All Films

Prelude 15

1996 • 2 min

Doubly-printed striations of "brush-strokes" through multicolored "rock" forms dissolving then to blackened "mud" eliciting increasing sense of being under earth.

Prelude 24

1996 • 2 min

Prelude 24 returns to the tempo of single-frame printing. Its shapes and forms are composed of nearly black torques of ink, flickering with white and only faintly, now and again, tinged with color.

Red

1996 • 26 min • United Kingdom

In 1977, young Xiao Mei leaves China for the UK to enter into an arranged marriage. Speaking no English and feeling distant from her Elvis-obsessed new husband and his stern mother, Xiao Mei dreams of reuniting with her long-lost parents and brother.

Prelude 14

1996 • 1 min • United States of America

Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns and grays and shapes most rock-like, all of which is then shot-thru with sufficient yellow to break up all hard-edge form and give a molten aspect to the mixtures of shapes.

Modern-Era Shameless School

1996 • 50 min • Japan

The hot-blooded manga of love and excitement is revived in the Heisei era!

Prelude 23

1996 • 2 min

Prelude 23 is doubly-printed hand-painted frames causing an effect almost as if wisps of tone were tinting the film intercut with sharp thin lines which "fatten," then, into thick crowded layers of paint, senses of great visual depth.

Prelude 22

1996 • 2 min

Prelude 22 is a singly-printed hand-painted thick black and gold swatches of color which evolve into forms that are horizontally and vertically sliced, smeared, cut-off until color "runs" sensuously in snake-like shapes, coils, soforth.

Prelude 21

1996 • 2 min

Prelude 21 is most characterized by the double-time of single-frame printing of extremely thick swatches of multiple colors as if in a furiously boiling cauldron.

Treasure Island

1996 • 48 min • United States of America

Hoist anchor, maties! And set a course for the grandest pirate yarn ever to shiver your timbers in this thrillingly animated, song- and –laughter filled version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s swashbuckling adventure classic!

Adultery Diary: One More Time While I'm Still Wet

1996 • 59 min • Japan

Kumiko, who goes to a culture center with her husband's permission, has fallen prey to the instructor, Oikawa. Akiko, who also attends the same class, is single but also has a physical relationship with Oikawa. When Akiko finds out that Oikawa is also having an affair with Kumiko, she quits the class and starts a relationship with Kumiko's husband...

Hoch Zeit

1996 • 18 min

An Anti-MTV-Rock'n'Roll-allegory. A comment on Grunge's corporate happy misery.

Harambee!

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

During a Kwanzaa celebration, a recovering drug addict who now counsels drug users inspires the residents of a Brooklyn housing project to apply the principles of the holiday to combat violence in their neighborhood.

Masculine Mescaline

1996 • 25 min

A London 'wide boy' alcoholic is forced to face his responsibilities by a 'heavenly' messenger.

Famous Fred

1996 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Based on the book by Posy Simmonds. Mischievous kitten Fred grows up to be feline singing superstar, but a case of cat flu threatens to cut short his musical career.

Prelude 20

1996 • 2 min

Prelude 20 begins with pale washes of hand-painted tones overlaid eventually by sharp forms, a kind of sliced color becoming more and more smeared.

The Office

1996 • 30 min

Middle manager Norman is preparing an address to senior management. When an interview with his new boss leads to an awful misunderstanding, Norman finds himself naked in the wrong office with minutes to go until his presentation.

Prelude 13

1996 • 2 min • United States of America

Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until there's an evolution of hard-edge autumn leaf patterns which dissipate into patterns similar to the beginning of the film.

Pharmacist from Hell

1996 • 45 min • Japan

A trio of bad boys comes across some ghosts and monsters. They decide to visit a pharmacist in their town to ask for his advice because he is said to have power to communicate with the spirit world. The mysterious old man says “if you meet ghosts and they attack you, you should show the cards and chant some spell which I will give you...” . Then gives the trio three cards which have odd spells written on them. The boys bravely fight against the monsters following the pharmacist’s instructions, but...! Why do the ghosts and monsters appear only in front of the boys?

The Hitman

1996 • 8 min

After breaking up with her boyfriend Greg, Mary wonders if her new career might not be what she expected.

Nattbok

1996 • 23 min • France

A portrait of a day in Paris shown from the perspective of the sanitation worker.

Jungle Boy

1996 • 45 min • United States of America

Loose animated adaptation of "The Jungle Book".

Prelude 7

1996 • 5 min • United States of America

The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as "pictures", but the images are essentially a wash and tangle of nervous feedback, sometimes influenced by the colors of inlet waters, sometimes the wave movements, but more ordinarily by the cellular shifts and shapes of the optic system receiving exterior imagery.

Triste

1996 • 19 min • United States of America

Compilation of footage shot from 1974-96, developing on Dorsky's theory of polyvalent editing.

The Transformation

1996 • 53 min • United States of America

Ricardo was once Sara, a homeless HIV positive transvestite, living in the underbelly of Manhattan. Today he is a churchgoing, married man, "saved" by a Dallas ministry. He has renounced his homosexuality, but is his conversion complete? Susana Aiken and Carlos Aparicio offer an intimate look at Ricardo's transformation.