All Films

Fanny Farveløs

1997 • 23 min • Denmark

Fanny is a little pale faced girl with tangled hair. She wakes one miserable day to find she has 'fake' measles. Reluctantly she is sent to a nurse and to her surprise her day turns into a fantastic fairy tale.

Manu: Peru's Hidden Rain Forest

1997 • 53 min • United States of America

Along the eastern edge of the Peruvian Andes runs a river called the Manu, the heart of one of the world's largest and most pristine rain forest parks in the world: Manu National Park and Biosphere Reserve. Filmed over several years, "Living Edens Manu" chronicles some of Manu's extraordinary inhabitants-a giant Harpy Eagle family that preys upon monkeys and sloths so that their chick can successfully fledge, jaguars, Giant Otters, 20-foot caimans (relatives of the alligator), tree sloths, anteaters, brilliantly-plumaged macaws, Howler, Squirrel, and Spider Monkeys, and tapir.

Rich People Are Weird

1997 • 2 min • Russia

The film tells the story of a little dog who prefers life on the streets to living in a luxurious palace.

The Best of Abbott & Costello Live

1997 • 58 min

"He-e-ey Abb-o-o-o-tt!!" screamed Lou. And all America knew the fun was about to begin. For decades, lanky straight man Bud Abbott and tubby spark plug Lou Costello brought the knock about outrageousness of vaudeville to Hollywood... and uncontrolled laughter to millions. Chances are you already know the duo from the widely-syndicated The Abbott & Costello Show. Now see these two comedy greats as you've never seen them before in this inspired, exclusive hour-long assortment of timeless good times culled from Bud and Lou's appearances as host on network TV variety hours. Preserved originally on kinescope and available here for the first time in nearly 25 years, this fast, funny unforgettable lineup of more than 29 classic Abbot & Costello skits and manic moments will have you in stitches over "Who's on First?"- and keep you looking forward to what's up next.

Cette télévision est la vôtre

1997 • 60 min • France, Portugal

Over a period of several months, director and writer Mariana Otero has been looking through the uncompromising lens of her camera at the realities of life behind the scenes at a commercial TV station: the Portuguese channel SIC.

Forest Tales

1997 • 15 min • Belarus

A poetic tale directed by Elena Petkevich for children on a small grasshopper, which is trying to learn the secret of life.

The Birth of Light

1997 • 5 min • Iran

One shot, taken using a time-lapse technique, of a sunrise in an Iranian mountain landscape. A thin band of light shines across a starry sky, the sun comes up, the dawn light glows.

Evil of Dracula

1997 • 2 min • United States of America

Short by Martha Colburn.

Face to Face

1997 • 50 min

US-Documentary on Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee

A Speck on the Eyelash

1997 • 34 min • Israel

Can Fear be a self fulfilling prophecy? A husband, a wife and their best friend return from a ski vacation. The husband suspects that his wife has fallen in love with the friend. He confronts his friend rather than his wife. The friend dismisses the accusation. Is he lying? and if not, how will these doubts affect him, and will he view the wife differently from now on? And the wife: Is she indeed in love? if so, will she do something about it? If not, will she sense the suspicions around her? could she not? And the husband: should he discover that he was wrong, would he be able to stop that which he had begun with mere words? An anxiety that settled in the mind of one, takes over his life and rocks the lives of two

As Aventuras Sexuais de Mike Jackson

1997 • 54 min • Brazil

Imagine a pornographic film set in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Vigário Geral, with a clone of Michael Jackson and three women without any glamor, seeing it in a shack falling apart. Can you imagine? Ask your rental store for the tape ‘‘ The Sexual Adventures of Mike Jackson ’’, by Gregório de Mattos, and you will have the opportunity to see that the above description is not far from the truth. Just as the North American filmmaker Spike Lee had to obtain authorization from drug dealers from Morro Dona Marta (south zone of Rio de Janeiro) to record a clip with Michael Jackson, he had the prior approval of Vigário Geral's "sheriff" (northern zone) to shoot " Mike Jackson's Sexual Adventures ".

