All Films

White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men

1996 • 28 min

This documentary deals with the popularization and commercialization of Native American spiritual traditions by Non-Indians. Important questions are asked of those seeking to commercially exploit Tribal rituals and sacred ceremonies...and those vested with safeguarding sacred ways. The film represents a wide range of voices from Native communities, and speaks to issues of cultural appropriation with humor, righteous anger, and thoughtful insight.

Prelude 10

1996 • 3 min • United States of America

Prelude 10 is a double-printed film with an extreme mixture of darks shot thru with jewel-like bursts of color, and very white bursts of light and fleeting colored forms.

The Dowager's Feast

1996 • 6 min • United States of America

1995 Joan C. Gratz claymation short film

Bird in a Window

1996 • 11 min • United States of America

Wonderfully strange and interesting animation from the very talented animator Igor Kovalyov while he was working at Klascy Csupo Studio in 1996.

Famous Paintings

1996 • 18 min • Netherlands

Filmmaker Maarten Koopman‘s animated series of famous paintings, imagined piece by piece from some new perspectives.

Bluebeard's Last Wife

1996 • 13 min • France, Ukraine

A new version of the famous story about Bluebeard. Two characters - killers from different eras, from different myths - decide to start a family. Who will win in a deadly duel? Another attempt to get married will be the last for the hero...

Playing Poseidon

1996 • 11 min

Childhood memories of Shelley Winters and the morning after.

2001 Colours Andy Never Thought Of

1996 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A remixing of Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe prints.

A Depression in the Bay of Bengal

1996 • 29 min • United States of America

Shot while LaPore was on a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship to Sri Lanka in 1993-1994. “I have made a film about travelling and living in a distant place which looks at aspects of daily life and where the war shadows the quotidian with a dark and rumbling step.”--LaPore. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2014.

Claws

1996 • 2 min

A short-short horror comedy by Petros Nousias producer of To Kako (Evil) and To Kako 2 (Evil 2)

Naturezas Mortas

1996 • 18 min

A short documentary about brazilian miners.

Signing Made Easy

1996 • 55 min • United States of America

In one hour, this instructional video will teach you the sign language alphabet and more than 300 word signs, allowing you to communicate with the more than 20 million deaf and hard-of-hearing people living in North America. Host Anthony Natale (of Mr. Holland's Opus, Jerry Maguire and television's "Ellen") also demonstrates how the deaf tackle a range of everyday tasks -- from driving and reading lips to talking on the phone and watching movies.

What Do You Fear?

1996 • 6 min

A dog and two cats in France living, naturally.

Portland

1996 • 12 min • United States of America

Three friends, including the filmmaker, rendez-vous in Portland by hitchhiking or train-hopping from different cities. After a week of arguments, soup kitchens, brushes with the law, and bad weather, each leaves with a different memory of the trip.

Blue Value

1996 • 2 min

This is a hand-painted step-printed film which begins with slow dissolves of what appear to be decaying leaves, crumpled browns and golds and oranges which assume qualities of earth and rock shot-through with flashes of crystalline prism colors and jagged scratch marks amidst glows of multiple coloration with increasing blues, varieties of tones of blue, from turquoise to near-purple - these variations of tone (and shape, as well) gradually convey, given the comparatively few appearances of blue, a formal domination over all other tones (and attendant shapes) of the spectrum of the film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Scary Party

1996 • 1 min

A hand-drawn journey through a scary party.

Mécanomagie

1996 • 15 min • Germany

A landscape in which everything moves is afflicted with a figure which is in itself static, but which moves - a kind of mechanic man? In Mécanomagie both the borders of perception and (natural) laws are infringed so that something new may emerge: nature as a boundless state of ecstasy!

Dinner For Two

1996 • 7 min • Canada

Frogs, birds, lizards, a snake, alligators, and a lot of insects inhabit a pond; everyone's ready to eat. Two tenacious lizards catch the same fly, inciting a protracted tug-of-war.

Quilt

1996 • 7 min • Canada

An abstract animated film, using computer and experimental techniques in choreographing quilt motifs and designs to music. A tribute to the unique and long-established art form of patchwork quilting. A film without words.

Shaving the Castro

1996 • 4 min

About Louie's Barber Shop in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood, since 1947.

Our life is like our breath

1996 • 44 min

A film following a western monk and his lifestyle in the Thai forest monastery, Wat Pa Nanachat, in the 1990s.

Folio-olio Meets Sheriff of Lappland

1996 • 4 min • Finland

Horrific tale of the Folio-Olio!

Stoning the Refrigerator

1996 • 15 min

An unseen man throws rocks at a refrigerator.

Mark Rothstein's World of Rope Jumping

1996 • 40 min • United States of America

Mark is accompanied by five dynamic rope jumpers from the BOHOPPERS precision jump rope team, based in Florida. Mark's lead and Bo Bohannon's direction (33 years of teaching experience), make the 40 skills detailed and easy to follow. In 1996, this video was selected by the American Heart Association as its exclusive educational video for the 1996-1997 Jump Rope for Heart National Program. Mark recommends this Original Instructional video as a prerequisite for Videos 2, 3 & 4 in his series. Please contact Mark for information on his World Tour, professional jump ropes, and other videos in his series available on VHS and DVD.