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Purvis Young: Contemporary Urban Painter

Purvis Young: Contemporary Urban Painter

1997 • 30 min
A 30-minute inside look at Purvis Young, believed by many to be one of today's most intriguing self-taught American artists. Documentary film director David Seehausen explores a day in the life of Purvis Young in the intimate setting of the reclusive artist's warehouse/studio in Overtown - Miami's inner-city. Footage never before shown unveils a "Poet of the Paintbrush" passionately obsessed with painting history's "Real Truth".
Don't You Wish You Were Here?

Don't You Wish You Were Here?

1997 • 4 min • Japan
The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The main circle (character) is slightly pinker than the other grey circles (people) and she thought she was very special. But she is very grey in a colourful world. She will find out that grey is not just a boring colour.
Un Week-end avec Monsieur Magritte : Tome 1, Samedi

Un Week-end avec Monsieur Magritte : Tome 1, Samedi

1997 • 29 min • Belgium
The first part of a Magritte portrait, mainly compiled from fragments of staged enactments of situations, which Magritte recorded with, among others, Georgette Magritte, Paul Colinet, Irène Hamoir and Scutenaire, playfully described by the latter as "une histoire érotico-fantastico-iconoclaste".
NBA Grooves

NBA Grooves

1997 • 47 min
A Music Video Tour of the NBA.Hosted by Tim Hardaway and Mitch Richmond, with a special appearance by Funkmaster Flex.NBA basketball and cool music...they go together like the pick and roll. NBA superstars and good friends Tim Hardaway and Mitch Richmond are your hosts of this tour of the NBA featuring these 11 themed music videos:"Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk"NBA Young Stars Aaliyah "Hot Like Fire" Looking Back Shaq "Men of Steel" Shaq Highlights Republica "Ready to Go" 1996-97 Chicago BullsNo Doubt "Just a Girl" WNBA's First Season Reel 2 Reel "I Like to Move It" Defensive Gems OMC "How Bizarre" BloopersJodeci "Get on Up" Amazing Dunks Yvette Michelle "DJ Keep Playin" Assists R. Kelly "I Believe I Can Fly" Michael Jordan Retrospective Blackstreet "No Diggity" Tim Hardaway and Mitch Richmond. Mfr.: NBA; 50 minutes; 1997, color VHS; NBA Music Video Series; Officially Licensed NBA Product.
Don Gay's Worst Wrecks at Mesquite Rodeo 1996

Don Gay's Worst Wrecks at Mesquite Rodeo 1996

1997 • 57 min • United States of America
Rodeo is a tough way to make a living-that's what this video is all about. These are the hardest hit, toughest rides, most heart pounding moments of the 1996 Season of the world famous Mesquite Championship Rodeo.
Sichuan Street Songs

Sichuan Street Songs

1997 • 27 min
In the 1990s, in Chengdu, various small traders and vendors bustled through the streets and alleys, each with their own unique style and distinctive calls, selling a variety of small goods. The camera captures these vendors, some of whom have been selling their wares on the streets for decades. They either turn their product information into unique songs or use rhythmic beats from the instruments they carry as accompaniment. These calls, sometimes near and sometimes distant, resound amidst the bustling crowd, showcasing the distinct characteristics of ethnomusicology. With the advent of globalization and rapid economic development, Chengdu is inevitably transitioning from tradition to modernization. Skyscrapers and modern commercial shopping centers are on the rise and traditional street vending will gradually disappear. This film documents the swan song of traditional street calls as they're slowly engulfed by the tide of modernization.
Conversations with Paul Rand

Conversations with Paul Rand

1997 • 28 min
Director Preston McClanahan is joined by filmmaker Peter O’Neill—acting as cinematographer—to document this conversation with famed graphic designer Paul Rand. Shot on 16mm in the designer’s Weston, Connecticut home, the film finds Rand informally discussing such topics as design, art, modernism, and aesthetics. Rand is congenial but at times stiff and codgerly; old and set in his ways.
Anna

Anna

1997 • 58 min
Anna tells the story of a woman of the Nganasan, a severely endangered people of the Taymyr Peninsula.
Resurrection Now

