All Films

Doctors without conscience - human experimentation in the Third Reich

1996 • 59 min • Germany

On October 25, 1946, fifty years ago, the so-called Doctors' trial began in Nuremberg. Ernst Klee has compiled extensive material for this film about concentration camp doctors, for example, who nevertheless lectured at universities again after the war or found a place in the executive chairs of pharmaceutical companies. He documents the role of world-famous companies in human experimentation. He was also able to work through the investigation files against Josef Mengele in their entirety for the first time and view unknown material from Auschwitz.

Happy Hour - Family Fun!

1996 • 52 min

Wedding traditions of Polesie.

Barbara's Dollhouse

1996 • 30 min

Documentary on curator of the Philadelphia Doll Museum, Barbara Whiteman.

Shipwrecks of the Baltic Sea

1996 • 54 min • Finland

Documentary exploring the seabed of the Baltic Sea and telling the stories of its most glorious shipwrecks

Steve Saves the Universe Again

1996 • 5 min • United States of America

An CGI Animated Short Film

Meat of Fury

1996 • 43 min

Underground Gore Mayhem. During a genetic experiment with a piece of meat, something goes terribly wrong. The result is horrifying... Part meat, part killing machine!

Short Circuit

1996 • 7 min • France

An absurd universe gone awry... a furious chase on a mountain peak... a driver chased by a police car is ready to do anything to escape. But there's no way out: he's trapped in Short Circuit.

Forgotten City of the Jungle

1996 • 43 min

A trip to the heart of Cambodia's jungle unlocks the secrets of the ancient city of Angkor--75 miles of gilded palaces and stone temples constructed over a span of some 400 years.

Iles Kerguelen: l'île aux savants

1996 • 50 min • French Southern Territories, France

13,000 km from mainland France, Crozet, Kerguelen, and Amsterdam are so isolated that even today they can only be reached by boat. No one has ever lived there permanently, except for shipwreck survivors or the unfortunate executors of unfeasible projects. But around these jagged coasts, a history of adventure has been built: that of the Chevalier de Kerguelen, who believed he had discovered a new Eldorado; that of seal and whale hunters, explorers, and industrialists who dreamed of “colonizing” these barren islands... Ruins, shipwrecks, and tiny remains tell the story, and logbooks are opened. All reflect a fascination with these islands, which seem to hide themselves away as if to protect a mystery.

Emin & Emin

1996 • 2 min

single channel video (shot on Super 8)

Finding Gold

1996 • 2 min

2 minutes and 43 seconds made in 1996

An Old Joke

1996 • 3 min • Russia

The film delves into the remarkable artistic legacy of Leo Tolstoy.

Building the Mighty Mac

1996 • 55 min

This is a most interesting documentary about the construction of the Mackinac Bridge which crosses the Straits of Mackinac and connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

Hyperion

1996 • 60 min

This show is written in the style of a six part story, and named after the giant of Greek mythology. It tells how Hyperion, who rules the universe, is driven out by Abron.

Llorenç Soler: dues o tres coses que…

1996 • 21 min

Martí Rom presents a monograph dedicated to the figure of Llorenç Soler, who was his colleague during his time at Central del Curt and a collaborator on several works in his filmography.

Help! Barbarian hordes at Pratello

1996 • 51 min

This documentary aims to demonstrate the vitality of the squatted house at 76/78 Via del Pratello in Bologna, and to highlight the stark contrasts, including visual ones, of everyday life.

Barba Lounger

1996 • 1 min • United States of America

An CGI Short about Talking Chairs.

We Await

1996 • 54 min • United States of America

A con artist is held captive by an unhinged cannibal family that ingests copious quantities of hallucinogenic, green fungal goo covertly harnessed from an otherworldly, sentient crystal housed in their third floor apartment of horrors.

Passages

1996 • 12 min • Austria

Lisl Ponger creates an imaginary map of the twentieth century on which the stories of emigration are engraved like well-worn tracks of occidental memory. The pictures, made by observant tourists, are revealed, in their tensile relationship to the soundtrack, as a post-colonial journey. A journey through exactly those countries which long ago have been shrunk together in space and time. Finally the wonderful neon signs of the “Hotel Edison” and “Radio City” remind one of the origins of this form of appropriation of the world, of the time of great expeditions, of Benjamin‘s shop-windows and passages, and of the time when technical apparatus and means of transportation fundamentally altered the perceptions of modern man.

The Appearance

1996 • 40 min • Germany

An advertising agency has to pitch a marketing concept to an optician's consortium, represented by the manager who is the first to see the campaign. The logo submitted is examined from every angle: it must simultaneously express both the company's dynamism and its reliability. A fascinating, dispassionate glimpse behind closed doors, where every detail is dramatized to win that lucrative contract.

The Trip to Ragnar

1996 • 38 min • Sweden

Sonja and Clary take the bus to Café Norrköping and get to meet Ragnar Dahlberg.

E=mc²

1996 • 5 min • France, Ukraine

4 minute sandanimation about love, life & death.

Cosplay Encyclopedia

1996 • 60 min • Japan

What is Cosplay? Well, Cosplay is short for costume play, and it occurs when thousands of anime fans crowd a convention center dressed as their favorite anime characters. This encyclopedia gives Western anime fans a detailed experience of this slightly bizarre phenomenon. Features characters from series like Magic Knight Rayearth, Sailor Moon, Sorcerer Hunters, and Evangelion.

Abductees

1996 • 11 min

Five tales of alien abduction told using a wide range of animated techniques.