All Films

A Sci Fi Audience with Tom Baker

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Tom Baker in conversation with a fascinated audience — humour, drama, passion, and honesty on a range of topics from K9 to death, and from leaving Doctor Who after his mammoth seven-year reign to his love of cats.

Hope In My Heart – The May Ayim Story

1997 • 28 min

The film presents a portrait by Maria Binder of May Ayim, Ghanaian-German poet, academic and political activist. May Ayim was one of the founders of the Black German Movement, and her research on the history and present situation of Afro-Germans, but also her political poetry, made her known in Germany and in other countries. May Ayim wrote in the tradition of oral poetry and felt a strong connection to other Black poets of the diaspora. Poetry gave her an opportunity to confront the white German society with its own prejudices. The film shows the author in performances in South Africa and in Germany. Interviews and poems reveal the search for identity, how and why the term Afro-German was introduced and how a young Black woman experienced the German unification. May Ayim lived from 1960 to 1996. In Berlin, a street which had the name of a colonialist was renamed in 2010 after May Ayim.

Jenny and Jenny

1997 • 60 min • Israel

Jenny & Jenny meet every day. Jenny & Jenny talk every day. They write to each other. They both have a broken heart and joy. They are cousins. They are 17. They live in Bat-Yam.The movie follows one summer in the life of Jenny & Jenny.

Bliss

1997 • 46 min

Bliss features Ratboy antics flying all over the Santa Cruz. Also great stuff of Kirra in Australia. The waves are just below sea level and grinding. Tom Curren also has an amazing segment where he jumps off a pier into thirty foot surf in Santa Barbara. As well as shaping a surfboard with eight fins and surfing it backwards and forwards! Awesome!

Critico e Critici

1997 • 25 min

Rezza presents a series of ironic tributes to various film titles (such as Dances with Wolves, Dancing Alone, etc.), featuring an unlikely critic who periodically calls on different experts to discuss each film. Both the critic and the experts are played by Rezza.

Screening at the Majestic

1997 • 27 min • France

More than fifty years after its making, we return to the set of Jean Cocteau's 1946 film "La Belle et la Bete" (Beauty and the Beast). Included are interviews with the the lead actors, the cinematographer, along with excerpts read from the director's journal.

A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola

1997 • 55 min

A Conversation with Martin Scorsese & Francis Ford Coppola

Light Spirit: Lighthouses of the Maine Coast

1997 • 54 min

All about lighthouses.

GWAR: Dawn of the Day of the Night of the Penguins

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

Full length live concert video recorded at D.C.'s legendary 9:30 Club. Gwar's longtime nemesis Techno Destructo attempts to defeat Gwar once and for all and claim the hand of Slymenstra Hymen as his prize. With a little help from some radioactive penguins and a robotic clone of Gwar manager Sleazy P. Martini, Gwar will surely be destroyed at long last!

An Apostle of Non-Violence

1997 • 46 min • Cambodia

A Buddhist monk tries to preach non-violence to the Khmum-Chachak rebels and the National Army, who are in the midst of a civil war that can dangerously affect innocent civilians.

The Self-Levitation Video

1997 • 19 min • United States of America

Michael Maxwell not only teaches you how to properly perform The Balducci Levitation but he also shares exclusive inside tips from David Roth. David has made the levitation one of his featured effects for lay audiences for many years and never tipped the "real work' until this video was made.

Making of Biohazard 2 TV-CM

1997 • 11 min • Japan

From the legendary director who redefined the zombies in film industry (George A. Romero), comes a bold new vision that blurs the line between game and horror cinema. Follow the camera behind the scenes of one of the most talked-about TV commercials ever made, created in collaboration with Brad Renfro and some of Hollywood’s top talent. Based on the world of Resident Evil, the hit survival horror game that had already terrified millions since its debut in 1996, this commercial heralds the arrival of its highly anticipated sequel. Breaking a two-year silence, director Romero returns with a haunting production of cinematic ambition. With a staggering budget of over 150 million yen (more than one million USD), the shoot took place on a chilling replica of a Los Angeles police station, transformed into the shadowy world of Raccoon City.

The Chest

1997 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Comedy drama about John Croft (Neil Morrissey), a failed businessman who is heavily in debt when he finds a wallet which contains a map which he later finds could lead him to hidden treasure. He decides to search for the treasure alone, but Roland Blood (Jim Carter), a dealer in naval antiquities, is not far behind. Croft follows the clues on the map from a castle to a church to a seaside promotory and finds the spot where the treasure was buried is the site of a new beachside housing development. He tries to buy the house, but his bank manager does not look kindly on his proposal and his wife is about to discover that he re-mortgaged her home. He decides to take drastic action…

Snow White Lucie

1997 • 4 min • France

Pierre Huyghe's work questions how diverse languages can apply to the same reality. In his short film Blanche-Neige Lucie (Snow White Lucie), Huyghe tells the story of Lucie Dolene who sang in the French version of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The film shows an aged Lucie humming the famous song while an interview with her runs as subtitles to the images. This mirroring of dubbing and translation serves as the vehicle for Huyghe's questioning of multiple identities and the ideal of translating a meaning to create a universal image.

Out for Love... Be Back Shortly

1997 • 55 min

Dan Katzir's autobiographical film expresses the outcry of his generation, as it struggles to find love and privacy amidst the reality of daily terror and hate. Mr. Katzir, a former officer and paratrooper intimately reveals his loves story with Iris, a charming girl about to begin her army service. A truly poetic film filled with beauty innocence and wisdom. This film is also an important historic document with rare and shocking footage from the era of assassinated prime minister Yitzchak Rabin. Made with much love and humour, this brave film examines Israel's most painful scars.

Equinox: Black Holes

1997 • 55 min

Documentary on nature's ultimate abyss, the black hole. It is the darkest thing in the universe and its gravity is so powerful that not even light can escape. Most start out as brilliant stars which, after millions of years, eventually collapse forming a bottomless pit from which there is no escape. Narrated by actor John Hurt and directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Richard Smith, the program is a journey into interstellar space to explore these mysterious "prisons of light", via an imaginary computer-generated space ship. Guides for the journey include Professor Stephen Hawking, Britain's Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees, and Homer Simpson. The program also examines the history surrounding black holes, from the first conception of them in 1859 to the present day.

X-Mix: Transmission From Deep Space Radio

1997 • 41 min

Kevin Saunderson mixes the ninth installment in the X-Mix series.

Theatro Mvnicipal de São Paulo

1997 • 60 min

By Ministry of Culture.

Sweethearts?

1997 • 11 min • Denmark

Skal vi være kærester? is a 1997 Danish short film directed by Birger Larsen. In the story, a boy tries to win a girl's heart through the art of music. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

When Cars Attack

1997 • 46 min • United States of America

Utilizing footage from various police pursuit features and traffic cameras, this mockumentary's sardonic host (Richard Belzer) demonstrates how automobiles and other evil steel monsters can capture and confine their unsuspecting and allegedly powerless operators while causing tremendous mayhem on our streets and highways. IE - it's not the irresponsible drunk drivers and criminals who do these things, it's their cars. The human occupants are simply victims.

Mermaid

1997 • 10 min • Russia

An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself.

Denji Sentai Megaranger Super Video: You Can Be One Too! A Mega Hero

1997 • 13 min

Denji Sentai Megaranger Super Video: You Can Be One Too! A Mega Hero is the Super Video of Denji Sentai Megaranger.

Cupid's Arrow

1997 • 20 min • Canada, United States of America

A lonely computer expert (Andrea Peters) decides to look for love on the Internet, only to find something far more frightening.

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty

1997 • 28 min • France

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.