Random Acts - Season 4

Season 4
Channel 4's late-night, post-pub serving of the world's craziest and most creative short films returns for a fourth series, once more curated and hosted by Zawe Ashton. Featuring brand new talent and experimental work from more established names; the shorts are a heady mixture of music, animation, dance, visual art, spoken word and uncategorisable creative brilliance.

Episodes

Episode 1
This week: Bafta-winning actor Monica Dolan battles a killer houseplant, poet Simon Armitage shares his final words, and Alex Bag leaves a big surprise in your adult diaper. Plus award-winning dance from Antoine Marc.

Episode 2
This week: young people's laureate Caleb Femi smashes preconceptions, dancing meets architecture at the Barbican, there's a disturbing kids-only dystopia in Aaron Dunleavy's Strays, and trees fight back in a trippy animation.

Episode 3
In this episode, musician Laura Marling catches comedian Tim Key's eye, a performance poet has a stern word with her pelvis pal in Ode to a Fuckboi, and the #TeamIndus Indian space mission inspires dance from celebrated choreographer Hemabharathy Palani. Plus: find out exactly how to be rad.

Episode 4
In this episode, Misfits charmer Robert Sheehan is down and out in LA, Bafta Award-winner Duncan Cowles flogs stock footage for cold hard cash, and we're feeling thirsty in an animated post-apocalypse. And, in a single-take experiment, a Chelsea supporter enters frame left.

Episode 5

Episode 6
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