All Films

Egypt: Secrets of the Pharaohs

1997 • 56 min • United States of America

National Geographic goes to Egypt to look into an underground vault that houses a ship of the Pharaoh Khufu and follows an researcher as he attempts to recreate the ancient rite of mummification.

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

1997 • 55 min • United States of America

A documentary about the making of Jane Campion's 'The Portrait of a Lady'.

The Boy Business

1997 • 60 min • Netherlands, United Kingdom

This documentary examines claims made by a man known as ‘Edward’ that videos have been made in Amsterdam by convicted paedophile, Warwick Spinks. Edward insists he saw five boys abused and killed on video and points out the house in Amsterdam where he was shown snuff movies. The story of Bovver Boots Casting Agency’s photographer Harry Jeffries and manager Peter Howells is confronted. Claims that the agency was a cover for tricking children into posing for obscene photographs.

Sky. Last Dream

1997 • 24 min • Russia

Soviet film reels were found in an abandoned cinema and decided to be projected onto a white screen like a slide film.

Blackmores Night: Shadow of the moon

1997 • 42 min • United States of America

1.Renaissance Faire 2.No Second Chance 3.Shadow Of The Moon +Special Interview. Ritchie's Guitar Collections.

Whitesnake - Starkers In Tokyo

1997 • 44 min

Recorded "in the heat of the night" at EMI Toshiba Studio 3 in Tokyo on 5th July 1997.

Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

Christmas abounds with traditions, from neighborhood carolers to lovingly decorated trees, but from where did all these rituals emerge? This enlightening program looks at the origins of the Western world's most popular Christmas traditions -- from the significance of December 25th and its relationship to winter solstice to the enchanting legend of Santa Claus and Prince Albert's 1841 unveiling of the Christmas tree.

Sealed With a Kick

1997 • 5 min

The unaired pilot episode of the MTV show 'Daria.' Its purpose was to give those at MTV an idea of what the series might look like.

The Dalmatians

1997 • 25 min • Germany

Tuepfelchen, the little Dalmatian dog is despaired. Just a second ago she had been playing with her two brothers and sisters and now they are gone. Together with Kruemel, the young half-breed dog, he starts looking for them. Soon they meet a gang of street dogs. They persuade the dogs to help them. Without success they search the whole city. All of a sudden Butcher, the clumsy Bulldog discovers a trace of the two. The small Dalmatians aren't well. The dog gang decides to act and Kruemel already has a plan.

Walt Disney's 'The Jungle Book': The Making of a Musical Masterpiece

1997 • 15 min • United States of America

Documentary about the making of Disney's animated musical adaptation of Kipling's classic.

Amsterdam Afterbeat

1997 • 16 min

Johan van der Keuken: 'We kept the ends of a lot of shots in Amsterdam Global Village: the camera leaves the subject and pans to the sound woman, who quickly taps the microphone. These taps later in the cutting become the references for synchronising picture and sound. This film is the rhythmic sequence of these taps, in which something of a story can be seen.

Bill T. Jones: Still/Here

1997 • 56 min • United States of America

Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones’s highly acclaimed dance Still/Here. At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs and lows of their lives, and even imagine their own deaths. They then transform their feelings into expressive movement, which Jones incorporates into the dance performed later in the program. For this documentary, Jones demonstrates the movements of his own life story: his first encounter with white people, confusion over his sexuality, his partner Arnie Zane’s untimely death from AIDS, and Jones’s own HIV-positive status.

My Dinner With Oswald

1997 • 17 min • Ireland

Relationships are strained to breaking point by an obsession with conspiracy theories surrounding JFK's assassination.

Three Men and a Leg: Bitter Ticket

1997 • 5 min

Three protagonists, three ordinary men, are locked together inside a tram, a symbol of human existence.

A Mexican Buñuel

1997 • 56 min • France, Mexico

A documentary covering the years Luis Buñuel spent in Mexico making films.

The War is Over

1997 • 7 min • Italy

Their son had disappeared on the front two years ago. When he finally calls them at home, they want to forget the suffering of the past. It is an allegory about the human need for past, present, and future.

No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg

1997 • 52 min

Witness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counter-cultural movement in an informative documentary featuring Allan Ginsburg's final television interview as well as remarkable deathbed footage shot by underground cinema icon Jonas Mekas.

Troops

1997 • 10 min • United States of America

Stormtroopers on Tattooine show us what life is like patrolling and law-upholding on the sandy planet. While being filmed for the hit Imperial TV show TROOPS, Stormtroopers from the infamous Black Sheep Squadron on patrol run into some very familiar characters.

America il Paradiso

1997 • 12 min • Canada

This video addresses the complex and rich cultural history inherited by the children of immigrants. While official History is often presented as a single truth, "truth" is multi-layered and multi-valent. Through a layering of stories from Italian immigrants, images from Super 8 family films, and remembrances of my grandmother, "America il Paradiso" seeks to express the complexity of history.

Cachaça

1997 • 13 min • Brazil

The Zoonatiks in Home Sweet Home

1997 • 7 min • United States of America

After not having much luck in a circus, three animal friends try to find jobs and residence at a very exclusive zoo.

Hana yori Dango

1997 • 30 min • Japan

Set in an alternative timeline to the manga and animated TV series, the movie features a classic Cinderella story told through the medium of '80s dance. Tsukushi Makino is a trainee dancer in a New York Performance group, struggling to become the star of the show with the help of Rui Hanazawa and Tsukasa Dōmyōji.

Madame Jacques on the Croisette

1997 • 40 min • France

A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.

The Spirit of Genius - Fedor Khitruk and His Films

1997 • 59 min

Alder uncovers not only the life and works of the elusive Cold War soviet master, but also sheds light on the Soviet animation regime.