All Films

Anti-Hero's Fucktards

1997 • 20 min

Anti-Hero's Fucktards video featured John Cardiel, Bob Burnquist, Julien Stranger, Eric J, Sean Young and friends.

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

1997 • 45 min • United States of America

Profiling the life and career of actor Henry Fonda, who starred in such film classics as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "12 Angry Men."

Savour Me

1997 • 22 min • Canada

A sensual and erotic short drama about secrets and desires. By covertly watching the most intimate moments of each other's lives, two neighbours discover their mutual longing for each other.

The Fake Van Goghs

1997 • 52 min

Was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, a fake? This documentary explores the authenticity of the "Sunflowers" painting by Vincent Van Gogh, bought in the late 1980s for a then record sum by a Japanese insurance company.

The Trick

1997 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Three talent scouts are auditioning for the best eponymous 'trick'. After kicking out a magic chef type, a guy comes in who unfolds a magic door from a pen.

Weekend Stories: The Soul Sings

1997 • 56 min • Poland

A classical singer who put his career on hold to raise a family gets a big break when a major company hires him for a televised New Year's Eve concert, but his shot at fame is threatened when, against his better judgment, he goes out on a rainy night and gets a cold.

Japanese-style Paella

1997 • 26 min • Japan

A woman who aspires to be a makeup artist meets a country girl at an old farmhouse.

Hogarth's Progress

1997 • 51 min

Satirical, critical, talented – William Hogarth was one of the most original British artists of the 18th Century. The son of a poor schoolmaster made a name for himself as a portraitist and became best known for his satirical etchings. In strange and graphic tales, such as A Harlot's Progress, he denounced the social and political injustices of his time. Often pirated, Hogarth fought for the first image copyright law. Together with illustrators and writers from today, Andrew Graham-Dixon explores Hogarth's birth city London and recounts the life and work of a man who is regarded as the forerunner of modern caricature.

The Film to Come

1997 • 9 min • France, Switzerland

If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz, it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir (The Film to Come). The titular film is a holy fragment of celluloid that can only be seen by a secret society known as the Philokinetes. They watch it on a loop, somnambulating through a life that is unreal by comparison. It is the belief of the Philokinetes that film has an existence “independent from humans. Cinema, they said, is the primeval soup of a new life form. There from were to emerge pure screening creatures. Which is to say, non-topical beings.” - n+1

Greater Than a Tiger

1997 • 18 min • United States of America

Boney D

1997 • 3 min • United States of America

An amusing chase short starring a hipster dog named Boney D.

My Pretty Little Girlfriend

1997 • 7 min

An innocent lunch at a diner between a lesbian couple turns sour when a hamburger becomes the catalyst for a heated argument about weight. A nontraditional short which scrutinizes the annoying nuances which create tension in any relationship.

In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine

1997 • 54 min • United States of America

Examines the step-by-step process that led German medical professionals down an unethical road to genocide.

For Ella

1997 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

"Fitzgerald" is Jovica's nickname among his friends. One day Jovica, a film projectionist from the childhood of Zilnik, an old jazz pianist and one of the actors from The Way Steel Was Tempered, hear of Ella Fitzgerald's unexpected death. Jovica is desperate; he plays the piano all night long and cries. His wife threatens him saying that she will throw him out of the house unless he gets rid of the piano.

Untitled Modest Mouse Documentary

1997 • 36 min • United States of America

Documentary about the indie rock band Modest Mouse made around 1997, as they were recording their second album, The Lonseome Crowded West

State of Fear

1997 • 15 min • Canada, United Kingdom

Seven hundred and seventy one words from Orwell, Chomsky, Shakespeare and others. Seven hundred and seventy one people off the street. A 15 minute meditation on Capitalism, Thought Control and the "Freedom" of Speech.

Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun

1997 • 40 min • United States of America

How to create the imagination of movement for fun parks is the theme of this documentary. Although engineers try and try to create machines that shake, tilt, turn, lift and drop people in a way that fools their senses, the real McCoy cannot be imitated: Roller Coasters just let you experience movement much, much more intense than everything else - even on the screen.

All For The Best

1997 • 36 min • Azerbaijan

The events occur during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Because of a corpse in a zinc coffin with an arguable address, two families get excited. Having cut the lid off the coffin to identify the soldier, they find out that he is, in fact, Armenian - former citizen of Baku.

June Carr: The Virtual Vaudevillian

1997 • 30 min • United States of America

Tim Ormond’s loving portrait of his mother and collaborator, June Carr Ormond.

Patton: A Tribute to Franklin J. Schaffner

1997 • 50 min

Almost everyone who worked with director Franklin J. Schaeffer on the film is interviewed here, including George C. Scott (this piece was done before he died in 1999) and they all seem to unanimously agree that he was a complete and total gentleman to work with. Oliver Stone shows up here to give us his thoughts on the film and accuse it for being in some part responsible for the bombing of Cambodia, which is an interesting theory if perhaps a little misguided (he claims that Nixon was so influenced by Patton that it resulted in his decision to launch that first attack which in turn resulted in the bombing). Other interviewees in this piece include Richard Zanuck, Jerry Goldsmith, Fred Koenekamp, Franklin J. Schaeffer himself, and the film's producer, Frank McCarthy. The interviews are nicely complimented by some behind the scenes clips as well as a small assortment of camera tests.

Dá pra Segurar!

1997 • 20 min • Brazil

Stimulated by sketches in which young actors improvise about situations related to AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), students from a public school in Rio de Janeiro and teenagers from the Zona Sul and the Baixada Fluminense debate these themes. This video was made by CECIP for the Adolescence and STD / AIDS Project, with the support of the Ministry of Health's National STD / AIDS Control Program.

The Rocking Horse Winner

1997 • 23 min

A gambler comes to live with his sister and discovers his young nephew can predict the winner of horse races by riding on his rocking horse.

Pvc

1997 • 8 min • Brazil

Lysergy slices hovering under cathode tubes

Tales from the Far Side II

1997 • 46 min • Canada

An anthology of original animated shorts in the style and theme of Gary Larson's Far Side comics.