Teesside University researchers will see their film screened at BFI London Film Festival.

The short film, titled "Forms of Circulation #1," was directed by Professor Sarah Perks and Dr Paul Stewart from the university's School of Arts and Creative Industries.

It was selected for the Experimenta strand of the 68th BFI London Film Festival.

The film will be screened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, on October 19.

Shot mostly at the university's National Horizons Centre in Darlington and the Teesmouth National Nature Reserve, the 16mm film captures the cycles of advanced technology and machine labour.

It also investigates the deadly mouth rot in the nearby seal colony at Teesmouth.

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Dr Stewart said: "We’re really excited our artist 16mm film has been selected for this major national festival by the British Film Institute and to share very different images of Teesside with audiences in London and beyond.

"Alongside capturing the machines and lab scenes at the National Horizons Centre, we workshopped with colleagues to capture their words on their routines and experiences, and how these might be represented by film genres.

"Their words have been adapted by us into the poem that, on occasion, joins the images."

Professor Perks added: "Fujifilm are one of the partners based at the National Horizons Centre, and whilst they no longer make moving image film stock, their presence inspired our analogue film aesthetic and static camera shots of machine labour.

"Through the project, we also learnt that seals are one of the few animals (as well as humans) to have an innate rhymical ability which infiltrates our soundscape at the end."

The film is part of the Treasury of Human Inheritance programme at the Institute of Contemporary Arts on October 19.

The 68th BFI London Film Festival takes place from October 9-20 at venues in London and across the UK.