All Films

Dolphins Are Mammals

1997 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

A young boy faces difficulties in both his family life and his school life after talking back to a teacher.

The Bed-Stuy Vollies

1997 • 25 min

In one of New York's toughest areas, the world's first black volunteer ambulance association (the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps, or "Bed-Stuy Vollies") struggles on a shoestring budget to serve a neglected neighborhood.

Monica's Seaside Adventure

1997 • 45 min • Australia

Monica's Seaside Adventure

Pierre and Gilles, Love Stories

1997 • 57 min • France

Pierre's the photographer, Gilles is the painter. This video follows the pair of French artists for one year as they team to concoct their patented bizarre and beautiful imaginary world in pictures, often conflating gay, Hollywood, and religious iconography. They've attracted as models such international celebrities and stars as Michael Jackson, Nina Hagen, Madonna, Boy George, Mark Almond, Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and Prince. Some critics dismiss their work as simply kitsch, while some of the world's top art galleries have held shows celebrating the duo's work.

Possum

1997 • 19 min • New Zealand

In a backwoods cabin, a boy called Little Man lives with his dad (a trapper), his older sister Missy, and his younger sister Kid, who is feral, spends most of her time under the table, and can imitate the sound of any animal. Their mother is dead. One day, while dad's in town selling skins, Missy teases Kid and gets bitten. There's Hell to pay when dad gets home, and Kid runs off into the night to spend it with her animal friends. Little Man, who narrates much of the story as well as his reflections in a whisper, must sort out loss and emptiness.

The Second Great Battle of Jericho

1997 • 53 min

For decades, secular archaeologists have regularly announced discoveries that seem to contradict the Bible. A prime example of this was a conclusion by renowned archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon, who stated publicly that the Biblical account of the conquest of Jericho could not possibly be factual. This eye-opening video shows how Biblical Archaeology uncovered the true story about the battle for Jericho. To experience the detective-like quest of Biblical Archaeology, viewers will join an actual dig in Israel to begin a search for Joshua's Ai at Khirbet el-Maqatir with Dr. Bryant Wood and Gary Byers. Become part of the fascinating process of selecting the site, preparing for the excavation, and peeling back the layers of time to reveal the clues to ancient history.

Scarpette bianche

1997 • 31 min • Italy

RAI documentary filmed in 1996 about Angola, whose people, after more than ten years of anti-colonial struggle and twenty of civil war, still suffer due to the amount of active landmines scattered all over the country.

Masks

1997 • 8 min

The story starts with the birth of a baby, who starts crying as soon as he sees his father "in disguise." The infant is already expressing his desire for authenticity. By the age of three, he instinctively rejects conventions. He is taken to a psychiatrist, who finds him perfectly normal. When he starts school, he is offered another mask. Once again, he rejects it, and once again, he is led off to the psychiatrist. As a teenager he discovers his father's disguises and fills them with helium. As an adult, his creative attitude towards his work arouses the envy of his colleagues. At one of his last visits to the psychiatrist, he sees a young woman who seems to be experiencing the same problems he is. It's love at first sight. From their union is born a child who starts to cry as soon as he sees his father wearing a motorcycle helmet. The father quickly removes his "mask..."

You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Christmas Party

1997 • 26 min

Come join Mary-Kate & Ashley's Christmas Party. There will be singing, dancing and lots of fun!! If it's up to me (and me) you'll RSVP!!!!

Crayola Kids Adventures: Tales of Gulliver's Travels

1997 • 48 min • United States of America, Canada

An incredible journey comes alive in this story of a ship's doctor whose far-flung voyage leads him into a world of adventure. Join Gulliver as he travels from a fabulous floating island to the mind-boggling land of Yahoos, where talking dogs are the masters - and humans are the leash-wearing pets! Then, arriving in the kingdom of the pint-sized Lilliputians, Gulliver must use his gigantic size and colossal strength to teach his quarrelsome little friends a big lesson in how to get along. Sparkling with original songs and spellbinding special effects, this larger-than-life adventure is sure to capture the imaginations of young and old alike!

Looking for Enemies Finding Friends

1997 • 20 min

A self-portrait of Vincent Gallo.

Secret Lives: L. Ron Hubbard

1997 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the creator of Dianetics and Scientology, featuring some of the people who knew him intimately.

The Littlest Angel

1997 • 25 min • Canada

Based on the best selling children's classic book by Charles Tazewell. In this holiday special the Littlest Angel demonstrates the timeless lesson of giving as he tries to adapt to life in heaven.

Over open avgrunn

1997 • 58 min • Norway

A portrait of Norwegian poet and novelist Tarjei Vesaas (1897 - 1970).

Wounds and Other Absent Objects

1997 • 8 min

Short film by Anish Kapoor commissioned by BBC Channel 4 as part of the 'TV Sculpture' programme. The impact of Anish Kapoor's sculpture is immediate while its full meaning is more elusive and mysterious. His visual puzzles are tailor-made for television. For Wounds and Other Absent Objects Kapoor has created an electronic palette with which to explore the physical power of colour. Premiered 6 October1997.

Your Kiss

1997 • 3 min • United States of America

A circle of men on a San Francisco rooftop play the telephone game with a kiss to the strains of a 1940's Dorothy Lamour song.

A Story of Healing

1997 • 28 min

In January, 1997, a team of five nurses, four anesthesiologists, and three plastic surgeons arrive in Vietnam from the United States for two weeks' of volunteer work. They operate on 110 children who have various birth defects and injuries. They also talk to the film crew about why they've made this trip and what it means to them. We watch them work, and we see the children, their families, and their surroundings in the Mekong Delta. Over the closing credits, Dionne Warwick sings Bacharach and David's "What the World Needs Now Is Love".

Castle Ghosts of Wales

1997 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Wales is an edge of magnificent landscape and majestic medieval locks. On every square kilometer here are more locks, than somewhere in the world: from romantic ruins to the majestic fortresses. The familial locks of Wales remember time of bloody murders, cruel intestine war.

Still Life

1997 • 58 min • Germany

According to Harun Farocki, today's photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters in that they depict objects from everyday life - the "still life". The filmmaker illustrates this intriguing hypothesis with three documentary sequences which show the photographers at work creating a contemporary "still life": a cheese-board, beer glasses and an expensive watch.

The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A look at the colourful lifestyle and inspiring music and lyrics of Shane MacGowan, former lead singer of the Pogues. Featuring specially-recorded performances of MacGowan's songs.

Karen Black Like Me

1997 • 15 min

David Briggs' Karen Black Like Me is a weirdly funny homage to the 70s cult classic Trilogy of Terror.

Space War

1997 • 3 min • United States of America

All hell breaks loose when an alien monstrosity crash lands on a small fantasy island.

Eyewitness: Monster

1997 • 30 min

Which is the deadliest monster of all, real or imaginary? This video explores monsters of myth and movies and real-world animals that scare us.

Autre chose à foutre qu'aimer

1997 • 53 min

In this short and uneven film about a single mother and her brood, the difficulties and obstacles involved in loving someone are presented with sympathy and fine sentiment, yet the film is slow in parts and although short, could have been advantageously edited to a still briefer length.