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Wat's Pig

Wat's Pig

1996 • 11 min • United Kingdom
In a Medieval castle, a marauder tries to kidnap the twin infant sons of the lord. He makes off with only one, whom he drops about a mile away. A pig rescues this baby, so one brother grows up high on the hog, the other down with the swine; one is lazy, his lost brother is industrious. Years later, when a neighboring prince declares war, the brother in the castle is too soft to fight. Through happenstance, the twins are united just before the final battle. Will the upper-class brother let his humble sibling lead the troops to certain defeat and death? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

1996 • 50 min • Australia
The magical story of a beautiful young girl named Beauty, whose family were at one time wealthy merchants and how through great family misfortune and drama she finds herself living in a palace, with a grotesque beast. During our tale, Beauty is visited by a kind fairy, but only in her dreams. Eventually Beauty breaks the spell which traps the beast and finds true love in the arms of a handsome Prince.
Sophisticated City

Sophisticated City

1996 • 48 min • Japan
Sakamaki dropped out of university and lives nihilistically every day. Every now and then, he receives strange phone calls at his home. The calls, which only mention the name of the place and a description of the caller, such as "Ikebukuro, a woman with long hair", are in fact murder threats. Sakamaki realises this and takes Mabuchi, a friend from his university days whom he met by chance, around to witness the crime, saying he will "show him something interesting". Sakamaki lies to Mabuchi, who blames him when he discovers his true intentions and lies about the impotence of human beings. Sakamaki has an experience from his high school days when a classmate committed suicide in front of him. However, something changes in Sakamaki after Mabuchi risks his life to save him from his own suicide attempt. He believes that the motive for the crime lies in loneliness, so he runs through the crowd to save the killer.
Crimewave

Crimewave

1996 • 35 min
Alan Kelley's eagerly awaited edit of a Survival Research Laboratories show in the Bay Area held on an empty parking lot off Beale Street at the foot of the Bay Bridge. The show revolves around the many humorous aspects of violent human interaction. Also included in the video are footage from the Wired anniversary party and the SRL Halloween Trick where the V1 was operated in front of the Roxie Theater and several other machines and props operated by SRL members on Minna Street. Includes footage of Mark Pauline being detained by the SFPD for questioning on the device ignited on 16th Street...
Subterraneos

Subterraneos

1996 • 48 min • Uruguay
The future has arrived. Below, in the tunnels, inhabit the "underground": a tribe that survives on the fringes. Above, amidst decay and smog, a corrupt society is ravaged by a religious cult that kidnaps and murders beautiful teenage models. Detective Gutiérrez, tormented in dreams by the image of a young woman whom he has never met, is hired by a wealthy family to find a missing model. Tangled between these two worlds, Gutiérrez will have to push himself to his breaking point to solve the enigma.
Titanic's Lost Sister

Titanic's Lost Sister

1996 • 50 min • United States of America
An account of Dr. Robert D. Ballard's exploration of the wreck of the Britannic in September 1995. Britannic, the sister-ship of the Titanic, was sunk after a mysterious explosion while serving as a hospital ship during World War One. Ballard sets out to relocate the wreck and attempts to prove once and for all whether it was a German mine or torpedo which inflicted the fatal damage.
The Mini-Skirted Dynamo

The Mini-Skirted Dynamo

1996 • 55 min • Australia
In this captivating, perplexing portrait of her mother, Dora Bialestock, filmmaker Rivka Hartman explores the wildly contradictory nature of this well-known Melbourne figure.
The Last Chance Detectives: Escape from Fire Lake

The Last Chance Detectives: Escape from Fire Lake

1996 • 55 min
When Mike fails to show up by day's end, our young sleuths have their biggest and most important case yet. A cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers, Escape From Fire Lake teaches kids the importance of perseverance.
Not Alone: A Hallowe'en Romance

Not Alone: A Hallowe'en Romance

1996 • 26 min • Canada
Roommates Scott, a gay lab technician, and Gwen, a lesbian artist/waiter, are spending a typical Sunday evening at home, except it is October 31, and there’s a protest march that evening against gay bashing – and the boy from last night is calling for another date.
Pop

Pop

1996 • 3 min • United Kingdom
A bored youth, a bored fish, a can of pop - the results are explosive!
Shockingly Hot

Shockingly Hot

1996 • 3 min
This little hand-painted film was over-a-year in the making, and absolutely dependent upon a quality of "broad-stroke" in the painting which I think only children really capable of achieving, at least insofar as such stroke can approximate flame. These strokes/flames had, then, to be chopped back to the frame, in order to exist meaningfully on film. They had to be so timed as to epitomize the relentless of fire, so toned that fiery ice would be included in the aesthetic. - SB
Lulu

