All Films

Raroia: The Paradise Island

1997 • 52 min • French Polynesia, Sweden

Director Torgny Anderberg goes back to visit the island of Raroia in French Polynesia, where thirty years earlier he made a film.

Mechanics Of The Brain

1997 • 21 min

MECHANICS OF THE BRAIN is an experimental film in the form of a scientific documentary. A "remake" of the documentary film of the same name by Poudovkin (1926) on the work of Pavlov. Mechanics of the Brain presents 25 vignettes in 21 minutes, with an original soundtrack by John Zorn.

Waiting for the Passion

1997 • 51 min • United States of America

"Waiting for the Passion" is a volatile male character study of a college student who wants to leave America to escape the turbulent relationships he has with both his father and brother. Through a series of visualized letters and dramatically edited montage sequences the film captures the confusion and fear so many young people feel as their college days wind down.

Kansuke-san to Fushigi na Jitensha

1997 • 23 min • Japan

Based on the children's book by Masako Matsuno.

Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Humphrey Bogart

1997 • 45 min • United States of America

Robert Osbourne hosts this television special, in which many trailers for Humphrey Bogart's films are presented here to show how he established himself in Hollywood. Trailers featured are for films that he had tiny roles in as well as starring roles.

Heritage Minutes: John Humphrey

1997 • 1 min • Canada

Legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate John Humphrey drafts the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Three Stooges Greatest Hits!

1997 • 45 min • United States of America

A tribute to the Three Stooges comedy team, featuring old clips and home movies mixed with music performances of Stooge-themed songs.

Body Double 8

1997 • 3 min

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Richard Marquand's The Return of The Jedi

Oasis: Right Here Right Now

1997 • 39 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Documentary following Oasis as they discuss their recent career, revisit their old neighbourhood in Manchester, and perform songs from their forthcoming album, "Be Here Now".

Acid

1997 • 3 min • Brazil

Acid abstraction.

Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Video

1997 • 51 min • Canada

Stupid Little Golf Video (released as Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Video in the United States) is the third and last of the how-to-golf-badly trilogy. (The other two are Bad Golf Made Easier and Bad Golf My Way.) It is the only one that is released on DVD.

Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh

1997 • 59 min • United Kingdom

In 1951, a woman died in Baltimore, U.S.A. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she died. They have been growing and multiplying ever since. There are now billions of these cells in laboratories around the world. If massed together, they would weigh 400 times her original weight. These cells have transformed modern medicine, but they also became caught up in the politics of our age.

The Boy with the Big Face

1997 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Harry's perfectly normal adopted son Alan becomes disfigured by a Lollipop lady and thus becomes the boy with the big face and has to live through lives challenges due to alarming appearence.

Rid of It

1997 • 4 min • United States of America

A young man's ambivalence about his first sexual experience with another man.

New York Underground

1997 • 56 min

In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets and pokey transportation system were a source of constant complaint. On March 24, 1900, ground was broken for the Big Apple's subway; the Interborough Rapid Transit Line opened four years later, running more than 26 miles of underground track at the speed of 35 miles per hour. Soon thousands in the city were "doing the subway."

D.

1997 • 4 min

A look into the far-too-brief life of D. Montgomery, the sound recordist for Caveh Zahedi's I DON'T HATE LAS VEGAS ANYMORE.

Chapado

1997 • 31 min • Brazil

Three experimental video directors join forces to create a lysergic film written and shot only during moments of alcoholic relaxation and other substances. The result is this film.

Goulet's Sick

1997 • 28 min • United States of America

The difference between love and loneliness rests on the slightest of hinges.

Babe, He Calls Me

1997 • 7 min • United States of America

Melvin's saga continues as his partnership with Malcom is compromised by an urban superhero's intrusion. Meanwhile, Melvin's mother aids a criminal after being unable to meet with her son.

Coffee and Cigarettes III

1997 • 12 min • United States of America

This shortcut repeats the structure of Coffee and Cigarettes. This time, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits meet in a bar. But, again, we don't know why they agreed to do that in the first place, because they don't seem to know each other very well and they don't have much to talk about, so the conversation wanders idly and hilariously as they sip their coffee and smoke cigarettes.

The Final Insult

1997 • 55 min • Germany

This video work intermingles fiction with actuality in a poignant confrontation with homelessness.

Many Happy Returns

1997 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Mixed live-action and paper maché puppet animation. The disjointed debris of our childhood state still lurking within our adult consciousness act as a painful, disruptive force. A ghost-like little girl keeps tapping on a woman’s consciousness, demanding attention, recalling a traumatic childhood event and thus distorting the woman’s experience of the present.

Citizen Ken Loach

1997 • 60 min

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Karim Dridi, originally aired 2 July 1997.

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath

1997 • 54 min • France

Ángel Díaz’s documentary The Lost Sorrows of Jean Eustache, concentrates on Eustache as cinematic thinker and archivist of his own life. Actors read texts written by Eustache, including the following reflection: “The role of the author in cinema should be one of non-intervention.” This sentence reminds us that he belongs to the greatest of film traditions (he cites Griffith, Renoir, Dreyer, and Lang as his models), the one that sees cinema as a matter of placing the camera in front of reality and capturing it ardently, precisely, and without tricks.