All Films

Sic transit gloria

1997 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

About ecology, hypocrisy and transience.

Dino in The Great Egg-Scape

1997 • 7 min

Dino takes care of a baby dinosaur and tries to prevent him from growing.

The Man in the Lower-Left Hand Corner of The Photograph

1997 • 13 min • United Kingdom

A man in a decaying room looks at an old photograph of himself and tries to recreate the happiness he once felt.

Front Room

1997 • 2 min • France

Close-ups of parts of the body, in a homoerotic statement.

By Then

1997 • 59 min • France

A child is confronted with the (ever young) old age of the world, its hazards, its cinema and music, shot in seven days in Rome, Fiumicino, Ciampino and Cineccità. What will happen on July 12, 1995, in Rome ? What will become of July 12, 1995, in Rome ?

Time Flies

1997 • 5 min

Personal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, observed and/or remembered everyday events - all of which add to a general sense of reminiscence. Sometimes a hand appears (Breer’s own) on top of a photo, reminding us that the photo is but an object in the film, not the film itself.

Os Camaradas

1997 • 15 min • Brazil

A Kafka-esque satire about food, identity, and bureaucracy.

Barbed Wire and Mandolins

1997 • 48 min • Canada

Hundreds of Italian men were interned as potential terrorists in Canada during the turbulent years of World War 2.

Divertimento

1997 • 2 min • United States of America

This, painted in the hospital while recovering from cancer surgery in 1996, is - it seems to me - very related to De Kooning's Alzheimer's paintings. The mind, here, is seeking a "blank" and/or holding fast to tendrils of meaning which are stripped so bare as to be purely reflective of flesh tissue and irregular strands of cells. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Le Treport

1997 • 3 min • Germany

For five days a super-8 camera exposed a single frame every three minutes. A film about a carousel, a small harbour, a light tower and about wind, waves, weather and the tides.

The Two-Wheeled Time Machine

1997 • 21 min • Australia

Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry returns to convince her to join him.

Body Double 10

1997 • 2 min

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Obsession

The Phony Trilogy

1997 • 4 min

A real-time video-meets-digital animation trilogy of shorts featuring the highly excited (and mildly delusional) Joe Gibbons. Brilliant computer animation by collaborator Emily Breer provides an additional layer of biting commentary.

Charlton Heston Presents the Bible: Genesis

1997 • 55 min

Charlton Heston presents the Book of Genesis.

Kids for Character: Choices Count!

1997 • 60 min

This is a sequel to Kids for Character, but this video mainly focuses on making good choices.

The Last Graduation

1997 • 57 min

Researcher Barbara Zahm gives a brief history of the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion in which forty-three men died, and the college prison program which was initiated afterward. After interviews with prison inmates, "The Movement for College Programs of New York State Prisons After Attica" was formed. Zahm tells of her transformation after working with the inmates and her anguish over the Congressional decision to eliminate Pell Grants for prisoners, thus ending the program and leading to the "Last Graduation". As of 1997 funding cuts had not been restored.

Pantanal: The Waters of Life

1997 • 56 min • Uruguay

Forty million people and countless species of flora and fauna depend on the rivers of the Rio de la Plata basin. But there is a development initiative, the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway Project, which aims to change the natural courses of these rivers and build a “Super Highway River” for the transport of grain and raw materials. If this project is implemented, what will the consequences be for society and for the environment?

The Conquest of Everest 1953

1997 • 53 min

Using original footage, looks at the various attempts to climb the world's loftiest peak, in particular the successful 1953 expedition, when, on 29 May, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay raised the Union Jack on the summit of Everest.

Guarding Angel

1997 • 33 min • Estonia

Follow up film to "Call-girl´s Christmas" captured four years prior by Artur Talvik and Rein Kotov. Kerstin, a prostitute portrayed in a blatantly natural-poetic documentary by Talvik-Kotov, has meanwhile been in prison for theft, then released and again called in front of the camera. A new person, perhaps, but still as skilled a manipulator of men as ever.

Six Boxes (Single Sequence)

1997 • 1 min

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

Beauty Parlor

1997 • 19 min

The story revolves around three women and a transvestite working in a beauty salon, whose interaction with one another engenders facets of personality and suppressed desires in each one hitherto unknown to them.

El Ángel del Pantano

1997 • 50 min

The impact of Andres Caicedo words and stories on the gangs of the colony of San Fernando (Cali) as told by one of his members: The Angel of the Swamp.

Direttive dall'alto

1997 • 18 min • Italy

Two friends decide to make a short film, so they begin to write the screenplay. Will the characters in the film be able to survive the diabolical directives of their creators?

For a Penny

1997 • 7 min • Poland

In this stop-motion made in the chiaroscuro style of German Expressionism, a poor man sells his face to a pawnshop for a penny, hoping to use it to buy a single lottery ticket.