All Films

Is It the Design on the Wrapper?

1997 • 8 min • United Kingdom

5 Filmes Estrangeiros

1997 • 13 min • Brazil

A sociopathic Nepalese man, a French couple in crisis, a manic Brazilian man, partying Paraguayans and touring African artists cross paths on one fateful day.

Sex & Violence

1997 • 8 min • United States of America

In eight minutes, animator Bill Plympton gives us 24 vignettes: seven are clearly about sex, 10 about violence, and seven others deal with human frailties, particularly the body as it ages. There are three stories of persons with confused priorities (including a guy tying his shoe while parachuting); the world's first phone sex; and a clever, if dangerous, way to find a lost key. Except for the titles of each sketch and a couple of jokes that turn on noise, these are visual trips into the psyche of men, women, God, animals, and Time (the enemy of us all).

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

1997 • 58 min • United States of America

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.

Amaeru Fallout 1972

1997 • 10 min • United Kingdom

amaeru(v). the attempt to draw close; depend; belong…’ Two Japanese girls appear in the West country in a radio transmitter field above Eggardon Fort; they go to school in Lyme Regis; they live in the countryside; they sleep in the same bed; they explore the town; they separate. Amaeru.. is a dreamlike narrative of transience and separation, an ode to homesickness through place and time. Includes PJ Harvey performing a specially composed version of the Three Degrees’ "When Will I See You Again."

Have I Got News for You: The Official Pirate Video

1997 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A feature-length exclusive-to-video edition of Have I Got News For You.

Blindfolded

1997 • 18 min

Short by Vassilis Moissidis

I sällskap med en clown

1997 • 58 min • Sweden

One hour making-of of Bergman's In The Presence of A Clown.

Stuck

1997 • 24 min • United States of America

Stick Stickly and his family find his uncle's uniskate and Stick begins to take a whack at rollerskating....at least until something goes terribly wrong! Will Stick find a solution to the sticky situation?

Kirk and Kerry

1997 • 25 min • United States of America

An actual couple, Kirk Acevedo and Kerry Johnson perform (or perhaps manifest) the problems of being a couple.

Groove on a Stanley Knife

1997 • 43 min • United Kingdom

Two women on the run from drug dealers are forced to hide out in a public toilet.

Heritage Minutes: Frontier College

1997 • 1 min • Canada

A volunteer teacher brings basic literacy and mathematical skills to a lumber and work camp in the Canadian bush.

From Hetty to Nancy

1997 • 44 min

Images of the austere Icelandic landscape form the backdrop for readings from a series of letters written at the turn of the 20th century. Majestic waterfalls, open plains, a ship loaded with protesting sheep, a boat in icy waters, snow capped peaks, and icy roadways are punctuated with Hetty’s ironic stories of quotidian events with her female companions. Her accounts are juxtaposed against historic texts about the Icelandic people overcoming the cataclysmic forces of nature. - MoMA

Opportunus

1997 • 19 min • Sweden

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Musical Comedy

1997 • 60 min • Japan

A musical theater show based on the manga "Revolutionary Girl Utena"

Tale About the Cat and the Moon

1997 • 6 min • Portugal

A poem. A tale made of silence and complicity. Light and shadows, the charm of the night, the moon as a passion... This is a tale about someone who tried to make the dream come true. This is the tale about the cat and the moon.

Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible

1997 • 36 min

Filmed at the Yale University Art Gallery, "Mel Bochner: Thoughts Made Visible", approaches a major retrospective exhibition of the artist's early work while providing an opportunity to experience his notable, site-specific installations. Known for his use of common material, Bochner's elements are easily understandable yet his art is founded on the unexpected questioning of how simple things hold the ability to reveal eye-opening complexities. A relationship established through language, Bochner's work takes the form of a dialogue between practice and theory, defining his subject as "the contradiction between physical space and mental space." Bochner uses that contradiction to create visual think pieces, locating his own intention- and thus emotion- through his process, his sites, and the mind of his viewer.

Jefftowne

1997 • 58 min • United States of America

jefftowne is a 1998 documentary shot and directed by Daniel Kraus and distributed by Troma Entertainment. It chronicles the life of Jeff Towne, a 40 year old Iowa City resident who suffers from Downs Syndrome, obesity, alcoholism, and circulation problems. Towne also enjoys pornography and lives with his 90-year-old adoptive grandmother.

The Real Ellen Story

1997 • 42 min

The Real Ellen Story is an in-depth documentary detailing the story behind the historic “coming-out” episode of Ellen. The program takes a unique behind-the-scenes approach in encapsulating the time-line detailing the conception of the episode, the rumours, the controversy and Ellen DeGeneres’ own declaration in Time magazine.

The Sheep Thief

1997 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A young boy gets caught stealing a sheep and is shaved of all his hair and branded with a mark on his forehead so that everyone will know that he is a thief and not to be trusted. Dumped in the desert, the thief covers his marking with a headscarf and goes to the nearest village where he is taken in by a trusting family in return for his work. However, has be actually changed or is he still the same thief at heart?

Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Party

1997 • 56 min

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the most magical place on earth!

Close Up

1997 • 16 min • Russia

A young photographer wanders the city taking pictures with a Polaroid 600, but on each print the silhouette of a woman on a bicycle appears. The sequence of photos makes it clear that the woman is about to be hit by a trolleybus. Based loosely on Stephen King's novella "The Sun Dog" and Julio Cortázar's short story "Blow-Up" ("Las babas del diablo").

The Nellie Olesons

1997 • 45 min

Named after the blonde, bratty, gay icon from Little House on the Prairie, The Nellie Olesons exploded onto the New York comedy scene in 1993 with their wicked sense of humor and envelope pushing antics. This award winning video is comprised of classic sketches from their 1996 show, "Pulp Nellie", including "Menorah, the Jewish Madonna", "Miss Cajun Inbred, Connie Slocum", "Disney Girls", "Lesbian Signer", "Mrs. Porn Goes Shopping" as well as spoofs and satires of Calvin Klein commercials, gay circuit queens and horny porn girls.

1919

1997 • 8 min • Canada

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 is recast as a slapstick silent set in a bathhouse.