Most Viewed From BFI Experimental Film Fund

A child discovers her ambition on her first day at a new school. First act of a three-act ballet, "The Choice", with music by Tchaikovsky.

England of Thomas Rowlandson's day, seen through his drawings and cartoons.

Focuses on the drawings by Marguerite Bonnevay who lived in a village outside Paris at the turn of the century.

An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.

A musical performed by schoolchildren from a secondary modern (Markfield) in North London, combining lively dance to the sounds from a transistor...

This interpretation of 13 cantos from the first part of Dante's The Divine Comedy is dedicated to Carl Koch and Lotte Reiniger, the husband-and-wife...

A BFI production from 1964, directed by David Gladwell, who is best known as an editor of films like Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968) and O Lucky...

The worlds of the painter Le Douanier Rousseau and the poet Arthur Rimbaud form a basis for exploration of their works.

Sensitive portrait of a boy with Down syndrome, and the small village that includes him.

This is a picture that paints a picture, in appealing colour, of the life and times of the children of late '50s London.

Taking the lid off the creative process with a group of theatrically-minded 11-year-olds as they stage the nativity.

The Maestro is conducting Rossini's William Tell overture, but suddenly the music stops dead and he is unable to start again…

The fight of one village and its miners against the closing of the pit that is their main source of livelihood.

A film about a mysterious new boy who, in the course of a single day, rids his school of its bullying, gambling, laboratory explosions and abysmal...

A group of art-school students hold a party.