Retrospective
EMMA CALDER

A man courts a woman on Ilkla Moor without his hat. He catches a cold and dies. He’s buried and gets eaten by worms. The worms are eaten by ducks. Finally, the ducks are eaten by the man's friends. Paper cut-outs bring the traditional Yorkshire song to life.

A film about the societal pressure to project different images, particularly the image of success. Through potato printing, we see Madame Potatoe retreat into the earth, leaving her image to continue on its own increasingly exploitative path.

Part woman, part vacuum cleaner, what do these effeminate cyborgs have to say about alienation and the gendered hierarchies we inhabit? A witty and offbeat probing of loss, obsession, desperation and fear.

Inspired by Leoš Janácek’s 'Sinfonietta', a woman's lover a former acrobat returns from war a changed man. Using a highly individual watercolour technique the narrative explores themes of love, escapist fantasy, obsession and guilt.

A random person tears her new American Tan tights. Her mother had warned her about wearing those tights to school. A stream of consciousness poem, through which a frightening true story emerges.

Absurd and idiosyncratic, a random person encounters her lover in the woods. Told through stop motion, the queen of collage dramatizes a fading memory.

Am I dead yet? A random person pretends to be a vampire, but she seems to have lost the plot.

A random person cannot choose between her two boyfriends, so she tosses a coin. An absurdist take on recreation and procreation.

Commissioned by Norfolk Museums, the film shows Boudica and the Iceni tribes’ rebellion against the Romans in 1st century Britain. After 2000 years, Boudica remains at the forefront of the public imagination, perpetually reincarnated through myth and new archeological evidence.

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

A random person's body is worn out. She wants a new one.

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 safety and the murder she dreams she has committed.