All Films

The Hooley Dooleys

1997 • 40 min

Witch City

1997 • 56 min • United States of America

Told from the perspective of a returning native, Witch City is an uncompromising documentary about Salem, Massachusetts, a town that put the phrase "witch hunt" into the American vocabulary and a place where today a Disneyesque version of history serves the purposes of both commercial and religious interests.

Schwarzfilm Mit Lichtton

1997 • 10 min

A conversation between the filmmaker and his mother in the purest form; cleaning with a vacuum cleaner, about the Japanese Embassy hostage crisis in Peru. Calling for a delivery of noodles for lunch, but the delivery service is closed. Starting to cook udon noodles. A telephone dialling, a car ride. The noodles are cooked and people talk about Germany. The sound of the cooking appliances: rattling and sizzling. A pure focus on the conversations.

Fetus Kazoo

1997 • 12 min

A trio of short films by Janice Inskeep. Stories include "Urine Sample", "Potential Christ Cabaret" & "Lethal Injection".

A Tale About the Blue Cloak

1997 • 10 min • Belarus

The daughter of a king, who also is a wizard, helps her beloved to outwit her father.

Sunday at the Preschool

1997 • 20 min • Japan

Mongibello

1997 • 58 min

Mongibello is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot in Châteauroux, Paris, Taormina, Saint-Maurice, in the Vivarais region, in Burzet, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Deauville and Moncton, in New Brunswick, Canada.

Anatomy of a Dewback

1997 • 26 min

See how some of the special effects in Star Wars became even more special two decades later! George Lucas explain and demonstrates how his team transformed the original dewback creatures from immovable rubber puppets (in the original 1977 release) to seemingly living, breathing creatures for the Star Wars 1997 Special Edition update.

Acquiring a Taste for Raffaella

1997 • 14 min

Raffaella's first period comes at the same time as her first crush, on Shaun, a cook's assistant and the brother of her friend Sharon. Raffaella's Italian aunt insists that they make "love biscuits" for Shaun, a recipe from the old country using three drops of menstrual blood. Raffaella sends the cookies to Shaun via Sharon, who announces her own crush on Raffaella. Is it the cookies? What's a girl to do? With the help of her aunt and some ideas of her own, Raffaella finds a solution and learns something about friendship and romance.

Flux

1997 • 1 min • United States of America

Animated plant-like shapes, rooted in a barren desert-like landscape, wave and move in time to music.

Chile on the Road to NAFTA, Accompanied by the National Police Band

1997 • 11 min

A bouncy music-video burlesque shot in and around Santiago, Chile, entwines reminders of U.S. corporate presence and of past political terror, with national and international musical strains. Chile, at the southernmost end of South America, was in 1997 on the fast track to admission into the economic alliance known as the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Chile was enjoying its reputation abroad as a free-market success — a reputation promulgated by those who aided or supported the fascist coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, which had violently overthrown the elected government and led to the deaths of the President, Salvador Allende, and thousands of others, and the exile of tens of thousands of political refugees.

Give Us This Day

1997 • 58 min • Iceland

This one winter's day encapsulates a thousand years fishing and seamanship in Iceland. We gain an insight into an inner and outer world, where manual labour, man's beliefs in nature, Christianity, superstition and even magic are interwoven. We are questioned if we could imagine how this world of the rowing boat crew, wich reflects the ancient class-divided society, really looked like? How did they percive the nature around them, their God in this nature, it's unstable weather conditions, it's harshness when they go to sea to harvest its riches to make it possible for themselves as well as their nation to keep on living on the edge of the habitable world? Here we are face to face with the very foundation of fishing nation's culture.

Siggi Valli on a Motorcycle

1997 • 12 min • Iceland

The Silence Is Baroque

1997 • 12 min • Netherlands

The rough voices of men (from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Accatone ) open the film soundtrack, they banter in Italian about taking flowers to the cemetery. Filmed in Granada and Seville during Holy Week. The soundtrack mixes a cacophony of the music of the marching bands recorded live on location, the ambience of the crowds and the sung laments. The centre piece is The Silence, a totemic hyper realist effigy from the 17th century which processes at midnight in total silence along the streets where the lighting has been turned off. After it passes, we cross over into the light and noise of a new day – where people throng the streets, sit in cafes and enjoy life. Popular devotion is expressed in death intertwined with the applause for life in the energy of the Baroque.

The Disney Boycott: A Just Cause

1997 • 31 min

The entertainment giant has turned its back on traditional values and sold its soul to the dark side. What price will society pay for Disney's dirty profits?

Mambo

1997 • 5 min

A strikingly colourful, surrealistic, animated film, inspired by the work of female Peruvian singer Yma Sumac. A tragicomical story of a little boy who dies and goes to heaven, only to be seduced by an operatic angel who takes him to hell.

Light Valve

1997 • 47 min • Cuba

Alienation and anger in modern society resulting in apocalypse.

Love Creation Mk2 - Urban Love

1997 • 3 min

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

Drop Frame

1997 • 3 min • Japan

Super 8, 1997.

Purvis Young: Contemporary Urban Painter

1997 • 30 min

A 30-minute inside look at Purvis Young, believed by many to be one of today's most intriguing self-taught American artists. Documentary film director David Seehausen explores a day in the life of Purvis Young in the intimate setting of the reclusive artist's warehouse/studio in Overtown - Miami's inner-city. Footage never before shown unveils a "Poet of the Paintbrush" passionately obsessed with painting history's "Real Truth".

Don't You Wish You Were Here?

1997 • 4 min • Japan

The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The main circle (character) is slightly pinker than the other grey circles (people) and she thought she was very special. But she is very grey in a colourful world. She will find out that grey is not just a boring colour.

Un Week-end avec Monsieur Magritte : Tome 1, Samedi

1997 • 29 min • Belgium

The first part of a Magritte portrait, mainly compiled from fragments of staged enactments of situations, which Magritte recorded with, among others, Georgette Magritte, Paul Colinet, Irène Hamoir and Scutenaire, playfully described by the latter as "une histoire érotico-fantastico-iconoclaste".

NBA Grooves

1997 • 47 min

A Music Video Tour of the NBA.Hosted by Tim Hardaway and Mitch Richmond, with a special appearance by Funkmaster Flex.NBA basketball and cool music...they go together like the pick and roll. NBA superstars and good friends Tim Hardaway and Mitch Richmond are your hosts of this tour of the NBA featuring these 11 themed music videos:"Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk"NBA Young Stars Aaliyah "Hot Like Fire" Looking Back Shaq "Men of Steel" Shaq Highlights Republica "Ready to Go" 1996-97 Chicago BullsNo Doubt "Just a Girl" WNBA's First Season Reel 2 Reel "I Like to Move It" Defensive Gems OMC "How Bizarre" BloopersJodeci "Get on Up" Amazing Dunks Yvette Michelle "DJ Keep Playin" Assists R. Kelly "I Believe I Can Fly" Michael Jordan Retrospective Blackstreet "No Diggity" Tim Hardaway and Mitch Richmond. Mfr.: NBA; 50 minutes; 1997, color VHS; NBA Music Video Series; Officially Licensed NBA Product.

Don Gay's Worst Wrecks at Mesquite Rodeo 1996

1997 • 57 min • United States of America

Rodeo is a tough way to make a living-that's what this video is all about. These are the hardest hit, toughest rides, most heart pounding moments of the 1996 Season of the world famous Mesquite Championship Rodeo.