All Films

The Stranglers: Absolut Live

1997 • 45 min • Germany

Filmed live for German television in Bremen on 18 February 1997, Absolut Live captures The Stranglers touring in support of their album Written in Red.

Ancient Aliens

1997 • 42 min

Since the dawn of time, stargazers have looked to the sky wondering if earth has had heavenly visitors. Scientists investigate ancient ruins, artifacts, and texts.

Ping Pong

1997 • 24 min • China

Interview on Chinese children's table tennis training in several primary. Tracing the origin and fabrication of a national mythology and it's influence over people's daily life and memory. The interview with children and teacher was mixed with the documents of the history of how this sport was introduced into china, and it's relationship with Chinese political history.

North Hollywood Shoot-Out

1997 • 30 min

The morning of February 28, 1997 will go down as one of the most brutal and fascinating shoot-outs in American history! MVP Home Entertainment, Inc. takes you far beyond the combat zone in this exclusive and unprecedented video. Experience an explosive rush of adrenalin as the battle is engaged between the L.A.P.D. and two heavily armed gunmen, right before your eyes!

Four Colors

1997 • 48 min • Japan

In this special VHS released by the Takarazuka Revue, four stars of the four troupes at the time (Flower, Moon, Snow, Star) perform songs from popular musicals, accompanied by interviews and studio recording footage.

Das Stahlwerkmassaker

1997 • 8 min

Teens at a steel mill get murdered by a masked killer

Locker Room Voyeur

1997 • 55 min • United Kingdom

We've all done it... taken a sneak peek at the hot guy getting changed next to us. Now you needn't make it such a sneaky peak! Come with us into a university men's locker room for a candid look at hot, full frontal guys changing, washing up and toweling off- totally oblivious to voyeurs like us. This is 100% genuine: no sets, no story- just gorgeous, naked and unaware guys!

Palli var einn í heiminum

1997 • 25 min

Palli var einn í heiminum, íslenskt leikin barnamynd sem gerð var fyrir RUV. Það er Vésteinn Sæmundsson sem leikur Palla en karlinn í tunglinu er leikin af Karli Guðmundssyni.

Study of a River

1997 • 16 min • United States of America

The first part (winter) of a seasonal study of the Hudson river in New York.

UFOs Above and Beyond

1997 • 48 min

This documentary on Unidentified Flying Objects collects video footage captured of UFO's landing on water, mass sightings of purported alien spacecraft and a look at the mysterious "Area 51." Interviews with numerous UFO researchers are also included, including Bob Lazar. Narrated by James Doohan, best remembered as "Scotty" from the original Star Trek.

One Girl Against the Mafia

1997 • 56 min • Italy

A powerful story of an ultra-violent world and the courage of one young woman against all odds.

Sunflowers

1997 • 51 min • China

In May of each year, in the remote Philippine town of Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte, a group of gay men performs a Christian festival in drag. Known as the "Santacruzan", the festival celebrates the discovery of the Holy Cross in the third century by Saint Helen. The acceptance of these men by the local townspeople is the beginning of a surprising and moving portrait of gay life in this small, farming community.

Back in the Saddle Again

1997 • 10 min • United States of America

A found footage film that innocently plays with many of the elements I explore in my own work. A family's playful interaction with a 16mm sound movie camera, singing along as a group with Gene Autrey's title song in front of the camera, combines western fantasy, American kitsch, gender posturing, deterioration of the film's surface, the wonderment of the cinematic process, and the use of controlled accidents to shape the form of the film. My only intrusion on the footage was to print it first in negative, which adds a mysterious, ghostly edge to it, and to print it again in positive, which seems to answer many of the questions raised in the first version. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Crazy of You

1997 • 28 min

Set in the industrial suburbs of Beirut, Majnounak explores male sexuality through interviews with men who recount one of their sexual relationships. Attentive to details of body and sexual language, songs, indications of each interlocutor’s erotic imaginary, the film tries to sketch a portrait of the ”male” they identify with. Patterns emerge, as do norms, but also an unsuspected map of Beirut’s sites of sexual encounters.

O Arraial

1997 • 13 min

In the backlands of Bahia, at the end of the 19th century, hundreds of families went to the Santo de Belo Monte settlement in Canudos, drawn by the promises of Antônio Conselheiro. The film addresses the War of Canudos, when soldiers and generals joined forces to destroy the city he founded.

A Plate of Sardines

1997 • 17 min • France, Syrian Arab Republic

A man recollects the conflict in the middle east through his personal memory. In this short documentary, Amiralay reflects on the first time he heard of Israel. Through recorded conversations with filmmaker Mohamed Malas, both Amiralay and Malas share their own unique stories and experiences about Israel and Israeli occupation. In the company of fellow Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas, the ground-breaking director Omar Amiralay revisits the ruins of the destroyed Golan village of Quneytra, occupied by Israel and then abandoned following the 1973 war.

There Are Many Things One Can Talk About...

1997 • 50 min • France, Syrian Arab Republic

The film was based on an interview with the late dramatist Saadallah Wannous a few months before he died of cancer. Wannous narrates his somber and relentless reflections – an adieu to a generation for whom the Arab-Israeli conflict has been the source of all disillusion. The playwright recounts, with some regret for the lost opportunities that resulted, how the Palestinian struggle became a central part of intellectual life for an entire generation

A Painter of Eloquent Silence: Ganesh Pyne

1997 • 24 min

A biographical film about the reclusive painter Ganesh Pyne.

Moonlight

1997 • 4 min • Germany

Abstract film set to electronic music.

Knittelfeld - Town Without History

1997 • 35 min • Austria, Germany

Knittelfeld is a small Austrian Town and looks exactly like an Austrian small Town. Contrary to other Austrian small towns Knittelfeld had to face a challenge. In 1977 the family Pritz moved into Knittelfeld and confronted the town with an unusual degree of suffering, crime and manslaughter. - Sixpack Film

Christmas in New York

1997 • 30 min

This film, directed by then Columbia University Mark Millhone, takes a sardonic look at the holiday season from a struggling writer’s point of view.

A Biography of Lilith

1997 • 35 min

In a lively mix of off-beat narrative, collage and memoir, A Biography of Lilith updates the creation myth by telling the story of the first woman and for some, the first feminist. Lilith’s betrayal by Adam in Eden and subsequent vow of revenge is recast as a modern tale with present-day Lilith (Cherie Wallace) musing on a life that has included giving up a baby for adoption and work as a bar dancer. Interweaving mystical texts from Jewish folklore with interviews, music and poetry, Sachs reclaims this cabalistic parable to frame her own role as a mother.

U.F.O.s: The Best Evidence Ever Caught on Tape

1997 • 45 min • United States of America

Professional photographers and UFO video hunters capture extraordinary objects in the skies around the world.

Chicago

1997 • 13 min • Germany

This film was provoked by a trip on the overhead railway through the centre of Chicago in 1991. I filmed a twelve minute piece facing forwards in the direction we were driving. Three years later I came across the film material once more. The memory of it had faded, and its images were just as vague. So I worked on the material using a bleaching bath. The complex, cuboid-like architecture of the city came out in a test of the substantial and then sank back into the minority - dissolving to a lump of cosmic dust. I was first able to identify a projection of the experienced, within the undercurrent of disintegration. (Jurgen Reble)