All Films

The Hard Ride: Black Cowboys at the Circle 6 Ranch

1996 • 27 min

An intimate look at black cowboys as they gather for a rodeo and dance on the 40 acre Circle 6 Ranch in Raywood, Texas.

Dollywood: A Memory Worth Repeating

1996 • 55 min

Video documentary about Dolly Parton's "Tennnessee Mountain Home" theme park.

Zig and Puce's Adventures

1996 • 24 min • Russia

Zig and Puce, heroes of the popular French comics of the 1920s, come to the rescue of a little dancer named Nénette.

4 maneras de tapar un hoyo

1996 • 8 min • Mexico

A hole can be interpreted in many ways, and so can these 4 ways of covering it

Trouble in the Image

1996 • 38 min

Optical printing pioneer Pat O’Neill uses “his skills in special effects production to extrapolate metaphysical meaning from the ordinariness of industrialized culture” (Scott Stark). In O’Neill’s playful film, “trouble in the image” may take the form of a disturbing moment in a narrative, how-to instructions for creating an image, or pictures that break apart and lose their literal meaning. O'Neill: “The film [is] made up of dozens of performances dislodged from other contexts. These are often relocated into contemporary industrial landscapes, or interrupted by the chopping, shredding, or flattening of special-effects technology turned against itself. The reward is to be found in immersion within a space of complex and intricate formal relationships”. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Computer Animation Festival Volume 3.0

1996 • 58 min • Canada, United States of America

A spectacular showcase of 20 cutting-edge computer-animated shorts from around the world ranging from wildly humorous to outrageously exotic. Computer Animation Festival spins a high-tech tapestry of art, storytelling, and visual technology. Every short is shown in its' entirety, as originally created by each animator. Plug your imagination into the most extraordinary collection of computer powered imagery ever unleashed on video.

Risque Reverie

1996 • 4 min

A young woman is lured into temptation by the devil, but heeds the advice of an angel.

Mark Lowry: Remotely Controlled

1996 • 60 min

An hour-long wild & wacky channel surfing ride with Mark Lowry. Including the songs: I Can Eat It All Hyperactivity TV Tunes Medley and Mary Did You Know! Forget trying to set the clock on your VCR. Just grab your remote, T.V. dinner, and 44 oz. beverage of choice, plug in REMOTELY CONTROLLED and enjoy the comedy of Mark Lowry!!!

The Flintstones Christmas in Bedrock

1996 • 30 min

A cave-less kid comes to live with the Flintstones on Christmas and ends up getting himself and Fred stuck in prison right before Fred is going to play Santa Claus in the Bedrock parade.

Cactus

1996 • 5 min • Russia

What is that obstacle between two humans, preventing them of going free and boundless? Who placed this "cactus" of the common moral and public opinion on a love ground? Drop it, smash it and move away in any direction before it has been carefully planted back.

Bichuchi, the Life of Alfredo Evangelista

1996 • 38 min • Uruguay

This is a documentary about the Uruguayan boxer Alfredo Evangelista, who at height of his career even fought against Mohammad Ali. A considerable part of the film is a long interview with him in Carabanchel prison in Madrid. Alfredo, one of Uruguay's last sporting legends, tells his story for the camera. He talks about his life and his career in sport, and he reflects bitterly and lucidly about the mistakes he has made and his situation today.

Somebody Else

1996 • 12 min • Estonia

In this film, skeptical city people from the information society who are surrounded by high technology meet mythological beings from the legends of their ancestors in intriguing and comical situations.

The Fool

1996 • 4 min

An obscure short film that the song "The Fool" from Neutral Milk Hotel's album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was composed for and first appeared in. A boy goes through a scenario with a fool that he's unsure if is real or imagined.

No Man's Land

1996 • 16 min • Bulgaria, Cyprus

Cypriot-Greek and Turkish troops confronted each other on the “green line”. Confusion is caused on both sides by a noise in the quiet of the night…

A Female Teacher's Dangerous Lust

1996 • 57 min • Japan

Yuko becomes a teacher at an all-boys school. She just spends her days going back and forth between her home and school in vain. And then there was her 30th birthday, which she celebrated alone. At a boutique she stops at to relieve her loneliness, she meets Seiichi, a young clerk. Coincidentally, she is revealed to be the lover of Hideko's younger sister, and before she knows it, they begin to spend sweet nights together.

Les cheveux en quatre

1996 • 53 min

As much as hair is directly linked to appearance, displaying personality and belonging to a group, it is also intimately linked to being. How many spiritual rites, practiced here as elsewhere, testify to this. The being and the appearance...we are faced with a troubling duality when we know that the hair can affirm, with as much intensity, one as the other. "...it is precisely this duality that I want to illustrate, by cutting of course "Les cheveux en quatre", to evoke as with Les seins dans la tête, fanfasms, obsessions and beliefs related to these parts of the body..." says the director.

Mystical World of Ancient Greece

1996 • 50 min • United States of America

Over twenty-five hundred years ago, the ancient citizens of Athens, Greece built the most magnificent temples that mankind has ever been inspired to create. These towering shrines, shrouded with unworldly spirits, were home to mysterious cults that performed bold sacrifices and evoked unspeakable wonders. And yet, from the citadel of the Acropolis came the very hallmarks of civilization, ideas that remain today the highest testament to the nobility of man -- democracy, science, philosophy and theatre. Through stunning film, interviews with experts and vivid reenactments, you'll explore the haunting mysteries that still lie buried in the mystical world of Ancient Greece.

My Life with Elvis

1996 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Then a rising star on London’s stand-up circuit, in the mid-90s Harry Hill made a series of 16mm short films with experimental filmmaker and projectionist David Leister, full of madcap comedic flair and DIY spirit.

Viisasten kivi

1996 • 51 min • Finland

A young woman has to attend a self-improvement camp

Juris Lapinskis - The Bootleg King

1996 • 7 min • Latvia

At a time when Soviet ideologists dictated the musical taste of Soviet people, Juris Lapinskis offered an alternative. Since the 1960s, he has shared and distributed a wide variety of Western music. Music shared by Lapinskis reached people both in Latvia and Russia. And maybe thanks to him, in the 60s and 70s, Western music idols can add thousands of former Soviet citizens to their supporters. Lapinskis himself was imprisoned and repaired. At that time there was something more than music in these tape rollers, a little more on the other side of the iron curtain - a little more air and a little more freedom.

Heaven-6-Box

1996 • 60 min • Japan

Commissioned by the city of Kochi to mark the opening of its Museum of Modern Art, this experimental feature by Japan's foremost gay indie film-maker almost defies description. The film is divided into six 10-minute chapters (or 'boxes') which, says Oki, add up to an image of 'heaven'.

Women's Punk Art Making Party

1996 • 33 min • United States of America

A documentary in which a group of young women meet for an art-making party. Located at The Beehive Collective in Washington, DC, six individual episodes are loosely interspersed, allowing each participant a chance to represent themselves. Included: a feminist stripper preparing for work, a puppet show, and a music video. On The Velvet Chainletter, Joanie4Jackie

Grandparents from Outer Space

1996 • 31 min

Two elderly aliens looking for their grandkids crash-land on Earth.

Song of the Wanderer

1996 • 45 min • Taiwan

Song of the Wanderer features a group of 'voiceless people', a part of the indigenous community in which the filmmaker resides. Due to frustrations with work, divorce, and life in general, they are often subject to isolation, emotional breakdowns, and even self-harm behaviours. The filmmaker engages them in genuine conversations, while inviting the viewer to listen to these 'voiceless people' sing: In their songs are their true feelings.