All Films

The Story of a Shirt and a Violin

1997 • 47 min • Iran

A theater directed by Dariush Moadabian

Puppets & Demons

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

An anthology of surreal films by Patrick McGuinn featuring Vincent, a puppet who is obsessed with Twinkies and pasta.

Wanted

1997 • 5 min

Seeking connections.

A Story About Kusanojo

1997 • 25 min • Japan

Futaro, now 14 years old, is an only boy. His mother, an actress, raised him on her own. She herself is innocent, just like a child. It seems almost incredible to Futaro that she was brought him up by her self. One day, in the garden, Futaro seems a man dressed like a samurai. He must be one of mother’s actor friends, Futaro thinks, but then he resembles Futaro’s father. The stranger is called Kusanojo. He was a true samurai and now he is a true ghost. Strangely, Kusanojo seems to have forgotten the fact that he is a ghost. A strange life of 3 people with Futaro, his mother and his father who is a ghost starts.

Transworld - Starting Point 1

1997 • 23 min

The first in the instructional skateboarding series.

Surfing For Seniors

1997 • 28 min • United States of America

An instructional video teaching seniors how to use a computer and navigate the Internet.

Window

1997 • 3 min • Canada

Over the course of one year, Henricks periodically shot footage from front window of his third floor apartment. This material became the basis of Window, a video about knowing. How do we come to know a place or a person? Our knowledge comes from more than one unique experience. It is the sum of repetition and variations. Window shows how a whole can be more than merely the sum of the parts. It is the first in a series of works that explores one of the principle metaphors of video: the window.

Matamata et Pilipili

1997 • 58 min • Belgium

MATAMATA AND PILIPILI reclaims an important episode in Congolese cultural history, while exploring the complex terrain of colonial relationships, media representations, and popular culture.

Charles Santore Illustrates The Wizard of Oz

1997 • 27 min • United States of America

Charles Santore, in an expansion of his discussion in “Oz: The American Fairyland” (1997) (V), tells about his experience making an abridged storybook of “The Wizard of Oz”. He tells of his inspirations, the little girl who modeled for Dorothy, the tin man in folk art, and a left to right progression in a journey of identity, with opposing forces pushing the movement in art back to the left.

Monster in the Garage

1997 • 32 min

A dude throws a party, unaware that a hungry alien has taken up residence in his garage.

Movement

1997 • 3 min • France

Forms are born and die.

Sic transit gloria

1997 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

About ecology, hypocrisy and transience.

Dino in The Great Egg-Scape

1997 • 7 min

Dino takes care of a baby dinosaur and tries to prevent him from growing.

The Man in the Lower-Left Hand Corner of The Photograph

1997 • 13 min • United Kingdom

A man in a decaying room looks at an old photograph of himself and tries to recreate the happiness he once felt.

Front Room

1997 • 2 min • France

Close-ups of parts of the body, in a homoerotic statement.

By Then

1997 • 59 min • France

A child is confronted with the (ever young) old age of the world, its hazards, its cinema and music, shot in seven days in Rome, Fiumicino, Ciampino and Cineccità. What will happen on July 12, 1995, in Rome ? What will become of July 12, 1995, in Rome ?

Time Flies

1997 • 5 min

Personal photos are interspersed with fragmentary drawings and flashes of colour, observed and/or remembered everyday events - all of which add to a general sense of reminiscence. Sometimes a hand appears (Breer’s own) on top of a photo, reminding us that the photo is but an object in the film, not the film itself.

Os Camaradas

1997 • 15 min • Brazil

A Kafka-esque satire about food, identity, and bureaucracy.

Barbed Wire and Mandolins

1997 • 48 min • Canada

Hundreds of Italian men were interned as potential terrorists in Canada during the turbulent years of World War 2.

Divertimento

1997 • 2 min • United States of America

This, painted in the hospital while recovering from cancer surgery in 1996, is - it seems to me - very related to De Kooning's Alzheimer's paintings. The mind, here, is seeking a "blank" and/or holding fast to tendrils of meaning which are stripped so bare as to be purely reflective of flesh tissue and irregular strands of cells. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Le Treport

1997 • 3 min • Germany

For five days a super-8 camera exposed a single frame every three minutes. A film about a carousel, a small harbour, a light tower and about wind, waves, weather and the tides.

The Two-Wheeled Time Machine

1997 • 21 min • Australia

Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry returns to convince her to join him.

Body Double 10

1997 • 2 min

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Obsession

The Phony Trilogy

1997 • 4 min

A real-time video-meets-digital animation trilogy of shorts featuring the highly excited (and mildly delusional) Joe Gibbons. Brilliant computer animation by collaborator Emily Breer provides an additional layer of biting commentary.