All Films

Hreidar the Stupid

1996 • 20 min • Iceland

Twenty minutes of inventive puppet animation, it was finished in January 1996. The story, taken from an Icelandic saga, tells of the adventures in Norway of Hreidar, a "big, ugly and slowwitted" Icelander. Hreidar wants to meet King Magnus, whom he impresses with his enormous strength and candid behavior; then he has a fight with a soldier of another king, Harald, and kills him.

Justice

1996 • 4 min • Poland

Suc

1996 • 3 min

Silent Super 8mm Film

De placazos, vírgenes y tatuajes

1996 • 30 min

The protagonists travel by road and on foot to the north in search of Aztlán and along the way they find the ideal elements that make them get closer to their destination. "Audiovisual experiment on the perception of time, distances and landscape. Taking as a pretext the search for a mythical place located in the north of the Mexican Republic, this film becomes an interior search".

Blue Movie

1996 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A porn film without any people or human sounds.

A Light in the Darkness

1996 • 52 min

This heartwarming historical documentary explores the remarkable spirit and faith of the Volga German people. These German nationals emigrated to the Volga region of Russia during the time of Catherine the Great, in pursuit of a dream of being free and establishing their own government in their newly adopted homeland.

Islands on the Edge of Time

1996 • 56 min • Palau

From 1982 to 1996 award-winning filmmakers Mary Beth Brangan & James Heddle documented on film and video unfolding events in the fledgling island nation of Palau. When Palau's voters made it the first nation in history to adopt a nuclear free, green constitution, Washington's war planners saw it as 'the threat of a good example.' Palau became the poster child for the growing Nuclear Free Pacific movement and a cause celebre for the global nuclear free zone movement. The 10-year-long manipulation of the electoral process the U.S. then unleashed to force the rollback of Palau's nuclear ban became a text book case for subversion of the democratic process in developing countries...and at home. Their experiences covering this story made the filmmakers life-long advocates of election integrity.

Fisherman At His Nets: Fisherman Linkola

1996 • 28 min

Pentti Linkola tells how the fisherman’s profession has changed over the years.

Article 58/4

1996 • 60 min

In this documentary, film-maker Pinchas Schatz sets out to determine the fate of his grandfather, a Zionist leader in the former Soviet republic of Estonia between the two world wars. Accompanied by his mother, Margalit, (his grandfather's daughter), they journey back to Estonia where in the summer of 1995, K.G.B. archives and secret files relating to the case were made public. From these and the new testimonies of other witnesses, they are able to piece together a largely unknown chapter in the tragic annals of the Zionist movement in the former Soviet Union, and, more personally, the official verdict against his grandfather for "trying to establish a Bourgeois-Jewish State in Palestine with the assistance of the Capitalist countries.

Welcome to the House of Raven

1996 • 3 min

A dance. When magic is a verb. The Beginning of the End. The End of the Beginning.

Lucy Castle-Hotea

1996 • 18 min • Romania

Lucy Castle, a 26 years old English woman came to Romania – Hoteni from Maramureş -in order to prepare her PhD thesis in ethnographic music. She ended here by marrying a simple peasant: John Hotea (22 years old), an orphan with no education, and according to the local people that were disappointed by Lucy’s choice, a violent and alcoholic guy. Now the family Castle-Hotea lives in England. The local people say that this was what John was looking for, while Lucy wanted to establish her in the village for the rest of her life.

The Hundred Videos #1

1996 • 57 min • Canada

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for the end of the 20th Century. This volume includes videos 1-14: Excuse of the Real, Family Tree, Watermelon Box, Family Planning, Eleven Dreams, Emergence of Democratic Memory, Speculative Anthropology, Why I Stopped Going to Foreign Films, I Am Not Like You, Barely Human, ROOM, Michael & Lacan, Joke (Version One), and Joke (Version Two).

The Hundred Videos #4

1996 • 59 min • Canada

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for the end of the 20th Century. This volume contains videos 55-78: Symposium, Jin's Dream, Ghost Production, Minnesota Inventory, Re-enactment of a Performance, Three Examples, Sparky, Black Heart, Box, The End of My Death, Muriel, Attempt to sing, Assplay, Love Among Corpses, Harvey K., Dr. Asselbergs, Corey, My Fear, Dumbo Climax, Apology, How to Build an Igloo, Microscope, Amoeba, and Treehouse.

The Hundred Videos #3

1996 • 57 min • Canada

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for the end of the 20th Century. This volume includes videos 31-54: Lonely Boy, I Love You Too, Charming Mutt, Ice Cream, Instructions for Recovering Forgotten Childhood Memories, Request, Jason, Experiment, Editorial, Understanding Heterosexuality, Pioneer, My Personal Virus, Vision (With Birds), Self Help, My Erotic Double, Sleep, Dream Work, Artifact, Monologue (with Provocation), Child, Windy Morning in April, Love Letter to Doug, Three Plays, and Screen Saver.

Related by Birth

1996 • 10 min • United States of America

Four individuals, related by birth, discuss their interweaving relationships in their queer family.

Arrêt sur images : le traitement par la télévison de la grêve de 1995

1996 • 52 min

bright and dark

1996 • 3 min • Canada

"bright and dark" uses poetry to create a personal narrative about the dynamics of love, light and bodies.

On the Way

1996 • 11 min • Bolivia

The story of a Bolivian family seeking for a place to call home.

Business Trip to Death

1996 • 28 min • Germany

Short documentary about Russian special forces during the Third Battle of Grozny during the First Chechen War

Game Hour

1996 • 3 min

Short film directed by Liang Juhui.

The Heir of a Vanquished Secessionist

1996 • 27 min • Cambodia

The Cambodian government of centuries ago must put an end to attempted secession.

Pocket Cinema - The Catalogue

1996 • 31 min

100 film loops for 100 film-viewers. Each loop deals with one basic aspect of repetition in life and film. The essential characteristics of each aspect become evident by endless repetition in the loop. "With the Pocket Cinema project I want to trace the repetitions in life and film as an attempt at the essential elements of film - motion and time.

RJ Mitchell Aircraft Designer

1996 • 46 min

The determined designer of the Spitfire shepherds it from initial rejection by the RAF to becoming the symbol of Britain's pride and power in WW2.

The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1996 • 60 min

Christopher Felver's enormously engaging documentary is a serious and powerful portrait of San Francisco's legendary poet, painter and City Lights publisher. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been a vital creative force in the American literary scene since the 1950's when he arrived in San Francisco and began to write his infamous poems, including A Coney Island of the Mind.