The Bay of Pigs

1997 • 60 min

On 17th April 1961, an invasion force of over 1,200 Cuban exiles - trained, financed, equipped and directed by the US CIA - launched an amphibious invasion of the Cuban mainland. This documentary examines both the tactical and ethical questions surrounding the failed three-day battle, one that the world watched with great apprehension, and features interviews with key participants, archival footage and information obtained through declassified documents.

Wonderful Story

1997 • 22 min

Idol VHS tape Ryoko Hirosue released in 1997.

Gaither's Pond: The Lure Depths

1997 • 28 min

A computer-animated homecoming for kids of all ages!

No Is Yes

1997 • 38 min

Shown at The Spectacular Optical, Threadwaxing Space, New York City, Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. No Is Yes examines the inevitable co-option of counter culture through two teenage girls that accidentally kill and mutilate their favorite rockstar. It is inspired by MTV' s habitual use of experimental film and video techniques to render elaborate ads for their specialized product—the pop star.

Handcrafted Cinema

1997 • 36 min

In 1994, Caroline Leaf accepted the Sir Allen Sewell Fellowship to give a series of studio workshops and lectures to animation students at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane. In this film she talks about her work and demonstrates such techniques as sand animation, paint and cut-out animation and scratch animation.

Whiplash

1997 • 20 min • United States of America

During the years preceeding his death, Sonbert channeled his energy into making Whiplash. His vision and motor skills impaired, he gave his companion, Ascension Serrano, detailed instructions about the assembly of specific shots and the music to be used as a counterpoint to the images. Before his death in 1995, he asked filmmaker Jeff Scher (a former student of Sonbert's at Bard) to complete the film. --Jon Gartenberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1996.

Fragmentos - Uma Narrativa Intranquila

1997 • 45 min

Documentary and fictional medium-length film made in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with testimonials from cinematographic technicians and assembly of material in super-8. Among the images, the scenes from the movie "Patíbulo" (Joel Yamaji, 1976) and the material not found in a room at the School of Communications and Arts at USP.

911: The Journey So Far...

1997 • 58 min

A movie documenting the making of 911's first album, The Journey. Features interviews with the band, self-filmed footage of their promotional tour and behind the scenes of their music videos.

Be Careful!

1997 • 1 min

The mankind, laughing, to all gets used. Slowly, but correct. It is necessary to recognize, that on a background of prompt growth counterskyscraper and other terrorism, general degradation and degeneration of tastes, the problem of former terrible AIDS is not considered now as something out of the common leaving in a turn universal bad. In comparison with all by rest of the same sort, is in it even and something positive: for pleasure suffer, instead of so that sleep, and wake up under concrete ruins, not having and opportunity to send last "forgive" over the mobile telephone. From asheses send - in ashes we will address, as teach us clever books. In film, about which there will be a speech, the alternative way which was less giving back with didactics, formalin and fatalism is offered.

Introducing Tony Ferrino: Who and Why? A Quest

1997 • 30 min • United Kingdom

In depth interview special with Steve Coogan's spoof Portuguese musical megastar Tony Ferrino

Heritage Minutes: Stratford

1997 • 1 min • Canada

Tom Patterson’s vision transforms a quiet railway town into a world-renowned cultural destination.

The Novelist's Affair 3: Lover Battle Royale

1997 • 58 min • Japan

Uratsuki is a popular erotic novelist. One day, he decides to write a masterpiece of pure literature and hides himself in a rural inn. One after another, irresistible attractive women appear before him and they have intense sex. This is a mystery-style comedy full of eroticism, a must-see explosion of lust, where a harem-like, intense and sensual relationship unfolds around a sensual novelist with a big dick and excellent technique.

רדיו גן

1997 • 45 min • Israel

Classic Israeli children's songs covered by Yael Bar Zohar, presented by a comedic pair of radio hosts who constantly bicker.