All Films - Short Movie Database

Don't Run, Johnny

1997 • 8 min

This short film was inspried by the work of B-movie director Ed Wood (Plan 9 From Outer Space, Glen or Glenda). It's the story of an 'average gay male's' panic-stricken run through the city streets after learning that he is HIV-positive. It's also a comedy. Really. Shot in just two days with a budget of just two thousand dollars, 600 feet of b&w 16mm film on a Russian hand-crank camera, with no filming permit and a skeleton crew. Ed Wood would have been proud.

The Drop of Stone

1997 • 60 min

A cinepoetry about the demolition of University of Tokyo’s student residence (known as “Komaba-ryo” [駒場寮]) after it was closed down. In this film, Sekine metaphorically depicts the record of the demolition as “passage of time” through some images (many of which evoke “stream”) and the phantom. As a side note, the phantom is played by experimental filmmaker Erice Matsui [松井エリセ]. She ran an art gallery in the place and held independent screenings called “Theatre Moon” [テアトル・ムーン].

Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women

1997 • 7 min

Johnny Bravo goes an a whale watching trip to meet girls, but when he falls overboard, he washes up on an island of beautiful Amazon women, who don't take too kindly to him.

The Cake

1997 • 8 min • Croatia

A group of people are celebrating, sitting around the table. The celebration cake is served but unevenly divided among them...

Winner

1997 • 1 min • Russia

An animated film about how a group of frogs defeated an evil dog.

Out at Work

1997 • 56 min

In 1992 Cheryl Summerville, a cook at a Cracker Barrel restaurant outside Atlanta, received a termination paper stating that she was fired for "failing to demonstrate normal heterosexual values." She was shocked to discover that in more than 40 American states it was legal to fire workers simply because of their sexual orientation. OUT AT WORK chronicles the stories of a cook, an auto worker and a librarian as they seek workplace safety, job security and benefits for gay and lesbian workers.

Historias Breves II: Telephones Lines

1997 • 18 min • Argentina

A young man have telephone conversations with a woman because they seem to share the same line.

Electric Light Orchestra Part II: Access All Areas

1997 • 55 min

Live performances and interviews with Bev Bevan's ELO follow-up act, ELO Part II.

Adieu monde ou l'histoire de Pierre et Claire

1997 • 27 min

Short film about the fable of a young shepherd who had disappeared and the girl who followed him in the forest, told by French villagers in the Pyrenees. Each version told reveals the universal fascination of the novel and the unattainable. This film plays with the taste that some tourists have in searching for legends in mythical places, criticizing the authenticity of the facts as they are being told.

Driving the Dream

1997 • 29 min

Harrod Blank, who took us into the world of art cars with his epic first film, Wild Wheels, now focuses more in-depth on a few select art vehicles, the Grass Bus, the Hamburger Harley, and the Camera Van. As with his previous film, and the following one (Automorphosis) Blank takes a dauntless look at American car culture.

Time is on My Side

1997 • 55 min • Japan

The loneliness and emptiness of the protagonist are conveyed not heavily, but deeply. This is due to the fact that the film does not directly depict his emotional movements, but rather in a straightforward manner in relation to his surroundings. And this also resulted in the sympathy of the audience for the protagonist.

Et cetera

1997 • 33 min • India

‘Et cetera’ is a tetralogy of four separate films that seek to examine the various levels at which the reality of human existence functions.

The Violent Cockold

1997 • 55 min • Brazil

Robert Irwin : the beauty of questions

1997 • 59 min

Artist Robert Irwin presents his approach to art and its role in the world, and talks about his lifelong process of artistic search and discovery. Shows him at work on some of his installations in various locations.

Jack Dee Live And Uncut

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Filmed at London's Gielgud Theatre at the culmination of his 1998 tour, Jack Dee Live and Uncut puts the UK's favourite "whinger" in his element--on a stage performing stand-up comedy. Dee has presence in his orange shirt and tailored blue suit, but although he's derogatory about himself--he's a stay-at-home man, he's short, he's fat--he's also unapologetic. Dee isn't afraid to throw harsh words at his audience or swear like the proverbial navvy along with an onslaught of observational humour. He doesn't go in for surrealism, one-liners or complex structural payoffs. He prefers to tackle one subject at a time, explore it, then move on. His themes are universal rather than original but he usually brings a fresh perspective. Take builders… he puts himself at the centre of their Neanderthal attentions rather than women.

Fire Mountain: The Eruption and Rebirth of Mount St. Helens

1997 • 59 min • United States of America

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens leveled 230 square miles, sent 540 million tons of ash and volcanic rock twelve miles into the air, and blasted one cubic mile of earth from the crest of the Cascade Mountain Range. Illustrates the terrifying fury of the most destructive volcanic disaster in American history through aerial photography and survivors' own words. Shows examples of nature's plant and animal recovery seventeen years later.

Serial Killer Massacre

1997 • 55 min • United States of America

Ted is a depraved serial killer...until he meets Leah. Then he becomes a real monster. Together the two of them go on a bloody, murder-happy rampage of unparalleled brutality, stalking then slaughtering their victims with a bone-chilling psychotic intensity!