Cally Trench's films are very short (micro or super short) animation films. Cally's own drawings or linocut prints are the starting point for many of the films, while some use sequences of her photographs. Most of Cally's films have natural or mechanical sound that she creates herself using vocalisations, clapping, toys, and musical instruments. Cally is constantly amazed and delighted by the simple fact that if images fly past our eyes fast enough we perceive movement.

Cally Trench's films have been screened at film festivals and screenings in the UK - in Bath, Birkenhead, Birmingham, Brighton, Cardiff, Clapham, Farnham, High Wycombe, Huddersfield, Hull, Leicester, Lewes, London, Oxford, Ramsgate, Reading, Romford, Rugby, Sheerness, Sheffield, Stockton-on-Tees, Sunderland, Truro, Walthamstow, Washington (Tyne & Wear), and Wolverhampton. Her films have also been screened in Australia, Canada, Finland, and the USA (in Arlington MA, Brooklyn NYC, Buffalo NY, Chicago, Newark NJ, Queens NYC, San Francisco, West Newton MA, and Whitinsville MA), and in online festivals. The films have also been shown at exhibitions.

Cally Trench's new film installation project, Films in Boxes will take place at Wycombe Arts Centre from 16th to 19th April 2027, with twenty-two of Cally's very short animation films installed in suitcases, boxes, a trunk, a cabinet, a pedal bin, a dolls' house, a vintage wireless set, a toy theatre, a hamper, a violin case, a school desk, a shoe-shine box, a bread box, a folding chess board, and a laundry basket. Viewers will need to lift lids, open doors, pull back curtains, or peer through viewing holes to watch the films. This experimental installation will invite viewers to engage actively with the films, and to experience each film as a private and personal event.

Cally is delighted that composer Josh Hagley wrote music specially for some of her earlier films in 2016-17. See Josh Hagley's website and a page about Josh Hagley on this website.

Please click on each poster to watch some of the films, and for more information.