All Films

National Geographic's Really Wild Animals: Swinging Safari

1997 • 40 min

Come along on a wild African safari with Spin, National Geographic's animated globe-on-the-go. From the Serengeti Plain to the Kalahari Desert, experience the amazing ways that animals like cheetahs, crocodiles, rhinos and elephants survive. You'll learn about life in a lion pride, what it's like to be a chimp, and much more. It's the wild spirit of African animals as captured by the world's finest filmmakers - plus exciting music videos too! You're in for an exciting, fun-filled ride when you go on a SWINGING SAFARI - just one of the many Really Wild Animals adventures in this award-winning series.

Imprint

1997 • 14 min

"Louise Bourque's 'Imprint' focuses obsessively on home-movie images of her family's house, which seems gloomily oppressive, almost filling the frame; she repeats the images with various alterations - tinted, bleached, partly scraped away - as if attacking the place, turning its darkness into light." - Fred Camper, The Reader, Chicago, April 16 1999

Busby

1997 • 3 min • Germany

Hands perform a choreography inspired by the Hollywood musicals of Busby Berkley.

Playing With Water I

1997 • 3 min • Germany

"Reflections abound on the surface of the canals in Amsterdam. The buildings are less important than the way the sun blinks on to the water‘s surface, which, after a while, results in abstract images in motion. Shots taken backwards in slow motion show an evening sky, with ample clouds. It seems so very different; why it does so remains beyond comprehension." —Milena Gierke

National Geographic: The Savage Garden

1997 • 54 min

Your average backyard garden may look tranquil and serene on the outside, but what lurks beneath will truly amaze you--as Leslie Nielson is about to discover. As he strolls among the flowers, herbs and vegetables, there's a war for survival raging around him: from dangerous daddy longlegs and ferocious fire ants, to an eight-eyed jumping spider in a wrestling match with a belligerent bee. There's even a Top Gun-style air battle between a praying mantis and a bat. In this terrifying-and funny-new natural history comedy, National Geographic filmmakers use state-of-the-art cinematography to reveal what the world looks like from the insect's point of view.

Refreshment in Summer

1997 • 4 min • Germany

"The thrill of a sudden summer rainstorm inspires me to jump, naked, into my friend Maria‘s pool . From there, I film the fallen leaves and the ones that blow past…" —Milena Gierke

My Father Takes Pictures

1997 • 30 min

Director Claire Pijman portrays her father Boy Pijman who was born in the Dutch East Indies. When his children ask, Boy Pijman tells his story that he had never spoken about before; his three years as a prisoner of war in Japanese Camp during the Second World War.

The World of Bears with Bugs Bunny

1997 • 45 min • United States of America

Journey of discovery with Bugs Bunny into the realm of the bears.

Muscimol 3. Versuch

1997 • 14 min • Germany

The subject of his own experiment, Höller consumes fly agaric mushrooms and is ostensibly affected. He describes his experience before he starts to sing a German Christmas carol for children, “Ihr Kinderlein Kommet” (O, Come, Little Children) more or less comprehensibly in overtones.

Het steentje van Gisèle

1997 • 58 min

As daughter of an Austrian baroness and a Dutch geologist, Gisèle d'Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht (now 84) lived on the move. She has for instance lived in America, Austria, Holland, France and Greece. From her youth she knew she would be a painter. Over the course of the years, she has built up a large and diverse oeuvre inspired by poetry, mythology and the whimsy of nature.

Adam and Joe's Fourmative Years

1997 • 42 min

In 1997, Channel 4 called on cult couch-potatoes Adam and Joe to look back over its first 15 years of groundbreaking television. And take the p*ss out of it...

Scenes and Commercials

1997 • 22 min

A recording of the Wilson Brothers trying to cut the single "Help Me Rhonda" under the overbearing scrutiny of father Murray, tells the story of the struggle to achieve the illusion of carefree, American fun.

Motion Picture Genocide

1997 • 4 min • United States of America

An examination of 100 years of African Americans being murdered in movies.

Hola, mamá

1997 • 11 min • Spain

A young recruit calls his mother from the hospital telling her about his imminent return home from the Falklands War.

Not Simply a Wedding Banquet

1997 • 50 min

The first public gay wedding in Taiwan has stirred up considerable controversy, including a local campaign to ban this film. It tells the story of Yosheng and Gary, the first gay couple to have a public wedding in Taiwan. Their wedding was held in conventional Taiwanese fashion: a wedding banquet with friends and family and even the mayor of Taipei as the promised wedding moderator.

Amy the Squirrel: At the Movies 3

1997 • 2 min

Amy is on a date with a new man, but her old flame tries to get in the middle of it and attempts to hit on her.

Caught in the Crossfire

1997 • 26 min

The impact on children with gay parents in a culture that is prejudiced and hostile towards gay and lesbians and their right to be parents. The documentary interviews children and their parents.

Egyptian Heroines

1997 • 16 min • Egypt

Documentary by Ateyyat El-Abnoudy

Cuerpos de papel

1997 • 4 min • Mexico

Mixing samba, sex, and lovers' lies, this beautiful short is a visual meditation on sexuality, loss, jealousy, and intimacy.

The Gaze of the Stars

1997 • 26 min

Julia is apparently a woman of exceptional beauty, but is married to a wildly abusive man called Saide. Betihno, a young boy living with his tarvern owner uncle, has never seen this Julia. Legend has it that she never leaves the house, as she is hideously swollen from daily beatings. No one would say why Saide is always beating her up. One day the little boy discovers that Julia was once the love of his uncle. One day Betihno is left to look after the shop while his uncle goes to watch a contortionist’s show, and comes face to face with Saide. In a few moments, the truth about Julia will come out.

Gladly Given

1997 • 10 min • United States of America

“Illuminated leaves from the sub rosa oeuvre of Jerome Hiler. Although the title is tinged with irony, this film is in fact a gift and a work of gifted seeing made perceptible. Fragile and challenging in its seeming simplicity, GLADLY GIVEN unfolds and bristles with the delicacy of a Japanese Floating World painting while being gravitationally drawn into the containments and accidents of the everyday.” –Mark McElhatten

Inflorescentia

1997 • 13 min

Attempting to fissure prevailing relations between spectator and screen, between sight and touch, desiring subject and object of desire, Inflorescentia uses poetics, humor and erotics as means to voice "the body" and to take stock of cinema as one of the multiple transgressive sites for female pleasure. Its influences are productions by gay men, including Sergei Paradjanov, Derek Jarman and Jean Genet.

Deadly Bugs

1997 • 50 min

Go on an eerie nighttime search using black light to spot the amazing glow of the Bark Scorpion. Track the alarming spread of highly aggressive "Killer Bees" - responsible for over 2,000 fatal human attacks. Follow the short, deadly life cycle of the disease-spreading Mosquito, the tiny bloodsucker that has killed more people then both tigers and bears.

Manners, Who Needs Them?

1997 • 25 min

Table etiquette for kids.