All Films

The Tears of AIDS

1996 • 8 min • France

A bisexual married man meets a gay man whilst bathing in a small deserted creek and they fall in love even though the gay man has AIDS... He describes this sudden passion in simple words. Paul Vecchiali contribution to omnibus film 'L'@mour est à réinventer'.

Hypnothesis

1996 • 24 min • India

A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave in his office. A third finishes his tea. Another gets himself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in the world of crime: kidnapping to be more precise. But the father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up. The son has already played this trick before and collected good ransom. The father does not believe this time it is a real thing; The kidnappers get desperate. The son has in idea. The plot thickens.

Artaud and the Tarahumaras

1996 • 50 min • France

This film is a confrontation between the texts Antonin Artaud wrote about the Tarahumaras and the films Raymonde Carasco made with the Tarahumaras (from 1977 to 1994) on the track of Antonin Artaud, in Norogachic, the only place explicitly mentioned by Antonin Artaud.

Shari's Passover Surprise

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

Trouble brews as Charlie Horse's campaign for class president leads him to invite the whole class to Shari's for Passover... a fact he conveniently forgets to pass on to Shari until the eleventh hour. Meanwhile, everyone else is getting in on the action... Dom Deluise gets an education on the Seder plate and the significance of each item it holds, and neighbor Robert Guillaume delivers a song and dance explanation of the history of Passover.

Danielle et Miranda

1996 • 5 min • Japan

Animation with hand-drawn illustrations by Makoto Tezuka. The images of "NUMANITE" were arranged by the author himself and remade into this short work.

Scream Queens Naked Christmas

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

Scream Queens celebrate Christmas with no clothes on.

Scant Sanity

1996 • 11 min

An exploration into the nature of the mind, the brain and reality. A person seeking job counselling receives psychiatric treatment instead, and thereupon becomes convinced of the reality of his own internal world. This may be the tale of an abused student, or the bizarre and unlikely reminiscences of an aging cowboy. On the other hand, it could be the musings of a bored actuary. By presenting the life of the filmmaker as multiple levels of insanity, this film challenges the commonsense interpretation of the universe.

Barflies

1996 • 3 min • Australia

Two drunk flies drink beer, smoke from a giant cigarette and become attracted to a bright light in this adult claymation comedy.

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien

1996 • 35 min • United States of America

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien is a 1996 American short documentary film directed by Jessica Yu. Mark O'Brien was a journalist and poet who lived in Berkeley, California. The documentary explored his spiritual struggle coping with his disability; he had to use an iron lung much of the time due to childhood polio. O'Brien died on 4 July 1999, from post-polio syndrome. It won an Oscar at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997 for Documentary Short Subject.

Junior Lieutenant

1996 • 52 min

The moral suffering of the lieutenant who unknowingly sneezes on the head of the general.

A Dive into the Guts of Existence

1996 • 12 min • Brazil

A desperate gore short created by reusing scenes from the feature "They Eat Your Flesh" that the director was filming at the time. The short was edited for a Spanish gore film festival and to help raise more money to finish the main film.

Babsan and The New Neighbour

1996 • 3 min • Sweden

Babsan wants to invite her new neighbor for coffee. This is easier said than done since the neighbor seems to be a strange type.

Children of Jerusalem: Gesho

1996 • 25 min

This short documentary tells the story of 13-year-old Gesho, one of the 14,000 Ethiopian Jews who left Northeast Africa for a new life in Israel during a massive refugee effort initiated by the Israeli government in 1991. In Ethiopia, he and his family lived without running water or electricity, and Gesho had to drop out of school in grade 6 to help his father. Now his family lives in a trailer equipped with basic conveniences in a temporary community for new immigrants on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

Round Eyes In The Middle Kingdom

1996 • 51 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Ronald Levaco, journeys back to China, the nation of his boyhood days, to discover what became of an old friend of his family, Israel Epstein.

Girls on Film

1996 • 2 min

GIRLS ON FILM is an experimental film that captures the fleeting images from countdown leaders of old film prints. The "china girls" who appeared in these unseen film frames were posing for far less than aesthetic purposes and more for technical reasons. Their fleshtones and accompanying color-charts helped the film lab technicians calibrate the color-rendition of the film stock. The soundtrack is the 1981 new wave hit "I'm In Love with a German Film Star" by The Passions.

The Principles of Karma

1996 • 20 min • Canada

A young man, bored with his monotonous daily routine (which includes being pushed around at school by jocks and holding a loaded gun to his head), joins an organised group of rebels (led by a cable-TV repairman) who abduct teenagers who have become complacent with their mundane existences.

Viy

1996 • 19 min • Ukraine

Three friends lived in a Ukrainian village. They were not rich, so they were happy to take up the proposed small job. They had to go to another village at a dark night. On the way, they saw a small farmhouse and a cottage, where they decided to spend the night. Thus very strange mystical events began.

François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death

1996 • 38 min

A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.

Footy's Wild Men

1996 • 50 min • Australia

In the history of Aussie Rules footy, the games Wild Men have become a legend through their on-field antics. From the greats of yesteryear to the champions of the modern era.

Hover

1996 • 10 min

Sex. Blood. Life. On a misty evening, a mysterious young man looks to satisfy his desires.

Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old

1996 • 4 min • United States of America

The real history of the cinema is the invisible history – history of friends getting together doing the thing the love – for us the cinema is beginning with every new buzz of the projector. With every new buzz of our cameras our hearts jump forwards, my friends! ―Jonas Mekas

Taking Pictures

1996 • 56 min • Papua New Guinea, Australia

Before the 1970s, the Commonwealth Film Unit represented the people of PNG in a paternalistic way, as curiosities. The unit used pompous voice-overs telling viewers what they should believe. Les McLaren and Annie Stiven are two of a group of Australian filmmakers who have lived and worked in PNG during the past 25 years and who see their roles rather differently. Through their films, they have endeavoured to reflect Papua New Guineans' complexity of thought, language and culture, using a wide variety of filmic styles and techniques. The film features interviews with a variety of Australian filmmakers who have worked extensively in PNG, including Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, Chris Owen, Dennis O'Rourke and Gary Kildea. This documentary is a fascinating tracing of PNG culture and history from the 1930s until today.

Shin rei bideo I: Shinrei shashin-shuu

1996 • 45 min • Japan

Documentary directed by Norio Tsuruta.

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Wendy Liebman

1996 • 28 min • United States of America

Stand-up comedy with Wendy Liebman, the comic who is a master of the one-liner with the subliminal afterthought.