Lulu

1996 • 3 min • United States of America
Initially commissioned to accompany a Danish production of Alban Berg’s LULU, Lewis Klahr’s cut-out animation refigures the opera's themes in a torrent of images. With an ever-inventive approach to color and symbol, Klahr distills the title character's moral predicament, along with a great many of German Expressionism’s characteristic motifs, in the span of a pop song.
The Story of Santa Claus

The Story of Santa Claus

1996 • 46 min
An animated musical that explains how a toymaker named Nicholas Claus (voice of Edward Asner) started the tradition of delivering a toy to every child on Christmas. Other voices: Betty White (Mrs. Claus); Tim Curry (Nostros); Miko Hughes (Clement).
Historias Breves II: Abrigo

Historias Breves II: Abrigo

1996 • 16 min • Argentina
Ana loses her mother after a sudden heart attack. He tries to avoid his feelings by feigning indifference. He doesn't stop doing anything he always did, until a message, left by his mother in a radio message box before she died, is accidentally deleted. Ana is forced to face reality.
Kristina från Duvemåla - en konsertresa till Minnesota

Kristina från Duvemåla - en konsertresa till Minnesota

1996 • 60 min • Sweden
Documents the highlights of a concert version of the musical written by former ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, performed in Minnesota. Based on a series of novels detailing a family's poverty-driven migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th century, we also meet some of the descendants to the emigrants.
Place Clichy sans complexe

Place Clichy sans complexe

1996 • 26 min • France
Documentary on the 18-month renovation of the large Pathé Wepler cinema on the Place de Clichy in Paris. This 1,600-seat cinema is a landmark in the heart of a working-class district of Paris. The cinema becomes a twelve-screen multiplex.
December 31st

December 31st

1996 • 9 min • Uruguay
Roque and Cristian have no special plans for the day.
Place of the Boss: Utshimassits

Place of the Boss: Utshimassits

1996 • 48 min • Canada
In the '60s, the Mushuau Innu had to abandon their 6,000-year nomadic culture and settle in Davis Inlet. Their relocation resulted in cultural collapse and widespread despair.
Midnight Dance

Midnight Dance

1996 • 6 min • Ireland
Interpretation of the classical composition "Dance Macabre" by Saint-Saens, starring by skeletons dancing a waltz in a cemetery.
Sex Pistols: Live at Budokan

Sex Pistols: Live at Budokan

1996 • 60 min • United Kingdom
Here’s the Sex Pistols – the original Sex Pistols, with Glen Matlock on bass – in an intense, non-stop onslaught of pure punk rock in a 1996 reunion tour, shot at the fabled Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. John Lydon returns as Johnny Rotten, with two-tone hair, red shorts, and no letup from the famous raw, shouted vocals with which he helped invent UK punk in the 1970’s. Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook blast out the music in the Pistols’ trademark fast, tight, loud style, reviving a host of Sex Pistols favourites. While the great punk-rock moment that the Sex Pistols created and owned in the mid-1970’s was brief and fleeting, this concert shows that punk rock – and the band that made it famous – will never die. A searing evening of wild music.
Widow Sex: As Long as There are Men and Women

Widow Sex: As Long as There are Men and Women

1996 • 55 min • Japan
Goro, who works as a parcel delivery man, separates from his fiancee Mie and marries Yuriko, the wife of a Shinto shrine priest who died in the womb. Yuriko is a full decade older than Goro, and this is her third marriage. Then Katsuko, who works for a construction company that Goro is a client of, comes to live with him, relying on him... This highly exciting film, written by Oka Teruo and directed by Nitta Sakae, depicts the endless world of sexual pleasure between lust-starved women and a man with an insatiable sexual appetite. Yoshiyuki Yumi, Momoi Sakurako, Hayashi Yumika and others compete in extreme lustful ecstasy.
Historias Breves II: Vete de mí

Historias Breves II: Vete de mí

1996 • 9 min • Argentina
Short tribute to Ignacio Jacinto Villa Fernández, better known by his stage name "Bola de Nieve", a successful Cuban singer, composer and pianist.
Shrek: I Feel Good

Shrek: I Feel Good

1996 • 1 min • United States of America
Animation test. Shrek dances around while the song "I Feel Good" plays. Then, a mugger comes down using rope and tries to mug Shrek.
Sotigui Kouyaté, a modern griot

Sotigui Kouyaté, a modern griot

1996 • 57 min • France
Through testimonies by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Pierre Guigane, and Sotigui Kouyate himself, SOTIGUI KOUYATE: A MODERN GRIOT dresses the portrait of one of Africa's greatest actor now based in Paris. From Africa to Europe, the film unveils the multiple facets of Sotigui Kouyate, actor, musician and modern griot.