All Films

One Hundred Eggs a Minute

1996 • 23 min

One Hundred Eggs a Minute is an experimental documentary film about the reflections of a second-generation Chinese-American woman who grew up working in her family’s fortune cookie factory in San Francisco from ages 5 to 23. This is a film about one immigrant family’s means of survival, as much as it is a story about work, filial piety, sacrifice and the meaning of choice.

Semi-Conscious: Driving in the Real World

1996 • 12 min • United States of America

A group of hip '90s teens educate new drivers about how to conduct themselves around semi-trucks on the freeway.

Cyberotica: Computer Escapes

1996 • 56 min • United States of America

Seven beautiful but sexually unfulfilled women don the state of the art virtual reality headset that allows them to explore and realize all of their deepest sexual fantasies right before their eyes and yours.

Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Topsy Turvy

1996 • 30 min

Sing, dance, and play along with your favorite Disney songs! It's fun and easy as you read the on-screen lyrics and join your favorite characters in their most memorable musical moments! Celebrate a festival of sing-along fun as you learn the words to your favorite songs from Disney's 34th animated masterpiece, The Hunchback of Notre Dame! It's a bright and lively parade of songs, featuring "Topsy Turvy" and "Out There," plus "You've Got a Friend In Me" from Toy Story, "Family" from James and the Giant Peach, "Streets of Gold" from Oliver & Company, and more -- all performed by the Disney characters you love!

Lovely Stamps

1996 • 3 min • Japan

A short film by Taku Furukawa.

Katharine Hepburn: On Her Own Terms

1996 • 44 min • United States of America

Four-time Oscar-winner Katharine Hepburn called herself a "personality" as well as an actress, and rightfully so. This biography chronicles her life as an independent woman and legendary actress, from her childhood to her passionate relationships. Brought to light are thoughts on Howard Hughes, John Ford and longtime companion Spencer Tracy. Her story comes to life through rare home movies, screen tests, movie outtakes and interviews.

The Young Fisherman and the Black Dragon

1996 • 57 min • North Korea

A black dragon possesses a magic stone that gives him eternal power. One day he kidnaps the princess of a nearby kingdom and her lover, a fisherman, goes on a dangerous journey to save her and destroy the magic stone.

Leonardo: A Dream of Flight

1996 • 48 min • Canada, Ireland, Italy

Leonardo da Vinci finds it difficult to pursue his own dreams while serving as the Duke's court artist, but young Roberto takes risks to convince the Master not to give up on his dreams. In this moving story of friendship, the Renaissance genius invents a flying machine and helps Roberto reach new heights.

Star Wreck IV: The Kilpailu

1996 • 46 min • Finland

In Star Wreck IV: The Kilpailu ("kilpailu" is Finnish for "competition"), several new characters were introduced, now drawn by Rudi Airisto. He would like to take this opportunity to apologise for the silly-looking Ferret graphics - the palette simply ran out of colours. The Kickstart is sent to take part in a competition organised by a powerful alien race, the Zarquons. Further complicating Pirk's already impossible mission, Mr Spook, unable to bear Pirk's incompetence, resigns and returns to his home planet of Vulgarus. His replacement is Mr Info. Being a robot, Info is immune to Pirk's insults, but is at least as irritating as good old Spook.

Half-Lies

1996 • 37 min • Mexico

A video poem about the nature of social relations and mass media, Half Lies exposes the seemingly innocuous ways we distort truth. Harmonious families, trade treaties, and current events are among the mediated realities that Cuevas interrogates. Half Lies makes the viewer question the half truths we encounter daily. The video walks the haunting gray area between documentary and drama, creating a world that is both shockingly grotesque and startingly authentic. Using mass-mediated images, animation, image manipulation, and fantasy, Medias Mentiras interprets the chaotic landscape of politics, urban chaos and everyday existence.

