All Films

Bugz

1996 • 33 min

"Incredible," "beautiful" and "exotic" are only a few of the words (besides "eek!") that describe Bugz. Everything from bugs you'd recognize to bugs you've never seen before (thank goodness!) creeping, jumping, fluttering, squirming and scurrying across your TV screen.

More Than a Passenger - Aurora Australis Safety

1996 • 27 min

A guide to emergency regulations for Antarctic expeditioners traveling aboard the 'Aurora Australis'.

Clayboys on Monster Island

1996 • 5 min • Sweden

Probably the most brutal and outrageous clay animation ever made.

Lighthouses of North America

1996 • 56 min • United States of America

Travel with us as we visit the sandy shoals and craggy cliffs of America's seafaring monuments - lighthouses. Relive ghost stories, shipwrecks and heroic deeds. You will feel the salt spray and face the terror of a storm on the high seas as you enjoy this beautifully photographed history of lighthouses along America's coast. A must see video for lighthouse aficionados and the lovers of history.

How to Smell like a Flower

1996 • 11 min • Vietnam

A boy wants to smell like a flower.

The Selling of Innocents

1996 • 47 min

Following human trafficking from Nepal to India

Turning Virgins Into Doves

1996 • 54 min • Russia

Film of Vetrophonia band in 1996 performing a concert with Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's collages.

Winter

1996 • 30 min • China

Documentary of all 12 families living in the Xishuping village during one winter.

Sports Bloopers Country Style

1996 • 52 min • United States of America

Combine some of the wackiest bloopers ever collected, edited to country music, and you've just hit the right chord for one hour of solid, toe-tapping laughter. Humorous zanies from baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey, skiing, rodeo and more-sure to entertain over and over. It's the kind of fun that everybody just has to see and share with others. It's all here. Sports Bloopers with a new song and dance!

Explorers of the Titanic

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

The story of the extraordinary salvage of Titanic, 2 1/2 miles underwater in the North Atlantic. As submersible pilots risk their lives to recover fragments of history, the expedition crew try to resolve the mystery of the coal-fire that raged with Titanic. Was this coal-fire to blame for the greatest Maritime tragedy of all time? "Explorers of the Titanic" is an extraordinary film about 'the most famous ship since Noah's Ark'.

The Plummet

1996 • 1 min • United States of America

An CGI Short about a Penguin going Skiing.

Histoire d'un prince devenu borgne et mendiant

1996 • 16 min • France

The fantastical 'The Prince who Lost an Eye and Became a Beggar' (english title) is a version of a story from the anthology proper, and provides a great example of the timeless fascination of the stories from the 1001 Nights. A prince leaves his country on a boat in search of adventure, only to find himself plunged into a series of unlikely adventures involving everything from a magical bronze horse that transports our hero to a faraway land, to a gigantic monster holding a beautiful princess captive. The forces of lust and death are forever intertwined, leading the prince to his inevitable downfall.

Satanic Vampire Lovers

1996 • 25 min • United States of America

Two frustrated musicians cross paths with a pair of deadly women.

Touch of Inga

1996 • 11 min

Okuyama made a negative print from the original negatives. As opposed to the usual purposes of film, this negative projection allows us to reconsider the various processes inherent in filmmaking.

Transfinite Loops

1996 • 10 min

Transfinite Loops is a reflection on the mind's tendency to create metaphysical order in the face of chaos. The piece is both a model and a metaphor for that process. Nighttime images of carnival rides appear, mesh and then dissolve into blackness, accompanied only by the sound of wind. The work unfolds like a series of thoughts, as time and space are unraveled and woven back together into intricate knots. "As gorgeous as any fireworks display, Van McElwee’s Transfinite Loops invents dazzling astral patterns." -Stephen Holden, The New York Times "Vivid video origami erupts into a blizzard…leading out of time & space" -TL Reid, Afterimage "Transfinite Loops is infectious, life-affirming and beautiful. It makes you feel good." -David Bonetti, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Difficulties of Being Female in Iran

1996 • 14 min

A frank and intimate portrayal of women and Islam in this controversial and defiant land. Iranian women worshippers still kiss the holy shrine where Ayatollah Khomeini is buried but in private many more are not so enthusiastic about the Islamic laws women here must suffer.

Undead March

1996 • 25 min

Can the immortal soul live in the body of immortality? The existence of the soul and its immutability can be equal to the body and soul. Various themes are followed by a metaphor called a movie.

10 Crunchy Carrots

1996 • 30 min • Canada

Go looking for a Sasquatch (Big Foot), make the perfect Pizza (no anchovies, please!), go deep sea diving with an Octopus, and ride your favourite horse on the magical Carousel. Filmed around beautiful Vancouver, B.C. Canada, 10 Crunchy Carrots is guaranteed to be fun for all the family with “Four Hugs a Day” and “I Wanna Be a Dog.” Charlotte also shares her love of nature with “Spider’s Web” and her love of languages with “May There Always Be Sunshine.”

How to Curate Your Own Group Exhibition

1996 • 3 min

Commissioned for Hans-Ulrich Obrist's "Museum-in-Progress" series Do It, Smith's "How to Curate Your Own Group Exhibition" is a deadpan infomercial explaining exactly what the beginning curator needs to know. Television professionals shot and edited the piece, yielding a flashy "spot" in which Smith plays a corporate talking head, concerned with a 21st-century "transferral of curatorial responsibilities into the hands of the artists, as well as an artist who simply wants to get into more group shows. [Overview courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix]

Housefly

1996 • 18 min • Georgia

The film shows comic and tragic episodes of human life seen through the eyes of a fly. In the end, the fly becomes a victim of children playing in the sand.

Psyber Dream

1996 • 42 min

A Fluid Interdimensional Psychedelic Dreamscape In CyperSpace!

Far From You

1996 • 27 min

Experimental documentary that explores the aura of Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum through her mediated image, its degeneration through analog copying, and the possibilities of borrowed nostalgia.

Money

1996 • 3 min • United States of America

By Coleen Fitzgibbon and Cara Perlman; Hi8 to digital, sound, looped every 3 min.

Murradweg – 365 km Flussabwärts

1996 • 5 min

Promotional Video for the Murradweg.