All Films

Georges Bataille - À perte de vue

1997 • 48 min • France

A traveller investigates the life and work of Georges Bataille. Through a staging of the writer's obsessive motives, the film succeeds in grasping the elusive: the sensitive nucleus of radical thought. The film contains the interviews with Pierre Klossowski and Jacques Pimpanneau.

Evita: A Grave Without Peace

1997 • 51 min • Argentina

The secret story of Evita Peron's dead body.

Snoot's New Squat

1997 • 7 min

When an alien from a fur-loving race is ordered to find a new home for his people, he settles on a neurotic dog.

Duties of My Heart

1997 • 11 min

A hybrid short film that merges American Sign Language, contemporary dance, and poetry to tell a deeply personal story about expression, resilience, and the emotional weight of language. Drawing visual inspiration from the experimental dance films of the 1940s, the piece centers a Deaf protagonist whose inner world is revealed not through words, but through movement.

Pingu at the Wedding Party

1997 • 25 min • Switzerland, United Kingdom

It's excitement all round when a wedding invitation arrives and the Pingu family make their way to the gathering. However things do not go quite as planned with an absentee groom, a new arrival and the havoc wreaked by a damaged gift.

3 Ways To Go

1997 • 4 min

A trinity of dying, as hand exposure of film, drawing, live action and stop motion conspire to probe the mystery of the final moments. Potent and disquieting as it seeks answers to the great question.

St. Pelagius the Penitent

1997 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Whimsical and thought-provoking, this is the story of five friends, each on a unique gender adventure, and one of their long-lost ancestors, a medieval saint.

X-Isles

1997 • 43 min • United States of America

One of the few documentaries to deal with the reasons why some Caribbean Gays and Lesbians become ex-isles while others stay home.

Chu^2

1997 • 24 min

A three part anthology anime film

Sabriya

1997 • 25 min • Tunisia

This film explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb. It is a film about men who prefer to live life as an abstract game and the free-spirited woman who changes everything. Said and Youssef have fulfilled a life-long dream by opening a "chess bar" in the middle of the desert. They sit around drinking palm wine, playing board games and composing love poetry to imaginary women. All this changes with the arrival of Sarah, a sexually liberated, uninhibited metisse who easily lures Youssef into an affair. Soon he is dreaming not about chess but about opening a coffee bar in Genoa. The friendship is destroyed, the bar sold. Youssef, dressed in Western clothes, waits to leave with Sarah; will she show up? Said boards a train and sits down next to a Westernized woman bearing a resemblance to Sarah

Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

The Doctor is everyone’s favourite Time Lord. And Tom Baker is everyone’s favourite Doctor. With his manic grin, his wild hair and his mile long scarf, Baker became the definitive Doctor. His wicked sence of humour and naturally gentle personality added whole new dimensions to the character. This video includes a highly revealing interview with Baker that’s never been seen on television or video. Margarita in hand, he soaks up the California sunshine and talks openly about his time as the Doctor.

Red monster

1997 • 1 min

Short animated film presented at Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy in 1997 by the students of GOBELINS, l'école de l'image.

Hassan Hussen

1997 • 7 min • Kyrgyz Republic

Aktan Abdykalikov's simple, clear-eyed poetry finds an elemental form here. Two twin brothers are walking down the road carrying a pail of water, they fight and come to blows, and a bemused older man intervenes and sets them back on their way. It's that simple and it's that lovely. A graduate of the Art School of Kyrghyzstan, Aktan Abdykalyko (or Abdikalikov) first worked as a set designer for Kirgisfilm. After several well-received documentaries and short films, his first feature-length fiction film, Beshkempir, won several awards including the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival.

Spf 2000

1997 • 11 min • United States of America

In this hilarious homage to 1970's Italian sexploitation films, Pucci and JJ sunbathe by a creek, bored, until they spot Gretchen and her delectable son, Kip. They all become quick friends and rub sun protection lotion on each other, when suddenly an alien named Suroh appears. This visitor offers a more potent sunscreen, SPF 2000, to be shared by the entire human race, in light of the earth's decreasing ozone layer. Suroh learns the sensual aspects of applying lotion to human bodies, starting with them.

New Day

1997 • 50 min

A dramatic story that happened during the summer haymaking season to ordinary Yakut people

The Art of Illusion: 100 Years of Hollywood Special Effects

1997 • 50 min • United States of America

A history of movie magic from 1895 to 1995, showing primitive effects used in such films as "A Trip to the Moon" up to the state of the art effects used in "Apollo 13" and "The Abyss."

Myth Makers 38: The Directors Vol. 1 - Christopher Barry and Paul Bernard

1997 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Directing any television programme is demanding enough, Doctor Who brings its own special challenges. Between them, Christopher Barry and Paul Bernard have directed thirteen stories in the BBC TV series and worked with four Doctors. Here, in this special Myth Makers, they talk about their careers in television and share memories of working on Doctor Who. Since recording his interview Paul Bernard has sadly died. This production is respectfully dedicated to him.

Sing Along With Frank Woehrle

1997 • 30 min • United States of America

Musician and singer Frank Woehrle performs ten classic songs and you can sing along too! Featuring guest vocalist Linda Kilty.

All Visitors Must Be Announced: The Lives and Loves of Doormen in New York City

1997 • 52 min

One chooses to have a doorman mainly for practical reasons and safety. The friendly smile every time you arrive at or leave your building is a pleasant extra that makes the sometimes lonely life in this big city somewhat more bearable. The presence of the doorman appears to be hardly noticed. In most cases however he knows more about his residents than they would like to believe.

bp: pushing the boundaries

1997 • 60 min

In this award-winning documentary, filmmaker Brian Nash has created a tapestry of style and content as he reveals the essence of the late Canadian poet bpNichol, author of over 300 publications including books of poetry and fiction, sound recordings, television scripts, libretti and comic strips.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 21

1997 • 56 min

SWEATER GIRLS 4 tasty TITBITS, the famous VIRGINIA BELL calisthenics film with upside down jiggles and slo-mo bounce, the golden globes of JANE REYNOLDS, 3 CHERRIE KNIGHT peel downs and 3 definitive HONEY BEE strips induding her very earliest appearance pre-augmentation, and the later enhanced Ver.44E.

Yours

1997 • 3 min • United States of America

An animated short film created by the artist Jeff Scher.

Little Bear: Family Tales

1997 • 34 min

4 Family Tales

Monkeys. The First Aid

1997 • 10 min • Russia

The seventh story in the "Monkeys" series