All Films

Companions: Tales from the Closet

1996 • 55 min • Sweden

A heartwarming and humorous documentary about lesbian love. Five elderly Swedish women discuss their lives during a period when homosexuality was considered a perversion. They trace their personal development from self-loathing and forbidden love to a hard-won sense of emotional liberation and social openness. An internationally acclaimed and awarded documentary.

When Shirley Met Florence

1996 • 27 min • Canada

This short film offers an intimate portrait of two women in their mid-sixties--one lesbian, the other heterosexual--whose love for one another and the music they create together, transcends differences.

I

1996 • 12 min • France

Me and My Matchmaker

1996 • 55 min • United States of America

Feature-length documentary pits an Orthodox Jewish matchmaker versus a charming half-Jewish bachelor who is unable to settle down.

Legacies

1996 • 30 min

Four gay ex-Mormon men tell of their experiences growing-up and coming-out in Mormon families and about their conversion therapy, attempts made by the Church to change their sexual orientation.

Vicious Cycle

1996 • 1 min • Portugal

Glaxo Wellcome Anti-Tobacco Commissioned Film. (23 Sec. )

Pussycat with the Blue Eyes

1996 • 11 min • Denmark

Misse the cat is searching for the country of the many mice. He meets five green-eyed cats. They think that Misse is strange with his blue eyes.

Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World

1996 • 28 min • Canada

Blending Milk and Water: Sex in the New World is a cross-cultural, intergenerational, documentary about the diverse views of sex from twenty-two people. The recollections, fears and opinions of young people, professionals, healthworkers, educators, artists, community activists, and people living with AIDS are mixed.

The Lims Live in Ottawa

1996 • 25 min • Canada

George Lim arrived as a young man in 1913 in Ottawa. He lived there the rest of his life except for visits to China. Typical and extraordinary, his life and the lives of his family are cast in the history of the migration of overseas Chinese and the history of Canada. With the help of an interpreter, Melina Young interviews members of the Lim family who recall events in their lives and speak of aspirations in this country.The Lim family's story is embedded in contexts - past and current immigration policies, rallies, remarks by Members of Parliament, the reflection of friends - that make sense for the videomaker at this time in her life.

Partially Buried

1996 • 20 min

Partially Buried asks, “How do we reinterpret the past? What do we choose to remember or discard?” Green looks to the year 1970 and the campus of Kent State University where she spent time as a child. It was here that artist Robert Smithson produced his site-specific work Partially Buried Woodshed. It was also here that four students were shot while demonstrating against the US invasion of Cambodia. Shortly afterward, someone painted “May 4, 1970” on Partially Buried Woodshed, and the artwork took on another meaning. (Video Data Bank)

X-Mix: The Electronic Storm

1996 • 41 min

Mr. C provides the mix for the sixth installment of the X-Mix series.

Ichido hashitai tonari no nyôbô

1996 • 59 min • Japan

Michida Yazo is an ordinary office worker who has no interest in alcohol or gambling. His wife, Tomomi, is a nurse and prefers to work the well-paying night shifts, so the couple only have sex when Tomomi is tired after a night shift and Yazo has morning wood. One day, Mitsuki and her husband move in next door. However, soon after getting married, her husband, Motoharu, goes on a business trip overseas. Mitsuki has such poor taste that people say, "Your body is delicious, but your cooking is inedible." While Motoharu is away, she attends "Mitsu Keiko's Cooking Class" to learn how to make delicious food, but the instructor, Mitsu Keiko, is not only greedy for food but also for sex...

Myth Makers 33: William Russell

1996 • 60 min • United Kingdom

After fifty years ‘in the business’ William Russell may well have thought he’d seen it all… but not a Myth Makers! As William travels around London with Nicholas Briggs to the few locations used in the early years of Doctor Who, Nick draws out William’s memories of working with Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford and William Hartnell at the very beginning of the world’s longest running science fiction series. Admittedly it was an unusual means of transport… but at least they didn’t have to pay a fare!

37 Stories About Leaving Home

1996 • 52 min

Explores the relationships among grandmothers, mothers and daughters in a changing Japanese society.

Puma: Lion of the Andes

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

In addition to being one of the most beautiful territories on Earth, the Torres del Paine National Park, in Chile, an area of ​​almost 200,000 hectares considered the jewel of the Andes, is home to several wild pumas, animals that due to their elusiveness behavior are difficult to observe

Holy Wedding

1996 • 54 min • Iran

Every year in the middle of winter, the residents of the village of Oraman Takht in Kurdistan hold a ceremony in memory of a mystic man for two weeks. This film is a look at this ritual.

Light Point

1996 • 9 min • Japan

"The clouds are rushing by, and the architecture of men fit so well in that movement. The bricks. The light is harsh and blue. But in the night it is different, you walk down the street and the sun turns into a light bulb again, the houses are asleep. It feels like thunder and the houses seemed to be dipped into blue and turquoise colours. And then it all turns blue again."

Blacktop Lingo

1996 • 13 min

A series of vignettes, focused on a group of young men playing basketball in Inglewood, California.

The Waltons

1996 • 7 min • United States of America

A deft and cunning re-examination of John-Boy’s near-death experience at the sawmill. A homespun midnight deconstruction of an entire era of television mannerisms. The handheld camera doesn’t stray far from the TV screen, dividing attention between the show’s action and the off-camera activity in the apartment. (Video Data Bank)

Mum's the Word

1996 • 54 min • Canada

Offers a candid portrait of four French Canadian women who adopt surprising new roles as they approach their 50s. Leaving behind husbands and children, these women discuss the courage it took to embark on their quests for lesbian lifestyles.

School of the Soldier - Program II

1996 • 57 min • United States of America

The one (actually two) and only program(s) for the Civil War Reenactor, and anyone who wants to know how soldiers were trained for the campaigns and battles in the War Between the States. This program has been purchased for National Park Service staff and volunteers, by museums and historic places for instruction on small arms firing, and by top-quality units who reenact the Civil War. Filmed at Petersburg National Battlefield, and historic Fort Mackinac, in Michigan, this is the only in-depth study of the army’s training manuals, with special attention paid to the variants that each side used for different units.

Castle Ghosts of Ireland

1996 • 52 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

The family locks of Ireland are kept in itself by the certificates of deadly feud, mean murders. In our days, still located on a tableland, locks are a living reminder about the victims of past years.

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Jeff Cesario

1996 • 28 min • United States of America

Emmy(R)-winning comedian Jeff Cesario keeps a San Francisco audience in stitches with his stand-up routine.

Pańcia

1996 • 14 min • Poland, Finland

Sylwie is 13. One day, her dog accidentally wanders into a neighbouring flat, where Sylwia encounters a priest anointing the sick. She falls in love with the priest and soon decides to meet him again to confess her feeling to him.