All Films

My New Friends

1995 • 56 min • Taiwan

Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.

Fire on the Track: The Steve Prefontaine Story

1995 • 58 min

Pre embodied the spirit of athletic excellence. He had a belief in self and sport that transcended all but the outer reaches of human speed and endurance. As a freshman, he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, which hailed him as "America's Distance Prodigy". By the time he died in a tragic auto accident at the age of 24, Pre held all 7 American records between 2,000 and 10,000 meters. Off the track, he fought relentlessly for the rights of amateur athletes to prosper for their sacrifices. Narrated by Ken Kesey, Fire On the Track is the story of this young lion's life, as told through rare footage and the memories of those who knew him best - his teammates, coaches, family and friends. Interviews include David Bedford, Frank Shorter, Ian Stewart, Bill Bowerman, Jeff Galloway, Dick Buerkle, Lasse Viren, Dana Carvey, Mac Wilkins, Kenny Moore, Dave Wottle, Alberto Salazar, and many more.

Zapatista Women

1995 • 30 min • Mexico

April 1994 in the Lacandona Jungle, Chiapas, México. The Zapatista women talk about the living conditions of Mexican indigenous populations and the life of peasant women. They explain the reasons for their struggle and their uprising.

Frog Where Are You?

1995 • 30 min • United States of America

Sentenced to life in a jar, a frog runs away and searches for a new home.

HBO Comedy Half Hour: Marc Maron

1995 • 28 min • United States of America

Stand-up comedy routine with Marc Maron, the former host of Comedy Central's 'Short Attention Span Theater.'

Hell Bento: Uncovering the Japanese Underground

1995 • 59 min • Australia, Japan

An exploration of underground Japanese counter-culture including the Yakuza, the nationalists, the gay and lesbian community, the bikers and the homeless.

The Twelve Days of Christmas

1995 • 26 min

On Christmas Eve, Grandpa Billy tells his granddaughter a beautiful Christmas love story of how he courted Grandma Elizabeth. In order to prove his everlasting love to Elizabeth, the young Billy had to accomplish a different task each day during the twelve days of Christmas.

Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing

1995 • 35 min • United Kingdom

Part of the anthology series "Picture Windows" and screened at Cannes, "Two Nudes Bathing" playfully imagines the scandalous origins of a mysterious painting in the Louvre, as two young women’s tender pose sparks uproar in a prudish household.

A Love Supreme

1995 • 16 min

Filmed in 1995, A Love Supreme was filmed for Supreme in New York by Thomas Campbell. Shot in black and white with a really jazzy soundtrack featuring John Coltrane. A beautiful record of 1990s NYC.

Michael the Visitor

1995 • 26 min • United States of America

Stockard Channing narrates this inspiring story adapted from Leo Tolstoy's tale "Truths We Live By." Simon the shoemaker barely makes enough to get by, but that doesn't stop the kind cobbler from taking in a needy homeless man named Michael. Simon provides Michael with food, shelter and a job as his assistant. Mysteries unfold, relationships strengthen and new purpose is found as Simon slowly unravels the details of Michael's life.

Le Dur Métier de policier

1995 • 7 min

Devil Hunter Yohko 6: Double Jeopardy

1995 • 40 min • Japan

Ayako Mano, who is nearly identical in appearance to Yohko, is introduced; she has spent her life training and honing her abilities so that one day she may defeat Yohko and become the devil hunter of the Mano family, and now she is ready for the final confrontation. Yohko continues to live her life and is unaware of Ayako until she starts stealing away every guy that on whom Yohko has a crush. Then one night while taking a bath, Yohko hears something outside and gives chase. She then meets up with an Azusa look-alike. She and Ayako attack the unsuspecting Yohko with crushing attacks, while Yohko parries the onslaught. The fight stops, but Ayako vows to finish it. Madoka reveals a certain part of her past that relates to the encounter.

Her Grandmother's Gift

1995 • 4 min

A grandmother discusses past and present attitudes toward menstruation.

The Animals 1850 - 1950

1995 • 27 min • Mexico

A compilation of 20 Mexican children's song, composed from 1850 to 1950, ranging from lyrical to surrealist, illustrated with digital animation.

Neck Up

1995 • 29 min

A man returns home from work to find a strange package on his door.

Playboy: The Girls of Hawaiian Tropic, Naked in Paradise

1995 • 58 min

Celebrated winners of the world's most renowned bikini contest, Hawaiian Tropic's Super Models are legendary for their golden-brown tans, fabulous figures and radiant smiles. And now, for the first time ever, they remove their trademark swimsuits in sensual adventures guaranteed to give you "island heat." From thousands of gorgeous hopefuls in international competitions, Playboy has selected our very own "Dream Team" to star in this exclusive video spectacular, filmed entirely on location in the lush Hawaiian islands and featuring stunning nude escapades.

The Original Fleetwood Mac - The Early Years

1995 • 54 min • United States of America

This rare Fleetwood Mac documentary provides an intimate look at the original band as led by Peter Green, during the 1960s British blues boom.

Billy Connolly Live At Usher Hall

1995 • 43 min

Concert from 1995 filmed during Billy's World Tour Of Scotland TV series , Live At The Usher Hall - Edinburgh.

How the Cossacks Played Hockey

1995 • 18 min • Ukraine

The final episode, released after the fall of the Soviet Union, features the Cossacks as the parents of an entire children’s hockey team. While hosting the Canadian hockey team, they have to thwart their former pirate enemies once again.

Playboy Video: Playmate Calendar 1996

1995 • 56 min

The 1996 edition to the Playmate Review series which features sultry scenes from all 12 centerfolds of Playboy's stunning beauties.

Ennio Morricone

1995 • 52 min • Germany, United Kingdom

From his quirky compositions for the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to his sublime musical contributions to director Roland Joffé's acclaimed 1986 drama The Mission, film composer Ennio Morricone has crafted more than 500 scores over the course of his enduring career in film. Now fans can take a look back at the life and career of one of cinema's most prolific composers through interviews with both the composer himself and many of his longtime collaborators. From his Italian efforts to his work in America, this documentary covers every aspect of Morricone's career as few have, offering insight into his childhood, his longtime association with Leone, and his ultimate disenchantment with the American studio system.

Bus Stop

1995 • 27 min • Kyrgyz Republic

A puzzling fable about human relations inspired by Samuel Beckett (in Kyrgyz, beket means station). At a bus stop amid a snowy winter landscape, people wait. A boy, an adult, and an old man are at first joined by a woman, and then a disruptive drunk.

Paradise

1995 • 22 min • Kazakhstan

Sergey Dvortsevoy makes his international debut with this astonishingly intimate portrait of a nomadic family on the Kazakh plains. Several scenes in this slow, elegant film betray a certain dry humor -- a child devouring the last of a bowl of yogurt and then crying; a cow getting its head stuck in a pail; and a woman singing to herself, accompanied by her snoring husband. Other scenes capture the nomads' hardscrabble lives -- drunken herdsmen in the grips of existential despair, growling dogs, and a camel enduring a rather grim septum piercing. By the end of the film, the family pulls up stakes and herds its sundry four-legged beasts -- camels, cattle, goats, dogs, and horses -- to a more fertile plain. This film was screened at the 1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.

Sonic Youth: Screaming Fields of Sonic Love

1995 • 56 min

All of the band 80's music videos along with some live performances