All Films

Time is on My Side

1997 • 55 min • Japan

The loneliness and emptiness of the protagonist are conveyed not heavily, but deeply. This is due to the fact that the film does not directly depict his emotional movements, but rather in a straightforward manner in relation to his surroundings. And this also resulted in the sympathy of the audience for the protagonist.

Et cetera

1997 • 33 min • India

‘Et cetera’ is a tetralogy of four separate films that seek to examine the various levels at which the reality of human existence functions.

The Violent Cockold

1997 • 55 min • Brazil

Robert Irwin : the beauty of questions

1997 • 59 min

Artist Robert Irwin presents his approach to art and its role in the world, and talks about his lifelong process of artistic search and discovery. Shows him at work on some of his installations in various locations.

Jack Dee Live And Uncut

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Filmed at London's Gielgud Theatre at the culmination of his 1998 tour, Jack Dee Live and Uncut puts the UK's favourite "whinger" in his element--on a stage performing stand-up comedy. Dee has presence in his orange shirt and tailored blue suit, but although he's derogatory about himself--he's a stay-at-home man, he's short, he's fat--he's also unapologetic. Dee isn't afraid to throw harsh words at his audience or swear like the proverbial navvy along with an onslaught of observational humour. He doesn't go in for surrealism, one-liners or complex structural payoffs. He prefers to tackle one subject at a time, explore it, then move on. His themes are universal rather than original but he usually brings a fresh perspective. Take builders… he puts himself at the centre of their Neanderthal attentions rather than women.

Fire Mountain: The Eruption and Rebirth of Mount St. Helens

1997 • 59 min • United States of America

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens leveled 230 square miles, sent 540 million tons of ash and volcanic rock twelve miles into the air, and blasted one cubic mile of earth from the crest of the Cascade Mountain Range. Illustrates the terrifying fury of the most destructive volcanic disaster in American history through aerial photography and survivors' own words. Shows examples of nature's plant and animal recovery seventeen years later.

Serial Killer Massacre

1997 • 55 min • United States of America

Ted is a depraved serial killer...until he meets Leah. Then he becomes a real monster. Together the two of them go on a bloody, murder-happy rampage of unparalleled brutality, stalking then slaughtering their victims with a bone-chilling psychotic intensity!

Killerkuscheltiere II

1997 • 24 min • Germany

Sequel to Killerkuscheltiere. This time with more bloody mess and digital effects!

Infinity / The Making of 20th Century Nostalgia

1997 • 57 min • Japan

Making of "20th Century Nostalgia"

Pabst wieder sehen

1997 • 21 min • Germany

A documentary on Georg Wilhelm Pabst and restoration work on his movie "Die freudlose Gasse" ("Joyless Street").

Meals Ready

1997 • 46 min

Exploring the rice markets of South India from a socio-economic perspective

Project

1997 • 39 min

A thirty-nine minute sketch film for TASTE OF CHERRY that Abbas Kiarostani made with his son Bahman Kiarostami.

Shock Asylum

1997 • 11 min

A routine psychiatric evaluation goes awry when the protagonist is perceived as 'reluctant and angry'.

Sin film II

1997 • 10 min

Short film by Javier Aguirre

Georges Bataille - À perte de vue

1997 • 48 min • France

A traveller investigates the life and work of Georges Bataille. Through a staging of the writer's obsessive motives, the film succeeds in grasping the elusive: the sensitive nucleus of radical thought. The film contains the interviews with Pierre Klossowski and Jacques Pimpanneau.

Evita: A Grave Without Peace

1997 • 51 min • Argentina

The secret story of Evita Peron's dead body.

Snoot's New Squat

1997 • 7 min

When an alien from a fur-loving race is ordered to find a new home for his people, he settles on a neurotic dog.

Duties of My Heart

1997 • 11 min

A hybrid short film that merges American Sign Language, contemporary dance, and poetry to tell a deeply personal story about expression, resilience, and the emotional weight of language. Drawing visual inspiration from the experimental dance films of the 1940s, the piece centers a Deaf protagonist whose inner world is revealed not through words, but through movement.

Pingu at the Wedding Party

1997 • 25 min • Switzerland, United Kingdom

It's excitement all round when a wedding invitation arrives and the Pingu family make their way to the gathering. However things do not go quite as planned with an absentee groom, a new arrival and the havoc wreaked by a damaged gift.

3 Ways To Go

1997 • 4 min

A trinity of dying, as hand exposure of film, drawing, live action and stop motion conspire to probe the mystery of the final moments. Potent and disquieting as it seeks answers to the great question.

St. Pelagius the Penitent

1997 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Whimsical and thought-provoking, this is the story of five friends, each on a unique gender adventure, and one of their long-lost ancestors, a medieval saint.

X-Isles

1997 • 43 min • United States of America

One of the few documentaries to deal with the reasons why some Caribbean Gays and Lesbians become ex-isles while others stay home.

Chu^2

1997 • 24 min

A three part anthology anime film

Sabriya

1997 • 25 min • Tunisia

This film explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb. It is a film about men who prefer to live life as an abstract game and the free-spirited woman who changes everything. Said and Youssef have fulfilled a life-long dream by opening a "chess bar" in the middle of the desert. They sit around drinking palm wine, playing board games and composing love poetry to imaginary women. All this changes with the arrival of Sarah, a sexually liberated, uninhibited metisse who easily lures Youssef into an affair. Soon he is dreaming not about chess but about opening a coffee bar in Genoa. The friendship is destroyed, the bar sold. Youssef, dressed in Western clothes, waits to leave with Sarah; will she show up? Said boards a train and sits down next to a Westernized woman bearing a resemblance to Sarah