Emma Calder Movies
- 2019
The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor
The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor02019HD
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...
- 2018
Secrets of British Animation
Secrets of British Animation62018HD
BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...
- 2022
Beware of Trains
Beware of Trains02022HD
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...
- 2016
Roger Ballen's Theatre of Apparitions
Roger Ballen's Theatre of Apparitions72016HD
An animated theatre of dismembered people, beasts and ghosts, dance, tumble, make love and tear themselves apart, a nightmarish subconscious world,...
- 2013
Boudica: A Norfolk Story
Boudica: A Norfolk Story02013HD
Despite a gap of nearly two thousand years, Boudica remains at the forefront of the public imagination. Her story has been passed down the...
- 1988
James Bonk in Matt Blackfinger
James Bonk in Matt Blackfinger01988HD
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...
- 1983
1984
198401983HD
A film commissioned and conceived by the artist Eduardo Paolozzi using drawings and photocopies provided by him. A non-narrative film focusing on...
- 1981
Ilkla Moor Baht Hat
Ilkla Moor Baht Hat01981HD
Animated paper cut-outs. An amusing interpretation of the traditional Yorkshire circular song. A man goes courting on Ilkla Moor without his hat,...
- 1989
The Turd Family go on Holiday
The Turd Family go on Holiday01989HD
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...
- 1989
The Drummer
The Drummer01989HD
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...
- 1983
Madame Potatoe
Madame Potatoe01983HD
A film about the pressure which society puts upon people to project different images, particularly the image of success. Through the medium of potato...
- 1986
Springfield
Springfield01986HD
A range of drawing techniques are used to explore themes of domestic alienation and romantic fantasy about housewives, hoovering, bingo halls and a...
- 1992
The Kings of Siam
The Kings of Siam01992HD
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...
- 1998
The Queen's Monastery
The Queen's Monastery21998HD
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...