All Films

As Aventuras Sexuais de Mike Jackson

1997 • 54 min • Brazil

Imagine a pornographic film set in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Vigário Geral, with a clone of Michael Jackson and three women without any glamor, seeing it in a shack falling apart. Can you imagine? Ask your rental store for the tape ‘‘ The Sexual Adventures of Mike Jackson ’’, by Gregório de Mattos, and you will have the opportunity to see that the above description is not far from the truth. Just as the North American filmmaker Spike Lee had to obtain authorization from drug dealers from Morro Dona Marta (south zone of Rio de Janeiro) to record a clip with Michael Jackson, he had the prior approval of Vigário Geral's "sheriff" (northern zone) to shoot " Mike Jackson's Sexual Adventures ".

The Bay of Pigs

1997 • 60 min

On 17th April 1961, an invasion force of over 1,200 Cuban exiles - trained, financed, equipped and directed by the US CIA - launched an amphibious invasion of the Cuban mainland. This documentary examines both the tactical and ethical questions surrounding the failed three-day battle, one that the world watched with great apprehension, and features interviews with key participants, archival footage and information obtained through declassified documents.

Wonderful Story

1997 • 22 min

Idol VHS tape Ryoko Hirosue released in 1997.

Gaither's Pond: The Lure Depths

1997 • 28 min

A computer-animated homecoming for kids of all ages!

No Is Yes

1997 • 38 min

Shown at The Spectacular Optical, Threadwaxing Space, New York City, Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. No Is Yes examines the inevitable co-option of counter culture through two teenage girls that accidentally kill and mutilate their favorite rockstar. It is inspired by MTV' s habitual use of experimental film and video techniques to render elaborate ads for their specialized product—the pop star.

Handcrafted Cinema

1997 • 36 min

In 1994, Caroline Leaf accepted the Sir Allen Sewell Fellowship to give a series of studio workshops and lectures to animation students at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane. In this film she talks about her work and demonstrates such techniques as sand animation, paint and cut-out animation and scratch animation.

Whiplash

1997 • 20 min • United States of America

During the years preceeding his death, Sonbert channeled his energy into making Whiplash. His vision and motor skills impaired, he gave his companion, Ascension Serrano, detailed instructions about the assembly of specific shots and the music to be used as a counterpoint to the images. Before his death in 1995, he asked filmmaker Jeff Scher (a former student of Sonbert's at Bard) to complete the film. --Jon Gartenberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1996.

Fragmentos - Uma Narrativa Intranquila

1997 • 45 min

Documentary and fictional medium-length film made in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with testimonials from cinematographic technicians and assembly of material in super-8. Among the images, the scenes from the movie "Patíbulo" (Joel Yamaji, 1976) and the material not found in a room at the School of Communications and Arts at USP.

911: The Journey So Far...

1997 • 58 min

A movie documenting the making of 911's first album, The Journey. Features interviews with the band, self-filmed footage of their promotional tour and behind the scenes of their music videos.

Be Careful!

1997 • 1 min

The mankind, laughing, to all gets used. Slowly, but correct. It is necessary to recognize, that on a background of prompt growth counterskyscraper and other terrorism, general degradation and degeneration of tastes, the problem of former terrible AIDS is not considered now as something out of the common leaving in a turn universal bad. In comparison with all by rest of the same sort, is in it even and something positive: for pleasure suffer, instead of so that sleep, and wake up under concrete ruins, not having and opportunity to send last "forgive" over the mobile telephone. From asheses send - in ashes we will address, as teach us clever books. In film, about which there will be a speech, the alternative way which was less giving back with didactics, formalin and fatalism is offered.

Introducing Tony Ferrino: Who and Why? A Quest

1997 • 30 min • United Kingdom

In depth interview special with Steve Coogan's spoof Portuguese musical megastar Tony Ferrino

Heritage Minutes: Stratford

1997 • 1 min • Canada

Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.

The Novelist's Affair 3: Lover Battle Royale

1997 • 58 min • Japan

Uratsuki is a popular erotic novelist. One day, he decides to write a masterpiece of pure literature and hides himself in a rural inn. One after another, irresistible attractive women appear before him and they have intense sex. This is a mystery-style comedy full of eroticism, a must-see explosion of lust, where a harem-like, intense and sensual relationship unfolds around a sensual novelist with a big dick and excellent technique.

רדיו גן

1997 • 45 min • Israel

Classic Israeli children's songs covered by Yael Bar Zohar, presented by a comedic pair of radio hosts who constantly bicker.

Red's Breakfast 2: Dawn Of The Red

1997 • 14 min • United States of America

Loveable serial killer, "Red Toole" meets his soul-mate "Violet". They fall instantly in love...and murder a Greek architecht. Tons of romantic fun for everyone!

Janeane Garofalo: HBO Comedy Hour

1997 • 55 min • United States of America

Comic Janeane Garofalo gives a performance in New York City.

Living with Your Eyes: The World According to Johan van der Keuken

1997 • 55 min

When I told Johan van de Keuken I wanted to make a film about him and his work, we decided to make a film in a film, that is I would shoot the making of the film he was supposed to make about the Chinese photographer ToSang who would be making photographs of his clients. The film won a Jury Award in Figuiera da Foz, Portugal.

Rosegarden

1997 • 48 min • Finland

Sisters Marjaana and Kreeta live alone in a deteriorating country house. Their mother has abandoned them and left in search of the world’s richest man.

Dracula: The True Story

1997 • 43 min

The Irish novelist, Bram Stoker, gave the world Dracula in 1897. This documentary explores the historical figure behind the fictional figure of horror and examines medical explanations for the myths of vampires.

The Lost Children of Berlin

1997 • 50 min

In the dark days of Nazi Germany, Jewish schools were shut down one by one as the students and their families were herded into ghettos or sent to concentration camps. But amid the countless stories of tragedy and death are the miraculous stories of those who survived. This documentary, produced by Steven Spielberg and the Shoah Foundation and narrated by Anthony Hopkins, tells one of these stories -- that of the last Jewish school in Berlin to be shut down in 1942 and the 50 students who survived the war to meet again at a 1996 reunion in the newly reopened Grosse Hamburgerstrasse School.

Triangle⊿slant

1997 • 48 min • Japan

An 8mm film drama. Written by Fusako Kumagai and directed by Kenji Onishi.

Feline

1997 • 6 min • New Zealand, Australia

In this animated tale of awakening, a woman explores the anxious landscape of sexuality and desire. With the help of her mischievous alter ego, she searches for the animal within. Over three years in the making, its mutable clay characters negotiate an eerie Australasian landscape (created with multi-plane paint-on-glass sets), inhabited only by strange birds and roving creatures of the night. Feline investigates the possibilities for changing oneself in a world where physicality and identity are fluid. It is a tale of denial, sexual awakening, and self acceptance.

David Bowie - Live from the 10th spot

1997 • 47 min

David Bowie Live At The Spot-Live From The 10th Spot,Capital Theatre,Port Chester,New York,USA,1997-10-14-pro-shot (47 minutes), songs are: 1. Quicksand, 2. Jean Genie, 3. I’m Afraid of Americans, 4. Look Back in Anger, 5. Scary Monsters, 6. Little Wonder, 7. Fame, 8. Hallo Spaceboy, 9. All the Young Dudes.

Carved from the Heart

1997 • 29 min • United States of America

One man loses his son to a cocaine overdose. Grieving, Stan Marsden, a Tsimpsean wood carver decides to create a totem pole in his son's memory and invites the town of Craig, Alaska to help. Before he is done, the pole becomes a communal project, bringing people of diverse backgrounds and ages together.