All Films

Looking for Enemies Finding Friends

1997 • 20 min

A self-portrait of Vincent Gallo.

Secret Lives: L. Ron Hubbard

1997 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the creator of Dianetics and Scientology, featuring some of the people who knew him intimately.

The Littlest Angel

1997 • 25 min • Canada

Based on the best selling children's classic book by Charles Tazewell. In this holiday special the Littlest Angel demonstrates the timeless lesson of giving as he tries to adapt to life in heaven.

Over open avgrunn

1997 • 58 min • Norway

A portrait of Norwegian poet and novelist Tarjei Vesaas (1897 - 1970).

Wounds and Other Absent Objects

1997 • 8 min

Short film by Anish Kapoor commissioned by BBC Channel 4 as part of the 'TV Sculpture' programme. The impact of Anish Kapoor's sculpture is immediate while its full meaning is more elusive and mysterious. His visual puzzles are tailor-made for television. For Wounds and Other Absent Objects Kapoor has created an electronic palette with which to explore the physical power of colour. Premiered 6 October1997.

Your Kiss

1997 • 3 min • United States of America

A circle of men on a San Francisco rooftop play the telephone game with a kiss to the strains of a 1940's Dorothy Lamour song.

A Story of Healing

1997 • 28 min

In January, 1997, a team of five nurses, four anesthesiologists, and three plastic surgeons arrive in Vietnam from the United States for two weeks' of volunteer work. They operate on 110 children who have various birth defects and injuries. They also talk to the film crew about why they've made this trip and what it means to them. We watch them work, and we see the children, their families, and their surroundings in the Mekong Delta. Over the closing credits, Dionne Warwick sings Bacharach and David's "What the World Needs Now Is Love".

Castle Ghosts of Wales

1997 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Wales is an edge of magnificent landscape and majestic medieval locks. On every square kilometer here are more locks, than somewhere in the world: from romantic ruins to the majestic fortresses. The familial locks of Wales remember time of bloody murders, cruel intestine war.

Still Life

1997 • 58 min • Germany

According to Harun Farocki, today's photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters in that they depict objects from everyday life - the "still life". The filmmaker illustrates this intriguing hypothesis with three documentary sequences which show the photographers at work creating a contemporary "still life": a cheese-board, beer glasses and an expensive watch.

The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A look at the colourful lifestyle and inspiring music and lyrics of Shane MacGowan, former lead singer of the Pogues. Featuring specially-recorded performances of MacGowan's songs.

Karen Black Like Me

1997 • 15 min

David Briggs' Karen Black Like Me is a weirdly funny homage to the 70s cult classic Trilogy of Terror.

Space War

1997 • 3 min • United States of America

All hell breaks loose when an alien monstrosity crash lands on a small fantasy island.

Eyewitness: Monster

1997 • 30 min

Which is the deadliest monster of all, real or imaginary? This video explores monsters of myth and movies and real-world animals that scare us.

Autre chose à foutre qu'aimer

1997 • 53 min

In this short and uneven film about a single mother and her brood, the difficulties and obstacles involved in loving someone are presented with sympathy and fine sentiment, yet the film is slow in parts and although short, could have been advantageously edited to a still briefer length.

The Triumph & Tragedy of Napoleon Bonaparte

1997 • 10 min

A dramatization of Napoleon's exile to the Isle of Elba, accompanied by a brief historical dissertation.

Cuttlefish: Kings of Camouflage

1997 • 60 min

Join NOVA on a voyage beneath the waves, where you'll discover a bizarre, alien-like creature like no other. It's an animal with eight sucker-covered arms growing out of its head, three hearts pumping its blue-green blood, and a doughnut-shaped brain. It has the ability to change its color and shape to blend in with seaweed and rocks, and it has a knack for switching on electrifying light shows that dazzle its prey. Perhaps most surprising of all, this animal is quite intelligent, with a highly complex brain. In this program, underwater cameras capture the extraordinary powers of the cuttlefish.

Distorted "Tele" Vision

1997 • 11 min • United States of America

“The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six scenes that feature a television in the landscape. The speed of the television (in NTSC) is 30 frames per second, and never changes in this film. But the landscape views pass at different speeds.” - Yo Ota

Night of the Fox

1997 • 60 min • Iran

Fox Night movie was made in 1996. This film is a product of the Iranian country in the genre of action and mystery genre. Mohammad Motoselani, Hossein Yaryar and Gholamhossein Lotfi have been featured in the film.

Kinjirareta asobi

1997 • 60 min

The Hercules 4th planet is on the verge of death due to a strange disease that affects only men. The existence of organisms with similar genes was needed for making therapeutic drugs. At the end of a long journey in space, they finally arrive on earth. Residents of an apartment start to disappear one after another on that day. And suddenly, a mysterious young man named Suzuki appears.

Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

1997 • 56 min • United States of America

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations, Hall argues that the process of representation itself constitutes the very world it aims to represent, and explores how the shared language of a culture, its signs and images, provides a conceptual roadmap that gives meaning to the world rather than simply reflecting it. Hall's concern throughout is the centrality of culture to the shaping of our collective perceptions, and how the dynamics of media representation reproduce forms of symbolic power.

How They Make Adult Movies

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

Behind the scenes look at how hardcore sex videos are made, with numerous interviews with stars and directors of sex films of various styles and interests.

Anita Liberty

1997 • 15 min • United States of America

Anita's boyfriend Mitchell dumped her after 3.5 years for Heather. All she can think about is humiliating him, mostly in poems that are bitter, banal, and hilarious.

Exposed

1997 • 8 min • Australia

A filmmaker makes a documentary about a photographer. David Edwards has been taking photographs of naked men for the past 11 years. But in this case, who is the voyeur and who is the exhibitionist? An examination of the nature of looking.

Eddie Griffin: Voodoo Child

1997 • 57 min • United States of America

Eddie Griffin gives you his all in one of the funniest, most irreverent stand-up routines ever performed! Witness firsthand one of the hip-hop generation's leading comedians in his first stand-up broadcast, originally aired on HBO in 1997. VooDoo Child will keep you laughing through a virtual comedic drive-by that hits all of its targets: racism, sexism, homosexuality, education, religion, the Bible and Michael Jackson, not necessarily in that order. No person, group or creed is spared as with great skill and wit Eddie verbally pounces on everything and everybody and keeps it real in the process. Here's hip-hop comedy on the edge, filled with rage and loaded with truth!