The Map Makers

The cruelty of confinement and the struggle for liberation contained within in hand-drawn animation and archival footage.

An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Africa and Asia.

A new formation of history that includes the fantastical as well as the political in the context of Britain’s decolonial process in Kenya and during the Cold War.

Important events like Tunisia’s Independence Day might be in the past, but we may need to access them in counter-intuitive ways.

An imagining of lost films from the Nigerian Film Unit archive, with distinctive soundscapes, juxtaposed with images of the abandoned interior and exteriors of the building that housed it.

Re-worked footage from an unfinished film by Senegalese director Mamadou Johnny Sekka forms a re-examination of The Jackson 5’s 1974 trip to Dakar.

Arkita believes herself to be be modern, liberal and independent. An unprecedented encounter with a transgender sex worker questions her beliefs.

Martin Gorham presents a video update to his staff, outlining some of his department's past achievements and upcoming challenges.

In a madcap musical, a 'cat'-stronaut travels the galaxy looking for the meaning of life and encounters a space pup eager to help.

A longer version of the famously icky anti-smoking promo in which cigarettes ooze fat.

“If you care, show it” - is the message to encourage voting in the Scottish elections, long before the galvanising independence referendum of 2014.

A South Asian gaze on representation, inequality and discrimination in UK film and TV, set against the backdrop of the casting room.