An inconspicuous museum uses the consciousness of death row prisoners as exhibits

Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and the conflict between man and machines. The shorts include Final Flight of the Osiris, The Second Renaissance, Kid's Story, Program, World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story and Matriculated.

Aki was used, with a new haircut, in a demonstration video that Square Pictures made to present to the Wachowskis before making Final Flight of the Osiris for The Animatrix. It is the only appearance of Aki outside Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. She was originally made to be the world's first CG actor.

In this film, people facing death or lives of extreme privation share their warmest memories and describe the good deeds they’ve done while living under the most difficult of circumstances imaginable. This intimate portrait offers a window, through their words only, into the inner lives of men and women living in maximum-security penitentiaries across the United States, most of whom are incarcerated on Death Row.

The walls of a prison. The voices and cries of the prisoners escape from the litany of days.

In the bowels of a national museum you can find all kinds of ghosts, bodies that in life knew no cure, now turned into relics have found curatorship. Images of cultural vigor contrasted with the glorified trauma of the viewer. At the end of the tour, the artist understands that the entrance to the museum is a mausoleum.

In 2004 the Oregon State Hospital, former site of the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, revealed the existence of thousands of corroded copper urns, each containing cremated human remains. Photographer David Maisel captured these beautifully unique urns of forgotten souls on film. Exhibiting their photos revealed secrets, influenced political decisions and reunited families. This film will show how art can stimulate social change and will document the ongoing controversy surrounding a proper memorial for these institutionalized casualties.

The graffiti on the grey concrete walls of the disused prison in Turku are like cave paintings from a lost civilisation in the Finnish artist Saara Ekström’s ‘Shadow Codex’, which, with a simple but overwhelmingly suggestive approach, lets text, drawings and the shabby pinup posters speak their own language about incarceration and institutionalised punishment. Each cell is a gallery, an indexical imprint of the anonymous inmates’ minds, from a past conjured forth by the film’s timeless black and white 16mm images, with a gloomy melancholy that borders on madness. But, at the same time, the surveillance machinery, the architecture and the many layers of engravings tell us about a society which, in its attempt to maintain law and order, creates monuments of its own shadow – set against John Cage’s ‘Perilous Night’.

How do you live with a death sentence? Real stories from the prisoners facing their final days - and the victims' families desperate for closure.