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Sichuan Street Songs

Sichuan Street Songs

1997 • 27 min
In the 1990s, in Chengdu, various small traders and vendors bustled through the streets and alleys, each with their own unique style and distinctive calls, selling a variety of small goods. The camera captures these vendors, some of whom have been selling their wares on the streets for decades. They either turn their product information into unique songs or use rhythmic beats from the instruments they carry as accompaniment. These calls, sometimes near and sometimes distant, resound amidst the bustling crowd, showcasing the distinct characteristics of ethnomusicology. With the advent of globalization and rapid economic development, Chengdu is inevitably transitioning from tradition to modernization. Skyscrapers and modern commercial shopping centers are on the rise and traditional street vending will gradually disappear. This film documents the swan song of traditional street calls as they're slowly engulfed by the tide of modernization.
Conversations with Paul Rand

Conversations with Paul Rand

1997 • 28 min
Director Preston McClanahan is joined by filmmaker Peter O’Neill—acting as cinematographer—to document this conversation with famed graphic designer Paul Rand. Shot on 16mm in the designer’s Weston, Connecticut home, the film finds Rand informally discussing such topics as design, art, modernism, and aesthetics. Rand is congenial but at times stiff and codgerly; old and set in his ways.
Anna

Anna

1997 • 58 min
Anna tells the story of a woman of the Nganasan, a severely endangered people of the Taymyr Peninsula.
Resurrection Now

Resurrection Now

1997 • 4 min
MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.
Deception in Four Parts

Deception in Four Parts

1997 • 4 min • Netherlands
Animated film (a combination of drawings on paper and cut-out animation) in four episodes about a little girl who tries to cope with reality and manipulate it to her advantage. The film emphasises the impossibility of knowing others and of knowing what is real.
Multikolor

Multikolor

1997 • 4 min
MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.
Toontown

Toontown

1997 • 5 min
MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.
JavaNoir

JavaNoir

1997 • 6 min • United States of America
JavaNoir is a 6 minute 3D character animation created entirely with Macintosh hardware and software. The director and sole animator is Raf Anzovin, a 16-year-old homeschooled student from Amherst, MA. The 1.3 GB (uncompressed) QuickTime movie took more than a year to make, contains more than 11,200 frames, and required approximately 1250 man-hours of animation work and 800 hours of rendering time.
The Black Hole

The Black Hole

1997 • 3 min • France
A young guy asks a prostitute to go down on him while singing La Marseillaise.
The Puppy Dogs

The Puppy Dogs

1997 • 36 min • United States of America
A fun video about adorable canines such as wolf pups, fox kits and more!
Le Mauvais Oeil

Le Mauvais Oeil

1997 • 20 min
An episode from L'oeil du Cyclone, an alternative art program devoted to visual or sonorous curiosities, portraits of artists, artistic movements, but also various rarities, international archives, auteur and documentary films, musical montages, miscellaneous compilations, etc. to new images and taking the form of reports and psychedelic clips, fed images of the most diverse origins, sometimes in synthetic images.
Guhya

Guhya

1997 • 55 min • India
A film explores feminine sexual symbols and rituals, tracing its journey from North Karnataka to Kerala and culminating at Kamakhya, a sacred site in Assam.
The House of the Living Dead: The Injection 2

The House of the Living Dead: The Injection 2

1997 • 57 min
A man hiding under an uninhabited house experiences a strange drug on himself injecting it into his body and transforming into a bloodthirsty monster. Anyone will go for his home will be violently murdered.
Always Changing, Always Growing

Always Changing, Always Growing

1997 • 21 min
The Always Changing® Program has been a trusted curriculum source for puberty education among school nurses and health educators for over 25 years. It has been taught to millions of students nationwide. The look of the program has been updated, but the information and educational goal remain the same — to teach preteens about their changing bodies and the beginning stages of puberty. This program is provided as a free educational service by the Always® brand of feminine protection products. Program content is based on national research and consultation with school nurses, health educators, parents, fifth-grade students and medical professionals. It is designed to provide fifth-grade students with a broad overview of the beginning stages of puberty. This is the 1997 version. There are three separate editions - one aimed at girls, one at boys, and a third combined one for a co-ed audience.
The Gift of the Magi

The Gift of the Magi

1997 • 45 min • Finland
Film adaptation of Rautavaara opera.
Mamlambo

Mamlambo

1997 • 25 min
Mamlambo is the goddess of rivers in Zulu mythology. In this tragic love story, a homeless boy in Johannesburg falls in love with a Chinese prostitute and must face up to her tyrannical father.
Mastodons: The First Encounter

Mastodons: The First Encounter

1997 • 13 min • United States of America
Join Anna and her friend Colby, the mouse, in an online adventure as they encounter the Mastodons: Musclehead, Tangler, Blazer and Crusher. They are fighting a fire that threatens two children and a nearby school!
Night of Orley

Night of Orley

1997 • 10 min
Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.
Contacts: Sophie Calle

Contacts: Sophie Calle

1997 • 13 min • France
Sophie Calle often defines herself as a "narrative" artist. Her photographs are items of evidence through which she tells stories that are both ordinary and disturbing, using her own life and experiences as the raw material for reconstructions that hover somewhere between truth and fiction. The Contacts collection is an invitation to discover the artistic approach of the greatest contemporary photographers from an original angle. Through a series of images (contact sheets, proofs, prints and slides), with a commentary by the photographer, the viewer enters the secret world of their creation and is guided into the heart of the photographic creative process.
Zetcho: The Acme (Short Version)

Zetcho: The Acme (Short Version)

1997 • 59 min • Japan
Zetcho is a feature shot on film, including the typical colouring of washed-out white and blue. Again Onishi brings together the couple’s problems, nature and brutalism, set against a colour-changing skyline or in small apartments. The structure of architecture and the one of nature. A cat hiding behind a car. While it all turns out to be a drama of killing and brutalism against women.
Withdrawal

Withdrawal

1997 • 5 min • United Kingdom
A home movie on permanent loop. Live action up for grabs. A family walk the walk across a field, disappearing into memory as they do. Who knows where the families go? In the countryside on a sunny day a family group repeatedly walk towards the camera. The ‘home movie’ is looped and the footage is digitally manipulated so that each time they pass, the family members steadily disappear, the landscape also appearing to 'withdraw'.
Herds

Herds

1997 • 3 min
A CGI animated Short.
Driving Abstractions

Driving Abstractions

1997 • 5 min
In this work the experience of driving a night is abstracted as colorful and energetic bursts and patterns of light in three dimensional darkness. The work was create using 35mm film stock by painting on clear emulsion with markers and paints, and also by painting onto black emulsion with diffrent dilutions of nitric acid. The original sound score is by Bill Haslett.
Speak

Speak

1997 • 7 min
Short film by Robert Todd.