All Films

Disorient Express

1996 • 30 min • United States of America

1906 - Original cinematographer unknown. 1996 - New arrangement by Ken Jacobs. Shots shown as found in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print Collection, Library of Congress. Optically copied by Sam Bush, Western Cine Lab., Denver, from l6mm to 35mm letterbox format to allow double-image mirroring in 1:85 ratio projection.

Fantoosh

1996 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A singular old man is torn-faced and broken. In earlier photographs he's eight feet tall and makes a very poor doormat, affable with the hordes. Now, he's hit his anecdotage, busy fending off obituarists. His only recourse to dignity is language.

The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth: The Brush in the Stone

1996 • 33 min • United States of America

Timmy gets a case of the itchy polka dots on the day of the Flossmore Valley Fair. It's up to Mr. Wisdom to read Timmy a medieval story about the origins of the childhood disease.

Pilot Brothers Show Each Other New Year's Magic Tricks

1996 • 6 min • Russia

The action takes place in the boarding house of the Red Cross Landscaping Society.

Group Groper Train: Plain-Clothed Prey, Uniformed Prey

1996 • 55 min • Japan

Megumi, a high school girl, had a playboy boyfriend, Mitsuru. On the train to a date with him, she was attacked by a group of men. Although she was late for the meeting, the intense pleasure changed Megumi.

Kotoba de nureru hitozumatachi

1996 • 60 min

A married woman who is dissatisfied with sex with her husband. And Sayuri, a divorcee who has never felt deep ecstasy, although she can only feel it like other people. At the "classic reading club" that the two of them attend, Katsumata, a university lecturer, introduces Ehon (picture books) and erotic poems (baraku), which are known as pornography from the Edo period. What will happen to the married women who are inspired by glossy books and glossy poems and become lewd?

A Christmas Card from Branson

1996 • 48 min

Have yourself a merry little Christmas with some of your favorite country music stars from Branson, Missouri.

I Bring You Frankincense

1996 • 35 min • United Kingdom

"A rites of passage drama about a mixed race boy called Sunshine who leaves Guildford in [the] 1970's and moves to London." - BFI

Catch a Fire

1996 • 29 min • United Kingdom

This award winning drama/doc tells the story of Paul Bogle, leader of the Morant Bay Rebellion 1865. This rebellion had a major impact on attitudes to race and empire in Victorian Britain, still present today.

Oriental Elegy

1996 • 45 min • Japan, Russia

A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era fishing village. Guided by a series of faintly illuminated rooms, the wandering spirit comes upon ancient souls who take on physical forms as they recount their personal stories of daily existence, loss, and tragedy in the peasant community. Intrigued by his initial visit to a curiously distracted elderly woman, the spirit returns to her home in order to ask a fundamental question - "What is happiness?" - an existential query that is innocently answered with innate humility and accepted unknowingness.

The Making of '96 CM

1996 • 60 min • Japan

This Road Will Never End

1996 • 25 min

A documentary tribute to River Phoenix stressing the impact that River Phoenix had on gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals.

Twilight of the Gods

1996 • 15 min • New Zealand

A Maori warrior comes upon the aftermath of a battle to find that the only survivor is a wounded enemy soldier. His wishes to avenge his fallen countrymen by finishing off this helpless enemy but the gods won't allow it (as conveyed to him through a spirit bird). Anguished that he must instead treat the soldier's wounds, he's further repelled by the soldier's incessant homosexual advances. Slowly and surprisingly, a change comes over the warrior to accept the soldier's advances, but the war all too soon intrudes upon them.

Pilot Brothers Drink Tea in the Evenings

1996 • 5 min • Russia

Southwestern Sahara. The North Hotel, where Karbofos is hiding. He waits impatiently for a phone call, gets furious at the conditions of the hotel (flies, an idle fan) and goes crazy from the heat, as a result of which he refreshes himself in the refrigerator, from where a dazed penguin runs out due to sweaty fumes.

Alabaster's Song

1996 • 30 min • United States of America

A young boy discovers on Christmas Eve that he can hear the beautiful voice of the angel residing atop his Christmas tree. Through the angel's song, the boy learns the value of his faith, and passes it on to the rest of his family.

Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion

1996 • 22 min

A "mockumentary" of the alien invasion during Independence Day. Barry Nolan hosts the programme, the first 9 minutes of which are a spoof news report of the events of the film. The middle bit is a discussion of the film by cast and crew, and at the end various scientists and politicians discuss what would happen if real aliens arrive on Earth.

Tom Thumb Meets Thumbelina

1996 • 54 min

The Great Meadow is the home of a beautiful little fairy, named Thumbelina. Tom Thumb is a devoted servant to King Richard. Tom finds out of a plan from the King’s son, Medwin, who wants to build a gigantic castle in the Great Meadow. Tom Thumb and Thumbelina prove that size doesn’t matter and work together to save the Great Meadow.

Guide to Golf Style and Etiquette

1996 • 26 min • United States of America

It's Rodney at his hilarious and raunchy best as he gets no respect playing a round of golf with a stuffy, serious-minded couple and his blonde and buxom date. With non-stop jokes, Rodney hilariously breaks every rule of etiquette of "the gentleman's game."

Rossini's Ghost

1996 • 50 min • Canada

Nine-year old Reliana witnesses Rossini's efforts to salvage his seemingly cursed new opera, the Barber of Seville.

Particularly Now, in Spring

1996 • 8 min • Belgium

It's sports day and a seventeen-year-old boy prepares to compete, as he has many times before. Only this time it's different, his childhood is behind him, different feelings, emotions and desires engulf him as he watches his classmates. His life is about to change.

A Web of War

1996 • 51 min

The stories of the battles that brought together a Polish cavalry officer, a Canadian captain, and a Polish underground member are told by the very same Canadians who survived them.

White Coat Wife: Extramarital Affair

1996 • 58 min • Japan

Mikako (Ruka Aida), an angel in a white coat, continues to have sex with patients with the belief that "happy sex is better for your health than any surgery or medicine."

Pig!

1996 • 2 min • United States of America

An innocent nose pick ends in disaster!

Historais Breves II: Juntos, in any way

1996 • 18 min • Argentina

An old tango singer tries to contact his teenage son. A woman who is death or the Devil appears to him and asks him to sell his soul to connect with his son again.