All Films

Welcome to Life

1997 • 55 min • Poland

The film reveals a number of the Amway corporation’s secrets (including obvious violations of Polish law). To prevent these seeing the light of day, Amway obtained a court ban on the film, preventing its release. Director Henryk Dederko and producer Jacek Gwizdała were sued by Amway several times on various counts. This was the first case of preventive censorship in the history of Polish cinema after 1989. The defendants were cleared of disseminating untrue information. This acquittal did not enable the ban on the film to be revoked; the court ban on its release remained in force for 12 years.

Let the Punishment Fit the Child

1997 • 22 min • United States of America

Two women are bonded by strange rituals; a blurred sense of blood relation portrayed through a game of domination, submission, voyeurism and cruel tenderness.

Paranormal

1997 • 50 min • Austria

The filmmakers seek out experts and amateurs in the field of the supernatural and ask them to explain the methods by which they make contact with the "cosmic information web". In their search for "units of sense" in the chaos, the researchers use, interestingly enough, those techniques which are presently central to popular culture - de-construction, sampling and scratching.

Everest: Mountain of Dreams, Mountain of Doom

1997 • 45 min

Reaching 5 1/2 miles into the sky, Mt. Everest is a massive pyramid of intimidating rock, freezing cold and hurricane force winds. This extraordinary mountain is the highest point on Earth and has become the ultimate test of man's strength, endurance and will power. It is also deadly...for every five people who reach the summit, one dies trying. All who attempt its slopes risk their lives. Some survive in triumph, but many others never return from its icy heights.

Sudacas

1997 • 55 min • Argentina

A group of friends talk, play and improvise in a rooftop

Sweat of Floor

1997 • 26 min • Japan

An improvised film sketch with professional actors.

Identical Time

1997 • 15 min

Identical Time is an exploration of isolation within an urban environment. With skilled visual manipulations, Cho transforms images of a graffiti-marred subway window and the reflection of a subway car as it traverses a station into moments of sheer enigmatic beauty. This image mantra is further heightened by Stephen Vitiello's poignant soundtrack, in which auditory unpredictability mirrors human experience.

Kung Pao Chicken

1997 • 5 min

A Chinese chef (Chef Chu) made the most delicious Kung Pao Chicken in the world. But one day something went terribly wrong. Chef Chu came up with a solution that would change the West forever!

The Hero's Forbidden Love

1997 • 36 min

Doron Maizel is not an ordinary soldier, but a respected and esteemed colonel and doctor, who has been having a love affair over the past seven years with a handsome young man, Adir Steiner. In this way, he challenges the rules and conventions and risks compromising his own chances at a career. The army understands and tolerates a strange and contradictory relationship like this, where the being of one part of the couple the soldier walks the line between duty and passion every day. The relationship goes on until disease enters the scene.

Turtle World

1997 • 9 min

In this highly acclaimed animated film, a lone sea turtle travels through space, her breath creating a whole new atmosphere. This becomes filled with forests, rivers, mountains and enterprising monkeys…so enterprising that they are forced to learn about sustainability the hard way.

Ninetto the Messenger

1997 • 29 min • France

Actor Ninetto Davoli discusses his collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Holiday on Mars

1997 • 7 min

Then a rising star on London’s stand-up circuit, in the mid-90s Harry Hill made a series of 16mm short films with experimental filmmaker and projectionist David Leister, full of madcap comedic flair and DIY spirit.

A Ray of Sun

1997 • 57 min

Renzo and Roberto Rossellini - Two Brothers on their Journey towards the Unknown, sharing a life together. The older one finds a new way to represent reality in film. The younger one expresses this film reality in music. At a mature age both brothers became aware of the shortcomings that limited their arts. From this they drew a conclusion - each one in his own way.

The Story of a Shirt and a Violin

1997 • 47 min • Iran

A theater directed by Dariush Moadabian

Puppets & Demons

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

An anthology of surreal films by Patrick McGuinn featuring Vincent, a puppet who is obsessed with Twinkies and pasta.

Wanted

1997 • 5 min

Seeking connections.

A Story About Kusanojo

1997 • 25 min • Japan

Futaro, now 14 years old, is an only boy. His mother, an actress, raised him on her own. She herself is innocent, just like a child. It seems almost incredible to Futaro that she was brought him up by her self. One day, in the garden, Futaro seems a man dressed like a samurai. He must be one of mother’s actor friends, Futaro thinks, but then he resembles Futaro’s father. The stranger is called Kusanojo. He was a true samurai and now he is a true ghost. Strangely, Kusanojo seems to have forgotten the fact that he is a ghost. A strange life of 3 people with Futaro, his mother and his father who is a ghost starts.

Transworld - Starting Point 1

1997 • 23 min

The first in the instructional skateboarding series.

Surfing For Seniors

1997 • 28 min • United States of America

An instructional video teaching seniors how to use a computer and navigate the Internet.

Window

1997 • 3 min • Canada

Over the course of one year, Henricks periodically shot footage from front window of his third floor apartment. This material became the basis of Window, a video about knowing. How do we come to know a place or a person? Our knowledge comes from more than one unique experience. It is the sum of repetition and variations. Window shows how a whole can be more than merely the sum of the parts. It is the first in a series of works that explores one of the principle metaphors of video: the window.

Matamata et Pilipili

1997 • 58 min • Belgium

MATAMATA AND PILIPILI reclaims an important episode in Congolese cultural history, while exploring the complex terrain of colonial relationships, media representations, and popular culture.

Charles Santore Illustrates The Wizard of Oz

1997 • 27 min • United States of America

Charles Santore, in an expansion of his discussion in “Oz: The American Fairyland” (1997) (V), tells about his experience making an abridged storybook of “The Wizard of Oz”. He tells of his inspirations, the little girl who modeled for Dorothy, the tin man in folk art, and a left to right progression in a journey of identity, with opposing forces pushing the movement in art back to the left.

Monster in the Garage

1997 • 32 min

A dude throws a party, unaware that a hungry alien has taken up residence in his garage.

Movement

1997 • 3 min • France

Forms are born and die.