Random Acts - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Writer, filmmaker and cult comedian Eric Wareheim showcases the world's best creative short films, from avant garde visual art to music video, eye-popping animation, contemporary dance and spoken word. A pulsating music video for Battles opens this episode. Filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard discuss their John Milton-inspired short film, Paradise Lost. Aerial photography exploring the boundaries of art, science and technology features in the latest short from documentary director Jim Demuth. Plus: a striking creative short by Ryan Hopkinson that captures the beauty of the human body.
Episode 6
Writer, filmmaker and cult comedian Eric Wareheim showcases the world's best creative short films from the channel's Random Acts strand. The shorts cover avant garde visual art, music video, eye-popping animation, contemporary dance, spoken word and all points inbetween and Eric guides us through them in a slightly unhinged mode pitched somewhere between The Late Show and Garry Shandling. In the final episode of the series Eric Wareheim showcases a music video premiere for James Righton's new project, Shock Machine, directed by Simon Amstell. Artist, David Blandy takes us on a techno-trip through his ideas via an Apple-Mac taskbar. We have a new art film for Frieze by Xavier Cha and Charlie Lyne is in the studio to present his homage to classic movies in a dark masterpiece.
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