All Films

L'albero

1997 • 53 min • Italy

Companion piece to Jovanotti's 1997 seventh studio album 'Lorenzo 1997: L'albero'. “The movie tells a story starting from the end, when the long-awaited L'ALBERO is finally done and we realize we made the PERFECT, DEFINITIVE RECORD! But a lightning destroys the hard disk it was stored on, there's no backup and we have the record company knocking at the door for the master tapes. My band and I then agree to the only possible thing: to redo the album in a very short time by facing an initiatory, esoteric, ramshackle, crazy, mystical, chivalrous, demented journey from which the album we all know will emerge, which is not the PERFECT RECORD... but comes from that idea.” — Jovanotti

DDT: Born In USSR

1997 • 52 min

The film is based on live show of the band in Minsk, Belarus in 1994 and shooting at DDD Studios in St. Petersburg in 1997

Apocalypse Clarkson

1997 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Clarkson compares a number of sports and touring cars to find the best-handing car in the world. Jeremy tests a reviled Lada to destruction, a Toyota off-roader is matched head to head with the largest muckspreader Europe can offer and a whole lot more besides!

You're Invited to Mary-Kate and Ashley's Ballet Party

1997 • 27 min • United States of America

Mary-Kate and Ashley are ready to hit New York and show off their ballet skills. Spend the day taking in all of the sights that New York has to offer with Mary-Kate and Ashley leading up to a ballet grand finale.

The Absolution of Anthony

1997 • 13 min • United States of America

A 16-year-old gay boy lives with his Catholic grandfather in the Bronx.

Finishing The Novel

1997 • 4 min

Short film by David Wain, with Amanda Peet

Amour

1997 • 10 min • France

Using a rostrum camera, Raymond Depardon films a long series of photos, from the narrow streets of Paris to the endless desert, accompanied by original sounds of the city. A Cartier Foundation initiative for the contemporary arts.

First (Así como nosotros)

1997 • 10 min • Cuba

A man finds his image in a mirror, undertakes a discussion.

Between the Fist and the Stove

1997 • 34 min • Finland

Between the Fist and the Stove is a hilarious, fictional film, a melodrama and a tragicomedy based on clips from old Finnish films from the 1940s and 1950s. It is a synthesis of Finland’s Bold and the Beautiful – of a time when the swing of the haystack band made the public wild. Passion, jealousy, lust and forgiveness meet in the surges of the rapids and at the gates of heaven.

Dead Body

1997 • 22 min • Russia

Based on the short story of the same name by N. Lavrov. The story is inspired by real events that took place in early 20th-century Saint Petersburg.

Maurice Sendak's Little Bear: Meet Little Bear

1997 • 34 min

Little Bear, one of the most cherished characters in all of children's literature, comes to life in Nick Jr.'s animated series. Produced by Maurice Sendak, the Caldecott-winning illustrator of the Little Bear books, these stories are brimming with the warmth, humor and touch of mischief that have made Little Bear and his friends a favorite of preschoolers

MALICE MIZER: No Return Voyage "Final" ~one more time~

1997 • 44 min • Japan

A home video release documenting Malice Mizer's last indie live before signing with Columbia, at Shibuya Kokaido on 4/1/1997.

Methods Of Mayhem

1997 • 14 min

Experimental short by Nobutaka Yamaoka.

Host

1997 • 8 min

Lucas states: "In this video, I participate in an on-line therapy session directed by the system operator of a streetside multi-media kiosk. As I indulge in a virtual conversation about a troublesome relationship, the session instantly becomes an amalgamation of daytime television and tabloid, wherein the surveillance camera becomes the eye of the media."

HBO Presents the Best of Sex Bytes

1997 • 56 min

If you thought computers were a turn-off, then just see how they can be a turn-on! With sound and vision now available on the internet, the world of home computers is heating up. "The Best of Sex Bytes" shows you what people share in cyberspace from the pleasures of food and sex, and artists who bodycast human sculptures, to the pleasures of public nudity, foot fetishes, on-line erotic dancing, sex magic and more. Plus meet a rock band who really turn up the heat on stage: The Impotent Sea Snakes.

