Random Acts

  

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Random ActsMae Martin presents assorted creative brilliance, including Lily Cole and Lily McMenamy in a model utopia. And the series finishes with the end of the world. (S6 Ep6/6) [S]Fri, Dec 7, 12:00 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsMae Martin presents assorted creative brilliance. A tribute to a teapot turns into a rave. Adjoa Andoh narrates Arctic poetry. Plus: the ultimate heavy metal knitting circle. (S6 Ep5/6) [S]Fri, Nov 30, 12:00 amChannel 435 mins
Random ActsMae Martin presents assorted creative brilliance. A champagne cork is weaponised in an acute observation of modern relationships. A dance piece syncs up with sunlight. (S6 Ep4/6) [S]Fri, Nov 23, 12:05 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsMae Martin presents assorted creative brilliance, including a startling trip to the dentist, a split-screen dance with a selfie twist, and Neil Maskell in a heart-breaking drama. (S6 Ep3/6) [S]Fri, Nov 16, 12:05 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsA sitcom with Asa Butterfield and Adam Buxton turns into a bloodbath, an artist gets a Botox injection in the throat, and a pair of frisky fingers find love. (S6 Ep2/6) [S]Fri, Nov 9, 12:05 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsMae Martin presents brilliant, beautiful, bewildering, dirty, dangerous and disruptive art from musicians, writers, animators, artists and other random creative types. (S6 Ep1/6) [S]Fri, Nov 2, 12:05 amChannel 435 mins
Random ActsZawe Ashton presents more creative films, including a romantic dance-off, a surreal animated creature feature, pink balloons in hot pursuit of a young woman, and more. (S5 Ep6/6) [S]Wed, Aug 22, 12:00 amChannel 425 mins
Random ActsZawe Ashton presents more of the world's best creative films. A magical tapestry comes to life. Animator Qieer Wang provides a champagne bath for our emotions. And much more. (S5 Ep5/6) [S]Wed, Aug 15, 12:05 amChannel 425 mins
Random ActsZawe Ashton presents more of the world's best creative films. A teenager confronts her doppelgangers. Bernard Cribbins narrates a visual deep-dive into woodland nostalgia. (S5 Ep4/6) [S]Wed, Aug 8, 12:05 amChannel 425 mins
Random ActsZawe Ashton presents more of the world's best creative films, including a vivid reflection of a fractured mind, a cut-out animation of a gender-neutral plant, and much more. (S5 Ep3/6) [S]Wed, Aug 1, 12:05 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsZawe Ashton presents more of the world's best creative films. Noel Fielding plays a dying angel. A visual artist lights up a ghost town. West African folklore meets fashion film. (S5 Ep2/6) [S]Wed, Jul 25, 12:05 amChannel 425 mins
Random ActsZawe Ashton presents more of the world's best creative films, including opera reimagined as a partially-nude fantasia, and a Peckham auntie who reclaims the streets on horseback. (S5 Ep1/6) [S]Wed, Jul 18, 12:05 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsMore of the world's best creative short films. A teenager finger-swipes her way into digital oblivion. Plus: a sexy doughnut that's just asking to be eaten, and more. (S4 Ep6/6) [S]Fri, Dec 15, 12:00 amChannel 435 mins
Random ActsMore of the world's best creative short films. Alain de Botton explains how to recount dreams. Plus: the greatest library you've never seen, and a gruesome nightmare in a circus. (S4 Ep5/6) [S]Thu, Dec 7, 12:05 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsMore of the world's best creative short films. Misfits charmer Robert Sheehan is down and out in LA. In a single-take experiment, a Chelsea supporter enters frame left. And more. (S4 Ep4/6) [S]Fri, Dec 1, 12:05 amChannel 435 mins
Random ActsMore of the world's best creative short films. Musician Laura Marling catches comedian Tim Key's eye. A performance poet has a stern word with her pelvis pal. And: how to be rad. (S4 Ep3/6) [S]Fri, Nov 24, 12:05 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsYoung people's laureate Caleb Femi smashes preconceptions. Dancing meets architecture at the Barbican. Plus: a kids-only dystopia. And trees fight back in a trippy animation. (S4 Ep2/6) [S]Fri, Nov 17, 12:05 amChannel 435 mins
Random ActsZawe Ashton returns to host the fourth series. This week, Bafta-winning actor Monica Dolan battles a killer houseplant and poet Simon Armitage shares his final words. (S4 Ep1/6) [S]Fri, Nov 10, 12:05 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsZawe Ashton presents more creative short films, including rabbit assassins, the underground world of gangster dentistry, and an anthropomorphic vagina. (Ep6/6) [AD,S]Tue, Sept 26, 12:05 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsZawe Ashton presents more creative short films. This episode features crashing toga parties. Plus: reimagining Shakespeare with David Oyelowo, and a cheeky Blade Runner riff. (Ep5/6) [AD,S]Tue, Sept 19, 12:05 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsZawe Ashton presents more creative short films. A panda does unspeakable things to our brains, life flashes before our eyes in Vienna, and there's a new film from Bedwyr Williams. (Ep4/6) [AD,S]Tue, Sept 12, 12:05 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsZawe Ashton presents more creative short films, including Goldie's directorial debut, supermarket awkwardness from cartoonist Babak Ganjei, and a nibble on forbidden fruit. (Ep3/6) [AD,S]Tue, Sept 5, 12:00 amChannel 435 mins
Random ActsZawe Ashton presents the world's most creative short films. This episode features voyeurism in Kiev, funky modern soul from musician Kwaye and a fashion film from... Zawe Ashton. (Ep2/6) [AD,S]Tue, Aug 29, 12:00 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsMore creative films, including the video for the track Zayn Malik by Riz Ahmed's rap group Swet Shop Boys, and Jam!, which takes food porn to a beyond-logical conclusion. (S2 Ep6/6) [S]Fri, Dec 16, 12:00 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsMore creative films. An indigenous Australian witnesses a horrifying spectacle in an exhibition in Victorian London. Greek fishermen discuss their moral duty to rescue refugees. (S2 Ep5/6) [S]Fri, Dec 9, 12:05 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsMore of the world's best creative films, from a satire on the future of data storage, to a noir comedy about a downtrodden husband who has an epiphany when he orders a takeaway. (S2 Ep3/6) [S]Fri, Nov 25, 12:00 amChannel 435 mins
Random ActsMore of the world's best creative films, from a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story shot entirely by drones, to the world premiere of Roadkill, a gripping drama from Reggie Yates. (S2 Ep2/6) [S]Fri, Nov 18, 12:00 amChannel 430 mins
Random ActsJordan Stephens showcases the most exciting film-making, from music, animation and dance to the visually random, with Gemma Chan, James Norton, Shia LaBeouf and Riz Ahmed. (S2 Ep1/6) [S]Fri, Nov 11, 12:00 amChannel 430 mins