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Obstruction Of Justice: The Mena Connection

Obstruction Of Justice: The Mena Connection

1996 • 55 min
Two teenagers stumble upon a major drug smuggling operation. The boys are brutally murdered and their bodies placed on railroad tracks to give the appearance of a train accident. Soon, crime scene eyewitnesses vanish and investigations are shut down. The grieving parents are stunned. Corruption involving high level officials from Arkansas to Washington is documented in this incredible true life story. Why were numerous county, state and federal government investigations blocked? Why was a thirty month federal-grand-jury investigation abruptly shut down. Why did the FBI tell one boy's grieving parents, "You should accept the fact that a crime has not been committed?" This story of murder, drugs, corruption, and cover-ups, involves high ranking government officials, reaching up to the most powerful office in the world. It shows that interference from sinister political allies continues to protect these criminals from prosecution.
Cursed Ground

Cursed Ground

1996 • 54 min • Russia
A young couple encounters supernatural terror in their new home.
Listening for Something... Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation

Listening for Something... Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation

1996 • 55 min • Canada
The nation, the country, where do we belong in it? In this film through conversation and poetry two poets meet for the telling and the listening. Adrienne Rich is a distinguished American feminist poet, and author of numerous books of prose, poetry, essays and speeches. Dionne Brand is a Trinidadian-Canadian femininst poet, writer and filmmaker. Incisive and inquisitive, the two women meet to discuss the world as they each see it. Claiming any subject, they talk about events as they see them, analytic, contemplative, honest and open ended. Topics include political issues, feminism, racism and lesbianism, among others. The viewer is invited into the exchange by the familiar images of two women talking intimately around a kitchen table, in corridors, or casually outdoors in the United States, Tobago and Canada. Shot in black and white and in colour, the conversation takes us over the territories of their poetry.
Flight

Flight

1996 • 8 min • United Kingdom
A fugitive escape path across five interlinked spaces - city, motorway, forest, coast and sea - using pen and ink drawn interventions into a live action journey.
Yankale

Yankale

1996 • 9 min • Germany
The film examines the case of Yakov L (Yankale), a minor civil servant who one day fails to show up for his job. We will learn more about the hero, his life, childhood and relationship with his mother. And in contrast to the sharp square figures depicting office life, rounded objects from the hero's childhood, we see the image of the conflict between the world of our desires and our responsibilities.
I Am Your Punishment

I Am Your Punishment

1996 • 7 min
An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a difference between fantasy and reality.
Historias Breves II: Huidas

Historias Breves II: Huidas

1996 • 14 min • Argentina
A chance encounter in a roadside bar triggers a surprising action where escape is not always a way out.
Le cannabis - Une plante entre le bien et le mal

Le cannabis - Une plante entre le bien et le mal

1996 • 52 min
From Antiquity to the year 2000, the epic of hemp, told by itself. Religion, war, rebellion, the life of this plant has been so linked with that of mankind that for once we thought it right to let "Cannabis Sativa" speak for itself. Hemp first appeared in the Far East about 12,000 years before Christ. In daily life "Cannabis Sativa" or hemp was used for making cloth paper and bows. In sacred use it was a medicine and was used in many religious uses in India and with the Scythians. The twentieth century establishes the duality of the plant. In Europe as in China, hemp is used in the textile industry while it is used once more medically in the treatment of numerous disorders. Disadvantaged by the interdictions which it incurs as a psychotropic herb, hemp is a real economic and ecological problem today.
An Ordinary Night

An Ordinary Night

1996 • 6 min • France
A young French man (Philippe Garziano) bicycles across town after an evening out to spend the night with his boyfriend.
Moizefala, la desdichada

Moizefala, la desdichada

1996 • 21 min
It portrays the life of a transsexual named Moisés, who filled Chile with glamor during the years of the dictatorship. This is a film that was born under the wing of multidisciplinary artistic days united in the concept "Bobe Al Camp Troupe". Under that name, hours of artistic discussion took place between Bobe himself, his brother Andrés -the former musician of "La Ley"-, Álvaro Henríquez, Javiera Parra, Candy Dubois, and many other representatives of the bohemian and Santiago artistic spree of late from the '80s, who also participate in the film's soundtrack.
Hontoni Atta Gakkou Kaidan

