Charlie Shackleton Movies

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the...

In the summer of 1990, a teenage filmmaker successfully raises $100,000 to shoot a pioneering horror film. 25 years later, he tells the story of a...

Prolific background actor Jill Goldston takes centre stage in this unique portrait. Constructed entirely from Jill’s performances –...

RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land...

Narrated by cult teen star Fairuza Balk, Beyond Clueless is a dizzying journey into the mind, body and soul of the teen movie, as seen through the...

A girl haunted by traumatic events takes us on a mesmerising journey through 100 years of horror cinema to explore how filmmakers scare us –...

This documentary goes beneath the surface of our favorite films, seeking to better understand the way we view love, relationships, and romance. From...

Fragments of hundreds of films from around the world bring together an ensemble cast of actors with one thing in common: each is no longer alive....

An ode to the mundanity and madness of the high street, told through the window of an African hair salon.

The story of sixteen men put on trial for sadomasochism in the dying days of Thatcher's Britain was told by the police, the prosecution and the...

Inspired by Pizzagate, the director re-examines a conspiracy from his youth and uncorks a sometimes funny, sometimes serious meditation on skepticism.

A documentary readymade about family lore and chocolate biscuits.

Sometime in the 1980s, Caspar Salmon's grandmother was invited to a gathering on the Welsh island of Anglesey, attended exclusively by people with...

Cinema history is scoured for hidden depths in this improvised experiment in perception, presented in stereoscopic 3D.

A one-take audio-visual poem in which artist Ross Sutherland revisits a twenty-year-old episode of the popular English soap opera EastEnders as a...

Poet Ross Sutherland takes fragments of old films and TV shows and rebuilds them into an audiovisual meditation on memory, death and reruns.

"A 2015 pilot I made for a BBC webseries, rejected after I got into an argument with the commissioner." - director Charlie Shackleton

A video essay on the enduring cinematic tussle between frame and container.

In 1970, filmmaker Peter Kubelka designed a movie auditorium in which carefully controlled sight lines and black velvet caused all but the screen to...

A mother and son revisit the medical emergency that reshaped their lives, and the remarkable fragments that remain of that time, in this intimate...