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Story Maker : Story Taker

Story Maker : Story Taker

1996 • 38 min
This is an attempt at bringing together a selection of the stories and paintings of the Warlis, and some of the writings about them. To the Warlis, a community of Adivasis (indigenous peoples), who live close to Bombay, these stories represent their history, their world-view. All the outsiders, the Portuguese, the Marathas, the British, the native settlers… they all tried obliterating this history and wisdom. The work of the outsiders who wrote about the Warli represents this process of creating new mythologies. By bringing together these disparate discourses, this video aspires to critique these mythologies… To read between the lines, as the stories themselves do.
Parade Parade

Parade Parade

1996 • 60 min • Japan
Kaori is a very popular idol singer. She is just finishing her first live tour. However, this innocent-looking girl hides a secret that makes her not-so-innocent. If word of Kaori's secret ever gets out, her career will be finished.
Keio Flying Squadron

Keio Flying Squadron

1996 • 18 min • Japan
Rami Nana-Hikari's adventures continue as the keeper of the Secret Treasure. A year has passed since the apocalyptic disaster which left a great crater in the center of Edo City. The destruction wrought major economic consequences and while much investment was poured into the public works for the new Edo Castle, the citizens were all feeling the pinch of the recession. Promotional short released on VHS based off the game of the same name.
Hymns

Hymns

1996 • 50 min • Russia
Cinema offers a unique opportunity to synthesize a special multilayered space, whose dramaturgy cannot be limited to the traditional Hollywood-style concept of plot, but instead relies primarily on the interaction of several layers that give rise to the Image: music, visuals, text, and form.
Heshers on the Run

Heshers on the Run

1996 • 9 min • United States of America
The second skate video from Creature Skateboards. Editing and art direction by Creature team rider Al Partanen.
Minoru Kou Dinner Show "Crush on You"

Minoru Kou Dinner Show "Crush on You"

1996 • 60 min
Minoru Kou's dinner show.
Me and the Giraffes

Me and the Giraffes

1996 • 7 min • Sweden
A short animated film about a lonely little girl and the adventures she has with her fantasy friends.
The Homecoming: A Short Film About Ajamu

The Homecoming: A Short Film About Ajamu

1996 • 17 min • United Kingdom
Queer activist and artist Ajamu prepares to leave Brixton for an exhibition of his work in his hometown, Huddersfield.
Scent of the Sun

Scent of the Sun

1996 • 29 min • Japan
I want to live with the things I love and cherish. My family and I live in Ayase, and I work at a bookstore in Ikebukuro. Sometimes I open a store at a flea market with a friend. We sell tableware, which she likes, and accessories made from buttons, which I make, and they are quite popular. With the money we saved there, my friend went on a long-awaited trip abroad. My goal is to start living alone. Today is my day off, so I go out to check out an apartment. I stopped by a park and saw cats having a meeting. When I saw the old building, I suddenly wanted to see my grandmother, so I took the train... The entire film is written in monologue and with a handheld 8mm camera, and features all the things "I" like: buttons, the dawn from my room, cats, the ocean, and my grandmother. There is no context, no meaning, no great sense of beauty, but they play a comfortable rhythm and a beautiful melody. This is a fictional essay whose natural gentleness reminds us of non-fiction.
Opus Hominis 2

Opus Hominis 2

1996 • 11 min
Footage from slaughterhouse with sacral music, similar to Dora's 'Carnophage' but with a lot more ambiental, non-narrative aspects.
Chigh

Chigh

1996 • 36 min • Iran
A documentary of the epic story of the weaving Chigh. Chigh is a kind of texture made from wood and osier that is made in the ilats of the west of Iran and is used for covering around their Siah-chadors
Movie's Adventures ‒ Safary

Movie's Adventures ‒ Safary

1996 • 13 min • France, Ukraine
The fourth cartoon about the adventures of a dog named Movie. Movie as a journalist goes to Africa to shoot a film about animals, but there she has to fight against poachers who are trying to catch these animals for sale in zoos.
Home

