All Films

Older Sister

1996 • 20 min • China

The film documents a pigeon pair family that preference boys over girls.

Retard

1996 • 4 min

Short film by Gianfranco Baruchello.

The Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway

1996 • 41 min • United States of America

This rich, historical documentary captures the story of the high-speed, electric transit system that sparked the growth and development of Puget Sound's twin cities during the first quarter of the 20th century.

Egypt Hollow

1996 • 25 min • United States of America

A film of memory and imagination, as a young boy collects the scattered fragments of his family history from a burn barrel on the family farm.

New Orleans Voodoo from the Inside

1996 • 59 min • United States of America

One of the few up close looks at Voodoo in New Orleans ... one of the most mysterious religions in the world. Learn about the origins of Voodoo dolls, candles, potions and gris gris. Witness rituals with Priestess Ava Kay Jones in and around the Crescent City. Discover the enduring popularity of Marie Laveau, "New Orleans Voodoo ... from the Inside" unlocks the mysteries and dispells the myths.

The Underground Water (Short Version)

1996 • 12 min • Japan

The Underground Water (1996) comes as an ode to water in its forms and to that connected sounds, ice, drinking, mirroring, bathing, washing, pearling on a window, raindrops, reflecting architecture and grey trees. Dry leaves, wooden floors and a young man smoking a cigarette. Windows and doors are preparing the framing. The wind is coming up. Will it rain today? A young woman is pressing her face to a TV screen, all in blue but it is not water refreshing her. In her eyes, you see some hidden memories and dirty tennis balls lying on the street sucking up the drops of the rain.

Nowhere Man

1996 • 8 min • Sweden

Henry comes to his office early. As always, he starts his working day with a cigarette and a cup of coffee. When he reaches for the cup, he sees that he is missing one of his hands. Slowly, Henry disappears, bit by bit.

Eurofrog

1996 • 4 min

Some episodes with a human figure whose head is Swedish King Carl Gustaf on a postage stamp.

Podunk Possum in One Step Beyond

1996 • 7 min

A possum acquires an abandoned farm with three chickens to lay eggs for him, and has to defend them from a fried chicken titan, Major Portions.

A Terrible Thought

1996 • 18 min • Russia

One day, the hero comes to the firm conviction that everything in a person's life is decided by chance. According to this logic, he is trying to fix his life.

Fatal Gel

1996 • 8 min • Portugal

The first short film directed by António Ferreira, featuring Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (lead singer of Mão Morta).

Sip My Ocean

1996 • 8 min

Sip My Ocean, a video projected as two mirrored reflections on adjoining walls, offers a kaleidoscopic view of an idyllic underwater paradise, with a flowing sequence of dreamlike images, including intermittent close-ups of a bikini-clad woman floating and swimming through the waves along with views of various domestic objects sinking to the seabed. The implicit voyeurism and exaggerated hyperfeminity of such images are complicated by the accompanying sound track, in which the artist’s rendition of Chris Isaac’s melancholy pop song Wicked Game is punctuated by her repeated shrieking of the lyrics “I don’t want to fall in love.” Although she denies having an explicitly feminist agenda, Rist frequently merges eroticism and coquettishness with aggression and hysteria to produce provocative fantasies of female empowerment.

The Real Thing

1996 • 53 min • United Kingdom

The Real Thing is the first feature length bouldering movie ever made. Britain's top rock climbers Jerry Moffatt and Ben Moon take you on a rollercoaster road trip from the classic gritstone crags of the UK's Peak District to the mecca of European and World climbing in Fontainebleau, France. Also starring climbing hero Sean Myles, the late and great Kurt Albert and French climbing legend Marc Le Menestrel. A must watch for all boulderers, with an unforgettable pumping soundtrack. The climax of the film is Moon's ascent of Fred Nicole's Karma (V11) - other highlights include Moffatt's 'hair-raising' drive, in his Lancia Evolution, from Sheffield to Stanage and some amazing training scenes; all great fun and reminder of how climbing used to be.

Ah Ming

1996 • 15 min

A normal day, a normal family in Hong Kong, a normal school girl and a normal incident at home.

Chutney in Yuh Soca

1996 • 21 min • United Kingdom

An arts documentary examining the phenomenon of "chutney soca", a musical hybrid from Trinidad & Tobago which blends the traditions of the islands' two biggest ethnic groups - Indian and African. As much political as musical, "chutney soca" seems to offer a way for the two cultures, often perceived as being mutually antagonistic, to come together in a new exciting fusion of sounds. (Synopsis by Karen Martinez)

Lepădații

1996 • 10 min • Romania

Student short film

The Ten Commandments Number 5: Thou Shalt Not Kill

1996 • 3 min

The short tells about one Uncle Josh from Arkansas, who loses his family rapidly, in Job-like fashion. As a reaction he commits suicide, flies to heaven, where he’s kicked into hell by God himself.

The 1964 World's Fair

1996 • 53 min • United States of America

Relive the dazzle, wonder and fun of The 1964 World's Fair, an extraordinary documentary that takes a fresh look at the sights and sounds of this once-in-a-lifetime event. So jump in that old station wagon and take a ride back to the 1964 New York World's Fair!

Outdoors with T.K. and Mike: Bass Fishin'

1996 • 33 min

The duo uses their fishing expertise to try and win a fishing tournament but instead, they enlist the help of an unlikely fishing professional.

Treasure Attic - Forever Friend

1996 • 26 min

Join "Uncle Jim" and delve into the Treasure Attic, follow him into his enchanted closet with fabulous costumes and learn about Jesus through song and video. This particular installment features music and videos that delve a bit into into Christ's "lost years" growing up in Galilee, all set to catchy Afro-carribean style sing-alongs. Treasure Attic was a direct-to-video series modeled after fairly typical religious programming for children.

Hope/Microcosmos

1996 • 3 min • France

Experimental short.

Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor

1996 • 56 min • Canada, Portugal

The political journey of Canadian photographer Elaine Brière from the villages of East Timor to the halls of the United Nations in an effort to find out Ottawa's rational for abandoning the tiny nation of East Timor to corporate interests in Indonesia.

The View Never Changes

1996 • 6 min • Canada

Seething grain and swirling textures of Super 8 processed in a pail. Film as memory ... an elaborate reconstruction perpetually shifting through the course of time. And so is this ... a personal recollection of the intensity of what it may have been like to be a child.

Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse

1996 • 7 min • United States of America

A thin oval of green-tinged light in thick darkness persists, then gradually descends below the bottom of the frame and, after a pause, rises again to its original position. Out of the surrounding darkness a figure slowly emerges, a woman in a purple robe who moves with stately steps back and forth across the screen, finally fully apparent in the "line" (or circle) of light. She throws off her robe and appears in her white shift, lies prone upon the floor, then rises into a dance of rhythmned postures which subside to a kneeling and bound-down position from which she retrieves her robe, enrobes herself again, circles the "pool" of light and is obliterated by four yellow flashes of light (simultaneously, at the four corners of the frame).