All Films

Snake Feed

1997 • 23 min • United States of America

Snake Feed is a glimpse into the lives of Irene and Rick, two people struggling with life-long addiction and marginal employment. The film follows a day in their lives at a time when Rick is dealing in the small-time pill trade and Irene is intent on rebuilding her life. In the course of the story, Rick betrays Irene's trust, which causes her to take action on behalf of herself and her children. The setting, a small town in upstate New York, is woven into the film through the inclusion of details of daily life.

To Catch a Glimpse

1997 • 52 min • United States of America

A film that delves into director Jean Carlomusto's family history by trying to find out if the rumors about her grandmother's death -- trying to rid herself of an unwanted pregnancy in 1939 -- are true.

Dinosaur Jr.: 930 Club 1997

1997 • 34 min

for HBO Reverb

Advertising Missionaries

1997 • 53 min

In Papua New Guinea, where over three quarters of the population cannot be reached by the regular advertising mediums of television, radio or print, 'the market' must be developed by other means. Small theater groups travel the remote highlands performing soap operas devised around advertising messages for a variety of products.

1943-1997

1997 • 9 min • Italy

A child escapes the Nazi raids in the ghetto of Rome. He finds refuge in a cinema.

Little Bear: Winter Tales

1997 • 30 min • Canada

4 Snowy Tales "Snowball Fight" "Winter Solstice" "Snowbound" "Little Bear and The North Pole"

Heracles, Acheloos And My Granny

1997 • 29 min • Greece

Dimitra Koutsiabassakos is 88 years old and lives alone in the village of Armatoliko in the Pindos mountain range, on the banks of the ancient river Acheloos, named after the mythical river god who fought Heracles for the favors of a woman and who could take on many forms. Dimitra’s home is located near the place where a great dam is being built and lies right in the middle of the area destined to become a lake after construction is completed. By a strange quirk of fate, the materials used in the construction of the dam are a product of a cement company named “Heracles”, so that it seems that the age-old contest between Acheloos and Heracles continues to the present day! Dimitris, Costas and Petros decide to pay their grandmother a visit and make a documentary.

Gondora

1997 • 2 min • Japan

A short movie about a guy living in his own world.

Historias Breves II: Aluap

1997 • 16 min • Argentina

The military coup of '76 means that the birthday of a little girl named Paula does not pass normally.

The Devil & The Angel

1997 • 26 min

A woman is provoked by a loud neighbor in her New York apartment.

The Human Voice

1997 • 7 min • United States of America

The artist sits in a chair in front of a table and, looking at the camera, cuts tape to turn on a radio in which a pre-recorded speech sounds with which she tries to coincide in a simultaneous reading of it from a text she carries on paper. Part of a book by Miguel Cereceda, The Origin of the Subject Woman to deliver a discourse on the space of enunciation of the woman in the symbolic order while slowly "silencing" her voice by sticking the tape in her mouth until it is finally "silenced".

A Healthy Baby Girl

1997 • 58 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during pregnancy. Refusing to confine the tears, rage, laughter and hope to dinner table conversations, Helfand invites us to witness her personal journey from radical hysterectomy patient to vocal opponent of toxic exposure. From her suburban home to the halls of Congress, the intensely private becomes widely public, and an American family is transformed and strengthened.

Photographer

1997 • 10 min

The film "Photographer" shows the last day of the old photographer working in his studio. He succeeded in his life-long efforts to stop time.

The Week Elvis Died

1997 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Set in England in 1977, The Week Elvis Died is an evocative and bittersweet look at life from a child's point of view. Karen (Jennifer Williams) aged 10 is bullied at school by Julie and her gang. Her dysfunctional family can't help her and she doesn't confide in them. All she has for comfort are her descant recorder, her pet rabbit Elvis and her adoration of top disc jockey Tony Blackburn.

A Sci Fi Audience with Tom Baker

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Tom Baker in conversation with a fascinated audience — humour, drama, passion, and honesty on a range of topics from K9 to death, and from leaving Doctor Who after his mammoth seven-year reign to his love of cats.

Hope In My Heart – The May Ayim Story

1997 • 28 min

The film presents a portrait by Maria Binder of May Ayim, Ghanaian-German poet, academic and political activist. May Ayim was one of the founders of the Black German Movement, and her research on the history and present situation of Afro-Germans, but also her political poetry, made her known in Germany and in other countries. May Ayim wrote in the tradition of oral poetry and felt a strong connection to other Black poets of the diaspora. Poetry gave her an opportunity to confront the white German society with its own prejudices. The film shows the author in performances in South Africa and in Germany. Interviews and poems reveal the search for identity, how and why the term Afro-German was introduced and how a young Black woman experienced the German unification. May Ayim lived from 1960 to 1996. In Berlin, a street which had the name of a colonialist was renamed in 2010 after May Ayim.

Jenny and Jenny

1997 • 60 min • Israel

Jenny & Jenny meet every day. Jenny & Jenny talk every day. They write to each other. They both have a broken heart and joy. They are cousins. They are 17. They live in Bat-Yam.The movie follows one summer in the life of Jenny & Jenny.

Bliss

1997 • 46 min

Bliss features Ratboy antics flying all over the Santa Cruz. Also great stuff of Kirra in Australia. The waves are just below sea level and grinding. Tom Curren also has an amazing segment where he jumps off a pier into thirty foot surf in Santa Barbara. As well as shaping a surfboard with eight fins and surfing it backwards and forwards! Awesome!

Critico e Critici

1997 • 25 min

Rezza presents a series of ironic tributes to various film titles (such as Dances with Wolves, Dancing Alone, etc.), featuring an unlikely critic who periodically calls on different experts to discuss each film. Both the critic and the experts are played by Rezza.

Screening at the Majestic

1997 • 27 min • France

More than fifty years after its making, we return to the set of Jean Cocteau's 1946 film "La Belle et la Bete" (Beauty and the Beast). Included are interviews with the the lead actors, the cinematographer, along with excerpts read from the director's journal.

A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola

1997 • 55 min

A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola

Light Spirit: Lighthouses of the Maine Coast

1997 • 54 min

All about lighthouses.

GWAR: Dawn of the Day of the Night of the Penguins

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

Full length live concert video recorded at D.C.'s legendary 9:30 Club. Gwar's longtime nemesis Techno Destructo attempts to defeat Gwar once and for all and claim the hand of Slymenstra Hymen as his prize. With a little help from some radioactive penguins and a robotic clone of Gwar manager Sleazy P. Martini, Gwar will surely be destroyed at long last!

An Apostle of Non-Violence

1997 • 46 min • Cambodia

A Buddhist monk tries to preach non-violence to the Khmum-Chachak rebels and the National Army, who are in the midst of a civil war that can dangerously affect innocent civilians.