All Films

The Girl in the Mist

1997 • 28 min • Sweden

Sima, a ten-year-old immigrant girl, is on her way home from school. In the thick fog she comes across an injured postman, who desperately wants her to help him. The girl goes for help in a village she has never before been to...

Gotta Have Heart

1997 • 35 min • Israel

Young love blossoms amid the inhabitants of a small town in Israel in this gay fantasy. Guri want to relocate to Tel Aviv before he's "outed". Nohav want to win a local song contest and who can tell what stud Merito wants?

Progress

1997 • 3 min

Parallels the killing of a Black man in the 1960s by the Ku Klux Klan with the killing of a Black man in the 1990s by a Black gang.

Balto

1997 • 30 min • Germany

Winter 1925 in Alaska. Nome, a small place situated almost at the north pole, is cut off from the external world. But the children and their friends, the clumsy polar bear, the clever seal and of course the huskies keep on playing anyhow. But then one child after another gets sick. "Diphtheria ", says the doctor, " we don't have enough medicine." There is only one chance to save the children. Balto and Kemo, the two fastest sled dogs of the village are chosen to get the medicine from the city. But this City is more than 400 miles away from Nome.

The Goddamn George Liquor Program

1997 • 12 min • United States of America

The Goddamn George Liquor Program was the first cartoon series to be produced exclusively for the internet.

Tropic Island Hum

1997 • 13 min • United Kingdom

After he's nearly shot at by hunters, Wirral the Squirrel is rescued by balloon-riding Froggo and both fly to a tropical island, where other rescued animals take refuge.

Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

Host Howie Long takes viewers on a tour of the "Star Wars" universe, as Fox TV celebrates the re-release of the original three legendary films in this one hour special.

Tamagotchi Honto no Hanashi

1997 • 20 min • Japan

The film contains nine skits made for the Toei Anime Fair. The Tamagotchi in this film don't speak but rather communicate via sounds similar to that of Pokémon Speak. This is unique because all the other anime adaptations of the franchise have the Tamagotchi speak Japanese.

Oasis of the Pharaohs

1997 • 16 min

Kuchar writes: "A hidden resort in Northern California opens its ancient secrets to a bride and groom who consummate their marriage on the peacock strewn terrain that muddies the tootsies of the infidels who munch through the mysteries with jaws of death — and rebirth."

Ernest Borgnine on the Bus

1997 • 50 min • United States of America

Ernest Borgnine tours the country in his Luxury coach bus, The Sunbum.

The Sonoran Desert: A Violent Eden

1997 • 57 min • United States of America

An intriguing look at the agonies of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, northern Mexico and Southern California forthrightly reveals the animals' and vegetation's dreadful task of accommodating themselves to their homeland. Stunningly photographed by Keith Brust, producer-writer Sean Morris and their companions --- with Barry Nye lending his customary editing assurance --- provide a handsome study of deprivation and survival and an illuminating look at how the other half lives and dies.

A Midsummer´s Journey - A view of Iceland

1997 • 18 min • Iceland

Nan Goldin: In My Life

1997 • 28 min

This documentary features Nan Goldin’s celebrated 1996 mid-career photography retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Goldin’s exhibition filled an entire floor at the Whitney Museum with pictures that chronicle her involvement and fascination with the alternative, “downtown” culture of New York City, Boston, Berlin, Tokyo, etc. Culled from a period that spans more than 25 years of taking pictures, Goldin’s desire to make a visual diary of her friends and lovers, as well as her own life, makes for a moving, highly charged, visual experience.

Des goûts et des couleurs

1997 • 21 min

A short film co-created by Eric Rohmer.

Another Audience with Freddie Starr

1997 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Featuring the outrageous and unpredictable Freddie Starr, as he performs more stunts in front of a celebrity audience including Jeremy Beadle, Lisa Riley, Vanessa Feltz, plus others.

Blue Is Beautiful

1997 • 32 min • United States of America

Made with Washington DC's notorious gospel-punk outfit The Make-Up. The musicians seek "creative asylum" in a subcultural womb. This road movie is, in the words of a Parisian critic, "comme si Foucault roulait avec les situationistes dans le Scooby-Doo Van". It is both a lyrical document of a time and space(s) which no longer exist as well as a record of one of the most kick-ass bands on earth.

Trajet Discontinu

1997 • 26 min • France

Aslam, a Kashmiri migrant, finds himself in the countryside of the South of France. He has been ditched there by illegal migration crossers. He is saved by an old lady who hides him in her house. though they do not speak the same language, a friendship develops between the two. But the French police are searching for Aslam.

See the Sea

1997 • 52 min • France

Sasha, a young British woman, is living with her baby daughter at Ile d'Yeu, a peaceful beach community. A stranger appears. Her name is Tatiana, she's passing through, and pitches her tent in Sasha's yard. The two women build an odd rapport, and tension builds as events unfold.

Onsen Geisha Since Birth

1997 • 60 min • Japan

Hinako, a geisha, comes from a family of three generations of geisha. She started her career as a geisha in earnest after breaking up with her childhood friend and boyfriend from an old family. She and her fellow geisha friends, Koyomi and Mitsuba, get along well, entertaining customers whenever they feel like it, but Mitsuba is pregnant with the child of a man who comes once a month on business.

Parental Guidance

1997 • 52 min • France

A ten year old girl is received by her aunt because of her mother's confinement to a mental hospital. But the aunt lives with a man, Jean-Pierre, who seems to be a little too nice with the girl.

QUEERCORE (a punk-u-mentary)

1997 • 21 min

The urban on-line dictionary defines queercore as “Gay-themed, underground, independent music; usually punk rock (Team Dresch, Pansy Division, The Butchies, The Need, etc.)”. See for yourself.

Snowden on Ice

1997 • 48 min

A musical holiday special aired on CBS.

Knit Cap Man

1997 • 16 min • Japan

Shunji Iwai directed video for The Moonriders 1996 song “Knit Cap Man”.

The Dance of Death

1997 • 4 min

A silent movie cliffhanger starring Dame Darcy, Banjo Pete and Doc Hammer!