Hontoni Atta Gakkou Kaidan

1996 • 30 min • Japan
An omnibus OVA where three elementary school students, Manabu, Ryota, and Mina, deal with mysteries they encounter at their school. This OVA is split into two stories of 15 minutes each: "Poisonous spiders at school" and "Hanako-san's hand". This OVA is based on the "Hontoni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series derived from the "Hontoni Atta Gakou Kaidan" series published by Asahi Sonorama.
The Man Who Loved Flowers

The Man Who Loved Flowers

1996 • 5 min • United States of America
A young man walks the city in the summer in search of flowers for his crush - all while vicious murders are occurring. A musical adaptation of the short story by Stephen King.
Cater-Waiter

Cater-Waiter

1996 • 14 min
This endearing and understated short focuses on the search for love by two gay waiters who meet while reluctantly working a Republican fund-raiser. Chronicling the changes in the lives of the two men over the course of several years, the film paints a moving portrait of gay life.
Tori Amos: MTV Unplugged

Tori Amos: MTV Unplugged

1996 • 45 min
Tori Amos' 1996 MTV Unplugged session
Zero Budget

Zero Budget

1996 • 27 min
Looks at the emergence of lesbian feature filmmakers in the U.S. and how they produce films on a small budget. Interviews with directors Rose Troche (Go Fish); Sharon Pollack (Everything Relative); and Alex Sichel (All Over Me) as well as producer Dolly Hall, executive producer Christine Vachon and writers Sylvia Sichel and Guinevere Turner.
The Ambiguous Image and Space

The Ambiguous Image and Space

1996 • 53 min • Germany
The film looks at ways of creating spezial illusions through amiguous images, perspective theatres, folding peepshows and from the 19th century, the stereoscope, which look forward to today’s holography.
Taken for a Ride

Taken for a Ride

1996 • 52 min • United States of America
How the American auto industry engineered the demise of city public-transit systems.
Pierre Klossowski, un écrivain en images

Pierre Klossowski, un écrivain en images

1996 • 47 min • France
Portrait of french author and painter Pierre Klossowski
Opus Hominis

Opus Hominis

1996 • 13 min • Germany
Footage from slaughterhouse with sacral music, similar to Dora's 'Carnophage' but with a lot more ambiental, non-narrative aspects.
Vigneti

Vigneti

1996 • 4 min • Italy, United States of America
A short film by Bill Morrison
Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories

Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories

1996 • 55 min • Ireland, Northern Ireland
The women of Belfast played a unique role in holding together their families and communities during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Filmed during the fragile 17-month paramilitary cease-fire, Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories looks at the challenges facing women trying to put their direct experience of grassroots problems on the agenda of the established political parties. Their strength, first exhibited on the community level, started to reach a wider public.
Anaphase

Anaphase

1996 • 52 min • Israel
Anaphase is the performance of Ohad Naharin, the famous choreographer and artistic director of Batscheva Dance Company from Israel, which had a successful international tour in the 90s. By integrating dance, theatre, rock music and film in short fast scenes this choreography exceeds the limits of dance. ANAPHASE. THE FILM is an effect of a creative collaboration between Ohad Naharin and Levi Zini, film’s director who managed to bring the experience of watching a live show to the cinema audience. The film isn’t a registration of a performance, but an electrifying translation of the choreography to the film medium.
Ryōuchi genshuku

Ryōuchi genshuku

1996 • 18 min
Shinohara-san, is it all right if I don't study? In a dormitory of a preparatory school before the winter course. Ishikuro is told about a rumour by Shinohara, his roommate who is like a prisoner in the dormitory. He is told that Tachibana, who lives next door, has recently seen his grades soar because of the drugs he is taking. Ishiguro is sceptical, but Shinohara invites him to sneak into Tachibana's room to see if it is true. They find a bottle of the drug on his desk. Is the time spent for a single purpose long or short? The film captures the long and short days of a group of ronin students who have grown tired of the pressure of life, including Shinohara, who lives aloofly, saying that "the only way to escape the weight of time that has passed is to lighten oneself up," with the light and withering touch of a famous essay.
Miracle Babies

Miracle Babies

1996 • 47 min
Kathie Lee Gifford hosts a report on children born under extraordinary circumstances. Profiled: conjoined twins Shannon and Megan Fanning, who survived separation surgery in 1994; Celeste and Timothy Keys, New Orleans twins who were born 95 days apart.