All Films

Le Fantôme de Longstaff

1996 • 20 min • France

Wonderful short by Moullet based on a Henry James short story.

The Ultimate Guide: T-Rex

1996 • 52 min • United States of America, Canada

Learn about the king of the dinosaurs, the T-Rex. This was the greatest meat-eating machine of the dinosaur era.

Straight to Heaven

1996 • 13 min • Mexico

Two girls in love are going to discover that a bus can take you from a traffic jam in Mexico City to a celestial place.

Big Brother: Shit

1996 • 48 min • United States of America

1996 Skate Video

Postcard from San Miguel

1996 • 11 min • Mexico, United States of America

POSTCARD FROM SAN MIGUEL is perhaps the most mystical of all the films from Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych. On the surface, it is merely a postcard from the picturesque Mexican colonial town of San Miguel de Allende. Underneath is the mysterious quest for the filmmaker's dream-lover.

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1996 • 10 min • Japan

A Japanese-Chinese couple hangs out and shoots each other.

Affliction

1996 • 45 min • United States of America

This 45 minute documentary by Mark Hejnar is a sort of Whitman's Sampler of sickness, chronicling such wildly diverse and extreme personalities as G.G. Allin, Mike Diana, Full Force Frank, GLOD, Annie Sprinkle, and others. This collection of short clips and vile moments is certainly NOT for the squeamish, as these are the artists and performers who have taken the term "free expression" to it's limits--and beyond.

Viz Top Tips

1996 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Helpful hints on making life easier from the pages of adult comic Viz are brought to life by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Save money by filling a glass with marmite and topping it with shaving foam. It makes a convincing pint of stout and has the advantage of tasting nicer.

Michael Snow Up Close

1996 • 44 min • United States of America

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist. The documentary celebrates the multi-faceted shape of Snow's creative genius, including glimpses of his work in painting, sculpture, film, photo-works, performance, installations, and holography. Discussions with Snow, original documentation of his music and performance work, and excerpts from his avant-garde films, are complemented by interviews with filmmakers Jonas Mekas and Bruce Elder, Snow's dealer Av Isaacs, the architect Eb Zeidler, museum director Pierre Théberge, curator Louise Dompierre, and others. A deliberately conventional documentary about a deliberately unconventional artist.

Wabuu the Cheeky Racoon

1996 • 30 min • Germany

Wabuu, the small cheeky raccoon, goes on excursions in the forest. His mind is set on nothing but nonsense and practical jokes. Nothing is more fun than to fool the clumsy bear or farmer Alfred’s mean watchdogs. Only once Wabuu goes too far and Wuschel, the small squirrel is missing. Of course Wabuu has not intended that, but this time the other animals are real angry. Wabuu is terribly sorry. He starts looking for his friend Wuschel. But where begin and what to do, if something really mysterious has occurred to Wuschel?

Apparatus M

1996 • 6 min • Japan

A work produced for the Morimura Yasumasa Exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art, (April 6 to June, 1996). It was shown in an old-style theater constructed within the exhibit space that featured photographs of Morimura playing famous foreign and Japanese actresses.

Lee and Herring Live

1996 • 60 min • United Kingdom

TV Comedy from radio award-winning writers Stewart Lee and Richard Herring.

Victor Borge: Then & Now III in Washington D.C.

1996 • 60 min

The Great Dane, Victor Borge, performs with friends at a theatre in Washington D.C. for an evening of laughs and music.

Spokes

1996 • 19 min • United States of America

A gay German tourist meets a man in New York City's central park and takes home a souvenir.

The Bogey Man

1996 • 18 min • Denmark

The first of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen. Ida and her little brother are visiting their strict grandmother who threatens them with the bogey man if they are not kind. When Ida's little brother gets a toy dog from her grandmother, Ida becomes jealous and lures the brother to show the dog for the bogey man.

Disappearance at Sea

1996 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Disappearance at Sea (1996) is a 16 mm colour film with sound shot on location at the lighthouse on St Abb’s Head in Berwick-upon-Tweed in northern England.

For Goodness Sake II

1996 • 17 min • United States of America

An instructional video about the issue of race and diversity in the workplace.

Close-Up Long Shot

1996 • 44 min • France

Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred in, "Close-Up" (1990).

Silent Film

1996 • 11 min

Being brought up by deaf parents did not hinder director Malcolm Venville. Instead, it opened his eyes to a whole new world of vivid images. Silent Film is an 11-minute film documenting his parents' romance.

Cartoons Go To War

1996 • 45 min • United States of America

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – the psychological warfare of the USA. America’s trusted cartoon darlings from the studios of Warner Bros., Paramount, and the “big animals” of the Disney family were supposed to give courage to the people at the homefront, to educate them, but also to simultaneously entertain them. Out of this mixture grew a genre of its own kind – political cartoons. Insightful Interviews with the animators and producers from back then elucidate in an amusing and astonishing way under which bizarre circumstances these films partially came into existence.

Dancing, Some Days

1996 • 7 min • United Kingdom

The Hollywood musical is brought to a Glasgow street. Amidst the crush of city life, two street musicians provide the backdrop for a girl meets boy story, with a spark of purely Glasgow magic.

Kathy Griffin: HBO Comedy Hour

1996 • 29 min • United States of America

Stand up special

Claire Denis, The Vagabond

1996 • 50 min

In an arrestingly filmed interview (with the questions omitted), Denis offers a spirited and insightful discussion of her films and career. She talks about her films, her career, the directors she admires - such as Renoir and Ozu - the writing of Frantz Fanon, and her convictions in regard to light, sound, montage, tracking shots, and the role of dialogue, which is subordinate to image in her films.

This Way Up

1996 • 15 min • Canada

What happens to all of those little things that you lose throughout your life? When Gorman (Gary Jones) misplaces one of his socks, he must struggle to maintain his strict schedule. Preoccupied with the simple challenges of his life, he doesn't notice the moving men and their large payload until it's too late...WHAM! He is struck by a heavy box, catapulting him into his bizarre past.