All Films

Jackson Browne: VH-1 Storytellers

1996 • 45 min • United States of America

Another episode of VH1’s classic series Storytellers, this one featuring Jackson Browne and features the following tracks: Running on empty, Rock me on the water, The pretender, Doctor my eyes, Rosie, Barricades of Heaven (lost verse), Barricades of Heaven, Something fine, For everyman.

Taking on the Kennedys

1996 • 52 min • United States of America

What would it be like to run against one of the most powerful political families in America? Enter the backrooms of American politics as a doctor named Kevin Vigilante takes on the Kennedys. In his first race for public office, Kevin Vigilante challenges Ted Kennedy's youngest son, Patrick, and gets the political education of a lifetime. Dedicated to running a clean fight, Vigilante soon finds himself in the midst of a mud slinging contest. With negative ads about Vigilante filling the airwaves, and John F. Kennedy Jr. signing autographs outside polling stations, Vigilante realizes he has no chance of winning without slinging mud of his own, and proceeds to take off his gloves. Endemic of contemporary campaign politics, the sound byte takes precedence over the speech as issues are overshadowed by negative television advertisements. Taking on the Kennedys aired as a part of PBS' P.O.V. series.

In the Rivers of Mercy Angst

1996 • 21 min • United States of America

A woman struggles to free herself from the "Keeper of Memory" in this surreal odyssey.

Evangeline's Quest

1996 • 54 min • Canada

Explores the creation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie,” and the phenomenon it became.

Nowhere Fast

1996 • 10 min

Short film directed by Saskia Jell starring The Lunachicks.

Badass Supermama

1996 • 16 min

An homage to and investigation of the blaxploitation cinema of Pam Grier.

The Happy Prince

1996 • 28 min • United Kingdom

A statue of 'The Happy Prince' (happy because he had devoted his life to pleasure behind his palace walls) looks out with horror at the destitution of his citizens. He persuades a little swallow to abandon his winter trip to Egypt and be his messenger, a job which entails stripping the statue of its precious jewels and gold to help feed the poor. Winter sets in, the once sparkling statue now looks grey and crumbling.

Silent Night

1996 • 26 min • United Kingdom

One Silent Night, a snowman is magically brought to life by an ice fairy. Wandering the town scared and alone, the snowman meets the friendly Rachel who helps him find his singing voice whereupon the town learns to love him.

Pavement: Tibetan Freedom Concert

1996 • 26 min

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

Psycho-lettes

1996 • 10 min • Spain

A gang of biker girls kill men and cut their penises off.

Memories of Water

1996 • 11 min • Canada

A man murders his dying lover. He drowns him in a tub of water. We drift through the man's mind in the hours after the death. He falls more and more deeply into layers of memory. La mémoire de l'eau is a tale of fear, love and grief set in a world of uncertain boundaries.

Alain Cavalier - Sept chapitres, cinq jours, 2 pièces-cuisine

1996 • 55 min • France

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin, originally aired 26 January 1996.

To můj Láďa...

1996 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia

Tomáš Vorl's short film captures a few minutes of inner monologue in the body of Eva Holubová, who returns from shopping and lovingly thinks about her husband Láďa, how they met, how they got together, how they were expecting a child... and Láďa was, is and will always be the best... A cheerful, original and in its own way instructive spectacle.

Tots TV: Snowy Adventure

1996 • 38 min • Finland, United Kingdom

Tilly, Tom and Tiny go off in search of a snowy adventure. They visit a land far, far away where it is very cold and everywhere is covered in lots and lots of snow. The Tots have even more fun when they return to their secret house and find it also covered in snow. Now everyone including Furryboo and Donkey can enjoy a magical white Christmas!

Amata nobis

1996 • 30 min • Russia

Based on I. Bunin's "Rusya".

Pepper's Pow Wow

1996 • 56 min • United States of America

A look at the life of Native American jazz saxophone pioneer Jim Pepper, the first widely recognized musician to fuse Native American music with jazz.

Mesquite ISD: Stranger Danger

1996 • 13 min • United States of America

A 90s educational video detailing how to protect kids from strangers that are up to no good.

Strong Against Crime: Protect Your Family

1996 • 57 min • United States of America

Sanford Strong is a 20 year veteran of the San Diego Police Department, with leadership credentials in both SWAT and anti-sniper training. He now focuses his survival training on teaching thousands of people worldwide how to survive random acts of violence.

Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story

1996 • 58 min • United States of America

Chronicles the 50-year career of singer/songwriter Jean Ritchie, from Viper, Kentucky to the New York stage. Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, and her family and friends in Eastern Kentucky are among those interviewed. A 1996 KET production.

The Gingerbread House

1996 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A 10-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother are dumped by their abusive mother and her boyfriend to spend a few days at the rambling country house of their grandfather, who has been estranged from the family for the past ten years. The girl discovers the old mans corpse in his room, and, fearing that they might be blamed for killing him, devises a cover-up plan, which is almost foiled by a local boy.

Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight

1996 • 56 min

Live at The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970. This was Hendrix's final performance in England. He died a few weeks later.

Only Jazz

1996 • 15 min • Poland

Ignacy Szczepanski's documentary is a record of a lesson in jazz improvisation given to Polish trumpeter Piotr Bal by an accomplished musician and dean of the jazz faculty at Roosevelt University in Chicago. The rehearsals are complemented by shots of the city and fragments of a concert filmed at the Pink Crocodile Club.

La Boulangère et le cosmonaute

1996 • 21 min • France

A baker knew the cosmonaut child who now revolves around Earth.

Plus oh !

1996 • 6 min • France

A short essay on the metamorphosis that art, beauty, love or cinema accomplishes.