All Films

Flora

1995 • 25 min • Austria

The heroine of the title grows up. Slights, dance school, a cinema of glances, of tender moments, of trivial pop songs. A cinema which takes time, makes observations and which continuously finds or invents opposite picture sequences for loneliness and breaking free...

The Negotiator

1995 • 49 min • Canada

This candid documentary opens the door on the riskiest labour negotiations in the history of the Canadian Auto Workers (now UNIFOR), Canada's largest private sector union. For veteran negotiator Buzz Hargrove, president of the union, the de Havilland/Bombardier talks turn out to be the toughest of his career. Hargrove finds himself doing battle not only with the company, but with his own union locals. Everything goes wrong. Hargrove has to choose between solidarity with his workers or saving thousands of jobs. His decision, the battle that led up to it, and the outcome make for high drama in this no-holds-barred portrait of organized labour in the 1990s. Played on the shifting ground of a globalized economy, "The Negotiator" is a revealing look at democracy, leadership and its price in a high stakes fight for jobs and power.

Hayride to Hell

1995 • 11 min • Australia

Hayride to Hell is a 1995 Australian short subject directed and written by Kimble Rendall. It tells the story of salesman George Weygate, who comes across a girl begging for his help. Only shown in late night art houses, the film has never been widely released. It is believed that Kylie Minogue became involved in the project as a favour to the director, whom she would work with five years later on the film Cut (2000).

Historias Breves I: Guarisove, los olvidados

1995 • 10 min • Argentina

A group of soldiers who naively went to fight in the Falklands War remains forgotten in those desolate lands a month after the end of the conflict.

Baka

1995 • 55 min • France, Belgium

For months filmmaker Thierry Knauff lived with the Cameroonian tribe, the Baka. This is his document of that time.

You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Sleepover Party

1995 • 30 min • United States of America

Boys and girls pack up your pajamas and sleeping bags because You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's™ Sleepover Party™! Join in the fun as Mary-Kate & Ashley and all their friends have pillow fights, dance and share secrets about friends, school, and sports! The fun doesn't stop as they outwit the pranks of their older brother and his buddies! With five dynamite new songs to sing along to, this is one slumber party boys and girls alike won't want to miss!

Out in South Africa

1995 • 55 min

Out in South Africa, a documentary about a country in the state of transition; specifically of lesbians and gays, black and white, Indian and Asian, from townships, cities and rural areas who speak of their lives and desires as homosexuals in post-apartheid South Africa. Hammer was invited to have a retrospective in summer, 1994, at the first Gay and Lesbian film festival on the African continent. She wanted to do more than screen her films and videos; she wanted to teach video production skills in the townships. These workshops provide the deeply moving stories lesbians and gays told to one another.

Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive

1995 • 51 min • United States of America

Shows the killer instinct in action in an African honey badger, a savage, relentless predator which will attack any animal, seemingly for pure sport.

Mao, the Real Man

1995 • 55 min • Hungary

What is the connection between the bloody gang war that once raged over control of the Chicago fish market, the decades of terror perpetrated by the Chinese, Russian, and Italian mafias, the secret operations of the CIA and the KGB, the Cuban revolution, and the Kennedy assassination? And who is the 100-year-old monk who is revered as a saint in a Nepalese monastery and in whose body the presence of a strange crystal can be detected? Szilveszter Siklósi's thrilling "documentary" provides striking and convincing answers to questions that have preoccupied the world's public for nearly a generation.

Moving Pictures: 'The Night of the Hunter'

1995 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Short documentary about Charles Laughton's 1995 film "The Night of the Hunter," with interviews with the cast and crew.

Une Vue Imprenable

1995 • 15 min • France

Two women opposite each other hesitate between confessing or concealing their feelings.

HorrorGirl

1995 • 50 min • United States of America

Supernatural shenanigans involving an up-and-coming rock band.

