All Films

#7

1996 • 32 min • Netherlands

Essentially a slow evolution from black to white, this film is an articulation of the old idea of Aristotle's that colours arise from the clash between light and dark. The colours of #7 are based on the opposition of pigment and light, and are all produced by stamping paint directly onto the negative.

Nature's Fury

1996 • 51 min

Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods-these colossal powers of nature have had dramatic consequences for human kind. Now in dramatic scenes of cataclysmic destruction and human courage, you'll journey with National Geographic as we learn how earthquakes create and shape our landscapes, even as they destroy cities like San Francisco and Tokyo. Discover how rotating updrafts can build into the towering tornadoes that sweep the Midwest's "Tornado Alley", or how cloud disturbances can grow in to the awesome hurricanes that ravage coastal areas of Bangladesh and Florida. Witness the devastation of flooding in France and China, and learn, as today's scientists have, that the mightily Mississippi cannot be easily tamed.

SABC TV - 20 Years: The Untold Story

1996 • 52 min • South Africa

A 52 minute documentary on the political history of SABC Television

Steve Earle - To Hell And Back

1996 • 46 min

Steve Earle beat the odds, and he knows it. “I was the ultimate functional heroin addict for a number of years,” he says, introducing himself to a MTV audience that might not be intimately familiar with his life story and ferocious brand of country-rock music. “I got clean because I got locked up. If that hadn’t happened, I would have died. I just made my first album straight this year.” On June 25, 1996, as part of a court order, Steve Earle performed a live concert for prison inmates at Tennessee’s Cold Creek Correctional Facility where Earle was incarcerated in 1994. The concert entitled To Hell and Back aired on MTV on August 17, 1996. Steve reunited with his backing group the Dukes for the concert, and it was an incredible show.

Prelude 18

1996 • 2 min

Singly-printed evolution from a deep blue-blackness of hard-edge twisting and sweeping bars and deep black swirls of dry-cracked and electrically "webbed" blotches, giving way to mixtures of bright blue and deep black sweeps of almost hieroglyphic forms midst swirls of multiple colors played against fleeting blacks evolving into multiple shapes in contrastingly brilliant whites.

Frostbite

1996 • 12 min • Canada

A lonely lighthouse keeper rescues his fantasy: a frostbitten man on the rocks.

Line

1996 • 14 min • United States of America

Writes Donegan: "... The video is the centerpiece of a large project comprised of paintings and video inspired by the Jean-Luc Godard film Le Mépris. This project does not seek to analyze or critique the Godard film, but to use it as a model, as an inspiration, as a 'classical' language through which other stories can be told... I myself 'play' the roles of both Camille (B. Bardot) and Paul (M. Piccoli). In the Godard film, the characters meet over the recreation of Homer's Odyssey as a Hollywood-style film. In Line, my Homer, the representative of the noble, classical past or Father artist, is the American painter Barnett Newman. In the video, the characters struggle over how to recreate one of his classical 'zips.' This abstract expressionist gesture of presence, of affirmation is for them a mark of cancellation, of destruction. Are they wrong?"

Nu'tka'

1996 • 7 min • Canada

Nu•tka• utilizes image bifurcation to explore the history of colonialization on Vancouver Island, where English and Spanish fleets battled over trade routes in the 18th century. Films of the landscape—the only imagery shown—are superimposed on one screen so that the footage appears doubled. This formal effect is echoed by the soundtrack, which includes excerpts from the sea captains’ diaries, which become increasingly paranoid and irrational. At key moments in the narrative all visual and verbal elements meld together in exquisite clarity.

Let's Have Fun! At The Slush Puppie Factory

1996 • 33 min

What is it made of? Who makes it? How and where is it made? Who is he? This sing-along adventure invites young viewers to tag along on a fast-paced factory where the coolest flavors meet big machines...and turn into fun!

Alaska 3D

1996 • 45 min

Take the ultimate Alaska adventure. Combining NEW 3D TECHNOLOGY with fearless cinematography like no other you've ever enjoyed! You'll flightsee MT. MCKINLEY in 3D...from the wing of a bi-plane! See huge GRIZZLY BEARS practically come to life in your livingroom as they crash through rapids in their hunt for salmon! Plus, wade into a herd of reindeer, explore an oil rig on the NORTH SLOPE. Experience up-close the beauty and grace of NATIVE DANCE - all in vivid 3D. Spectacular 3D technology lets you experience the GREATLAND like no on ever has before!

