All Films

May You Live in Interesting Times

1997 • 60 min • Netherlands

Tan’s father is Chinese-Indonesian and her mother is Australian. She grew up in Australia and studied in Germany and the Netherlands. Her multicultural background led her to seek out family members scattered around the globe and interview them for this film.

Dinner Party

1997 • 9 min • United States of America

An unexpected surprise awaits dinner guests.

Victoria

1997 • 6 min • Armenia

Wordless animated fim from Robert Sahakyants

The Divine Comedy: A Short Film About A Short Album About Love

1997 • 52 min

A Short Film About A Short Album About Love is a previously unreleased 50-minute concert film that was included as a DVD in the remastered 2CD edition of The Divine Comedy's 1997 album, A Short Album About Love. It features Neil Hannon and the band performing the album, alongside a track from Promenade (1994), and two songs from Casanova, which was released that year at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in 1996.

US Rushes

1997 • 15 min • France

Three weeks of travel in the USA in June 1997: New York, Vermont, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, edited entirely in camera and projected with music from the 60s.

Liverpool - Fowler's Hot 100

1997 • 60 min

Young Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler reached the landmark of 100 goals for his club in 1996. He reached this total in less matches than Anfield hero Ian Rush, making fans believe that he will become their best ever striker. All his goals in that record-breaking run are featured on this video.

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

1997 • 39 min • Italy

Ballad of the Skeletons

1997 • 4 min • United States of America

A close-up of Allen Ginsberg reciting his “skeletons” poem is bluescreened and dissolved against archival film and video clips, and backed by musicians to create a sort of song that becomes an American anthem.

David Blaine: Street Magic

1997 • 45 min • United States of America

On May 19, 1997, Blaine's first television special, David Blaine: Street Magic aired on the ABC network. According to the New York Daily News, “Blaine can lay claim to his own brand of wizardry. The magic he offers in tonight’s show operates on an uncommonly personal level.” When asked about his performance style, David explained, “I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.”'

Korn: Who Then Now?

1997 • 42 min

A video documenting the process of Korn recording their Life is peachy album, complete with videos for Blind, Shoots & Ladders, Clown and Faget.

Ten Pound Poms

1997 • 48 min • United Kingdom

In 1947, the Assisted Passage Scheme began, devised by the Australian government to bring in white British settlers. For just 10 pounds, they could start a new life in a sun-drenched land of opportunity, and over the next 25 years, more than a million people took up the offer. The scheme's pioneers tell their story.

The Ghosts of Electricity

1997 • 19 min

A house in the countryside. The trees, the cliff, the fire. A prehistoric image. Erika in the garden. Keja in the house. The river. A road tunnel. Television images: war, sports, porn movies, disasters in Africa, action movies. A man in dark glasses (Kramer) speaks of the man of the future, who can transmit the totality of his sensory experience, without the projection is no longer necessary: ​​there will be more here, more body. "All the movements in" Ghosts of Electricity "are tai chi movements, I try to work with the hands and the lower part of the body, pivoting only on the hips, without moving my feet. it comes from a whole physical tradition, it exists in "performance art", and many other people have followed the same path. "

Long Good-bye

1997 • 32 min • Japan

Dreams, signs, fragments, margins, letters, one could also add love and memory to the list. My enchanted kingdom is filled with real aimlessness. The more the better. All that is left behind after it has disappeared is quiet. In the end I feel there hasn't been enough time to play. I want to say good-bye to this irrepressible feeling right around now though. After the color, the shape and the words have disappeared what will be left? Perhaps that is the tragedy of the twentieth century.

Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants

1997 • 57 min

Galileo is thwarted in his pursuit to uncover the universe's mysteries by a lack of money, a lazy brother and a jealous rival. Luckily, he finds support from his student, Prince Cosimo, son of the Medici family.

Is It the Design on the Wrapper?

1997 • 8 min • United Kingdom

5 Filmes Estrangeiros

1997 • 13 min • Brazil

A sociopathic Nepalese man, a French couple in crisis, a manic Brazilian man, partying Paraguayans and touring African artists cross paths on one fateful day.

Sex & Violence

1997 • 8 min • United States of America

In eight minutes, animator Bill Plympton gives us 24 vignettes: seven are clearly about sex, 10 about violence, and seven others deal with human frailties, particularly the body as it ages. There are three stories of persons with confused priorities (including a guy tying his shoe while parachuting); the world's first phone sex; and a clever, if dangerous, way to find a lost key. Except for the titles of each sketch and a couple of jokes that turn on noise, these are visual trips into the psyche of men, women, God, animals, and Time (the enemy of us all).

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

1997 • 58 min • United States of America

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.

Amaeru Fallout 1972

1997 • 10 min • United Kingdom

amaeru(v). the attempt to draw close; depend; belong…’ Two Japanese girls appear in the West country in a radio transmitter field above Eggardon Fort; they go to school in Lyme Regis; they live in the countryside; they sleep in the same bed; they explore the town; they separate. Amaeru.. is a dreamlike narrative of transience and separation, an ode to homesickness through place and time. Includes PJ Harvey performing a specially composed version of the Three Degrees’ "When Will I See You Again."

Have I Got News for You: The Official Pirate Video

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A feature-length exclusive-to-video edition of Have I Got News For You.

Blindfolded

1997 • 18 min

Short by Vassilis Moissidis

I sällskap med en clown

1997 • 58 min • Sweden

One hour making-of of Bergman's In The Presence of A Clown.

Stuck

1997 • 24 min • United States of America

Stick Stickly and his family find his uncle's uniskate and Stick begins to take a whack at rollerskating....at least until something goes terribly wrong! Will Stick find a solution to the sticky situation?

Kirk and Kerry

1997 • 25 min • United States of America

An actual couple, Kirk Acevedo and Kerry Johnson perform (or perhaps manifest) the problems of being a couple.