Elevator

1995 • 30 min • Iran

Elevator (Persian: آسانسور‎‎) is a 1995 social drama Iranian film, written and directed by Hossein Shahabi (Persian: حسین شهابی)

Mad Season: Live at the Moore

1995 • 50 min

The band featuring members of Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and Screaming Trees performs live in concert at the Moore Theater in Seattle, Washington. Mad Season was an American rock supergroup formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1994 by members of three popular Seattle-based bands: Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees. Mad Season only released one album, Above, and is best known for the single "River of Deceit". The band went on a semi-permanent hiatus in 1996 due to the band members' conflicting schedules and vocalist Layne Staley's problems with substance abuse. Attempts were made in the late 1990s to revive the group without Staley; however, the band dissolved following the death of bassist John Baker Saunders in 1999.

B.B. King: Blues Summit

1995 • 55 min • United States of America

Inspired by the 1993 Grammy-winning album, this historic meeting of superpowers stars the King of the Blues performing duets with a pantheon of fellow legends: Ruth Brown, Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, Irma Thomas and Joe Louis Walker. Interspersed with exclusive interviews, it's an inspired and unprecedented gathering of blues greats that may never be equaled. The performances include B.B.'s signature song, "The Thrill Is Gone," and "Playin' With My Friends," which was penned by Robert Cray just for The Blues Summit. Best of all, with this home video, you sit right on stage where you don't miss a beat.

Das Loch

1995 • 12 min

A man dressed city-like walks across a wood and fields when he suddenly finds a perfectly circle-shaped black hole in the ground. The man begins to investigate the phenomenon...

Les Fleurs Magiques

1995 • 21 min • Canada

In the 1960s, a dreamy kid tells how he thinks he can change his alcoholic father's personality: with magic flowers. First film of a trilogy on father-son relationships.

Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella

1995 • 35 min

When you think of Latin percussion, think of Francisco Aguabella. Perhaps the finest Afro-Cuban master percussionist still living, he has become synonymous with his instrument — one of the highest compliments a musician can receive. Indeed, what Carlos Santana is to the guitar, Aguabella is to the conga drum.

Playboy: The Best of Anna Nicole Smith

1995 • 55 min

A collection of interviews, stories, news specials, and pictures.

Lucumi, l'enfant rumbeiro de Cuba

1995 • 27 min

A beautiful film by epic music scene film maker Tony Gatlif with Cuban legends Tata Guines and Pancho Quinto, while young Michael Herrera Duarte (Lucumi) stars as the centerpiece of the story. Lucumi is ten and lives in Havana's black district. Brought up to the beat of drums, he dreams of becoming a great rumbero. With other kids on his block he improvises rumbas on old cans and pots and pans. One Saturday the best of Havana's musicians decide to get together at the "Solar California" to honor the memory of Chano Pozo, otherwise known as "the drum of Cuba". With the rumba beat, Lucumi sings, dances, plays and talks about his life, as if better to express the hardships he's already endured and to have his message heard. On this Saturday he joins up with the great rumberos and wakes up the old spirits of the tumbadora.

Super-Horror Experience 4: Psychic Video

1995 • 30 min • Japan

J-Pop Girl Group stars in a series of low budget horror films, the fourth of the series focuses on a mysterious video tape."

The Last Gasp

1995 • 60 min • Sweden

A fictional meeting at the headquarter of the Swedish Film Industry between the former director Georg af Klercker and the business man behind SF (Svensk film): Director Charles Magnusson. A drunk and bitter Klercker baffles on about old movies, shared memories from their time together in Lidingö. Can he get a chance to make a new movie?

Super-Horror Experience 1: Death and Make-up

1995 • 30 min • Japan

J-Pop Girl Group Giri Giri Girls star in a series of low budget horror films, the first of the series focuses on the entanglement that happens between the girls and a creepy photographer.

The Boy Who Walked Backwards

1995 • 37 min • Denmark

Nine-year old Andreas struggles to cope with the death of his beloved older brother, Mikkel, who is killed in a motorbike accident. Andreas' family moves shortly afterward to begin life anew, yet neither a new school nor the friends he makes can ease his enormous pain.