All Films

Les Mains

1996 • 20 min

Charly, René, Katiga, Zinedine and Madeleine tell in a few minutes the story of their hands, filmed in a static shot, placed on a table that is familiar to them. Five acquaintances of the director are invited to present their hands, and nothing else, to the camera. The stories that this unconventional situation elicits reveal sensual memories and buried pain. The hands, restored to a certain independence, join, move and dance.

Anastasia

1996 • 31 min • Germany

Ascha, a little girl, is standing confused in front of the destroyed czar palace in Russia. None the Czar-Family seems to have survived. An old man has compassion on the little girl, who can remember nothing, not even her name. He decides to take Ascha with him to his home.

Blight

1996 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A short film featuring the voices of those affected when the M11 Link Road in East London was built, accompanied by scenes and sounds of demolition.

Starbound

1996 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The Meldrews find a man living in their shed; he turns out to be a drug-dealer. Victor takes a gardening job, working for Patrick's new boss and dealing with very effective herbicide.

Knackered

1996 • 5 min

1996 Sam Taylor-Wood video art piece focusing on a naked singer

Wordless

1996 • 9 min • Italy

Celestino has communication problems because of his incomprehensible native dialect. When he falls madly in love with a deaf girl called Rosetta, he learns sign language and pretends to be deaf as well in order to court her.

A Summer Dress

1996 • 16 min • France

It's summer. Sébastien loves the singer Sheila. Lucia loves boys. As for Frédéric, all he wants to do is work on his tan.

Undressed For Success

1996 • 40 min • Japan

Softcore video with japanese cult movie queen Kei Mizutani. Kei romps through a series of locales, changing from one sexy outfit to another!

The Ringer

1996 • 44 min • Mexico

Film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Sambolico

1996 • 29 min • Germany

Eric, a successful Finnish conductor, has time to relax by the ocean after work in Rio de Janeiro. He finds it hard to forget an encounter with an extraordinary woman at the hotel.

The Hunt

1996 • 38 min • United States of America

Tina Krause is an 18th Century huntress who’s after some very dangerous game. She thinks she’s in control, but learns how wrong she really is! The hunter becomes the hunted! Tina starts out dressed in a very proper skirt, jacket, hat, and blouse only to find herself struggling for survival dressed only blood splattered and shredded undergarments. This is a supernatural thriller not to be missed! 

Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business

1996 • 56 min • Poland

A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.

The Dadshuttle

1996 • 23 min • Canada

A father and his gay son use the opportunity of a car ride to have a sometimes uncomfortable conversation.

Survival Island

1996 • 42 min • Japan, United States of America, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Standing almost alone in the great Southern Ocean, South Georgia island plays host to some of the largest concentrations of animals anywhere on Earth during the spring and summer months. This is the story of these vast animal cities, and of the order that lies beneath their seeming chaos.

A Close Shave

1996 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

Comingled Containers

1996 • 3 min • United States of America

Comingled Containers is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage. "This 'return to photography' (after several years of only painting film) was made on the eve of cancer surgery - a kind of 'last testament,' if you will… an envisionment of the fleeting complexity of worldly phenomenon."

Coming Out

1996 • 12 min • Germany

Andreas Hübner is an unfriendly official who interviews immigrants wishing to stay in Germany. One morning an Adolf Hitler moustache appears on his face. All efforts to remove the fascist identifier fail and Andreas ends up alone in a field asking God for help. The answer arrives in the shape of a yoghurt carton with a 1945 sell-by-date.

Elevated

1996 • 17 min • Canada

Ben and Ellen use the elevator in their building when all of a sudden, Hank, the blood covered security man of the building rushes into the elevator, claiming that there is a dangerous alien-like creature in the building.

Cosmic Voyage

1996 • 36 min • United States of America

The Academy Award® nominee Cosmic Voyage combines live action with state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery to pinpoint where humans fit in our ever-expanding universe. Highlighting this journey is a "cosmic zoom" based on the powers of 10, extending from the Earth to the largest observable structures in the universe, and then back to the subnuclear realm.

The Elf

1996 • 23 min • Canada

In this Christmas drama, a boy and his family discover he is an elf.

Spring and Chaos

1996 • 56 min • Japan

Set in the beginning of the 20th century Japan, the film follows the bright and eccentric Kenji from his late student years through his adulthood. Kenji suffers the tragedy of being an artist whose art isn't recognized during his lifetime. Based on the life of the author Kenji Miyazawa, the film depicts his brief but intense existence.

Champagne

1996 • 13 min • United States of America

The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she provides poignant commentary about her mother, her own situation and her outlook for the future.

The Potato Seller

1996 • 48 min • Denmark, Sweden

In this Swedish TV drama, a once-kittenish young woman has become a fortyish spinster, still helping her widowed father on the family farm. Marta drives tractors, does the planting and harvesting, and helps to maintain the property. Meanwhile her father Johansson worries and wonders if his aging daughter will ever find a man to marry her. Into this tense situation comes Sture, the potato seller,,,

Arnold

1996 • 9 min • United States of America

Arnold accidentally knocks out a bully named Harold during a baseball game, and Harold gives Arnold 24 hours to live before he beats him to a pulp. Theatrical short pilot of Hey Arnold.