All Films

The Triumph & Tragedy of Napoleon Bonaparte

1997 • 10 min

A dramatization of Napoleon's exile to the Isle of Elba, accompanied by a brief historical dissertation.

Cuttlefish: Kings of Camouflage

1997 • 60 min

Join NOVA on a voyage beneath the waves, where you'll discover a bizarre, alien-like creature like no other. It's an animal with eight sucker-covered arms growing out of its head, three hearts pumping its blue-green blood, and a doughnut-shaped brain. It has the ability to change its color and shape to blend in with seaweed and rocks, and it has a knack for switching on electrifying light shows that dazzle its prey. Perhaps most surprising of all, this animal is quite intelligent, with a highly complex brain. In this program, underwater cameras capture the extraordinary powers of the cuttlefish.

Distorted "Tele" Vision

1997 • 11 min • United States of America

“The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six scenes that feature a television in the landscape. The speed of the television (in NTSC) is 30 frames per second, and never changes in this film. But the landscape views pass at different speeds.” - Yo Ota

Night of the Fox

1997 • 60 min • Iran

Fox Night movie was made in 1996. This film is a product of the Iranian country in the genre of action and mystery genre. Mohammad Motoselani, Hossein Yaryar and Gholamhossein Lotfi have been featured in the film.

Kinjirareta asobi

1997 • 60 min

The Hercules 4th planet is on the verge of death due to a strange disease that affects only men. The existence of organisms with similar genes was needed for making therapeutic drugs. At the end of a long journey in space, they finally arrive on earth. Residents of an apartment start to disappear one after another on that day. And suddenly, a mysterious young man named Suzuki appears.

Stuart Hall: Representation & the Media

1997 • 56 min • United States of America

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation. Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations, Hall argues that the process of representation itself constitutes the very world it aims to represent, and explores how the shared language of a culture, its signs and images, provides a conceptual roadmap that gives meaning to the world rather than simply reflecting it. Hall's concern throughout is the centrality of culture to the shaping of our collective perceptions, and how the dynamics of media representation reproduce forms of symbolic power.

How They Make Adult Movies

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

Behind the scenes look at how hardcore sex videos are made, with numerous interviews with stars and directors of sex films of various styles and interests.

Anita Liberty

1997 • 15 min • United States of America

Anita's boyfriend Mitchell dumped her after 3.5 years for Heather. All she can think about is humiliating him, mostly in poems that are bitter, banal, and hilarious.

Exposed

1997 • 8 min • Australia

A filmmaker makes a documentary about a photographer. David Edwards has been taking photographs of naked men for the past 11 years. But in this case, who is the voyeur and who is the exhibitionist? An examination of the nature of looking.

Eddie Griffin: Voodoo Child

1997 • 57 min • United States of America

Eddie Griffin gives you his all in one of the funniest, most irreverent stand-up routines ever performed! Witness firsthand one of the hip-hop generation's leading comedians in his first stand-up broadcast, originally aired on HBO in 1997. VooDoo Child will keep you laughing through a virtual comedic drive-by that hits all of its targets: racism, sexism, homosexuality, education, religion, the Bible and Michael Jackson, not necessarily in that order. No person, group or creed is spared as with great skill and wit Eddie verbally pounces on everything and everybody and keeps it real in the process. Here's hip-hop comedy on the edge, filled with rage and loaded with truth!

Biodiversity: Wild About Life!

1997 • 53 min

Four teenagers discover the value of the variety of life on earth - and are inspired by positive actions to safeguard it.

Null Sonne No Point

1997 • 34 min • Germany

The musicians of the ‚Art Ensemble of Chicago’ have been performing their portrayal of jazz from past and present since 1967, not unlike a journey backwards in time aroused by an ancestral call to the myths of Africa. But what happens before their concerts? NULL SONNE NO POINT is the magnificent chronicle of the preparation for a concert and invites us into the very heart of the music, following the musicians backstage, at their rehearsals and moments of privacy and concentration, seeking the fluctuating emotions before the music begins.

Pings 2

1997 • 2 min • France

Pings is a short film featuring cute characters in “politically incorrect” situations with an original graphics style. Two of these short films exist, this is the second one with the penguin.

Schichtwechsel

1997 • 9 min

It is a film that has as its object everything that one does not usually see when watching a film, but which is of essential importance for the projection: the perforations, the footer numbers, the letters and sometimes the emulsion that becomes the protagonist at the end of the film instead of the images recorded by the camera.

Lights and Colors

1997 • 57 min • Macedonia

Macedonian TV drama.

Wolves at Our Door

1997 • 52 min • United States of America

Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Not Jim and Jamie Dutcher. Raising a pack of gray wolves from puppies, they were able to film their growth, development, and changing behavior. Wolves at Our Door, the sequel to Wolf: Return of a Legend, explores these beautiful animals as they live in America's Northwest. Excellent footage captures the wolves playing with each other and with the Dutchers and allows us a glimpse into another world, one that's not so scary after all. You're sure to see these marvelous beasts differently after watching Wolves at Our Door. --Rob Lightner

2 or 3 Things But Nothing for Sure

1997 • 12 min

Acclaimed author Dorothy Allison (BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA) is profiled in this moving, inspiring film. Combining poetic imagery with powerful readings, it evokes Allison's childhood in the poor white American South of the 1950's, her birth as a writer and feminist, and her coming to terms with a family legacy of incest and abuse. A beautifully realized portrait of an artist and survivor, this stirring film provides important insights into the roots of self-renewal and creativity.

America the Beautiful

1997 • 3 min

As two buff men kiss to the song "America the Beautiful" this film sounds the call for "Nelly Nationalism" from sea to shining sea.

The Greatest is the Least

1997 • 30 min • United States of America

In the years following Jesus’ resurrection, the disciples learn to practice His teachings. While working at the salt mine, James witnesses two fellow prisoners fighting to be number one. He remembers being with Jesus as He embraced the children and humbly kneeled to wash the disciples’ feet. Through this we learn that the way to greatness in His kingdom is not found in how many serve you, but in how many you serve.

John Frusciante Live at the Denison University in Granville, Ohio

1997 • 14 min • United States of America

John Frusciante's performance during the second show of the Nuttstalk tour, his first solo tour which occured during his reclusive period in the 90's. He performed a few songs from his solo albums to a small crowd. The video was taped by Bob Forrest of Thelonious Monster, who also performed on the tour.

Bedouin Sand

1997 • 17 min • Israel

Nine-year-old Roy likes a bottle of colored sand. A bedouin in Sinai tries to sell it to him.

Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

1997 • 60 min

This 1997 film considers the downfall of the Daily Mirror, the newspaper Pilger worked on for 23 years: a popular, intelligent tabloid once read by a quarter of the British population and which genuinely reflected its readers' concerns. Pilger asks why the qualities seen in the paper prior to the 1970s are no longer apparent, examining the contraction of the press following the Sun's symbolic move to Wapping, coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, the fate of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, and the stranglehold of Rupert Murdoch.

The Marquesa: Portrait of a Dominatrix

1997 • 60 min • Canada

This documentary sets the focus sharply on the often maligned and misunderstood world of sadomasochism. It gives us a glimpse into the life of The Marquesa, a dominatrix who guides us through the S&M community and its rituals and motivations. The Marquesa explores and examines her own relationship to S&M, and to the submissives that make the scenes possible. The video dismantles the myths and fallacies surrounding the practice by a straightforward and frank discussion.

Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway

1997 • 28 min • Hong Kong

Australian cultural attaché Sir Les Patterson visits his old haunts in Hong Kong before its administrative rule is returned from Britain to China.