The English Masters: Gainsborough

1996 • 50 min

The English Masters: Gainsborough profiles the life and career of esteemed English painter Thomas Gainsborough, an artist best known for his landscape works. Among other artistic periods, the video details Gainsborough's portrait-making phase, during which, according to critics, he successfully captured the spirit of the Englishman. The Blue Boy is one famous example of Gainsborough's larger portraits, one of several life-size, mural-scale works.

The English Masters: Turner

1996 • 50 min

A Royal Academy exhibitioner at the age of fifteen, J.M.W. Turner, by the end of his life, was the best known artists in England during the Romantic period and one of the forerunners of Impressionism. A life-long lover of landscape and seascape painting, he traveled widely in search of inspiration. No artist had ever painted light and color as Turner did in his astonishing later works. These paintings such as Rain, Steam, Speed and The Fighting Temerair were the conclusion to the long evolution of the art of J. M. W. Turner.

The English Masters: Blake

1996 • 50 min

This video, one of six in the English Masters series, examines the life and career of the English genius William Blake, who was poet, painter, and engraver. Blake found inspiration for his poetry in mystical visions, which he also illustrated in watercolors and engravings, combining his poems and artwork in unique books that his wife helped him print. This program features location footage, as well as expert commentary and analysis by world-renowned art experts.

The English Masters: Constable

1996 • 50 min

John Constable has been eternally associated with just one part of England, Suffolk. As a native of the area, he drew life-long inspiration from his home country in a timeless collection of landscape paintings. One of these, The Hay Wain, may well be the most famous painting ever created by an English artist. However, there were occasions when Constable struggled to gain recognition for his work until the critics in France began to appreciate his genius.

Dea Marina

1996 • 6 min • Norway, Sweden

Dea marina is an ecological music film about myths, mankind and the sea. It tells a story of environmental pollution and the gimmicks of today's society. Based on the fairytale Den lille Havfrue by H. C. Andersen.

The Jewel Mountain

1996 • 27 min • Iran

In a bazaar, a poor young boy sees precious stones behind the shop window. The merchant invites him to enter, then takes him to the mountain, where he will have to face multiple dangers...

The Powder Room

1996 • 50 min

From behind the closed doors of women's washrooms, The Powder Room reveals women sharing intimacies in the privacy of each other's company. Originating from the director's observation that women trade secrets with friends and strangers in public washrooms, this innovative and candid documentary takes us to high school bathrooms, seniors centres' powder roooms, Newfoundland dance halls, New York nightclubs, a sauna in Copenhagen, a Casablanca hamman and country-and-western bars in Texas. In each location, as women are filmed in verité sequences, they confess their joys, their frustrations and their pain about love, sex, relationships with men and friendships with each other.

Behind the Scenes of Memories

1996 • 30 min

A look at the making of Katsuhiro Otomo's MEMORIES, a 1995 Japanese anthology film.

Sin

1996 • 36 min • Finland

Synti, is a wry film about themes like sense of guilt, sin and the role that morality plays in choices that people make every day. By setting day-to-day events against the background of the seven mortal sins: pride, wrath, jealousy, lechery, stinginess, idleness and gluttony.

Jim Davidson and 'The Boys' Live

1996 • 58 min • United Kingdom

On September 15th 1996 Jim Davidson, 50 Crew Members, 4 articulated trucks, 1 ton of scaffolding, 200 lights and a 20,000 watt rock sound system arrive at Drawske Pomorski, Poland where Jim put on the biggest and most outrageous outdoor comedy event ever staged for our boys in uniform.

Body Double 6

1996 • 1 min

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Blood Sisters

Body Double 4

1996 • 6 min

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho as Donna Summer in Bad Girls

Third Reality 2

1996 • 14 min • Russia

Cinematography in allegory. Film is dedicated to the memory of Svyatoslav Valov, the director of documentary films and Kobrin’s colleague.

Tokyo····

1996 • 7 min • Japan

A journey through time in Tokyo.