Resurrection Now

1997 • 4 min
MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.
Deception in Four Parts

Deception in Four Parts

1997 • 4 min • Netherlands
Animated film (a combination of drawings on paper and cut-out animation) in four episodes about a little girl who tries to cope with reality and manipulate it to her advantage. The film emphasises the impossibility of knowing others and of knowing what is real.
Multikolor

Multikolor

1997 • 4 min
MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.
Toontown

Toontown

1997 • 5 min
MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.
JavaNoir

JavaNoir

1997 • 6 min • United States of America
JavaNoir is a 6 minute 3D character animation created entirely with Macintosh hardware and software. The director and sole animator is Raf Anzovin, a 16-year-old homeschooled student from Amherst, MA. The 1.3 GB (uncompressed) QuickTime movie took more than a year to make, contains more than 11,200 frames, and required approximately 1250 man-hours of animation work and 800 hours of rendering time.
The Black Hole

The Black Hole

1997 • 3 min • France
A young guy asks a prostitute to go down on him while singing La Marseillaise.
The Puppy Dogs

The Puppy Dogs

1997 • 36 min • United States of America
A fun video about adorable canines such as wolf pups, fox kits and more!
Le Mauvais Oeil

Le Mauvais Oeil

1997 • 20 min
An episode from L'oeil du Cyclone, an alternative art program devoted to visual or sonorous curiosities, portraits of artists, artistic movements, but also various rarities, international archives, auteur and documentary films, musical montages, miscellaneous compilations, etc. to new images and taking the form of reports and psychedelic clips, fed images of the most diverse origins, sometimes in synthetic images.
Guhya

Guhya

1997 • 55 min • India
A film explores feminine sexual symbols and rituals, tracing its journey from North Karnataka to Kerala and culminating at Kamakhya, a sacred site in Assam.
The House of the Living Dead: The Injection 2

The House of the Living Dead: The Injection 2

1997 • 57 min
A man hiding under an uninhabited house experiences a strange drug on himself injecting it into his body and transforming into a bloodthirsty monster. Anyone will go for his home will be violently murdered.
Always Changing, Always Growing

Always Changing, Always Growing

1997 • 21 min
The Always Changing® Program has been a trusted curriculum source for puberty education among school nurses and health educators for over 25 years. It has been taught to millions of students nationwide. The look of the program has been updated, but the information and educational goal remain the same — to teach preteens about their changing bodies and the beginning stages of puberty. This program is provided as a free educational service by the Always® brand of feminine protection products. Program content is based on national research and consultation with school nurses, health educators, parents, fifth-grade students and medical professionals. It is designed to provide fifth-grade students with a broad overview of the beginning stages of puberty. This is the 1997 version. There are three separate editions - one aimed at girls, one at boys, and a third combined one for a co-ed audience.
The Gift of the Magi

The Gift of the Magi

1997 • 45 min • Finland
Film adaptation of Rautavaara opera.
Mamlambo

Mamlambo

1997 • 25 min
Mamlambo is the goddess of rivers in Zulu mythology. In this tragic love story, a homeless boy in Johannesburg falls in love with a Chinese prostitute and must face up to her tyrannical father.
Mastodons: The First Encounter

Mastodons: The First Encounter

1997 • 13 min • United States of America
Join Anna and her friend Colby, the mouse, in an online adventure as they encounter the Mastodons: Musclehead, Tangler, Blazer and Crusher. They are fighting a fire that threatens two children and a nearby school!
Night of Orley

Night of Orley

1997 • 10 min
Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.
Contacts: Sophie Calle

Contacts: Sophie Calle

1997 • 13 min • France
Sophie Calle often defines herself as a "narrative" artist. Her photographs are items of evidence through which she tells stories that are both ordinary and disturbing, using her own life and experiences as the raw material for reconstructions that hover somewhere between truth and fiction. The Contacts collection is an invitation to discover the artistic approach of the greatest contemporary photographers from an original angle. Through a series of images (contact sheets, proofs, prints and slides), with a commentary by the photographer, the viewer enters the secret world of their creation and is guided into the heart of the photographic creative process.