digital oblivion. Plus: a sexy doughnut that's just asking to be eaten.
This episode conjures up internet cats like you've never seen them before, a jazz ensemble made entirely of bird puppets, a Peckham auntie who reclaims the streets on horseback, and opera reimagined as a partially-nude fantasia. Plus: the menstrual underworld awaits in an animated music video for Swedish punk ShitKid.
A visual artist lights up a ghost town, west African folklore meets fashion film, an insta-perfect life is a waking nightmare, and Noel Fielding plays a dying angel. Plus: Maki Yokishura's family-friendly doggy delights, and an inclusive dance group animated in powerful stop motion.
This episode features painterly animation and the first dance filmed in Antarctica. Social media gives an animator the blues, bodies collide in new configurations in an elegant movement piece, and there's a vivid reflection of a fractured mind. Plus: cut-out animation of a gender-neutral plant.
A collaboration between ballet dancer Sophie Rebecca and poet Ash Palmisciano. Plus: teenage anxiety creates a glitch in the system, Botis Seva explores parenthood through dance, a teenager confronts her doppelgangers, an impactful artwork examines gun violence, and Bernard Cribbins narrates a visual deep-dive into woodland nostalgia.
This episode includes a short film by Debbie Tucker Green made to the sounds of a little-known Cocteau Twins B-side. A magical tapestry comes to life, Brooklyn-based animator Qieer Wang provides a champagne bath for our emotions, a young filmmaker smashes the state with a capitalist parable, and the daily grind becomes a Welsh-language poem with Osian Rhys Jones.
This episode includes a romantic dance-off and a surreal animated creature feature. A New Zealand artist examines post-colonial land claims, a swimming pool receives some uninvited guests at night, and pink balloons are in hot pursuit of a young woman.
A sitcom with Asa Butterfield and Adam Buxton turns into a bloodbath, an artist gets a Botox injection in the throat, and a pair of frisky fingers find love
A VHS stand-up routine becomes an existential nightmare, a pensioner tries to overcome her past in Newcastle, and some tiny tea cups help a relationship blossom
A trip to the dentist becomes a unique and startling experience, there's a split-screen dance with a selfie twist, and Neil Maskell stars in a heart-breaking drama
A champagne cork is weaponised in an acute observation of modern relationships. Adham Faramawy gives make-up tutorials an unnerving update. A dance piece syncs up with sunlight.
A tribute to a teapot turns into a rave, Adjoa Andoh narrates Arctic poetry, and Geoffrey McGivern becomes a new Big Brother. Plus: the ultimate heavy metal knitting circle.
Including five of the strangest animated creations. Plus: Lily Cole and Lily McMenamy in a model utopia. And the series finishes with the end of the world.
Wither is a dance film from Antoine Marc that explores the complexity of identities, and the ever-evolving state of being that defines who we are.
From young people's laureate for London Theresa Lola, comes the story of a young girl in search of a superpower to help fight her anxiety and depression.
The short film strand dedicated to the arts returns with a collection of exciting new films from cutting-edge Black filmmakers. Showing as part of Channel 4's programming for Black History Month.
The short film strand dedicated to the arts returns with exciting works from cutting-edge Black filmmakers. David Alexander explores the 24 hours after the passing of his father.
Shades explores the diversity of thought within Black culture against structural racism
Ivan Michael Blackstock's film explores the Black mental health experience. A moving portrait reflecting on escapism and entrapment via archetypal symbolism and street culture.
While at the beach, a family navigates the continued bloody legacy of the global slave trade.
A new run of the world’s best creative short films begins with Kate Caryer’s striking modern fable of two women, disability, personal freedom and power.
1982: disqualified from a job by an ableist Job Centre, Nicholas dreams of an alternative, fairer, much more musical world for him and fellow disabled jobseekers.
Modern British Asian stories and experiences explored - this time via music track Zayn Malik, by Riz Ahmed's rap group Swet Shop Boys.
Random Acts explores British Asian stories. This episode is an ode to the unsung hero of local communities, the cornershop boss.
As Random Acts explores British Asian stories, this short film follows one woman's journey from an arranged marriage in 1980s India to life on a London council estate raising three children.
Why does the word 'lesbian' feel toxic to some queer women? Lesbian - a powerful poetry film by spoken word artist Lisa Luxx and director Rosemary Baker - is a call to arms to take the word back.
Wither is a dance film from Antoine Marc that explores the complexity of identities, and the ever-evolving state of being that defines who we are
From young people's laureate for London Theresa Lola, comes the story of a young girl in search of a superpower to help fight her anxiety and depression
