All Films

Let's Talk A While

1997 • 17 min • India

A cynical young man and a romantic young womanencountered each other on a night bus journey. Eachspins a story around the other. It turns out that she isgoing to meet someone, she has never seen before. Heis apprehensive. She herself is not so sure.

Wingnut's Art of Longboarding

1997 • 59 min

Art of Longboarding 1 is packed with great longboarding style tips, instruction and insight from Wingnut along with lots of great footage. Who better than Wingnut to put out a film titled The Art of Longboarding. Wingnut has a classic minimalist style that every surfer can learn from. Plus his stoke and positive attitude are really something to try to emulate.

Rammstein: Live at Hultsfred Festival, Sweden 1997

1997 • 16 min

Rammstein performs Live at Hultsfred Festival in Sweden 1997. Setlist includes "Rammstein" "Der Meister" "Tier" "Engel"

Pink Street

1997 • 5 min • Czech Republic, Germany

A satirical sketch about the different rhythms, intensities and body languages of walking people and an experiment of characterization through movement, while telling a short story about the absurdity of life and about the limitations of our worldview.

Springheel Jack

1997 • 4 min • United States of America

A tribute to grindhouse cinema of the 1970's, this 8mm short film follows an undercover cop as he pursues Springheel Jack, a supernatural serial killer.

Idol of Darkness

1997 • 47 min • Japan

Ikumi is an up-and-coming pop singer with millions of fans and a promising acting career. She should be looking at the world through rose-colored glasses, but she's got man trouble. The love of her life just isn't sure he can handle Ikumi's fame and fortune. To make matters worse, while shooting on location, a jealous costar finds a strange wooden idol in an abandoned temple and uses it to invoke a hideous demon to be the instrument of her revenge. Will Ikumi's next concert be her last curtain call? She's about to discover that there really are fates worse than death.

Songbook

1997 • 19 min

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada starring Fusako Kumagai.

Mahalia Jackson Sings the Songs Of Christmas

1997 • 41 min

Featuring over 40 minutes of vintage performances by the world's greatest gospel singer, this is Mahalia at her most powerful, singing the beloved songs of the holiday season.Originally intended as musical vignettes for CBS's 1960-61 television season, this beautiful footage has been digitally remastered for optimum sound and picture quality form the original 16mm Kinescopes.

Where Did You Flow?..

1997 • 2 min • Latvia

Lullaby song.

The Mouse Rode

1997 • 2 min • Latvia

The mouse drove, the cart squeaked' led the sleeping squirrel Migu migu alone', until both two fell asleep.

The Life History of True Slime Molds

1997 • 28 min

This science film explores the ecology of slime molds, a type of soil microorganism, through three years of observation and filming. This masterpiece was completed at the age of 91 by filmmaker Genichiro Higuchi, who has received international acclaim for his "visual thesis" that explores the mechanism of cell differentiation in cellular slime molds. Since their birth on Earth 1 billion years ago, true slime molds have survived by adapting to a variety of environments. This film uses time-lapse photography under a microscope to capture the rhythms of true slime molds, which cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Give Us, Mouse, A Dream!

1997 • 2 min • Latvia

Give us, mouse, a sweet sleep for the little baby tightened, silenced, sleep in the headrest itself.

Yanchar quyon

1997 • 11 min

The wolf wants to eat a rabbit for lunch, but...

Krémes érzések

1997 • 55 min

A documentary about twins in the cosmetic industry.

Negotiating Sex in an Age of Panic

1997 • 12 min

A twelve-minute video produced for the 1997 MIX Film Festival. The founder of MIX asked Wentzy to "make it personal." The video provoked a MNN public access hearing for whether it should be considered obscene and lacking artistic merit, to which they unanimously concluded that the video was, in fact, of serious, artistic, and political merit.

Glimpses of Indian Animation

1997 • 30 min • India

This film traces the origins of Indian Animation, from the pioneering work of Dada Saheb Phalke, it moves to preset day high -tech computer animation. The films under lines important contribution of Films Division's Cartoon Film Unit.

Life's a Bath

1997 • 1 min

John Frusciante is filmed taking heroin at his Hollywood Boulevard address. That footage and the footage from 1994 is then combined, but the video was never officially released

GRISAILLE (Gray Over)

1997 • 3 min

8mm short film by Mikio Yamazaki.

Trail of the UFO

1997 • 51 min

The team investigate UFO sightings in a small town.

Adam and Eve. Liberation From Original Sin

1997 • 24 min • Russia

Biblical motifs combined with Suprematism, plus a brilliant idea of integrating the movement of water in the Volga–Don Canal into the action.

Highlanders Too

1997 • 10 min

The short film looks at what it is like to be gay when the nearest bar is 250 miles away. Drawn from nearly 20 hours of interviews with highlander gay men of all ages, the film tells of the double lives, feelings of isolation, religious oppression and struggle for selfhood.

Body, Body on the Wall

1997 • 7 min • Belgium

Body, Body on the Wall was originally part of the stage performance of the same name, from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus/Jan Fabre.

Le Dernier Voyage

1997 • 26 min • France

The last journey of the postal workers, a profession disappears... Men sorting mail on the Paris-Brest line, every night, as the train rolls along. Upon arrival in the early morning, the mail is ready for delivery. It is the last journey, the end of a job, the end of a way of life for these men who sometimes lead double lives, in Paris and in Brest...

The Tim Vine Christmas Present

1997 • 60 min

First broadcast on Channel 5 [UK] on 24th December 1997. Produced by Richard Hearsey.