A young man, suffering from a disease called Nulepsy is filmed outdoors, as if by torchlight, frantically stripping off his clothes - the main symptom of his condition. Filmed at a distance, his actions partly obscured by darkness, this unfamiliar affliction takes on a threatening presence.

In London's city centre P. Sylva leads an unusual life. He is a ghost in one of the busiest cities in the world. Factory examines the relationship between a person and the space that he inhabits whilst at the same time subverting the conventions of documentary filmmaking. Although Factory is presented as documentary, the central character is in fact working through a predetermined visual narrative and is acting out a set of agreed movements.

Bucket Dance is a parody inspired by Oskar Schlemmer's performances at the Bauhaus School during the 1920s. The film attempts to confront the ideological failings within Modernism through absurdity, fruitlessness and illogical human activity.

A china plate spins precariously on a stick and as it falls, the film cuts. The action repeats, the plate spins and falls from the frame. Baines knowingly constructs Sisyphean scenarios to be endlessly played out in front of the camera. As the plate spins, only to fall once more, this futile action takes on an air of stubborn defiance.

Shanken explores the natural world as a system with a quantifiable number of possibilities that is reaching saturation point. By examining our natural boundaries, Rotation moves through different weather systems, exposing the limits of nature and underlining some possibilities for transformation or transgression through these boundaries. Rotation is set on a journey bound towards limitlessness.

In this film the artist interrogates her father about his 20-year-old orange bathing suit. Their conversation is played out over footage of her father swimming in the outdated trunks. This typical father-daughter conversation reveals universalised familial frustrations, as well as the differences in habits and attitudes between generations. The conversation reaches an exasperated stalemate as her father is forced to acknowledge that the bathing suit holds no significance to him.

Lisa Le Feuvre is Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. She is co-curator, with Tom Morton of The British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet. She has presented various curatorial projects across the UK, including Stephen Sutcliffe: Runaway, Success at Stills, Edinburgh, 2011. Until 2010, she was Associate Lecturer on the MFA Curating programme at Goldsmiths College, London and was Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Maritime Museum, London until 2009. Le Feuvre regularly contributes to several national and international art publications including Art Monthly, Art Forum and Tema Celeste and in 2010 was editor of the Whitechapel/MIT Press publication, Failure.

Working outside narrative structures and the traditional language of film, Rhodes creates new relational systems of representation and communication through the application of Letraset and Letratone onto clear 16mm filmstrip. As these graphic forms deliberately spill over onto areas of the film reserved for audio recordings, a random soundtrack is generated, thus presenting a complete textual, visual and aural experience.

Courtesy of Lis Rhodes and Lux, London.

Architecture and social spaces were of central importance to Matta- Clark, forming the backdrop to many of his site-specific film performances. In Open House an industrial waste container is installed on a Soho street and reappropriated for impromptu performances by a group of artists. Matta-Clark's work seeks to engage with the built environment and Open House transforms overlooked urban detritus into flexible spaces for movement, action and social interactivity.

Courtesy of Matta-Clark Estate.

Although Jarman is best known for his feature films, he also produced a series of experimental super 8 shorts throughout his career. Silent short Art of Mirrors comes from Jarman's early experimental period in this medium.