All Films

Tempera

1997 • 10 min • Netherlands

Six brightly colored characters explore an old inventor's workshop. While discovering their surroundings, they also discover each other.

Middletown

1997 • 15 min

Artist Nic Nicosia's staged video was filmed entirely on a suburban street in North Dallas in 1997, and includes members of the artist's own family and local residents from his suburban neighborhood.

The Drawing Master

1997 • 49 min

Paul Young, a teacher of drawing and perspective at the Ontario College of Art of Design, goes from his final classes as a teacher into his first year of retirement. After 33 years of dedication to his students, he strives to become the artist he always dreamed of being.

Desire

1997 • 4 min

MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.

Triptych

1997 • 4 min

An excursion into the world of hand-made film emulsion and an exposition of some formal possibilities of using three images side by side. A dancer's brief gesture is treated, repeated, and juxtaposed, becoming the fabric of visual construction that is less about representation than rhythm and time. Originally a work for three projectors, it is here composited onto a single strand of film.

Smoking High

1997 • 25 min

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Birding

1997 • 21 min

A woman forced into criminality. The conflicting motives for the characters' existence are reconciled in the finale in a human-hating feminine reality.

La voix des rivières

1997 • 49 min • Canada

"Rodrigue Jean gives voice to people who have nearly drowned. The story of their disaster and the lessons they have drawn from it make us think that life is born of water and flows somewhat like a river. We are born in a state something like a spring. This spring becomes a stream, we travel through forests, winding our way around obstacles to finally arrive at the river where our water merges with other water, like a new and clear consciousness. There is a proverb which states that great rivers are made up of small streams. In this way we all contribute to something that is greater than us and which carries us along to something even greater still." Herménégilde Chiasson

Hermaphrodites Speak!

1997 • 35 min

Imagine growing up knowing you were different, not quite knowing why and feeling like you were the only person in the world like you. Meet Angela, David, Heidi, Tom, Mani, Cheryl, Max and Hida as they tell their stories of growing up intersexed. Share their joy at finally meeting other people who are intersexed. Be amazed as you witness intersex people speaking out for the first time in their lives!

Begegnungen - Impressionen von einer Reise mit dem Transrapid

1997 • 15 min • Germany

Impressions of a journey on the Transrapid maglev train.

Kutchugury and the Neighborhood-2

1997 • 60 min • Russia

The Smell of Horror

1997 • 7 min • United States of America

Flip, a good old southern boy, drives to a strange dark house to test for toxic fumes. An eager little man answers the door, starting Flip’s unusual day.

Ikeda Aristocracy: Paranormal Salvation Bible - Chapter Two

1997 • 50 min • Japan

A psychic self-defense video fully supervised by Ikeda Aristocrat, a well-known musician with a strong psychic sense. Includes shocking moments such as expulsion and purification of spirits, as well as training for strengthening one's chi.

Ikeda Aristocracy: Paranormal Salvation Bible - Prologue

1997 • 50 min • Japan

Psychic musician Ikeda Aristocrat teaches how to handle psychic photographs and what to do when you encounter psychic phenomena such as kinbaku. This is a true psychic self-defense video that shows how to properly deal with the spirit world.

The Builders of The Village

1997 • 9 min • Georgia

Based on the same name fable by Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani the animation tells a story of a fox kidnaps Rooster, the president of forest and makes the old eagle the new president, who turns out to be the better for the forest.

Babyscapes: Celebration of Color

1997 • 26 min • United States of America

The colors of the rainbow spill out across the screen as classical music keeps the mind working in this educational video designed to introduce babies and toddlers to the exciting world of color.

Mary Poppins Practically Perfect in Every Way: The Magic Behind the Masterpiece

1997 • 17 min

A look behind the scenes at the making of Walt Disney's magnum opus: Mary Poppins.

Voodoo Massacre

1997 • 10 min

A woman picks up a voodoo doll at a local yard sale and brings it home during a family get-together. What they don't realize is the voodoo doll is a demonic force, hellbent on killing anything in its path. By way of pitchforks, hammers, car explosions, and just being disintegrated into thin air... the family find themselves dying one by one....

Fallen Angels

1997 • 57 min • United Kingdom

The Zambouley brothers are having a bad day, a bad hair-hook in hell kinda day. Weenie Cornutti, a slick, scum of the earth type gangster from way back in the day, stole a particular necklace created by one young artist who went by the name of Leonardo DaVinci, problem for our lads was, that this particular necklace had been created using some very dark mojo indeed.

Little Dancers Club

1997 • 50 min • Israel

A DJ and a singer team up to open a new club for kids who love to dance. They try to find a talented dancer and face various challenges during the club's opening.

Una Vida Mejor: A Better Life

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

In the last few years, thousands of Hispanic people have moved to rural Arkansas, all with the hope of finding jobs and creating better lives for their families. This documentary puts a face on Hispanic immigration in Arkansas. Taped in the communities of Rogers, Springdale, De Queen and Wickes, this documentary centers on the experiences of four families; one of them well-established and the other three just starting out in Arkansas. The AETN crew spent almost a year filming in these communities, shooting more than 20 hours of interviews with families of immigrants, native Arkansans, and city officials. Una Vida Mejor recounts the obstacles these Hispanic families have overcome and their hopes for the future in America.

Fuck TV: Electricity

1997 • 55 min

After concluding the now-legendary public access TV series, The Pain Factory, Michael Nine embarked on a new and more subversive endeavor: a collaboration with Scott Arford called Fuck TV. Whereas The Pain Factory predominantly revolved around experimental music performances, Fuck TV was a comprehensive and experiential audio-visual presentation. This is part one in a ten part series.

Winchester Mystery House Explored: Secrets of the Mansion

1997 • 20 min

In 1884, Sarah Winchester moved out west and purchased an eight-room farmhouse in San Jose, California. And for 38 years, 24 hours a day, craftsmen, artisans and woodworkers were kept busy building (and rebuilding) the most mysterious mansion ever created. Just why did one of the wealthiest women in the United States spend so much time and over five and a half million dollars on her home? Watch this amazing video! You'll be intrigued by the incredible details of Sarah's architectural fantasy, and learn the secrets of this "beautiful but bizarre" 160 room Victorian Mansion. Not only will you see the exquisite master craftsmanship and the beautiful original Tiffany art glass windows, but also the stairways vanishing in mid-flight, doors that swing open to expose... nothing and stair steps each a mere two inches tall!

Avec le Temps

1997 • 3 min

An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.