All Films

Groove on a Stanley Knife

1997 • 43 min • United Kingdom

Two women on the run from drug dealers are forced to hide out in a public toilet.

Heritage Minutes: Frontier College

1997 • 1 min • Canada

A volunteer teacher brings basic literacy and mathematical skills to a lumber and work camp in the Canadian bush.

From Hetty to Nancy

1997 • 44 min

Images of the austere Icelandic landscape form the backdrop for readings from a series of letters written at the turn of the 20th century. Majestic waterfalls, open plains, a ship loaded with protesting sheep, a boat in icy waters, snow capped peaks, and icy roadways are punctuated with Hetty’s ironic stories of quotidian events with her female companions. Her accounts are juxtaposed against historic texts about the Icelandic people overcoming the cataclysmic forces of nature. - MoMA

Opportunus

1997 • 19 min • Sweden

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Musical Comedy

1997 • 60 min • Japan

A musical theater show based on the manga "Revolutionary Girl Utena"

Tale About the Cat and the Moon

1997 • 6 min • Portugal

A poem. A tale made of silence and complicity. Light and shadows, the charm of the night, the moon as a passion... This is a tale about someone who tried to make the dream come true. This is the tale about the cat and the moon.

Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible

1997 • 36 min

Filmed at the Yale University Art Gallery, "Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible", approaches a major retrospective exhibition of the artist's early work while providing an opportunity to experience his notable, site-specific installations. Known for his use of common material, Bochner's elements are easily understandable yet his art is founded on the unexpected questioning of how simple things hold the ability to reveal eye-opening complexities. A relationship established through language, Bochner's work takes the form of a dialogue between practice and theory, defining his subject as "the contradiction between physical space and mental space." Bochner uses that contradiction to create visual think pieces, locating his own intention- and thus emotion- through his process, his sites, and the mind of his viewer.

Jefftowne

1997 • 58 min • United States of America

jefftowne is a 1998 documentary shot and directed by Daniel Kraus and distributed by Troma Entertainment. It chronicles the life of Jeff Towne, a 40 year old Iowa City resident who suffers from Downs Syndrome, obesity, alcoholism, and circulation problems. Towne also enjoys pornography and lives with his 90-year-old adoptive grandmother.

The Real Ellen Story

1997 • 42 min

The Real Ellen Story is an in-depth documentary detailing the story behind the historic “coming-out” episode of Ellen. The program takes a unique behind-the-scenes approach in encapsulating the time-line detailing the conception of the episode, the rumours, the controversy and Ellen DeGeneres’ own declaration in Time magazine.

The Sheep Thief

1997 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A young boy gets caught stealing a sheep and is shaved of all his hair and branded with a mark on his forehead so that everyone will know that he is a thief and not to be trusted. Dumped in the desert, the thief covers his marking with a headscarf and goes to the nearest village where he is taken in by a trusting family in return for his work. However, has be actually changed or is he still the same thief at heart?

Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Party

1997 • 56 min

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the most magical place on earth!

Close Up

1997 • 16 min • Russia

A young photographer wanders the city taking pictures with a Polaroid 600, but on each print the silhouette of a woman on a bicycle appears. The sequence of photos makes it clear that the woman is about to be hit by a trolleybus. Based loosely on Stephen King's novella "The Sun Dog" and Julio Cortázar's short story "Blow-Up" ("Las babas del diablo").

The Nellie Olesons

1997 • 45 min

Named after the blonde, bratty, gay icon from Little House on the Prairie, The Nellie Olesons exploded onto the New York comedy scene in 1993 with their wicked sense of humor and envelope pushing antics. This award winning video is comprised of classic sketches from their 1996 show, "Pulp Nellie", including "Menorah, the Jewish Madonna", "Miss Cajun Inbred, Connie Slocum", "Disney Girls", "Lesbian Signer", "Mrs. Porn Goes Shopping" as well as spoofs and satires of Calvin Klein commercials, gay circuit queens and horny porn girls.

1919

1997 • 8 min • Canada

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 is recast as a slapstick silent set in a bathhouse.

Monochrome Head

1997 • 10 min • Japan

Without warning, the image of a girl wildly waving a baseball bat that slices through the air leaps to my mind. Such speed also reminds me of the rhythm of the filmmaker's previous works. Or is it a symbol of teenage madness? A ceremony to summon some creature from a legend? -Takashi Nakajima

Cyberscape: A Computer Animation Vision

1997 • 45 min

Computer visionary Beny Tchaicovsky presents a new dimension in digital imagery in this fast-forward trip through human existence. The oddities of our species -- from primitive to modern man -- are on full display in this surreal history. Accompanied by Peter Bernstein's soundtrack, the video zips from the Garden of Eden to quantum mechanics with detours to explore the human obsessions of time, money and the opposite sex.

Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

1997 • 44 min • United States of America

Documentary on the life and career of actor Vincent Price, best known for horror film classics such as "House of Wax," "The Fly," and "The Pit and the Pendulum."

Labour's Old Romantic

1997 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A profile of Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour Party, which included footage of him on the night of Tony Blair’s historic 1997 victory, and interviews with his wife, the filmmaker Jill Cragie, and some of his old colleagues and friends, including Barbara Castle, Spike Milligan and Salman Rushdie.

The Cat on Boots

1997 • 30 min • Germany

The youngest of the miller's three sons sits sadly in front of his cabin while his brothers inherit their father's mill and donkey, and all he'd gotten was an old tomcat. But what he did not know: it was a quite gifted tomcat. A tomcat that can speak and walk like a human on two legs!

A World Of Differences

1997 • 35 min

When we encounter people from other societies or cultures, we may fail to understand them for many reasons, including differences in language, values, gestures, emotional expression, norms, rituals, rules, expectations, family background, and life experiences. This extraordinary documentary shows that cross-cultural communication can be successful if we manage to understand the powerful differences that separate people who come from differing cultures.

St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral

1997 • 50 min • Austria

St. Stephen’s Cathedral ranks amongst Austria‘s most famous cultural monuments. Yet, one would not think of that Cathedral being one of the most astonishing natural areas in Austria.Georg Riha and his team have explored the Cathedral from its foundations to the top of its 136 meter spire and discovered a true botanical and zoological garden: wild animals, exotic butterflies, kestrels, moss, lichen and even trees.

William Wegman's Mother Goose

1997 • 30 min

Mother Goose tries to teach her son, Simon Goose, how to rhyme using some of her famous nursery rhymes.

In Living Memory

1997 • 14 min • Canada

In Living Memory is a bittersweet dialogue between father and daughter, challenging traditional notions of remembering and forgetting. This video explores the loving and sometimes stormy relationship between the two and explores the father's life as an artist and communist, who at age 93, is losing his memory.

Fast Driver

1997 • 5 min • United States of America

A Parody cartoon of Speed Racer.