Written/Produced/Directed by Steve Piper, featuring Dave Smith, flukey sound concept by John O'Reilly.
Zero budget 4 minute S-VHS black and white short produced under the company name Mr. Spambapstic Films. Pretty pretentious and unsure of it's function, this film was developed from an idea originally shot by Steve Piper, with friends John O'Reilly and Lee Nightingale, which involved a man getting sucked into his TV set, it later developed into this kind of arty statement about being watched in the Orwellian/CCTV camera sense.
The film was remastered and released in 2004, more info here.

Produced/Directed by Steve Piper, featuring Dave Smith, Spunky, John O'Reilly, Steve Piper, and Jon Driscoll.
Zero budget 7 minute Hi-8 documentary. The first effort in an ongoing series of parties, gatherings, and social smokes. As with the whole series it was shot as it happened, without any form or plan, by the members of the cast. Unfortunately it turned out rather fly on the wall and impartial, somewhat unsure of it's purpose. The development into a series has nevertheless been of value; providing clear indications of both the company's development as a producer of films, and the lads development as a group of friends and growing people.

Written/Produced/Directed by Steve Piper.
Zero budget 7 minute Hi-8 spoof documentary. Running briefly over Coffee Films and it's history in a pseudo South Bank Show kind of way. Featuring some new footage, photos, and some clips from Drugs Night, Televisual Man, and the repeatedly shelved 5 days project, which enjoyed a premature week of filming in 1997.

Written/Produced/Directed by Steve Piper, featuring Neil Jordan.
Zero budget 3 minute Hi-8 short. The screen debut of Neil as a sad bloke who stays in and watches TV on Saturday nights. Entertaining and extremely budget it was improvised and shot on a penniless Saturday Night as we had nothing else to do. Notable primarily for it's use of frame by frame animation style filming.

Written/Produced/Directed by Steve Piper.
Zero budget 1 minute Hi-8 black and white short. The first in a series of minute long Coffee Films idents, used to experiment with various camera and effects techniques. The ident involved an animated sequence of a girl (an Action Force toy) shooting a smiley face in a wall.

Written/Produced/Directed by Steve Piper, featuring John O'Reilly.
Zero budget 2 minute Hi-8 short. Furthering the animation experiments 'Passenger' involved O'Reilly shooting around Mum Piper's tiny terraced house, pretending to hold a steering wheel and sat on his arse. The 'crash on the stairway' sequence very nearly resulted in a variety of horrific wounds for both director and actor.

Written/Produced/Directed by Steve Piper.
Zero budget 1 minute Hi-8 black and white short. Made primarily to test a home made light diffusing filter (yes, a nylon stocking), this featured the brief but extremely groovy moves of a string puppet made from felt and wood.

Written/Produced/Directed by Steve Piper.
Zero budget 3 minute Hi-8 short. Last of the experimental idents this returned to frame by frame shooting for an image barrage of logos, film clips, and new animated sequences, shot purely for something to do.

Written/Produced/Directed by Steve Piper.
Zero budget 15 minute Hi-8 short. Made up of film clips, animations and short live action sequences, the film was intended for a TV wall in a local club, used to show fairly random films during the course of a night. Featuring most of the regular Coffee contributors at one point or another.

Produced/Directed by Steve Piper, featuring Spunky, Jon Driscoll, Dave Smith, Steve Piper, Fiona Shea, Mark Lake, Natalie Puncher, Gizmo and Lara.
Zero budget 32 minute Hi-8 documentary. Follow up to the original; this greatly expanded on the first's groundwork, combining experimental shots with a rigid structure it is considerably more involving than the first, and finds interesting alternative view points, particularly in Fiona Shea's "from a girl's perspective" section.

Written by William Shakespeare/Hadrian Garrard, Directed by Hadrian Garrard/Steve Piper, Produced by Hadrian Garrard, featuring Andrijana Miler, Nigel De Sousa, David Arbus, Polly Lee, Mark Stuart, Anna Carne, Steve Piper and Hadrian Garrard.
Zero budget 9 minute Hi-8 black and white short; this was a demonstration edit of footage shot by the Naked Pony Theatre Company shortly before it's split in 1998. The film was conceived by Garrard to show a company of actors preparing for, then rehearsing, the opening sequence of Shakespeare's King Lear. This edit ran through an introductory credit sequence as a test run for the full edit.

Written by William Shakespeare/Hadrian Garrard, Directed by Hadrian Garrard/Steve Piper, Produced by Hadrian Garrard, featuring Andrijana Miler, Nigel De Sousa, David Arbus, Polly Lee, Mark Stuart, and Anna Carne.
Zero budget 10 minute Hi-8 black and white short. Edited by Piper and Garrard in two nightmare shifts of 14 and 36 hours, this improved on the test run but showed some inexperience on the part of the creators (apart from Shakespeare of course; he was fine). Aspiring to mainstream broadcast quality, errors are apparent (largely due to the edit kit coming from Argos and falling apart, forcing panic repair by Piper who utilised tinfoil and packaging tape to repair a variety of shorted out circuit boards) in this nevertheless intriguing film.

Produced/Directed by Steve Piper, featuring Spunky, Jon Driscoll, Dave Smith, Steve Piper, and Carl Davies.
Zero budget 11 minute Hi-8 documentary. Drugs Night spin off focusing on an extremely drunk and despondant Ben after a night out clubbing. Barely qualifying as a documentary it's complete lack of any real value besides entertainment stopped it from becoming part of the series, more of a factual comedy.

Produced/Directed by Steve Piper, featuring Spunky, Jon Driscoll, Dave Smith, Steve Piper, Mark Lake, Natalie Puncher and Karen Marchant.
Zero budget 25 minute Hi-8 documentary. Following the Drugs Night regular's first Christmas Dinner together, despite questionable food preparation techniques the film delivers the usual Drugs Night fare. First film to be cut on a new set of editing kit, the 'story' suffers marginally as a result with a very low key ending, nonetheless as entertaining as the rest of the series.

Produced/Directed by Steve Piper, featuring Dave Smith, Jon Driscoll, Steve Piper, Chuffy, Rashmi Yadave, Mannell, Jim Armstrong, Mr. Bread, Matt Bremerkamp, Gary Cantan, Dom Watts, Rye-Boy, Vicky, Barratt, Deano, Ollie, Turner, Dunc, Simon MacNeil, Pete, Adam, Dan Brett and Woody.
Zero budget 63 minute Hi-8 documentary. Technically the outstanding success of the series, part IV runs over two days featuring a second Christmas dinner, the smoke that followed and the drug filled Millennium party that followed that. Superior in terms of editing techniques and storytelling this film more than any other greatly expands the Coffee 'look' with a variety of experimental shots dealing with film speeds and formats, presentation, and animated live action. The first Coffee film to break the one hour barrier, it has drawn some negative criticism for blowing the idea away from it's original purpose to follow a small group of mates, by including a sizeable and varied cast. Despite this Drugs Night IV is the sort of ambitious, unique and resourceful material that Coffee Films always intended to deliver. A two minute trailer was also cut featuring clips and out-takes from the final cut.

Produced/Directed by Steve Piper, featuring Gelli Graham and Coffee.
Zero budget 1 minute Hi-8 short. Recorded as part of the One World One Minute project, an amazing idea involving artists around the world, all recording one minute in their lives, the same minute, on the first anniversary of the World Trade Center atrocity. There were no guidelines for this project as to content whatsoever, but one of the main things I learned from the events of September 11th 2001 was an appreciation for the good things in my life, the things that I love; so I filmed the two people dearest to my heart; my girlfriend and our kitten.