All Films

Santa's Magic Book

1996 • 60 min

Coots, an alligator, is cleaning his chimney the day after Christmas when Santa's book tumbles down. Coots seeks counsel from the Critters, a family of raccoons, on how to get the book back to its owner. Before the owner is located, Greasy Weasel and Balmy Bear snatch the book while Coots and the Critters are swimming in a lake. Then, Santa enters the picture and...

Little Surprises

1996 • 36 min

A gathering of friends and parents the night before a wedding provides a very unexpected turn of events. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Raising Your Dog with the Monks of New Skete: Obedience - Working With Your Adult Dog

1996 • 55 min • United States of America

Obedience training requires a faithful commitment, precise knowledge, and daily exercise. In the face of such a challenge, keep yourself inspired and encouraged by the vision of the fruits of all the efforts of both you and and your dog -- a happy, responsive, and well-trained dog capable of a wonderful relationship with you and the world around it.

Empire of Ache

1996 • 10 min • United States of America

Illustrator Dame Darcy (Meat Cake) stars as Clara One-Arm, an overwrought young woman who's trapped in her room and tormented by a trio of puppets, a ghost from her past, and a crazed nurse brandishing a monstrous needle. All of this shot like some psychotic's vision of a 20's silent movie, complete with tinted stock, beautifully expressionistic sets, and an appropriately eerie soundtrack by Eric Hammer

The Soul of Business

1996 • 8 min • Brazil

A modern couple from a typical advertisement: young, attractive, and brand-conscious. As they use the products on their breakfast table they begin to quote lines from the relevant advertisemnet. Soon their behavior departs from the accepted advertising norm as they zealously defend each other´s products to the death.

American Flatulators

1996 • 53 min • United States of America

In celebration of the popular "Gladiators" programs on television today, this parody joins Ben Dover and Big Bill Butts as they welcome the most noxious of our nation's competitors, The American Flatulators!

The Adventures of Toad

1996 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Toad's life is just one big adventure! His latest and greatest hobby is racing around the countryside in his new motor car getting into all sorts of trouble. Meanwhile, his wonderful home, Toad Hall, has been taken over by the wicked weasels and ferrets. It's now up to Toad and his riverbank friends to embark on the biggest adventure of all - the Great Battle of Toad Hall!

Dennis Miller: Citizen Arcane

1996 • 56 min

Dennis Miller performs live.

Der Elefant vergißt nie

1996 • 29 min • Germany

Sexual Saga

1996 • 3 min

This hand-painted step-printed film begins with "explosions" of white, yellow, orange (deepening into reds), vermillion, and darker red flame shapes. Then there are anatomical beseeming solid yellows against flickering reds. Multiple dissolves of all previous forms and flickering shapes interspersed with blacks and replaced by "dolly in" movements (of the same) interspersed with white, then increasingly with lengthening blacks which finally gives way to a single vermillion/purple burst of flowery form.

The Beatles Unauthorized

1996 • 51 min

A one-of-a-kind compilation offering a fascinating, entertaining, and surprising look at the Fab Four with rare newsreel footage, candid and revealing interviews, and historic performances. Included are their first U.S. concert in Washington, D.C., never-before-seen highlights from the Hollywood Bowl, a rare uncensored interview filmed just before their very last concert, and live renditions of many hits.

Chaplin's Goliath

1996 • 54 min • United Kingdom

A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.

Prince: Love 4 One Another

1996 • 44 min

A television special produced for VH1

Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

Sigmund Freud's revolutionary ideas transformed our conception of the mind. Yet, fears and obsessions wracked the father of psychoanalysis. His theories continue to inspire debate, even as the discipline he invented drifts farther from his work. Through personal letters, diaries and interviews with biographers, psychiatrists and Freud's grandchildren, this documentary explores the life of the man who was once derided as the doctor of love.

Gipsy Kings: Tierra Gitana

1996 • 57 min

Documentary blending concert footage with behind-the-scenes shots and interviews to profile the musical group as well as the history and culture of Gypsies and flamenco music. The importance of singing is emphasized in an acoustic concert in a traditional tavern in the Camargue region in the south of France; the band is also seen in performance at Wolf Trap, VA, on its recent American tour.

In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes

1996 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Actor Patrick Macnee leads the viewer through London in the footsteps of the genius private investigator Sherlock Holmes and his assistant and friend, Dr. Watson.

Tulpanmysteriet

1996 • 36 min

Tulpanmysteriet (or "Peter & Fredde på uppdrag i Holland") is the first of two films that Peter Settman and Fredde Granberg have made for Stena Line and the Netherlands Tourist Board. From 1996.

Japan in Paris in L.A.

1996 • 30 min

Japan in Paris in L.A. centres on Saeki Yuzo, an early twentieth-century Japanese artist who makes a pilgrimage to Paris to seek his artistic fortunes, only to find that ethnic and cultural differences stand in his way. Around this narrative, the Yonemotos construct a multi-layered and self-reflexive work in which strategies of disjunction and contradiction are key. Employing heightened theatricality, experimental narrative strategies and archival footage, the film proposes a complex meditation on issues of modernity, representation, ethnocentrism and identity.

Garbage: Bizarre Festival

1996 • 54 min

Garbage performing onstage at the Bizarre Festival in Cologne, Germany on August 17, 1996

The Prince and the Pauper

1996 • 44 min • Canada

The story began in the 1860s in London, England. For as long as he could remember, twelve year old Tom Canty had dreamed of being a Prince. Whenever he was not begging for money for his cruel father, Tom played "being Prince" with his friends. Tom Canty and Prince Edward, the soon to be king, bear a striking resemblance to one another and decide to swap places. Unfortunately, the once innocent trick turns into a nightmare, and the Pauper and the Prince become desperate in their struggle to prove their real identity before it is too late and the Pauper is crowned King.

Chornobyl. Epilogue

1996 • 54 min • Ukraine

The film is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the accident at the Chornobyl NPP.

The Wizard of Oz on Ice

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

An ice-skating television adaptation of the 1939 musical film based on Lyman Frank Baum's 1900 fairy tale novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".

Janis the Little Piglet

1996 • 30 min • Germany

On the farm six little pigs are born. But one of them is not like it’s brothers and sisters. It does not act piggish at all. No lazy hanging around, no digging the dirt, no getting real fat. It seems much more exciting to roam about on the farm. The watchdog, which has to keep everything in order on the farm, is getting more and more desperate. Janis, that's the name of the little pig, is creating a wicked disorder all the time. Until the day when a man appears on the farm who wants to buy a sucking pig. And it is just Janis, he chooses.

Must Be the Music

1996 • 20 min • United States of America

Four gay men on a Friday night out in Los Angeles.