Spice Girls: One Hour of Girl Power!

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Join us on the adventure of a lifetime, spicing it up all over the world! This isn't just our first four fantastic videos, it's a sort of film diary of the last year. There are loads of interviews, behind the scenes footage at the video shoots, pillow fights and general spice-y madness!!! We don't only talk about girl power, we live it. Just watch!

Méliès' Magic Show

1997 • 60 min

This collection of shorts and film excerpts from illusionist and cinematic innovator Georges Méliès showcases his groundbreaking techniques that paved the way to modern filmmaking. Considered to be the father of cinematic special effects, Méliès used time-lapse and other methods now fundamental to Hollywood. "The Music Lover," "A Trip to the Moon," "The Infernal Cakewalk" and other examples of Méliès's influence are included in this compilation.

No Milk No Honey

1997 • 54 min

Lured to Western Australia by the promise of a new life in a land of milk and honey, British Group Settlers endured untold hardship and disappointment in the years following the First World War. For many Britons the end of the First World War brought a sigh of relief and a period of optimism. However, this optimism quickly faded as thousands of ex-servicemen and unskilled civilians swelled the queues of Britain’s Labour Exchanges to form part of a growing underclass of unemployed.

Locked-In Syndrome

1997 • 27 min • France, United Kingdom

On December 8, 1995, at the age of 43, Jean-Dominque Bauby, editor-in-chief of ELLE Magazine, suffered from a stroke and fell into a coma. When Bauby awoke he found himself completely speechless and paralyzed. In Locked-In Syndrome, director Jean-Jacques Beiniex follows Bauby's efforts to write The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was later adapted into a critically acclaimed film.

Marie Curie: More Than Meets the Eye

1997 • 54 min • Canada, Ireland

During World War 1, the young Boudreau sisters decide to aid the war effort by catching spies. The strange activities of Nobel-Prize winning scientist Marie Curie make her a prime suspect. When the girls follow Curie to the battlefront, they witness her fight to use science and her X-ray machine to save the lives of the wounded, including their father.

The Revolution

1997 • 35 min • United States of America

Plan B (1997). The fourth and final installment of the Plan B fourology, The Revolution gives a timely nod to the fundamental changes the team's diverse video productions- Questionable (1992), Virtual Reality (1993), Second Hand Smoke (1994)- made in the direction of modern skateboarding. While stomping a broad and progressive path into the sport's future, each and every incarnation of the Plan B team typified real to real skateboarding, period. Over three years in the making , and well worth the wait Revolution is far the most modern of the company's video offerings in both form and content, but by no means follows the standard format of the day, choosing instead to lead the world of skateboarding to the bitter end. In order of appearance: Pat Channita, Matt Hensley, Jeremy Wray, Rick McCrank, Brian Emmers, Pat Duffy, Colin McKay, and Danny Way.

Sabotörernas kung

1997 • 58 min • Sweden

"King of Saboteurs" - Ernst Wollweber, German communist, active in Sweden during the Second World War, eventually Stasi commander in the GDR, finally purged and forgotten. Ernst Friedrich Wollweber (1898 - 1967) was State Secretary of State Security from 1953 to 1955 and Minister of State Security of the German Democratic Republic from 1955 to 1957. He rose quickly through the party ranks and by 1921 had become a member of the KPD's Central Committee and Political Secretary of Hesse-Waldeck. When the KPD was outlawed in Germany after the Reichstag fire of February 1933, Wollweber was forced to flee to Copenhagen and later to Leningrad. From 1936 to 1940, Wollweber organized the "Organisation Against Fascism and in Support of the USSR", better known as the Wollweber League. After World War II, Wollweber returned to Germany and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1946.

Recife de Dentro pra Fora

1997 • 16 min • Brazil

Film inspired by a poem from João Cabral de Melo Neto and his life in Capibaribe.

Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis

1997 • 17 min

“I tried to imagine what the last hymn to Novalis’s night had been if it was beyond language. (…) is the most elaborate hand painted film I’ve ever made”.