All Films

NYPD Nude

1995 • 25 min

When New York Police Department Officer, Carol Shaya posed nude for Playboy magazine she drew the wrath of many of her female colleagues. They felt that her striptease in uniform knocked their progress back by twenty years. In another case, Sergeant Cibella Borges was sacked from the force in 1983 for appearing in a hard core men’s magazine. Her case was taken to the High Court where she was reinstated. NYPD Nude interviews Carol, Cibella and other women within the NYPD and explores the boundaries between private and professional life in the Carol Shaya case.

How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly

1995 • 6 min • Canada

The dinosaurs were headed for trouble. They ate nothing but junk food. They never brushed their teeth. They stayed up all night. And though they loved jumping off cliffs, they didn't like the landings much. The early mammals tried to warn them. "Keep that up and you'll all be extinct!" they said. But the dinosaurs just laughed... and over time, they evolved into birds.

The New Schoolhouse

1995 • 9 min

A story of village life in Ontario in the 1850s as seen through the eyes of three young children. The whole community participates in the building of the new schoolhouse and its opening day celebrations.

The Mousehole Cat

1995 • 30 min

Told through the eyes of Mowzer, a cat, this tale -- based on a Cornish legend -- follows brave Tom Bawcock as he makes his way towards the treacherous sea conditions to bring food back to the village. Luckily, his faithful cat sings a lullaby to the Great Storm-Cat of the sea, who was responsible for unleashing the terrible weather. Soothed by Mowzer, the Great Storm-Cat allows Tom to catch enough fish to feed every mouth in the village.

McLaren at LeMans: Pursuit of Perfection

1995 • 40 min

The McLaren F1 road car's story and development for the historic LeMans race of 1995. Gruesome driving conditions, the debut of a remarkable new car, and a titanic battle to the flag caused many to describe the 1995 Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans as the most exciting race in the event's long and glorious history. But this was also the year in which the ultimate road-going sports car, the McLaren F1, stamped it's superiority over the world's finest race-bred opposition... and this is the fly-on-the-wall documentary that captured the heard of the action. Made amidst the tension and intrigue of the pit lane, ride in-car with the winning drivers, eavesdrop on their conversation - and those of the opposition - witness team tactics and pit action as never before: witness the most gripping of duals right up to the chequered flag!

Wind/Water/Wings

1995 • 22 min • United States of America

An optically-printed canvas which explores the interior feel of world moving with inherent fluidity through a medium of wind and water. It presents an impressionistic portrait of unnatural forces that collide.

Seis Histórias

1995 • 27 min • Brazil

Six stories of children and adolescents who had their rights violated, and the reality of the Rights Councils and Guardianship Councils (newly created in 1995) of two Brazilian cities, Blumenau and Belo Horizonte.

De Kresj

1995 • 57 min

Around 1970, director Marije Meerman attended the anti-authoritarian daycare center Prins Constantijn in Amsterdam, where children were raised by a collective of parents to become 'socially critical, creative, emancipated, pleasurable, inclusive people'. Twenty-five years later, Meerman looks for her daycare-mates, to see what became of them and what happened to the ideals they were raised with.

Presumption: The Life of Jane Austen

1995 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Vers le silence

1995 • 35 min • France

Alone and desperate, not being able to escape the "perversion" that alienates him from women, Michel wants to rest and forget. He leaves Paris...

Pfish and Chip in Short Pfuse

1995 • 7 min

Pfish the shark and Chip the cat take on a mad bomber.

Come to Me, Nice Butterfly

1995 • 36 min • Israel

Songs and stories from Fania Bergstein's "Come to Me, Nice Butterfly", "We'll Go Out to the Field", and "And it was Evening".

Me dicen Yovo

1995 • 35 min

While working as a photographer in Benin, West Africa, a two-week trip will turn into a two months personal journey. Me dicen Yovo (I'm a Yovo) is a visual diary of that experience. A Peruvian traveller is an odd presence in Benin whose ethnic a cultural identities are constantly creating unique situations, and provoking original thoughts on what it means to be from the "third world".

Gob A Goo

1995 • 52 min • United States of America

The 8mm videocassette lost footage contained in this VHS tape you are about to see was found disposed of in a Utah county thrift store dumpster. It is a true reality account of the bizarre pizza party which befell a group of three friends. They could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the strange and surreal in their party host as they would see that day. For them an idyllic party invitation became a totally bizarre outing. The events of that 1995 day would later be revealed with the discovery of one of the most bizarre pizza parties video footage in the annals of American history.

Night Dances

1995 • 17 min • United Kingdom

"Night Dances is for my mother, who died whilst helping me to make this piano musical. The Dance of Death is bound to life - Lechaim - as we whirl together by Hebrew gravestones. A dreaming woman is ferried through our decaying city. This is the age of the Personal Computer - the Private Catacomb for the switched-on elite. Its dark doorways are for the wandering homeless... true survivors."

Looking for Cormac

1995 • 33 min • United States of America

A documentary that follows the trail of our greatest living writer, Cormac McCarthy, from his origins in Knoxville, Tennessee, through New Orleans and into the vast expanse of Texas. The film deals with the terrain of the American West, McCarthyesque characters and the mystery that is your heart's desire. Join these three pilgrims as they enter the world of McCarthy, and encounter characters that seem sprung from the pages of Blood Meridian, Child of God, Suttree and other dark classics.

Reba | Live

1995 • 45 min

Country Superstar Reba McEntire performs a 1995 concert live on this video release. She performs some over her classic songs such as "Is There Life Out There?", "The Greatest Man I Never Knew", "For My Broken Heart", "Why Haven't I Heard From You", "Does He Love You", and "Fancy".

The Big City

1995 • 5 min

Psychedelic hip-hop animation aired as part of Liquid Television.

Vale do Fogo

1995 • 9 min

A movie by Sério Fernandes and his students.

Tramway in Moscow

1995 • 54 min • Russia, France

In Moscow, the trams have been privatized. “Annushka” is making its final run. The tram driver, Liza, is nervous — her son might be drafted into the army. Boris, a veteran, tries to calm her down. He enjoys riding the tram, striking up candid conversations with strangers.

Graffiti Verité

1995 • 45 min

A documentary that explores the eclectic world of Hip-hop and the Urban Graffiti Artist.

Athene

1995 • 38 min • United Kingdom

The film depicts the life at the Larissa Railway station in Athens in the spring of 1995. The camera focuses on the station’s ‘tenants’, Antonia, Florakis and George..

Prelude 4

1995 • 2 min • United States of America

Much depth of multi-colored thickened shapes which appear to be superimposed upon each other, semi-transparent in their "weave" with each other which is increasingly interrupted by ragged-edged blobs and smears of color.

À l'arraché

1995 • 8 min • Belgium

A lousy thief steals a car being washed in a gas station. Unfortunately for him, the owner of the vehicle has unsuspected physical resources.