All Films

Jellies & Other Ocean Drifters

1996 • 35 min

Venture into the vast, fluid realm of jellies and other ocean drifters. From the restless, sunlit surface waters to dark, cold and mysterious depths of the deep sea far below, the ocean is home to strange and wonderful creatures.

Articulated Image

1996 • 3 min

short experimental film by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill

Savoniha: A Siberian "Old Believer"

1996 • 32 min

Savoniha belongs to the “Old Believers,” a sect of the Russian Orthodox Church that was exiled to Buryatia, Siberia, a few centuries ago. Since then, they never ceased to be persecuted. Savoniha, who was 95 years old when this documentary was filmed, witnessed Stalin’s anti-religious campaign, losing her father, one of the main spiritual representatives of the Siberian Old Believers.

Meeting with Mai

1996 • 10 min • Sweden

Mai Zetterling is interviewed in the summer of 1984 in her house in southern France. Seventeen years have passed since the Girls were made in Sweden and were adversely affected by the criticism. Zetterling discusses why she left Sweden and resides at crucial times in her life; The drama period, to be celebrated actress and then to move to pave his way in the male-dominated director's profession. A guiding star in Zetterling's life has been to constantly expand its boundaries.

Osijek - The Sky Below

1996 • 25 min • Croatia

Once the war is over, life becomes life again. But everything has to be done. During this degree-zero and in this crucial time, the young Zvonimir Jurić shot his first film, a powerful poem about the city of Osijek, but one of many other cities at the same time. An art testimony of great value about the people that faced a devastated present and an uncertain future; a film about their return to everyday life, their frustrations, their expectations and their escape from reality.

Outdoors with T.K. and Mike: Turkey Huntin'

1996 • 39 min • United States of America

TK and Mike enlist the help of pro turkey hunter Eddie Salter who didn't realize what he was getting into.

Nestlings of the Sea

1996 • 6 min • Russia

The artist uses old archive films in a new way by drawing and scratching on 35mm film. The original material is documentary movies produced by amateur Soviet studios in the 1970s.

Prong: Live at Bizarre Festival

1996 • 41 min

18.08.96, Bizarre Festival, Cologne Germany, TV, 41 min. Setlist: 1.Controller 2.Whose Fist Is It Anyway 3.Face Value 4.Rude Awakening 5.Snap Your Fingers,Snap Your Neck 6.Another Worldly Device 7.Prove You Wrong 8.Unfortunately 9.Beg To Differ

Historias Breves II: Al cielo, no

1996 • 14 min • Argentina

Two men in search of a mysterious briefcase that can drive them mad.

The Country Doctor

1996 • 15 min • Czech Republic, Finland

An animation based on a short story by Franz Kafka about a country doctor interrupted by an alarm clock on a quiet home evening. In a bomb-ravaged room are waiting a dying child and a group of black market traders playing cards.

Rocinha 76/96

1996 • 3 min • Brazil

The camera goes back through the alleys and alleys of the community, leading the viewer to compare, with simultaneous shots of 76 and 96, the little or almost nothing that was accomplished, the neglect of the State, the abandonment over the 20 years. Finishing with a virtual image of the colored facades, as part of the proposed urbanization.

SHOUT at DAWN

1996 • 7 min

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Jeff Stilson

1996 • 28 min

Stand up special

The Blinking Madonna and Other Miracles

1996 • 56 min

After recording an Italian-American religious festival in Boston’s North End with her video camera, filmmaker Beth Harrington’s neighbors tell her that they see a miracle on the videotape — a statue of the Virgin Mary blinking its eyes. To Harrington’s amazement, and in spite of her lapsed religious beliefs, she must admit that her life has been transformed by the event. And when the press gets a hold of the story what ensues is a funny and touching look at what it means to believe and to belong.

Angledozer

1996 • 17 min • Austria

Over 300 educational and training film prints culled from the RMIT library are compressed and wrestled into an emblematically luminous archive of odd sorts.

Mind Fuck

1996 • 25 min • Canada

Call it acting or prostitution; the phone sex phenomenon reflects the darker side of the telemarketing industry. From the absurd to the disturbing. Mind Fuck is a brave foray into the strange and fascinating psychological world of phone sex in which the real operators, normally stuck on the receiving end of the line, finally get to freely speak their mind.

Kakeru

1996 • 50 min • Japan

Kakeru Noyama falls in love at first sight with Mai, a girl who gives a man a spectacular slap in the park. Her friend Miki is worried about the outspoken but inactive girl, but her expectations are defied and her romance takes a sudden turn for the better. One day, however, he sees her toasting a Coke with a guy. 'Who is that guy?' Later, he sees Mai chewing gum with a different man in a friendly manner, and when he sees her smoking a cool cigarette with another man. Miki gives the example of herself and her boyfriend Akira and urges him to pursue the truth. Finally, Kakeru takes action... The elation that love has started. The fear that their relationship might end if she hears this. The film rhythmically conveys these feelings with rapid-fire dialogue and boldly cut images. The character of the protagonist, who is timid, hot-blooded and gentle, honestly embodies the confusion of people in love.

Delblanc

1996 • 58 min • Sweden

Portrait of the Swedish writer Sven Delblanc made up of interviews with friends and family along with excerpts of his writing read by Max von Sydow.

Historias Breves II: Trece Segundos

1996 • 12 min • Argentina

What goes through someone's mind 13 seconds before they die? A town lost in the year 40. Different characters in their common actions. Two men lying in the street, one dead, the other playing dead. Between reality and the delusions of his mind we travel through his last thirteen seconds of life.

Leshkin Lug

1996 • 52 min • Russia

At the end of autumn, the first Vyatka's farmers Alexander Leonidovich and Raisa Nikiforovna Orlovsky will arrive at their former estate to say goodbye forever to the farm, where they spent the best and most difficult years of their lives. Years of litigation with a neighboring collective farm led to the decline of their family farm. The attempt of the children of Alexei, Nadezhda and Tatyana to revive life on the farm failed, and the younger Orlovskys are forced to finally move to the city. It is not easy for former farmers to find themselves in a city life that is alien to them. The farm still remains a place where they were truly happy.

Strangeways

1996 • 51 min • Germany

The criminal Clay has to take the cheeky Fiona hostage in order to survive a dangerous drug deal. They flee to Fiona's apartment. There Clay discovers several dead men and quickly finds his life in danger...

Susie Q

1996 • 10 min • Brazil

Lost in a beachhouse, Rodrigo searches in his memory for the romance he lived the previousnight with a woman, and how to find her.

Vertigo Bird

1996 • 34 min • Slovenia

On the one side Vertigo Bird reveals completely personal attitude of Kovač toward the real ambience of his native town, while on the other the artistic articulations give his attitude broader connotations and develops it into a poetical structure of perception of the real world. Kovač places a group of dancers in this space of man’s activity, whose decline is a historical necessity.

Germaine et ses copains

1996 • 16 min

In Sangha, through the window of her house, Germaine greets Djamgouno, her main informant. He then translates for her a conversation she has with a half-blind old man. She recounts her memories of a past party at which Amadigné worked with her as an informant. Later, in front of the cliff, Germaine, Djamgouno and Pangalé are sitting on rocks, and Germaine talks about the many caves that can be visited by climbing small spelunking ladders. Rouch intervenes during the interview, asking the protagonists about the settlement of the cliff by the Dogon, who learned from the Tellem how to climb the cliff. Rouch then asks about the Tellem's predecessors who lived there 2,400 years ago. Germaine admits the ignorance of researchers on the subject, and Rouch concludes by joking about the new task that now falls to Germaine Dieterlen.