All Films

Dream Boys

1997 • 57 min • United States of America

The good people at B/Fore Productions have done it. Dream Boys has six unbelievable man bodies for you to ooh and aah at. This is all-man, showing us why we love them.

Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary

1997 • 53 min

If Proposition 187 makes it through the courts, will hall duty become border patrol in California public schools? Fourth-grade-teacher-turned-filmmaker Laura Simon puts human faces on the issue as she takes us inside her classroom and into the faculty lounge at Hoover Elementary in Los Angeles. Law and learning converge as students, teachers and parents grapple candidly with the impact of policies that would deny public services to undocumented immigrants and their children.

Speak Easy

1997 • 20 min • Austria

Young people on the telephone.

Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect

1997 • 56 min

This documentary depicts Johnson at work and the importance of the architectural act, the actual construction, and how the buildings interact with their environment — in this case, the autumn leaves or snow of New Canaan.

Exit

1997 • 3 min • Sweden

Wallin's animation work using silicon graphics, "Exit (1997)", in which appropriated figures from Hieronymus Bosch paintings are pursued by a huge wall of fire, received attention from all over Europe. Every time the fire surrounds and burns a victim, increasing applause is heard.

Night in White Satin

1997 • 22 min

Go-raku-en

1997 • 7 min

"We make memories in the journey and look for the evaporative emotions in the blurry memories. Facing the illusion of exotic language, GO-RAKU-EN deconstructs the estranged and complicated feelings of lovers and tries to reflect the essence of loneliness. Eventually, the reality of the sound restruct... Wu used images and sounds taken from the trip to create the experimental piece Go-raku-en (後樂園). "It is so simple and pure. ... It's just that when you don't care that much, it's purity," said Wu, who feels that any form of art is an expression of thinking and an extension of liberty and freedom."

Carrie At Still

1997 • 28 min

A Super-8 film by Stom Sogo.

Spectrum Slice

1997 • 28 min

Ella

1997 • 12 min • Venezuela

She is a girl in a limited situation, a short about the reproductive rights of women and the right to decide.

Survivors

1997 • 16 min • United States of America

With images that vary from abstract to vividly representational, this animated documentary is based on interviews with victims of domestic violence who bravely recount their brutal histories, and, with the help of counselors, take their first steps towards healing.

An Ensign to the Nations

1997 • 59 min • United States of America

"An Ensign to the Nations" was made by the LDS Church's Audiovisual Department, with Russ Holt as the producer. With so much attention paid to the early history of the church during its sesquicentennial year, Holt said the movie depicts church history from 1847 to 1997. It makes clear that the pioneer trek wasn't the end - but rather the beginning - of an epic story that continues to grow larger with each passing year.

Calendar the Siamese

1997 • 30 min

Calendar the Siamese is the story of Roger Simmons, a downtown musician in the throes of a mid-life crisis. Roger believes that if he just had a year to concentrate on his composing, he could turn his life around. In desperation to buy time, he risks his life by selling a slice of his liver on the biological black market.

Camera Annihilator

1997 • 2 min • Germany

"I destroy an old Super 8 camera for science’s sake." –T.F.

My Cunt

1997 • 6 min • Canada

Originally written for the stage, Melbourne actor Maude Davey stars in the film adaptation of her subversive black comedy My Cunt. In this bold and controversial monologue, Maude poses sly questions about the meaning of female perfection as she introduces us to her grandmother's favourite party trick and gives us a glimpse of what Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson Lee and her grandmother have in common.

Mozart Requiem mit dem Finger gelesen

1997 • 41 min

'Mozart Requiem mit dem Finger gelesen' belongs to a group of 31 films which were made for the room 'Cave of memory' at Documenta X (1997).

Before Dawn

1997 • 26 min

Both mother and daughter are in love with the same man, which causes all three to commit suicide. Coincidentally, the husband also kills himself because of the business problem. They meet in another world but the problem still couldn’t be solved.

Made for Mars: The Pathfinder

1997 • 50 min

Spectacular footage and findings of the probe's huge success on Mars, and implications for future Martian missions.

Haywire Heart

1997 • 5 min • United States of America

What do you say when you are picked up by a giant bird, dropped in it's nest, fall from a very high height, smash into buildings and crash face-first into the sun? It wouldn't be "Happy Valentine's Day"! The Pipe Cleaner Family is at it again as Dad tries to cross the street with the very best Valentine present for the very best Valentine.

Baby Talk

1997 • 32 min • United States of America

How do animals communicate? You'll discover the answer in this amazing new program. Witness rare footage of baby cubs uttering their very first words. A truly remarkable show that will entertain and enlighten people of all ages!

Forgotten Memories

1997 • 20 min

Tim Ormond's short drama starring June Ormond in which two women meet under extraordinary circumstances.

Beluga Crash Blues

1997 • 19 min • Canada

Men, seen from afar, driven by the dynamics of work. The machine is no longer an extension of the bodies, of their strength. Man is now driven by the machine. The alienation of humanity is accomplished.

Fish Tales

1997 • 33 min

This film was one of seven commissioned of leading documentary filmmakers in India as part of a series, India’s Quest, to commemorate 50 years of India’s independence. An exploration of the nature and scope of the crisis of modern India. The mechanization of the fishing industry has depleted fish stocks worldwide leading to a major crisis. Along the Kerala coast, traditional fishermen face similar problems as their catch dwindles every season. In the village of Adimalathura, a group of fishermen come together in an effort to reverse this trend. Their solution? Constructing artificial reefs out of ferro-concrete and then planting them on the seabed.

The Bridge

1997 • 33 min • Philippines

A young boy's ghost creates tragic accidents on a bridge.