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Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid

Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid

1997 • 51 min • United Kingdom
This documentary, originally presented on the television series The South Bank Show, covers actor Humphrey Bogart's life and career, including archival footage and interviews with Lauren Bacall and his son Stephen Bogart.
Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung

Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung

1997 • 5 min • France
Experimental short made by Olivier Assayas for Fondation of Contemporary Art and starring Maggie Cheung.
Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age

Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age

1997 • 57 min
The future of preservation is at stake in the digital age. Into the Future explores the hidden crisis of the digital information age. Will digitally stored information and knowledge survive into the future? Will humans twenty, fifty, one hundred years from now have access to the electronically recorded history of our time?
Konaté's Gift

Konaté's Gift

1997 • 32 min • Burkina Faso
When Djénéba returns from the city where she has been visiting her cousin, she brings her husband, Konaté, a wonderful gift: a condom. Konaté is furious and refuses to change his habits. Djénéba, well aware of the effects of AIDS, refuses to give in.
Lionel on a Sun Day

Lionel on a Sun Day

1997 • 29 min • United States of America
Lionel tries to get into a building through the stairwell, but are on each floor upheld by strange people.
The Few Doctors

The Few Doctors

1997 • 35 min • United Kingdom
BBC Executives are gathered to come up with a new concept for Doctor Who on television. After the Children's and Drama departments are excluded the project falls in the hands of the BBC Sports department. The classic science fiction series is changed into a sports grudge match between all the television and movie Doctors against the classic monsters - Cybermen, Daleks, etc.
Whacked!

Whacked!

1997 • 5 min
Deep Into Dub

Deep Into Dub

1997 • 56 min
A German documentary that explores dub music, sound system culture and its influence
Vincent van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius

Vincent van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius

1997 • 44 min
The tragic story of the immortal artist whose works are among the world's most treasured masterpieces today, but who was almost completely ignored in his own lifetime.
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

1997 • 60 min • United States of America
Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism. Known for documenting the cultural elite living in France, Man Ray spent much of his time fighting the formal constraints of the visual arts. Ray’s life and art were always provocative, engaging, and challenging.
The Adventures of James and David

The Adventures of James and David

1997 • 11 min
James visits his young brother David who has just opened a hairdressing salon. the two brothers do not agree on how to become a successful hairdesser.
Law of Desire

Law of Desire

1997 • 18 min • United States of America
The story of Trelita, a Chicana sex worker with an abusive boss and a dead boyfriend (who she may or may not have murdered). It is the second episode made in the Clit-o-matic: The Adventures Of White Trash Girl! series about female superhero White Trash Girl. It has been referred to as part #3 in an ongoing series.
Barney's Camp WannaRunnaRound

Barney's Camp WannaRunnaRound

1997 • 51 min
After a forest ranger visits the school, Stephen decides he wants to become one too, but there's one big problem: Stephen has never visited a forest before. With a little imagination, Barney whisks Stephen and his friends, Hannah, Kim, and Chip, to Camp WannaRunnaRound for a hiking, camping, Super-Dee-Duper adventure!
The Bloody Olive

The Bloody Olive

1997 • 11 min • Belgium
A murder-à-trois in every conceivable way.
Self Song & Death Song

Self Song & Death Song

1997 • 4 min
SELF SONG documents a body besieged by cancer. The amber glow of flesh suggests both victory and submission to death. Blackness surrounds the image and takes it over altogether. Furthermore, the complex grooves and patterns of the flesh struggle to maintain their focus, suggesting the obscuring and dissolving effects of cancer. In DEATH SONG the film begins with blue hues which suggest the permanent aspect of death to contrast a sequence of overexposed yellow. Within these images are microscopic organisms constantly being 'washed out' by whiteness, which seeks to dissolve the image. In this respect, we might view the purity of whiteness as being 'soiled'. By the end of the film, the image has shifted to the blue screen suggesting a comfortable aspect of death. Yet, this vision is too idyllic in Brakhage's mind, and thus he allows the blueness to bleed from the side of the frame, opening the 'blinds' to the cancerous light. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Volcano: Nature's Inferno

Volcano: Nature's Inferno

1997 • 52 min
Travel around the world for a firsthand look at volcanoes - perhaps the most dazzling but destructive natural force on earth. Massive volcanic eruption can turn day into night, releasing the power of an atomic blast, spewing toxic avalanches of lava, gas, and ash. National Geographic Video transports you to some of the world's most notorious volcanoes, including Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines and Japan's Mount Unzen. Join volcanologists in their dangerous quest to forecast eruptions and save lives, putting you in the middle of the explosive excitement and human drama of Volcano: Nature's Inferno.
Sammy Molco - Private Eye

Sammy Molco - Private Eye

1997 • 20 min • Israel
The story of a private eye named Sammy Molco who discovers his wife has a female lover, showing the struggles and attempts he experiences in order to keep her by his side.
Wet and Dry

Wet and Dry

1997 • 15 min • United Kingdom
The heroine is a mummy, possibly of an Egyptian princess or goddess, who in former times was executed for sacrilegous adultery and is now condemned to dusting this old house, which, like her and her mind, is falling apart .
Unforgotten: Twenty-Five Years After Willowbrook

Unforgotten: Twenty-Five Years After Willowbrook

1997 • 58 min
It was a nightmare that shocked not only New York, but all of America. The public outcry about the Willowbrook State School for people with developmental disabilities resulted from Geraldo Rivera's expose on WABC after he had entered Willowbrook with a film crew in 1972, using a stolen key.
Thomas & Friends: Thomas Meets the Queen

Thomas & Friends: Thomas Meets the Queen

1997 • 34 min
PEEP! PEEP! Welcome to the Island of Sodor and exciting adventures with Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Henry has an accident with a bucket of paint and it's up to Thomas and Gordon to save the day when the Queen visits the railway. Sir Handel learns just how troublesome the trucks can be and Daisy has to be brave when she comes face to face with a cow on the line. Come along for the ride with all of your friends - on Sir Topham Hatt's railway, the fun never ends!
The Noodlepoop

The Noodlepoop

1997 • 40 min • Denmark
Ida and her family are recovering from the divorce. She is looking forward to the upcoming dance contest. She is also growing up and developing romantic urges of her own. But she doesn't have good memories of romance. The third of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.
Undersea Fleet Submarine 707F

Undersea Fleet Submarine 707F

1997 • 50 min • Japan
A mysterious object attacks and destroys any ship or submarine. Submarine 707 has the mission to search for that mysterious object, when summoned by a whale to follow it. The whale leads them to the world of Mu. But on their way they meet the mysterious object. They find out , it is Commander Red Silver, who had attacked the world of Mu to get Mu's magma sources. Submarine takes up the battle to defeat Red Silver and save Mu, and the world for that matter.
Burning Man

Burning Man

1997 • 8 min • United States of America
Short documentary filmed at the 1995 Burning Man festival
Redeemer

Redeemer

1997 • 4 min • Finland
A selfish angel in a single-take.