All Films

Wild Australia: The Edge

1996 • 37 min • Australia

From beautiful but dangerous waterfalls to canyons and underground rivers carved into stone millions of years ago, Wild Australia is a stunning look at our fragile world and how it relates to Earth of ninety million years ago

The Minute of Silence

1996 • 9 min • Canada

Two astronauts, Benny and Manny, are launched aboard Space Shuttle DK7-821 on a mission to the Kubrick Orbital Station, but they experience complications along the way. Martin Villeneuve's first student film.

Over Me

1996 • 18 min

A lady came back to home. While rest in home, she fell in a phantasmal dream. A dead man's soul came to her and she witnessed his death. She felt sympathized to him and recognized his death.

Jean Harlow: Platinum Bombshell

1996 • 50 min • United States of America

Short documentary about Jean Harlow's life and career. Episode of A&E's Biography series.

Inquisitor

1996 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Space Marine Captain Darius of the Dark Angels and his command squad join Inquisitor Krieger in solving the mystery of a strange key.

Buy One, Get One Free

1996 • 7 min • United States of America

A man named Reilly gets a cat named Flinch to impress a female cat lover named Sofie and threatens the cat that if there is a scratch on anything while he's away, he will send him to the violin factory. It won't be easy when Sophie leaves Flinch a feline playmate named Fix that only wants to party.

Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes

1996 • 25 min • France

The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" character is intimately linked to that of the rescue of the two German mountaineers on the west face of the Drus, in 1966, a rescue which he had took the initiative. While the official emergency services of the EHM try to reach them from above, a pirate rope made up of Gary Hemming, René Desmaison, Lothar Mauch, Gil Bodin, Mike Brurke, François Guillot, the filmmaker Gérard Bauer organizes to join them from below and succeeded after a fierce struggle the rescue. The press seizes the event and elevates Gary Hemming to the rank of national hero. All the newspapers feature this big guy with a cool attitude, mismatched clothes, jovial smile and long blond hair on the front page. From then on, he was nicknamed: "the beatnik of the peaks".

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

1996 • 46 min • United States of America

A snyposis of the legendary actor's career, narrated by Liam Neeson.

Plympmania

1996 • 7 min • United States of America

The best wacky, surreal pieces made for the Fox TV show "The Edge."

Burn Your Phone

1996 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Andy works at the Hastings Telephone Exchange. All day, every day he copes with emergencies, from squashed seagulls to suicide attempts. Buton this particular day he takes a series of calls from someone who is threatening to murder him.

Michael Jordan: Above and Beyond

1996 • 54 min • United States of America

"Michael Jordan Above and Beyond" provides a much-needed look at Michael Jordan's fantastic return from retirement in 1995. The first 20 minutes or so recap his retirement, attempt at minor league baseball, and his dealing with his father's murder. It picks up when it starts looking at the huge frenzy that was his return to the NBA in the Spring of 1995. It covers his mediocre first game back against the Pacers, his Friday night Chicago return against the Magic, and his subsequent return to form with a game-winning shot against Atlanta, and a career night dropping 55 on the Knicks.

Under Wraps

1996 • 56 min • Canada

A film that tackles the taboo subject of menstruation. A compelling source of information that is essential for all teachers, mothers, daughters, and the men who love them. It challenges society's thoughts on such issues as safety, Toxic Shock Syndrome, tampons, pads, different cultures, and misconceptions. Author Judy Blume and The Museum of Menstration curator are featured in the film.

What Time Is It?

1996 • 17 min • Mexico

Based on Elena Garro's short story, it's a story where love and loneliness are linked through a hotel room, where a woman awaits for an old and impossible love.

Dirty Laundry

1996 • 30 min • Canada

Dirty Laundry speculates upon the buried narratives of gender and sexuality in Chinese-Canadian history of the 19th century, when Chinese communities were almost exclusively male. A story about a chance late-night encounter between a steward and a passenger on a train interweaves with documentary interviews with historians and writers and historical documents brought to life. The tape poses nagging questions about the personal and political stakes in the writing of history and in our interpretations of the past.

Playboy's Girls of the Internet

1996 • 54 min

Get online for an erotic ride on the information super-highway where imagination is your only boundary. Make a direct connection with 15 of the hottest women on the internet as Playboy lets you be a voyeur on their fantastic voyage through the worldwide web.

The Battle of The Alamo

1996 • 52 min • United States of America

Dread

1996 • 44 min • New Zealand

An East Coast community in Ruatōria, New Zealand attempts to live in autarchy according to the tenets of their movement. Bob Marley, a prophet of our electronic age, is the soundtrack to the everyday lives of these Māori who feel closer to their own roots by observing a blend of Afro-Carribean Rastafarianism and the Ringatū faith. Merata Mita's camera respectfully portrays this singular cultural dialogue. The outsider cultures of Jamaicans, Ethiopians and Māori have come together, vibrating to a common cosmic chord. They find an underground brotherhood, across continents and seas.

2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted

1996 • 6 min

2Pac's 1996 Music Video, 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted

George Carlin: Back in Town

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

Back in Town is George Carlin's ninth HBO special. It was also released on CD on September 17, 1996. This was also his first of many performances at the Beacon Theater in New York City. He rants about Abortion, The death penalty, prison farms, fart jokes, free floating hostility and words.

The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry

1996 • 25 min

Documentary about John Davis, a businessman who as chairman oversaw the decline of the Rank Organisation.

The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Documentary

1996 • 55 min • United States of America

This documentary goes behind the scenes of the 1993 filming of "The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre" in Pflugerville, Texas. It includes on-set footage and interviews with the cast and crew, and is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the film that went on to become the black sheep of the Texas Chainsaw franchise.

Groovy Days

1996 • 52 min • Denmark

Henrik is young and in love and moves with his girlfriend Anne into a commune in the countryside. It is the dawn of the 70's, a time to challenge authority and experiment with relationships. Henrik is challenged too: His role as a man is exhibited and discussed, he has to learn how to sew, to sleep in the group bedroom, to share his inheritance with the commune and his beloved Anne with a lesbian.

Nestor Makhno

1996 • 60 min • France, Ukraine

With breathless pace, Hélène Chatelain ("the woman" in "La Jetée") reconstructs the life of Nestor Makhno from his writings, Soviet propaganda films, reactions of workers today and the memory he has left in the hearts & minds of his people in Gouliaïpolié, in the east of the Ukraine.

White Men Are Cracking Up

1996 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Maisie Blue is an enigmatic black widow figure under investigation by detective Margrave for her involvement in the suicides of successful white men. Through the blurred lines of perception and reality, the myth of the Black feminine mystique is explored under the guise of a murder mystery. The film explores the fetishization of Black women as a manifestation of white male insecurity.