All Films

Krémes érzések

1997 • 55 min

A documentary about twins in the cosmetic industry.

Negotiating Sex in an Age of Panic

1997 • 12 min

A twelve-minute video produced for the 1997 MIX Film Festival. The founder of MIX asked Wentzy to "make it personal." The video provoked a MNN public access hearing for whether it should be considered obscene and lacking artistic merit, to which they unanimously concluded that the video was, in fact, of serious, artistic, and political merit.

Glimpses of Indian Animation

1997 • 30 min • India

This film traces the origins of Indian Animation, from the pioneering work of Dada Saheb Phalke, it moves to preset day high -tech computer animation. The films under lines important contribution of Films Division's Cartoon Film Unit.

Life's a Bath

1997 • 1 min

John Frusciante is filmed taking heroin at his Hollywood Boulevard address. That footage and the footage from 1994 is then combined, but the video was never officially released

GRISAILLE (Gray Over)

1997 • 3 min

8mm short film by Mikio Yamazaki.

Trail of the UFO

1997 • 51 min

The team investigate UFO sightings in a small town.

Adam and Eve. Liberation From Original Sin

1997 • 24 min • Russia

Biblical motifs combined with Suprematism, plus a brilliant idea of integrating the movement of water in the Volga–Don Canal into the action.

Highlanders Too

1997 • 10 min

The short film looks at what it is like to be gay when the nearest bar is 250 miles away. Drawn from nearly 20 hours of interviews with highlander gay men of all ages, the film tells of the double lives, feelings of isolation, religious oppression and struggle for selfhood.

Body, Body on the Wall

1997 • 7 min • Belgium

Body, Body on the Wall was originally part of the stage performance of the same name, from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus/Jan Fabre.

Le Dernier Voyage

1997 • 26 min • France

The last journey of the postal workers, a profession disappears... Men sorting mail on the Paris-Brest line, every night, as the train rolls along. Upon arrival in the early morning, the mail is ready for delivery. It is the last journey, the end of a job, the end of a way of life for these men who sometimes lead double lives, in Paris and in Brest...

The Tim Vine Christmas Present

1997 • 60 min

First broadcast on Channel 5 [UK] on 24th December 1997. Produced by Richard Hearsey.

Dream Boys

1997 • 57 min • United States of America

The good people at B/Fore Productions have done it. Dream Boys has six unbelievable man bodies for you to ooh and aah at. This is all-man, showing us why we love them.

Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary

1997 • 53 min

If Proposition 187 makes it through the courts, will hall duty become border patrol in California public schools? Fourth-grade-teacher-turned-filmmaker Laura Simon puts human faces on the issue as she takes us inside her classroom and into the faculty lounge at Hoover Elementary in Los Angeles. Law and learning converge as students, teachers and parents grapple candidly with the impact of policies that would deny public services to undocumented immigrants and their children.

Speak Easy

1997 • 20 min • Austria

Young people on the telephone.

Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect

1997 • 56 min

This documentary depicts Johnson at work and the importance of the architectural act, the actual construction, and how the buildings interact with their environment — in this case, the autumn leaves or snow of New Canaan.

Exit

1997 • 3 min • Sweden

Wallin's animation work using silicon graphics, "Exit (1997)", in which appropriated figures from Hieronymus Bosch paintings are pursued by a huge wall of fire, received attention from all over Europe. Every time the fire surrounds and burns a victim, increasing applause is heard.

Night in White Satin

1997 • 22 min

Go-raku-en

1997 • 7 min

"We make memories in the journey and look for the evaporative emotions in the blurry memories. Facing the illusion of exotic language, GO-RAKU-EN deconstructs the estranged and complicated feelings of lovers and tries to reflect the essence of loneliness. Eventually, the reality of the sound restruct... Wu used images and sounds taken from the trip to create the experimental piece Go-raku-en (後樂園). "It is so simple and pure. ... It's just that when you don't care that much, it's purity," said Wu, who feels that any form of art is an expression of thinking and an extension of liberty and freedom."

Carrie At Still

1997 • 28 min

A Super-8 film by Stom Sogo.

Spectrum Slice

1997 • 28 min

Ella

1997 • 12 min • Venezuela

She is a girl in a limited situation, a short about the reproductive rights of women and the right to decide.

Survivors

1997 • 16 min • United States of America

With images that vary from abstract to vividly representational, this animated documentary is based on interviews with victims of domestic violence who bravely recount their brutal histories, and, with the help of counselors, take their first steps towards healing.

An Ensign to the Nations

1997 • 59 min • United States of America

"An Ensign to the Nations" was made by the LDS Church's Audiovisual Department, with Russ Holt as the producer. With so much attention paid to the early history of the church during its sesquicentennial year, Holt said the movie depicts church history from 1847 to 1997. It makes clear that the pioneer trek wasn't the end - but rather the beginning - of an epic story that continues to grow larger with each passing year.

Calendar the Siamese

1997 • 30 min

Calendar the Siamese is the story of Roger Simmons, a downtown musician in the throes of a mid-life crisis. Roger believes that if he just had a year to concentrate on his composing, he could turn his life around. In desperation to buy time, he risks his life by selling a slice of his liver on the biological black market.