Films produced by Finetake Productions

A man in mid-life looks back on memory, ambition, disappointment and the teachers he looked up to. An animate! commission for Channel 4 and the Arts...

A maid and her mistress in an Edward Hopper hotel, in a jazz-inflected piece about women's solitude and swapped identities, mixing live action and...

Algren and no De Beauvoir makes Nelson a sad boy in these letters from America. An affair to remember, with distance – initially – no...

A merman who lives beneath a fairy-tale forest, dying of thirst, seeks out a lonely girl whose tears fill his bathtub with sea water. A dark love...

A vivid imagination can offer a seductive distraction from life’s duties. Showers of twisted fantasies, associations and flashbacks turn in...

In an office world of half light, flickering fluorescent tubing, ringing phones and monotonous paperwork, the residents sit trapped in a state of...

Created through a process of close collaboration between director, performer and crew, this thoroughly eccentric and stylistically original film does...

A tale of lost innocence, greed and the random justice of nature. When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities...

A young boy's games lead him into an uncanny dreamworld. This film uses intricate digital effects to create Chinese boxes; worlds within worlds.

Mixed animation and live action techniques tell the stories of those with a schizophrenic parent, childhood scenes in which everyday events gradually...

Sam Moore's Doubled Up tells of the shock and awe of finding out she was expecting twins. The film is an opulent and multi-faceted song of love,...

A time-lapse animation film about the disorientating and unsettling filmic space that occurs on the screen from an upside down view.

A collection of bizarrely original animated stories from scripts written by young children. Emulating the approach of New York’s 52nd Street...

Who I Am And What I Want is a 7 minute animated short directed by Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley in 2005. Based on the David Shrigley book of the...

A fugitive escape path across five interlinked spaces - city, motorway, forest, coast and sea - using pen and ink drawn interventions into a live...

An account of the creation of a nine-year-old ‘defective’ animated character. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis...

Flat Earth weaves material found online, taking us on an extraordinary 7-minute journey around the world as seen through the eyes of bloggers.

The tale of a quest to free Napoleon Bonaparte from exile on the island of St Helena, including fresh insight into the mystery of The Emperor's...

A retelling of the Biblical story of Judith and Holofernes, exploring female aggression and the links between war and sexual desire.

An over-protective mother sends her seven-year-old daughter out to post a letter. Knocked off course, the girl wanders a drawn landscape of hanging...