In addition, Warp has set up a film company, Warp Films as well as digital download store Bleep which carries music from a number of smaller labels as well as Warp. In 2009 Warpmart was incorporated into Bleep, which now sells downloads, physical releases and merchandise from hundreds of record labels.
Warp Films was set up in 1999 with funding from NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) Warp Films have released Chris Morris's short film “My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117”. Shane Meadow's “Dead Man's Shoes”. Rubber Johnny by Chris Cunningham, is a six-minute experimental short film and music video using music composed by Aphex Twin. The name Rubber Johnny is drawn from a British slang for "condom" as well as a description of the main character, which explains the title sequence.
A short film more or less a music video called Scummy Man by Paul Fraser and This is England by Shane Meadows which picked up several awards including the 2008 Bafta for Best British Film, centred on young skinheads in the summer of 1983. It followed 12-year-old Shaun, played by Thomas Turgoose, and his acceptance into a group of skinheads, which is eventually split by a growing racist influence.
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