Home

1996 • 60 min • China
Acclaimed Chinese TV documentarian Wang Haibing’s Home was an official selection at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. The film records a story between humans and animals. The protagonists of the story are: a giant panda, who is about to be released into nature, and several ordinary workers at the rescue station to protect the giant panda. The relationship between man and nature depicted here is simple, harmonious and beautiful.
For Better or for Worse: A Storm in April

For Better or for Worse: A Storm in April

1996 • 30 min • Canada
Elly thinks she can handle bringing April to work with her, but the library has never before seen such destruction. April is very different from the other Patterson kids: the characters look back at Elly’s pregnancy and the circumstances around April’s birth,during a freak winter storm in the early hours of April 1st. Now that the older kids don't need them as much, John and Elly realize that, even though April is a handful, she’ll still grow up way too fast.
The Crossing

The Crossing

1996 • 11 min
In this work's left panel, The Crossing (1996), a walking male figure is consumed by fire on a 27-foot vertical plasma screen projection while in the accompanying right panel, The Crossing, Video 2 (1996), the same man struggles under a deluge of water.
Good Evening

Good Evening

1996 • 8 min • Yugoslavia
An experimental work made up of various instances of TV hosts saying "good evening".
Thomas & Friends: The Gallant Old Engine and Other Thomas Stories

Thomas & Friends: The Gallant Old Engine and Other Thomas Stories

1996 • 36 min
PEEP! PEEP! All aboard for the Island of Sodor and new stories from Thomas and his friends. Watch as Stuart and Falcon help out when Duke isn't feeling well. See how Henry frees an elephant that's stuck in his tunnel and cheer on Rheneas as he carries his passengers home safely during a big storm. So join Thomas, Percy and all of your crew - they have loads of adventures waiting for you.
The Secret Story

The Secret Story

1996 • 8 min
THE SECRET STORY arose as a response to several beautifully decayed toy figures from the 1930s that were given to me as a gift. These figures, and other toys, objects, and illustrations that I found from the period between the world wars, suggested a kind of unearthed hidden narrative which I have attempted to re-piece together, as if these figures were the hieroglyphics of a just-forgotten tongue. THE SECRET STORY revolves around the central figure of the woman, and her girl-double, who look somewhat like a versions of Snow White. She wanders through landscapes of rivers and floods, home and war, and memory and illness, culminating in an ecstatic walk in the forest, suggesting both the dark and cathartic trajectories of the richest fairy tales.
Dog Walk

Dog Walk

1996 • 16 min • Sweden
A man with a mission climbs the stairs of a haunted apartment building.
What's Wrong With The World

What's Wrong With The World

1996 • 1 min • France
A reworking of extracts from Andre Malraux, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou, and GK Chesterton.
Stairway to Heaven

Stairway to Heaven

1996 • 8 min • Russia
This Petersburg you will not see on the covers of glossy magazines and advertising brochures. This city is ghosted and brutal, and it is inhabited by very different, often very gloomy people.
Michel J

Michel J

1996 • 8 min • France
Michel J consists of a series of portraits drawn from a video that was filmed during the religious service for the death of Michel Journiac in October 1995. It is the memory of this mass, the representation of a rite. A video work at first, it uses photography and ends up in painting, in pictorialness, through numerous references to the History of art and to ancient and modern painting.
How It Feels

How It Feels

1996 • 23 min • United Kingdom
"Have you ever regret about not having kids?" - "Yes, I have, Sometimes"
The Hundred Videos #2

The Hundred Videos #2

1996 • 54 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 15-30: Walking the Dog, After Baudelaire, Language of Rats, Language of Flowers, Introduction to the Logo, Deaf, Squeezing Sorrow from an Ashtray, In the Realm of Perpetual Embarrassment, 80 Prominent Dermatologists, Visuals Elf, Pus Girl, Wish, Disturbed Sleep, Testimonials, Little Faggot, and Long Train Ride.