All Films

Le 26 septembre à l’atelier

1997 • 3 min

A brief glimpse of life with friends from the ZI atelier.

Swamp and Tad in Mission Imfrogable

1997 • 7 min

A pair of frog-like aliens are sent to Earth on a mission.

Dobranocka

1997 • 15 min • Poland

The protagonist of the film is a rabbit (hare), who experiences various adventures, meets strange people and strange situations. The film begins with a sequence of dreams, but the dream events are repeated in the real world and have their continuation. Everything ends well. This is how the plot looks like in a nutshell. But the mood and atmosphere of the film is difficult to verbalize, because it is assumed to be ambiguous, just as the painting of Stasys Eidrigevičius is ambiguous.

Seamen

1997 • 15 min

Three men present their very different experiences as men who sleep with other men.

Positive Story

1997 • 47 min

Avi grew up in Givatayim where he had a typical Israeli childhood, for someone gay: social ostracism, scorn, loneliness and a double-life. At 17, he added nof (Hebrew for panorama) to his name and discovered gay society in the big city. At 19, he tested positive for HIV. At 26, Avinof became an active and vocal member of Israel's gay community. Positive Story is an intimate and personal film in which one man shares his story of being gay, HIV positive, and Israeli.

The way home

1997 • 16 min

If you ask for directions in Paris, passers-by will take a map out of your bag and give you directions. From there, I board the train back to Seoul. Trains pass through Europe and through Asia, and time speeds up by an hour a day. Seonjae gradually falls into the chaos of time. Finally, the train arrives in Seoul, and Seon-jae tries to find a house with the address, but it is impossible to find a house with only the address in the narrow and winding alleys of Seoul. Suddenly, Seon-jae realizes that his method of finding a house is not suitable for Seoul. Seon-jae stands on the road to find a house again.

Comes to a Point Like an Ice-Cream Cone

1997 • 17 min

Experimental mash-up of circus and sideshow footage.

Preparing For The Digital Age: The BBC's New Identity

1997 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Martin Lambie-Nairn tells us about how he rebranded the BBC in 1997 to prepare for the digital age.

Billy Joel: VH1 Storytellers

1997 • 45 min

Billy Joel performs some of his most iconic songs live and shares the stories behind the songs.

Twinkam Kid

1997 • 1 min

A Roxlee animation short.

The Rainbow Man/John 3:16

1997 • 41 min • United States of America

Millions of Americans have seen Rollen Frederick Stewart, a.k.a. "Rainbow Man", who achieved notoriety during the late 70's by appearing in the crowd at thousands of televised sporting events wearing his trademark rainbow-colored afro wig. Later—after he became a born-again Christian—he added a sign reading "John 3:16". Over the years, grabbing the attention of the media became an obsession for Stewart. He abandoned his home and marriage to roam the country living out of his car, studying TV Guide each week in a never-ending quest to stay televised...with tragic consequences.

The Burning Man Festival

1997 • 45 min • United States of America

Joe Winston's award-winning account of America's largest countercultural event. Thousands of people gather each summer in the Nevada desert to erect and burn a 40-foot tall human effigy. A temporary city rises from the dust and 100-degree heat, and a sort of anarchist society emerges. Festival goers strut naked, dance in the mud, create theatrical "Theme Camps," invent religions, shoot automatic weapons at stuffed animals, or whatever else they don't get enough of at home.

Wc

1997 • 4 min

Camel Trophy 1997 - Mongolia

1997 • 57 min

Mongolia is perceived as one of the most isolated, inaccessible locations in the world. In 1997 it proved a suitably challenging environment for an event billed as the world's greatest adventure challenge - the Camel Trophy. Forty competitors from 20 nations gathered in the modern capital of Ulaanbaatar for the start of Camel '97. From there they took their Land Rover Discoverys over existing roads and tracks through a country of extremes - from the sub-zero temperatures of the northern mountains to the heat of the Gobi desert. After circumnavigating a country three times the size of France, the event finished in the ancient capital of Karakorum, home of Mongolia's largest Buddhist monastery. Along the way, the teams visited eight competition sites and also competed in mountain biking, kayaking, 4x4 driving and orienteering awards.

Absolutely of Nothing

1997 • 18 min • Russia

Ironic movie imbued with humanistic over-excitement about the contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations. The film’s name Kobrin took from Hegel’s «Philosophy of Religion», but in his film work Kobrin granted the ability to speak to the «kitchen» philosopher – Semen Semenovitch.

Family Guide to the Internet

1997 • 34 min

A family that tries to explain the internet and fails trying.

The Window

1997 • 4 min

One of a collection of experimental shorts shot on VHS, miniDV or created in the computer, where the results were edited and manipulated by filmmaker Walter Ungerer with various computer software programs.

Chemin d'humanité

1997 • 56 min • France

Film in memory of the workers of the Lille company Massey-Ferguson, who manufactured tractors and combines, and closed its doors in 1984.

Carlos: Terrorist Without Borders

1997 • 59 min • France

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.

Hospital - An Unhealthy Business

1997 • 57 min

Story of St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne and the challenge to treat patients with limited finance. The documentary enters the world of financial administrators, doctors and nurses as they plan to save money. The hospital is faced with reducing the number of operations, closing wards and justifying every expenditure.

Stasi City

1997 • 5 min • United Kingdom

This four-channel video installation was shot inside the abandoned headquarters of the defunct East German secret police—unofficially called Stasi City— a few years after the reunification of Germany. Images of the labyrinth of abandoned corridors, interrogation rooms, and open and closed doors are accompanied by a soundtrack of the clanging, buzzing, and clicking sounds that would have been emitted by surveillance equipment when police occupied the building. Stasi City is an imprint of the haunting memories embedded in architecture.

Black Wednesday

1997 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Black Wednesday occurred in the United Kingdom on 16 September 1992, when John Major's Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after it was unable to keep the pound above its agreed lower limit in the ERM.

Beauty Before Age

1997 • 23 min

Reflections on growing older. Gay men of different ages ponder what it means to get older in a culture that youth obsessed.

The Dream of the Little Dancing Men

1997 • 15 min • Russia

Film is about communication. Kobrin pays homage to Vasili Nalimov, to his work and life. Nalimov was a mathematician and philosopher, but was also an eccentric anarchist with mystic tendencies who spent eighteen years in a concentration camp. Nalimov’s philosophy relies on probabilistic methods in the natural and social sciences and applies them to the study of language and consciousness.