PROBE: Unnatural Selection

1996 • 47 min • United Kingdom

In 1975, the British Government quietly closed down a secret evolutionary project codenamed BEAGLE, ordering the destruction of all research materials. Today, the horrific discovery of several oddly mutated bodies alerts Liz Shaw and P.R.O.B.E. to the fact that something is stalking the original site of project BEAGLE – something which may challenge the very nature of humanity itself! With a crack security team at her disposal, Liz desperately attempts to track down the perverted results of the project. But who or what is hunting whom?

Windscale 1957: The Nuclear Winter

1996 • 50 min • United Kingdom

In October 1957, one of the Windscale nuclear reactors caught fire. It was the world's first nuclear accident, attributed to the rush to build atomic weapons. This programme highlights the mistakes leading to a nuclear event which, 40 years on, still takes second place only to Chernobyl.

On a Day of Ordinary Violence, My Friend Michel Seurat...

1996 • 50 min • France, Lebanon

On 22nd May 1985, Jean-Paul Kaufman and Michel Seurat were kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad on the road to Beirut airport. Seurat died after 8 months of captivity.

Hand in Hand

1996 • 5 min • Sweden

High above the ground three graceful girls of different skin colors are about to perform a beautiful line dance in sisterhood. A fourth girl appears and their prejudice free manner disappears and finally they have to face the bitter consequences of this.

Washing Hands Normal

1996 • 55 min

This stacked two-screen video installation shows the artist washing his hands with a vigour that goes beyond a daily cleaning ritual. The energy of the gesture and the distortive effect of the double screen evoke a sinister prior event and a sense panic or fear. Here Nauman continues his ongoing investigation into human psychology and feelings of discomfort. The sense of anxiety is heightened by the echoing sound of the water draining away for the fifty-five-minute duration of the double footage.

Bubbeh Lee & Me

1996 • 35 min

Video documentary of a gay man's visit with his 87-year-old grandmother in a Florida retirement community.

Great Writers: Jean Cocteau

1996 • 45 min

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker, whose versatility, unconventionality, and enormous output brought him international acclaim. As a leading member of the surrealist movement, he had a great influence on the work of others.

The Goodbye Place

1996 • 9 min • United States of America

An abused child is offered escape by some mysterious strangers who may or may not know where missing children truly disappear to.

A Sahrawi story

1996 • 31 min • Italy

It describes the way of life of the Sahara people in the Western Sahara Desert, in particular it tells the story of a child bitten by a snake.

Swing Diary

1996 • 13 min • South Korea

L’œil qui traîne

1996 • 33 min • France

Didier, 28 years old, is still livning with his parents. Prisoner of his own habits, he doesn't communicate with them anymore. When he casually meets his former girlfriend, Valerie, he finds again his serenity.

Tuning the Sleeping Machine

1996 • 13 min • United States of America

"Fragments of unidentified and yet strangely familiar films, pregnant with allusion and implication, drift into one another, obscured by the haze of rephotography, electricity and the residue of (al)chemical formulae, renamed time and memory. Tuning the Sleeping Machine resurrects the cinema projected on the unconscious, a series of images defined by the gaze of an eye, the presence in an empty room, the creeping darkness that shrouds a strange face." - Brian Frye

Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself

1996 • 52 min • Germany

Slavoj Zizek, born in 1949 in Ljubljana, psychoanalyst and professor of philosophy, started early on a group of theoreticians who sharpened their thinking of the theses of Jacques Lacan. The Slovenian Lacan School was a spiritual resistance nest in orthodox ex-Yugoslavia, and Slavoj Zizek emerged as a globally operating philosopher-entertainer.

Wind

1996 • 7 min • Hungary

During a film course lead by Yvette Biro at the Hungarian Academy of Drama and film in 1995, the director students were shown a black-and-white photo taken by Lucien Herve in 1952, and they were given the task of writing a short film based on it. Three women are standing at the outskirts of a village, looking out of the picture in the same direction. This six-minute one-shot film shows what the Herve photo does not.